8.7/10

Director: Waris Hussein

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

In this first ever Doctor Who adventure, the Doctor's grand-daughter has become a pupil at an ordinary school in Britain, 1963. A strange amalgam of t... Read more

8.7/10

Director: John Crockett

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

The TARDIS takes the Doctor and his companions back in time to fifteenth century Mexico, the centre of the Aztec civilisation. But when Barbara is mis... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Richard Martin

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Arriving in a devastated London in the middle of the 21st century, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan discover that the Daleks have invaded Earth. Wil... Read more

8.7/10

Director: John Gorrie

Starring: William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford

On a remote island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid, there is a machine that can remove evil from the minds of an entire population - the Conscien... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Christopher Barry, Richard Martin

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

When the Doctor and his companions find themselves on a dead planet, a distant glimpse of a magnificent city arouses the Doctor's ruthless curiosity a... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Richard Martin, Frank Cox

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Something has caused the TARDIS console to explode in mid-flight, plunging the ship into darkness and rendering the crew unconscious. As they slowly r... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Stan Dragoti

Starring: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull, Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd

What happens when husband Michael Keaton loses his job and wife Teri Garr has to go to work, leaving him with the housework, the neighbours and the ki... Read more

6.4/10

Director: George Sidney

Starring: Cesare Danova, Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret , William Demarest

In one of his biggest and best films, Elvis Presley is "just a devil with love to spare" as a race car driver looking to enter the Las Vegas Grand Pri... Read more

6.4/10

Director: George Sidney

Starring: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret , Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair

In one of his biggest and best films, Elvis Presley is "just a devil with love to spare" as a race car driver looking to enter the Las Vegas Grand Pri... Read more

6.1/10

Director: John Frankenheimer

Starring: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Tim Reid

L.A. detective Jerry Beck (Don Johnson) must buck his superiors as he investigates the killing of a fellow officer and a shopkeeper, leading to a life... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Starring: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin

Franco Zeffirelli delivers with this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel. Jane, tortured while at boarding school, finds happiness as a Governess -... Read more

5.4/10

Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, William B D...

The Pang Brothers ('The Eye') make their English-language debut with this supernatural horror about a family who move into an old house that has been... Read more

8.2/10

Director: David Lean

Starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, James Donald, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Ann...

Epic story of British prisoners of war held by the Japanese, combines psychological battles of will with gripping action. Winner of seven Oscars inclu... Read more

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Anny Ondra, Lillian Hall-Davis, Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen

"The Ring" (1927) One of Hitchcock's best silent films, about boxer "Round One" Stander, a circus attraction who fights all comers. When he marries th... Read more

8.2/10

Director: David Lean

Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann...

Epic story of British prisoners of war held by the Japanese, combines psychological battles of will with gripping action. Winner of seven Oscars inclu... Read more

Director: Jim O'Connolly

Starring: Dennis Price, Marianne Stone, Anna Palk, William Lucas, John Hamill

In this low-budget British slasher a team of archaeologists lands on a fog-shrouded island, the site of a recent, horrific double murder. A private de... Read more

8/10

Director: Mike Nichols

Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels

A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more

8/10

Director: Mike Nichols

Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels

A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Andrew Adamson

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell,...

Four London children, sent from London to live in a reclusive professor's countryside estate during World War II, discover a mysterious wardrobe in th... Read more

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

6.4/10

Director: Daniel Barnz

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Felicity Huff...

The acerbic, hilarious Claire Simmons (Jennifer Aniston) becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncove... Read more

4.8/10

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Starring: James Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, William H Macy, Jimmy Bennett, Devon Gearh...

While grownups at Black Box Industries work to improve the handheld gizmo that's this year's high-tech must-have, neighbourhood kid Toby "Toe" Thomp... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Coky Giedroyc

Starring: Anna Massey, Edward Fox, John Sessions, Timothy Spall, Tom Hardy, Gregor Fisher,...

This gripping take on Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel whilst delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic and occasiona... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Michael Gordon

Starring: Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne...

A double helping of "Cyrano De Bergerac". "Cyrano De Bergerac" (1950) - Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award for his stunning portrayal of the fabled 17th... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Noah Baumbach

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin, Anna P...

Writer/director Noah Baumbach's semi-autobiographical tale of a disintegrating family set in 1980s Brooklyn is full of melancholy wit and sympathetic... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Michael Whyte

Starring: Claire Skinner, Edward Atterton, Anne Reid, Julian Wadham, Daniel Casey, Dinsdal...

On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barri... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan...

A big scale western from director Michael Curtiz, inspired by the exploits of Wyatt Earp, and telling the story of an ex-soldier who rides into the wi... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Robert Wise

Starring: George C Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess...

The interior of the doomed airship was meticulously recreated by director Robert Wise, unfortunately the same careful attention was not paid to the sc... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Andrew Adamson

Starring: Ben Barnes, Sergio Castellitto, Warwick Davis, Peter Dinklage, Georgie Henley, S...

The second in the Narnia series from Kiwi director Andrew Adamson finds the Pevensie children once again whisked away into the realm of Narnia, where... Read more

6.3/10

Director: John Gray

Starring: Natasha Richardson, Colm Feore, Henry Czerny, Sheila McCarthy, Sebastian Roche,...

The stirring true story of Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson), an American journalist who volunteered for a treacherous wartime mission - escorting near... Read more

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

6.5/10

Director: Andrew Adamson

Starring: Ben Barnes, Sergio Castellitto, Warwick Davis, Peter Dinklage, Georgie Henley, S...

The second in the Narnia series from Kiwi director Andrew Adamson finds the Pevensie children once again whisked away into the realm of Narnia, where... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Various

Starring: Anna Paquin, Michelle Forbes, William Sanderson, Sam Trammell, Michael McMillan,...

Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality and dark secrets. For Sookie Stackhouse, life is more dangerous than ever after she an... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Barry Levinson

Starring: Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, William...

After a presidential scandal erupts two weeks before election day, Robert De Niro is the spin doctor called to the White House to deflect press attent... Read more

6.4/10

Director: J Lee Thompson, Michael Winner, Allan A Goldstein

Starring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Jill Ireland, A...

Charles Bronson stars as Paul Kersey, a once mild-mannered New York architect who turns vilgilante after his wife and daughter are attacked during a b... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Various

Starring: Brad Dourif, Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, W Earl Bro...

Seth Bullock and friends return for season 2 of this hard-edged, ground-breaking show. Nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Deadwood is still... Read more

8.7/10

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Brad Dourif, Molly Parker, Powers Boothe, Anna Gu...

Six weeks after the events of the Second Season, the first steps of civilization and law begin to enter the town, along with the interests of larger,... Read more

Director: David Giles, David Yates, Tom Vaughan

Starring: Donald Pleasence, David Gwillim, Geraldine McEwan, Alan Rickman, Nigel Hawthorne...

Three exceptional BBC mini-series, adapted from the works of 19th century novelist, Anthony Trollope. 'The Barchester Chronicles' (1982) is based on... Read more