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Romeo and Juliet (Neame) (1976)

7.6/10
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Starring: Peter Jeffrey, Peter Dyneley, Ann Hasson, Christopher Neame

For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are bitter enemies, sworn to hat... Read more

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

6/10
Director: Adam Robitel
Starring: Michelle Ang, Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Brett Gentile, Jeremy DeCarlos

Mia Medina (Michelle Ang) has finally found the perfect subject for her PhD thesis film on Alzheimer's Disease. For the next several months, cameras w... Read more

Daredevil: Season 1 (2015)

8.7/10
Starring: Elden Henson, Scott Glenn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Rosario Dawson...

Marvels Daredevil follows Matt Murdock, attorney by day and vigilante by night. Blinded by an accident as a child, Murdock uses his heightened senses... Read more

Saving Shiloh (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Sandy Tung
Starring: Scott Wilson, Ann Dowd, Jason Dolley, Gerald McRaney

Jason Dolley portrays Marty, and Scott Wilson returns as Judd, in this family movie based on the last book of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's boy-and-his-do... Read more

Mass (2021)

7.6/10
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney, Ann Dowd

The parents of both the shooter and one of the victims of a school shooting tragedy agree to meet and talk in an attempt to move forward. Read more

One Desire (1955)

6.2/10
Director: Jerry Hopper
Starring: Rock Hudson, Anne Baxter, Julie Adams

In early 1900s, an Oklahoma gambler-casino dealer teams-up with a saloon dancer and together they seek a new life in a Colorado mining town where thei... Read more

Wilfred: Series 1 (2007)

7.9/10
Director: Tony Rogers
Starring: Jason Gann, Adam Zwar, Cindy Waddingham

Hilariously deadpan, this surreal Aussie comedy series features Wilfred, a dog whose owner has started a new relationship making him feel, shall we sa... Read more

Wild Card (Blu-ray) (2015)

5.6/10
Director: Simon West
Starring: Jason Statham, Anne Heche, Sofia Vergara

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing. Read more

The End of the Tour (2015)

7.3/10
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel

This love song to the art of conversation is about a Rolling Stone journalist, David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) who is infatuated with the novelist Davi... Read more

Rats and Cats (2007)

5.6/10
Director: Tony Rogers
Starring: Jason Gann, Adam Zwar, Anya Beyersdorf, Paul Denny

Another pitch-black Aussie gem from the team who brought us cult hit 'Wilfred'. Darren McWarren is a one-time TV star whose career has fallen into obs... Read more

Almost Famous: The Bootleg Edition ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

7.9/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Anna Paq...

Former rock critic Cameron Crowe delves into the past with this affectionate story centering on high school student Patrick Fugit, who aspires to cove... Read more

Three Violent People (1956)

6.4/10
Director: Rudolph Mate
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Powerful mix of frontier action and character study with Charlton Heston as an ex-Confederate officer who returns to the family ranch with new bride A... Read more

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

7.8/10
Director: William Dieterle
Starring: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, James Craig, Anne Shirley, Simone Simon

Stephen Vincent Benet's "New Englandized" Faust story. A young 19th-century farmer (James Craig) sells his soul to Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) for sev... Read more

Almost Famous (2000)

7.9/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Billy Crudup, Peter Frampton, Patrick Fugit, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kate Hudson...

Former rock critic Cameron Crowe delves into the past with this affectionate story centering on high school student Patrick Fugit, who aspires to cove... Read more

Prozac Nation (2001)

6.3/10
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Starring: Jessica Lange, Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Nicholas Campbell

Elizabeth, a prize-winning student, is headed for a prestigious college. As she's packing to leave, her mother harangues her about her choice of schoo... Read more

The Change-Up (2011)

6.3/10
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Alan Arkin, Leslie Mann, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde

Growing up together, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted... Read more

Futile Attraction (2005)

4.6/10
Director: Mark Prebble
Starring: Peter Rutherford, Danielle Mason, Alistair Browning, Glenda Tuaine, Michelle Ang

Director/writer Mark Prebble had a rough-cut of 'Futile Attraction' in the can when the money ran out. At the suggestion of a friend he started up th... Read more

Swamp Water (1941)

7.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John...

French auteur Jean Renoir made his US debut with this thriller about a man wrongly sentenced to hang who escapes from prison to clear his name. After... Read more

The Happy Prince (2018)

6.3/10
Director: Rupert Everett
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Cha...

The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the diffi... Read more

50/50 (2011)

7.7/10
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Seth...

Loosely based on the experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser, this poignant comedy/drama follows Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a 27-year-old man diagno... Read more

Colossal (2016)

6.2/10
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Anne Hathaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell

Gloria (Anne Hathaway) drinks too hard and parties too much. Her boyfriend has enough of it and throws her out. Gloria returns to her hometown, dreami... Read more

Captain Fantastic (2016)

7.9/10
Director: Matt Ross
Starring: Frank Langella, Steve Zahn, Viggo Mortensen, Missi Pyle, George MacKay, Ann Dowd...

In this energetic and touching dramedy, Viggo Mortensen kids his own image, playing an anarcho-survivalist solo dad. In a remote Washington state fore... Read more

The Thames Shakespeare Collection (1970)

Director: Kenneth Branagh, Joan Kemp-Welch, Philip Casson
Starring: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Marie Kean, Ian McDiarmid, Patrick Magee, Ray Smith, W...

From royal family struggles and star-crossed lovers to a shipwreck romance and witches' prophecies, this acclaimed collection features the four of Sha... Read more

Rebel Without a Cause ( Blu-ray ) (1955)

7.8/10
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Ann Doran, Dennis Hopper, James Dean, Jim Backus, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Willi...

In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town. Stark's loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those... Read more

Footy Legends (2006)

5.9/10
Director: Khoa Do
Starring: Anh Do, Emma Lung, Peter Phelps, Claudia Karvan, Jason McGoldrick, Angus Sampson

Luc is a down-on-his-luck twenty-something who arrived in Australia as a refugee back in the 1980s. He lives in Sydney's outer suburbs, looking after... Read more

25th Hour (2002)

7.7/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin...

The clock is ticking on Monty Brogan's (Edward Norton) freedom - in 24 short hours, he goes to prison for seven long years. Once a king of Manhattan,... Read more

HMS Pinafore / Trial by Jury (2005)

Director: Stuart Maunder
Starring: Anthony Warlow, David Hobson, Roxane Hislop, Colette Mann, John Bolton Wood, Tif...

Opera Australia reunites these long-standing stage-mates with two fresh productions and an inspired cast. In this filmed recording, Anthony Warlow, Au... Read more

On Chesil Beach (2017)

6.3/10
Director: Dominic Cooke
Starring: Emily Watson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Saoirse Ronan, Adrian Scarborough, B...

In 1962, newlyweds Edward and Florence, both in their early 20s and also both virgins, spend their honeymoon preoccupied and terrified by the upcoming... Read more

Serenity (2019)

7/10
Director: Steven Knight
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Je...

Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain who leads tours off of the tranquil enclave of Plymouth Island. His peaceful life is soon shattered when his ex-w... Read more

Serenity (Blu-Ray) (2019)

7/10
Director: Steven Knight
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Je...

Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain who leads tours off of the tranquil enclave of Plymouth Island. His peaceful life is soon shattered when his ex-w... Read more

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

7.4/10
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Starring: Greer Garson, Edna May Oliver, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland...

An outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th Century England. Laurence Olivier stars as Mr Darcy (afte... Read more

Bride Wars (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Candice Bergen, Chris Pratt, Steve...

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best buds whose friendship is put to the test when a clerical error sees their dream weddings (both at New York's P... Read more

The Bling Ring (2013)

5.6/10
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Leslie Mann, Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire...

From award-winning writer/director Sofia Coppola, "The Bling Ring" tells the story of a group of teenagers obsessed with fashion and celebrity that bu... Read more

Funny People (2009)

6.3/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman,...

Adam Sandler is George Simmons, a narcissistic comedy superstar who finds out he has a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. Un... Read more

Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, John Cho, Karin Anna Cheung

To his classmates and teachers, high-schooler Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) appears to be the "model" student: a perfectionist and overachiever, destined f... Read more

The Break-Up (2006)

5.8/10
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams, Cole Hauser, Jon Favreau, Jas...

Rumours of an off-screen romance between Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughan created a massive hype around this paradoxically low-key comedy about a co... Read more

Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series (1999)

8.8/10
Starring: Joe Flaherty, James Franco, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps, Seth Rogen, Becky A...

Finally released in New Zealand, Freaks and Geeks follows two groups of teenagers at McKinley High in the 1980s. A classic that launched the careers o... Read more

Up in the Air ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.4/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Melanie Lynskey, Vera Farmiga, Danny McBride, J K Simmons, Jason...

George Clooney is a downsizing consultant who has spent his entire life in airport hotels, collecting air miles and browsing the departure lounge reta... Read more

Birth (2004)

6.1/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Anne Heche, Arliss Howard, Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Ted Levine, Peter Storm...

A ten year widow, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is about to remarry when a mysterious boy (Cameron Bright) convincingly claims he's her late husband reincarnat... Read more

Any Given Sunday (1999)

6.9/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Al Pacino, Ann-Margret , Cameron Diaz, Charlton Heston, Dennis Qu...

Oliver Stone's no-holds-barred, multi-character gridiron drama looks at the on, and off the field struggles of the Miami Sharks, a once-mighty team in... Read more

Patrick Melrose (2018)

8.4/10
Director: Edward Berger
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Pip Torrens, Anna Made...

This five-part limited series based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn, tracks Patrick Melrose (Benedict Cumberbatch) from a privileged but d... Read more

Up in the Air (2009)

7.4/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Melanie Lynskey, Vera Farmiga, Danny McBride, J K Simmons, Jason...

George Clooney is a downsizing consultant who has spent his entire life in airport hotels, collecting air miles and browsing the departure lounge reta... Read more

Map of the Human Heart (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Patrick Bergin, Anne Parillaud, Jason Scott Lee, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeanne Moreau,...

When a half-Eskimo boy named Avik (Jason Scott Lee) leaves his Arctic home with a British mapmaker (Patrick Bergin) to seek medical attention in Canad... Read more

Map of the Human Heart ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Ben Mendelsohn, Jason Scott Lee, Jeanne Moreau, John Cusack, Pat...

When a half-Eskimo boy named Avik (Jason Scott Lee) leaves his Arctic home with a British mapmaker (Patrick Bergin) to seek medical attention in Canad... Read more

I Give It a Year (2013)

5.7/10
Director: Dan Mazer
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Minnie Driver, Rose Byrne, Simon Baker, Anna Faris, Stephen Merch...

A British romantic comedy from the writer of "Borat" and "Bruno", "I Give It a Year" sees a pair of newlyweds begin to suspect that they've made the w... Read more

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)

6.5/10
Director: John McKay
Starring: Indira Varma, Nicholas Rowe, Rupert Graves, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Sturridge, Anna C...

In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature. But w... Read more

Germinal (1993)

7.1/10
Director: Claude Berri
Starring: Anny Duperey, Bernard Fresson, Gerard Depardieu, Judith Henry, Laurent Terzieff,...

A sprawling adaptation of the classic 1884 Emile Zola novel, this manages to tell both the epic tale of a bleak rural community and the personal story... Read more

The Hunt (2012)

8.3/10
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrom, Susse Wol...

"The Hunt" is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish and ignite a witch-hunt that... Read more

Scott Pilgrim vs the World ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

7.5/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill, Chris Evans, Michael Cera, Anna K...

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), whose life of garage band practice and other laid-back pursuits is turned upside-down when he... Read more

The Ten Commandments (1956 and 1923 versions) (1956)

7.9/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, D...

For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few motion pictures can claim to equal the splendor of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his epic "The Ten Commandm... Read more

Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010)

7.5/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill, Chris Evans, Michael Cera, Brando...

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), whose life of garage band practice and other laid-back pursuits is turned upside-down when he... Read more

Show of Hands (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Anthony McCarten
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt, Kyle Dyhrberg, Chelsie Preston Cray...

Melanie Lynskey came back to NZ to make this light-hearted romantic drama about a competition (famously held in Lower Hutt back in the '80s) where fol... Read more

The Ten Commandments (1956)

7.9/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, D...

For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few motion pictures can claim to equal the splendor of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his epic "The Ten Commandm... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

8.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale,...

Franco Zeffirelli's highly acclaimed version of the life of Jesus. This epic, moving drama, filmed in Tunisia and Morocco, features a stellar internat... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth (Blu-Ray) (1977)

8.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Plummer, Claudia Cardinale, Donald Ple...

Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the... Read more

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Season 1 (2017)

Starring: Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin, Greg Kinnear, Jacob Vargas, Liam Cunningham, Mar...

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick. Read more

Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection - Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein / Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein / House of Frankenstein (1944)

7.9/10
Director: Earle C Kenton, James Whale, Rowland V Lee
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, Valerie Hobson,...

Boris Karloff gives one of the great screen performances of all time in the horror classic 'Frankenstein', based on Mary Shelley's novel. Also feature... Read more

Short Cuts (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmo...

The visions of two great American artists merge in "Short Cuts", maverick director Robert Altman's kaleidoscopic adaptation of Raymond Carver short st... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 2 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Nicholas Meyer, Peter Medak, Robert Iscove, Tim Burton, Mark Cullingham
Starring: Alan Arkin, Alfre Woodard, Barrie Ingham, Ben Vereen, Brian Dennehy, Brock Peter...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more

Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series - Part 1 (2017)

8.8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Alicia Witt, Ashley Judd, Balthazar Getty, Candy Clark, Charlotte Stewart, David...

Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered. Part 1 contains episodes 1-... Read more