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The Ape Man (1943)

4.5/10
Director: William Beaudine
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie

Scientist Bela Lugosi turns into a gorilla in this z grade cult horror classic.Jaw-droppingly bad acting, cardboard sets, and "one-take" direction tur... Read more

Apt Pupil (1998)

6.7/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Elias Koteas, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, David Schwimmer

Bryan Singer's follow-up to his superb 'The Usual Suspects' is this grand psychological number based on a novella by Stephen King. Brad Renfro, a high... Read more

Arachnophobia (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Frank Marshall
Starring: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak, Julian Sands

First time director Frank Marshall spins a taut comic yarn as a wayward tropical spider crawls into small town USA, breeds and weaves a web of terror... Read more

Aria (1987)

5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman, Bill Bryden
Starring: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget...

Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more

Arizona Dream (1992)

7.4/10
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor

Celebrated Yugoslavian Director, Emir Kusturica ('Underground') comes to America to paint this lavish picture about a young dreamer (Johnny Depp) who'... Read more

Assassins (1995)

6.3/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore

Sylvester Stallone (in tweeds) is the old timer hitman looking for a way out while Antonio Banderas ('Desperado') is the young pretender looking to be... Read more

The Assignment (1997)

6.9/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley

Convinced by the CIA and Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) that he closely resembles international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, U.S. naval officer Aidan... Read more

Asterix and the Big Fight (1989)

6.4/10
Director: Phillippe Grimond
Starring: Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Vitalstatistix

Gaulish custom requires that a would-be chief must challenge and defeat another to become the leader of two tribes in this animated tale based on the... Read more

At First Sight (1998)

5.9/10
Director: Irwin Winkler
Starring: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis

Based on a true story by Dr Oliver Sacks ("Awakenings") about a blind masseur (Val Kilmer), blind since childhood, who falls in love with client Mira... Read more

Atlantic City (1980)

7.4/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kate Reid, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Robert Joy

Burt Lancaster delivers a stunning performance as the seemingly washed-up gangster, with Susan Sarandon as his lost-soul companion. A moving portrait... Read more

Atlantis (1991)

6.8/10
Director: Luc Besson

Following on from his success with 'The Big Blue', Luc Besson has created this 'Marine Opera' containing superb images from the Seychelles to the Nort... Read more

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

8/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette

'Goodbye, Children'. Louis Malle returns to the days of the German occupation during World War II to recount the story of friendship between two schoo... Read more

The Avengers (1998)

3.7/10
Director: Jeremiah S Chechik
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent

Set in a surreal 1999 London where scientist Ms. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) teams up with dapper secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) to defeat a maxi... Read more

Bad Boys (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Tcheky Karyo, Martin Lawrence, Tea Leoni, Will Smith, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantol...

This fast-paced cop/buddy movie stars a well-matched Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as detectives assigned to investigate the theft of a large quantit... Read more

Bad Girls (1994)

5.1/10
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson

It's Thelma and Louise on horseback as the four leads, (Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore) working girls at a... Read more

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori

Reflecting his fondness for American crime films and motifs this stylish Akira Kurosawa thriller stars Toshiro Mifune and delves into corporate corrup... Read more

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980)

7.1/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the el... Read more

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (1970)

7.3/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner

Peckinpah's lyrical, enjoyable fable of a loner who builds a life for himself in a remote part of the Old West. Jason Robards, David Warner and Stella... Read more

The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

6.8/10
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Starring: Bo Hopkins, Carrie Snodgress, David Chung, Ian McKellen, Rene Auberjonois, Suzy...

The gender-bending, true-life sagebrusher about Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), an outcast from a wealthy Eastern family, who searches for a new life... Read more

Baraka (1992)

8.6/10
Director: Ron Fricke

'Baraka' is an ancient Sufi word meaning a blessing, or the breath or essence of life, from which the evolutionary process unfolds. This gorgeous and... Read more

Barbarians At The Gate (1993)

7.3/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert

A dynamite serio-comedy based on the true story of the leveraged buyout of the giant congolomerate R J R - Nabisco in the greedy 80s. James Garner, Jo... Read more

Basket Case (1981)

6.1/10
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith

"E.T."as if it were written and directed by a psychopath! The story of Duane Bradley and his little brother Belial who have come to New York looking f... Read more

Batman and Robin: The Complete Movie Serial (1949)

6.2/10
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Starring: Robert Lowery, John Duncan, Jane Adams, Lyle Talbot

Join superheroes Batman (Robert Lowery) and Robin (John Duncan) as they help Commissioner Gordon (Lyle Talbot) battle The Wizard, a villainous madman... Read more

Batman Returns (1992)

7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gou...

In this sequel to 1989's "Batman", the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wea... Read more

Battle Cry (1954)

6.6/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson

Based on the novel by Leon Uris, a group of servicemen through boot camp then on to New Zealand where even more training takes place (and a romance be... Read more

Beauty and the Beast (Disney) (1991)

8/10
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White

The first animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture, Disney's enchanting romance follows the blossoming relationship between the beautiful, bo... Read more

Bedazzled (1967)

7/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's update of the Faust legend, in which timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggot... Read more

The Bedford Incident (1965)

7.5/10
Director: James B Harris
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Martin Balsam

A battle of wits aboard a US destroyer tracking Soviet submarines off Greenland during the Cold War. Richard Widmark is a skipper with an obsession to... Read more

The Bedroom Window (1987)

6.4/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Shenar

Steve Guttenberg learns his affair with Isabelle Huppert, as a boss's wife, can cost him more than his present job, when he volunteers to be a proxy w... Read more

Being There (1979)

8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...

Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more

Belle Epoque (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Fernando Trueba
Starring: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu

Set in 1931, a time of promise and optimism in pre-Franco Spain, this delightfully earthy, cheerful comedy tells of a hearty young army deserter (Jorg... Read more

Benny and Joon (1993)

Director: Jeremiah S Chechik
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, D...

Johnny Depp plays a child-like drifter with a fixation on Buster Keaton, who goes to live with Benny (Aidan Quinn) and his mentally disturbed, somewha... Read more

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982)

5.9/10
Director: Colin Higgins
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise

A high-stepping fast-talking musical-comedy with Burt Reynolds as the sheriff assigned to the Chicken Ranch, a brothel headed by feisty Madame Dolly P... Read more

The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

4.9/10
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, L...

This big-screen version of the backwoods Clampett family's invasion of Beverly Hills stars Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman and Lily Tomlin. Read more

Beyond Rangoon (1995)

6.6/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray

An extraordinary, brilliantly executed, not-to-be-missed story of a young American doctor who, tormented by her past, travels to Burma with her sister... Read more

The Big Chill (1983)

7.2/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Tilly, Mary Kay Place, JoBeth Will...

College friends from the 1960's are re-united at the funeral of a mutual friend who committed suicide, and have to re-examine the twenty years that ha... Read more

Bilitis (1977)

5.4/10
Director: David Hamilton
Starring: Patti D'arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Gilles Kohler

The sexual awakening of a young woman is the focus of this gorgeously filmed, super-sensual tale from acclaimed photographer David Hamilton ("Laura").... Read more

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Director: Peter Hewitt
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler

In this sequel the intrepid duo (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) travel to Heaven, Hell and points in between as they duel with an evil pair of robots w... Read more

Billy Connolly: World Tour Of Scotland (1994)

8.3/10
Starring: Billy Connolly

Combining personal revelations with original concert footage, this is a fast-moving and entertaining exploration of Billy's homeland. Read more

Bite the Bullet (1975)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn

An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western as a disparate group of riders assemble... Read more

Black Robe (1991)

7.1/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg

In the turbulent 17th century, Jesuit priest Father Laforgue travels to Quebec to convert the Indian tribes. Cultures clash, romances flourish and the... Read more

The Black Stallion Returns (1983)

5.9/10
Director: Robert Dalva
Starring: Allen Goorwitz, Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Teri Garr, Woody Strode

In this sequel to the 1979 family favourite Kelly Reno is back as Alec, who finds himself in the exotic Sahara in hot pursuit of his beloved horse Bla... Read more

The Black Stallion (1979)

7.4/10
Director: Carroll Ballard
Starring: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton

Superb photography, an excellent music score and an absolutely gorgeous title star are just some of the many charms of 'The Black Stallion' which foll... Read more

Blade (1998)

7.1/10
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Wesley Snipes plays the Marvel Comic's vampire killer, out to cleanse the world of bloodsuckers as he hunts for the vampire who bit his mother during... Read more

Blast From The Past (1999)

6.6/10
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, Dave Foley

After spending his entire 35 years in the elaborate underground bomb shelter his parents retreated into during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Brendan... Read more

Blaze (1989)

5.9/10
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin

Paul Newman pulls out all the stops in his energetic performance as Earl K. Long, the wily Louisiana governor whose whirlwind romance with stripper Bl... Read more

Blood and Sand (1941)

7/10
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth

Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "Blood and Sand" is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bul... Read more

Blood and Wine (1996)

6.1/10
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Judy Davis, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez

In this underrated film noir drama, Jack Nicholson is mesmerizing as Alex Gates, a man who appears to have it all - a beautiful wife (Judy Davis), a s... Read more

Blood Feast (1963)

5/10
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring: Connie Mason, Mel Arnold, Thomas Wood

Herschell Gordon Lewis invented the modern gore film with this 1963 low budget thriller about a mad Egyptian caterer who uses human victims to spice u... Read more

The Blue Kite (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
Starring: Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Pu Quanxin

This harrowing tale of a family's struggle to survive in revolutionary China is told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, who witnesses first... Read more

The Blue Max (1966)

7.1/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Anton Diffring, George Peppard, James Mason, Jeremy Kemp, Ursula Andress, Karl M...

During WWI a young German (George Peppard) fresh out of aviation training school competes for the coveted "Blue Max" flying award with other members o... Read more

Blue Velvet (1986)

7.8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Stockwell

The most talked about film of the '80s, David Lynch's controversial, surreal mystery is set amid the manicured lawns of small town America where a wor... Read more

The Blues Brothers (1980)

7.9/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Belushi, James Brown, Henry Gibson, Dan Aykro...

Engagingly nutty comedy about John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd trying to raise money to save an orphanage by reuniting their old band and nearly destroyin... Read more

Born Yesterday (1993)

5.1/10
Director: Luis Mandoki
Starring: Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson

An updating of the Judy Holliday/William Holden movie with a bespectacled Don Johnson brought in to school heavyweight politico John Goodman's girlfri... Read more

Bound For Glory (1976)

7.3/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon

The story of Woody Guthrie, one of America's great singer-composers. This film focuses on the depression years when Guthrie rode the rails and stars D... Read more

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

6.1/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus

An early effort by Martin Scorsese, with Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus and Bernie Casey. The film is set at a railroad yard during th... Read more

Brainstorm (1983)

6.5/10
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher

Special-effects wizard Douglas Trumbull directed this technological thriller about a device that enables one to experience someone else's thoughts and... Read more

Breakdown (1997)

6.9/10
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Kurt Russell, J T Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan

This incredibly tense, gripping thriller stars Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan, a couple who breakdown while driving cross-country. She accepts a li... Read more

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Patricia Neal, Mickey Rooney, Martin Balsam, George Peppard, Buddy Ebsen, Audrey...

A near perfect blend of comedy, romance, and minor tragedy, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is a must-see classic that, despite diversions from Truman Capot... Read more

Breathless (1983)

5.8/10
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky, Art Metrano

This remake of the landmark 1959 Godard film follows the basic outline of the original - an amoral punk on the lam from police. Richard Gere and Valer... Read more

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

7.5/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Gig Young, Isela Vega, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Webber, Warren Oates

When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollar bounty on the head of the man who seduced his daughter, two money-hungry men (Gig Young and Robert Web... Read more

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles

One of the funniest movies from Hollywood, a classic. Katharine Hepburn is the madcap heiress with her pet leopard 'Baby', who falls for an absent-min... Read more

Broadcast News (1987)

7.2/10
Director: James L Brooks
Starring: William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks

William Hurt, Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks play a tv news reporter, producer and writer in this involving and very funny inside look at the high pre... Read more

Bronco Billy (1980)

6.1/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis

This warmhearted yarn centres around Clint Eastwood as the owner of a fly-by-night Wild West show and the spoiled heiress who joins his entourage of e... Read more

A Bronx Tale (1993)

7.8/10
Director: Robert De Niro
Starring: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato

Robert De Niro's directing debut is an acclaimed coming-of-age story set in an Italian neighbourhood in the Bronx in the early 1960's, where the son o... Read more

Bullet To Beijing (1995)

5.6/10
Director: George Mihalka
Starring: Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Jason Connery

From bestselling author Len Deighton (The Ipcress File), comes another action-packed espionage thriller featuring the irrepressible and ever-reliableH... Read more

Bullitt (1968)

7.5/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Simon Oakland, Robert Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Norman Fell, Jacquel...

The quintessential Steve McQueen role has him as the system-bucking cop Frank Bullitt going after the killers of a government witness. Highlighted by... Read more

Factotum (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Adrienne Shelly, Didier...

The life of celebrated poet, novelist and wild man Charles Bukowski is examined in this darkly humourous, booze-drenched adaptation of his novel. Mat... Read more

Edison (2005)

5.3/10
Director: David J Burke
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, Dylan McDermott, Joh...

Pop star Justin Timberlake makes his feature film debut as a naive young journalist who uncovers massive police corruption in the every-town of Edison... Read more

Thank You For Smoking (2005)

7.6/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holme...

Nick Naylor is Big Tobacco's go-to-guy when they need a good spin on something. Like premature death, lung cancer, etc. But Nick revels in the twist... Read more

Stoned (2005)

5.8/10
Director: Stephen Woolley
Starring: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw, Tuva Novotny, Amelia...

Based on the short and debauched life of Rolling Stones co-founder, Brian Jones (Leo Gregory), this rock biopic takes a revisionist and controversial... Read more

Jawbreaker (1998)

5.5/10
Director: Darren Stein
Starring: Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowan, Julie Benz, Pam Grier, Judy Greer

In this dark, satiric teen comedy, three beautiful and much-feared students at Reagan High School stage a mock kidnapping of their friend on her 17th... Read more

Airwolf: Season 1 (1984)

6.8/10
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, David Hemmings

Created by Donald P Bellisario ('Magnum PI', 'Quantum Leap') this action/adventure series earned a cult following and stars Jan-Michael Vincent as the... Read more

Men In War (1957)

7.3/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Vic Morrow, Phillip Pine

A realistic and tough-as-nails war flick, set in Korea and starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as two soldiers trying to deal with the shocking devastat... Read more

Errol Flynn Collection: Captain Blood (1935) / Dodge City (1939) / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) / The Sea Hawk (1940) / They Died With Their Boots On (1941) / The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2006)

Director: Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Ann Sheridan, Bette Davis, Bren...

A must-see for fans of the swashbuckling Aussie bloke who became a Hollywood icon. Includes five of Flynn's best-known films: 'Captain Blood', 'Dodge... Read more

Quantum Leap: Season 4 (1992)

8.1/10
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Scott Bakula

Take a trip through time with the daring Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his hologram guide, Al (Dean Stockwell), in all 22 extraordinary, groundbre... Read more

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)

7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...

Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more

CSI: Grave Danger (2005)

7.7/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Jorja Fox, Eric...

Quentin Tarantino allowed himself a fanboy moment to conceive and direct this double episode of CSI which served as the Season 5 finale. When one of... Read more

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

7/10
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Nicole Garcia

Marie (Emmanuelle Beart), a beautiful woman with a mysterious past, is reunited with Julien (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a shy clockmaker she met one year e... Read more

Zombie Honeymoon (2004)

4.7/10
Director: Dave Gebroe
Starring: Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M Wallace, Neal Jones

Loving newlyweds Danny and Denise are celebrating their honeymoon on a sun-drenched beach, when suddenly a terrible monster rises from the ocean and k... Read more

Frontline: Series 1 (1994)

8.6/10
Director: Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy
Starring: Rob Sitch, Bruno Lawrence, Jane Kennedy, Tiriel Mora, Alison Whyte, Santo Cilaur...

Bitingly satirical and cruelly funny, this Australian 'mockumentary' series takes a perfectly aimed swipe at current affairs television as it goes beh... Read more

The Sweeney: Series 1 (1975)

8.1/10
Starring: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman started out in this gritty, genre-inventing London crime drama. Carter and Regan are two uncompromising coppers on the... Read more

The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer (2005)

8.1/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer

British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer began his career directing pop promos and advertisements before transitioning into features. Collected here are his... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly, Kevin Kline, Garrison...

The late Robert Altman's swansong is this whimsical tribute to radio shows of days gone by. Scripted by Garrison Keillor (who plays himself in the fi... Read more

Something New (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Blair Underwood, Alfre Wood...

Successful lawyer, Kenya (Sanaa Lathan), has everything she could wish for, except the IBM (Ideal Black Man!). While on the cocktail circuit, she mee... Read more

Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit The World (1994)

8.9/10

Encyclopedia Britannica lists Nikola Tesla as one of the top ten most fascinating people in history. So why is he virtually unknown to the general pub... Read more

Betty Boop Collection (1936)

Starring: Betty Boop

Betty Boop-oop-a-dooped her way to the silver screen in Max Fleischer short 'Dizzy Dishes' on August 8th, 1930. Experience the thrill and joy Betty br... Read more

Star Trek Fan Collective: Klingon (1996)

Starring: Scott Bakula, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, John Colicos, DeForest Kelley, Jam...

Spanning all five series, this 3 disc collection presents 9 of the best Klingon-related episodes as voted by the fans. Episodes include: 'Broken Bow P... Read more

Real Life (1978)

7.2/10
Director: Albert Brooks
Starring: Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin

Hilarious satire that was director Albert Brooks' feature film debut takes a lighthearted poke at cinema verite filmmaking. A documentarian (Brooks) t... Read more

Laurel and Hardy: Way Out West / Pack Up Your Troubles / The Original Brats / A Chump At Oxford / Pardon Us (1928)

7/10
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

This 5 disc collection of classic titles from Laurel and Hardy includes: 'Way Out West' (1937), 'Pack Up Your Troubles' (1932), 'The Original Brats' (... Read more

Superman II (Special Edition) (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Donner, Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Terence Stamp, Sa...

The Man of Steel is back, Metropolis is in trouble as three super-villans threaten destruction, and Lois Lane marries Clark Kent, only to find him a s... Read more

My Name Is Earl: Season 1 (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Victor Nelli Jr
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee, Jon Favreau, Juliette Lewis, Jaime Pressly, Ethan Su...

Earl (Jason Lee) is learning the hard way that when you do something bad, it has a way of coming back and biting you in the butt! Hoping to turn his l... Read more

24: Season 5 (2005)

8.6/10
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jean Smart, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Louis Lombardi...

Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive a... Read more

Orlando Furioso (1990)

6.8/10
Director: Brian Large
Starring: Marilyn Horne, Susan Patterson, Kathleen Kuhlmann

Baroque opera has made a comeback in popular taste in recent decades, and this production embodies the genre's distinctive qualities: elaborately orna... Read more

DOA - Dead or Alive (2006)

4.8/10
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe, Devon Aoki, Eric Ro...

Hong Kong martial arts legend Corey Yuen brings the video game to life. Three high-kicking babes duke it out for $10 milion in prize money, but soon... Read more

Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns / Dreams in the Witch House (2005)

7.6/10
Director: John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon
Starring: Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Ezra Godden

Features two episodes from the horror series: 'Cigarette Burns' - directed by John Carpenter, a movie-theatre director is hired to hunt for the only k... Read more

Good Times: Season 1 (1974)

7.3/10
Starring: John Amos, Esther Rolle, Jimmie Walker, Ja'Net Du Bois, Bern Nadette Stanis, Ral...

Living in the Chicago projects, the Good family tackled topical and controversial issues from a uniquely Afro-American perspective, while still provid... Read more

The Mechanic (1972)

7/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland

Charles Bronson is a steely-eyed 'mechanic', an unparalleled professional assassin who takes a cold-hearted apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) under his... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)

6.6/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Nigel Davenport, Shane Briant, Charles Aidman, Fionnula Flanagan

Can the gift of eternal youth and beauty be a curse? It is in this made-for-TV rendition of the Oscar Wilde shocker. Shane Briant plays the debauched... Read more

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

6.9/10
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Gre...

Meryl Streep is the boss from hell in this comedy-drama about an idealistic, mid-west girl (Anne Hathaway) who comes to the big smoke to be a real jou... Read more

48 Shades (2006)

5.9/10
Director: Daniel Lapaine
Starring: Richard Wilson (2), Emma Lung, Robin McLevy, Nicholas Donaldson, Victoria Thaine...

17-year-old Dan decides to stay in Brisbane and finish high school when his parents move to Switzerland, moving in with his young aunt and her gorgeou... Read more

Shaolin Kung Fu (1994)

5.9/10
Starring: Jet Li

Shaolin Kung Fu is the quintessence of Chinese martial arts. This documentary features martial arts superstar Jet Li as he talks about his early caree... Read more

Absolute Power: Series 2 (2004)

6.7/10
Starring: Stephen Fry, John Bird, James Lance, Zoe Telford, Sally Bretton

Stephen Fry and John Bird reprise their roles as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe. Machiavelli has nothing on these two. Prentiss and M... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare Retold (2005)

Director: Ed Fraiman
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Lennie James, Sharon Small, Zoe Tapper, Dean Len...

Polly (Imelda Staunton) and Theo (Bill Paterson) have come to Dream Park to celebrate the engagement of their daughter in this updated BBC version of... Read more

Daniel Boone: Season 1 (1964)

7.5/10
Starring: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Veronica Cartwright, Patricia Blair, Darby H...

Daniel Boone was a man! Fess Parker stars as the coon-skin wearing hero in this timeless series. Set in and around Kentucky and Virginia during the... Read more

The Last Hurrah: From Beijing to Arnhem 2005 (2005)

7.4/10
Starring: Dick Huurdeman, Des Molloy

Kiwis Des Molloy and Dick Huurdeman look like the sort of guys who should be sedately steering a sleigh in a Santa parade, not riding old single-bange... Read more

Early Days Yet (2001)

Director: Shirley Horrocks

One of New Zealand's greatest writers, Alan Curnow has a major international reputation. Winner of 7 New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Poet... Read more

Hell Drivers (1957)

7.2/10
Director: Cy Endfield
Starring: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Sid James, William...

A hard-bitten Brit-noir about a corrupt trucking company forcing its drivers to work to the limit in order to make bonuses. Nominated for a BAFTA and... Read more

Adrift ( aka Open Water 2 ) (2006)

6.7/10
Director: Hans Horn
Starring: Susan May Pratt, Richard Speight Jr, Niklaus Lange, Ali Hillis, Eric Dane, Camer...

Promoted as a sequel to 2003's 'Open Water', this is related in no other way except that it is also based on a terrible true story of being helplessly... Read more

The Big White (2005)

6.4/10
Director: Mark Mylod
Starring: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Blake Nelson, W Earl Brown, W...

Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) is in big trouble. He's up to his eyeballs in debt, his wife (Holly Hunter) is going slowly insane and an ambitious ins... Read more

Great Aussie Icons - Graham Kennedy in... The Club (1980) / Travelling North (1987)

Director: Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz
Starring: Graham Kennedy, Jack Thompson, Henri Szeps, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John H...

Long hailed as the 'King of Australian Television' Graham Kennedy also had a stellar career in film including these David Williamson-scripted classics... Read more

Children of Men (2006)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Danny Huston, Pete...

In the year 2027, the human race has lost its ability to procreate and society is rapidly descending into chaos. Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of PD Jam... Read more

Hell ( L'Enfer ) (2005)

5.9/10
Director: Danis Tanovic
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Guillaume Canet, Jacques Gamblin,...

Three sisters, Sophie (Emmanuelle Beart), Celine (Karin Viard) and Anne (Marie Gillain) have drifted apart since a traumatic childhood incident. Plun... Read more

Matando Cabos (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Alejandro Lozano
Starring: Tony Dalton, Ana Claudia Talancon, Pedro Armendariz, Kristoff , Raul Mendez

This dark Mexican comedy is a satirical look at a kidnapping gone awry when a couple of incompetent crims accidentally nab the janitor instead of the... Read more

The Boy From Oz (1995)

Director: Stephen Maclean
Starring: Peter Allen, Harry Connick Jr, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Ann-Margret , et...

Australian-born Peter Allen had an international showbiz career, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous and remembered for songs such as 'I Go To... Read more

Northern Exposure: Season 5 (1994)

8.3/10
Director: Randall Miller, Mark Horowitz
Starring: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Cynthia Geary, Darren E Burrows, John Cullum, Peter B...

The penultimate season of this well-loved show is full of its usual whimsical charm. Shelley is set to have her baby, though a bit of freaking out is... Read more

Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut (2005)

7.2/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Marton...

Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the 12th century Crusades. Balian, (Orlando Bloom) a humble French bl... Read more

Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)

7.6/10
Starring: James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner,...

After the cancellation of the original live-action series, 'Star Trek' launched an animated spinoff that continued to chart the intergalactic adventur... Read more

The Omen: Pentology (1976)

7.6/10
Director: Don Taylor, Graham Baker, Richard Donner, John Moore, Jorge Montesi, Dominique Othenin-Gerard
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Billie Whitelaw, Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, William Ho...

This ulitmate 6-disc collection includes 1976's 'The Omen' (in a new 2 disc Collector's Edition), 'Damien: The Omen II', in which Damien discovers his... Read more

Tales from the Crapper (2004)

4.3/10
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: Ron Jeremy, Trey Parker, Julie Strain, Jorge Garcia, Ted Raimi

Using the 'Dogpile 95' rules - fast and crappy - Troma offers us two films: 'The Case of the Melon Heavy Alien Male Eater', and 'Tuition of the Terro... Read more

The Five Pennies (1959)

7.3/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino

Danny Kaye stars as jazz great Red Nichols in this excellent biopic chronicling the stormy life of the '20s cornet wizard, including Nichols' domestic... Read more

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

7.3/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Anthony Quinn

Ghosts and gags collide, with Bob Hope as a Manhattan radio commentator who finds himself on the run from the mob and marooned on a haunted island, al... Read more

Blackbeard - Terror at Sea (2006)

6.5/10
Starring: James Purefoy

Go inside the cunning mind of a charming criminal genius as 'National Geographic' tells the dramatic story of one of history's most fearsome pirates.... Read more

William Gibson - No Maps for these Territories (2001)

Director: Mark Neale
Starring: William Gibson

William Gibson - visionary writer, author of 'Neuromancer' and creator of the term 'cyberspace' - is the subject of this unusual and absorbing documen... Read more

Eragon (2006)

5.1/10
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Starring: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garr...

Based on the best-seller by Christopher Paolini (he was just 17 when his family published it) in which a young orphaned farmboy finds a mystical stone... Read more

Francis of Assisi (1961)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway

Michael Curtiz brings the life of St Francis to the screen in this colourful religious epic. Dolores Hart co-stars as the noblewoman who forsakes her... Read more

HotRod - The Movie (2004)

7.7/10
Director: Michael Morrow

In 1998 'HotRod' Joey Kemp entered the Lansdowne Demolition Derby winning first place, but injuring himself so severely his doctors told him never to... Read more

The Salzburg Festival (2006)

8.2/10
Director: Tony Palmer

The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenbo... Read more

Great Aussie Icons - Barry Humphries in... The Great Macarthy / Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Director: Bruce Beresford, David Baker
Starring: Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Donald Pleasence, Max Gillies

Sit back possums and marvel at Barry's finest moments on film! One of Australia's best-known, and loved, comedians stars in two classic comedies. 'T... Read more

Protocols of Zion (2004)

6.5/10
Director: Marc Levin

Despite all the evidence, millions around the world continue to blame the Jews for 9/11. This belief is a modern-day incarnation of the infamous 'The... Read more

The Secret (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Drew Heriot

Finally! The 'secret' that has allowed those in the know to be healthy, wealthy and wise down through the ages, from Plato to Shakespeare to Einstein... Read more

Angel: Season 2 (2000)

6.8/10
Director: Bill L Norton, David Greenwalt, Michael Lange, Joss Whedon, David Grossman, Krishna Rao
Starring: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J August Richards

Angel continues to seek redemption, but a fatal mistake makes him realize that racking up the body count isn't the way to go. So with a renewed sense... Read more

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)

6.3/10
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Cameron Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Shannon Elizabeth, Mike Farrell, Christian Kane...

Based on Brian Cruver's startling book, 'Anatomy of Greed', this strident, made-for-TV movie chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious, Houston-ba... Read more

The Kovak Box (2006)

5.9/10
Director: Daniel Monzon
Starring: Timothy Hutton, David Kelly, Lucia Jimenez, Georgia Mackenzie, Gary Piquer, Anne...

Best-selling sci-fi author David Norton (Timothy Hutton) is invited to host a conference in Majorca, but after he and his girlfriend arrive, it become... Read more

Gridiron Gang (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner, Leon Rippy, L Scott Caldwell, Kevin Dunn,...

Based on a documentary of the same name about a group of juvenile criminals who are uplifted by a determined probation officer, Sean Porter (played by... Read more

The Secret Underground Lectures of Commander X (2004)

Commander X is the pseudonym of an alleged former U.S. Government intelligence agent from the NSA who worked in a remote viewing project. He has distr... Read more

Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Darlene Johnson
Starring: David Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer, Jack Thompson, Phillip Noyce

David Gulpilil was the first Aboriginal Australian to appear as an actor in a film, Nicholas Roeg's 'Walkabout' in 1971, and since then he has become... Read more

The Child ( L'Enfant ) (2005)

4.2/10
Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Starring: Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois, Jeremie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gou...

Sofia and her boyfriend Bruno are two irresponsible teens living on the bottom rung of the social ladder. When Sofia falls pregnant and gives birth t... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 6 (2005)

8.1/10
Director: Jamie Babbit, Linda Mendoza, Lee Shallat Chemel, Robert Berlinger, Jackson Douglas, Amy Sherman-Palladino, David Palladino
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Keiko Agena, Ya...

More fun, more flames, more flameouts: more Gilmore. The much-loved mother-daughter duo return for another 22 episodes full of supersonic banter with... Read more

Rebus: Black & Blue / The Hanging Garden / Dead Souls (2000)

7.5/10
Director: Maurice Phillips, Martyn Friend
Starring: John Hannah, Sara Stewart, Gayanne Potter, Rony Bridges, Jenny Ryan

John Hannah produced, and stars in, these gritty adaptations of the best-selling detective novels by acclaimed Scottish author, Ian Rankin. Rebus conf... Read more

The Good Die Young (1954)

6.8/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Stanley Baker, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, Gloria Grahame, Ric...

A psychological crime yarn, based on the novel by Richard Macaulay, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. Ex-GI Joe (Ric... Read more

Jason King (1971)

7.1/10
Director: Jeremy Summers
Starring: Peter Wyngarde, Dennis Price

This 'Department S' spin-off finds Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), the flamboyant playboy novelist and ace spy, writing his Mark Caine novels full-time a... Read more

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs - The Story of Movie Westerns (2005)

Starring: Tom Mix, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, William Boyd, George Gabby Hayes, Smiley Burne...

This is the story of the early Western movie pioneers. The 'Old West' flicks were predominantly 'Cowboys and Indians', the white hats against the blac... Read more

Callan: Series 3 (1970)

8.4/10
Starring: Edward Woodward, Patrick Mower, William Squire

Edward Woodward is Callan, an embittered SIS assassin working for a shadowy branch of government operations called 'the Section'. He performs his dut... Read more

The Angry Silence (1960)

7.7/10
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee

Screenwriter Bryan Forbes won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar for this gritty union story about a man who stands up to coercive union officials... Read more

Into the West (2005)

8.1/10
Starring: Matthew Settle, Josh Brolin, Tonantzin Carmelo, Gary Busey, Michael Spears, Zahn...

When Jacob Wheeler heads West for excitement, he falls in love with Native American girl, Thunder Heart Woman, sister of Loved By Buffalo, who fears h... Read more