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Prisoner: The Terrorist Siege (1985)

5/10
Starring: Anne Phelan, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Jackie Woodbourne

For the women of Wentworth Detention Centre, life is tough on The Inside. Battling the system and often each other, the women must learn to adjust to... Read more

Mommy (2014)

8.1/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilan, Suzanne Clement, Patrick Huard

French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan was 25 when he delivered his fifth feature to Cannes in 2014. What's truly precocious is the power of the exub... Read more

Critical Care (1997)

6/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks

From acclaimed director Sidney Lumet ('Network', 'The Verdict') comes this powerhouse drama in which an overworked and underappreciated hospital inter... Read more

The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (2002)

6.6/10
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Starring: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Rodrigo Santoro

Youth, beauty, and career become a thing of the past for a vulnerable woman at the crossroads of her life. Aware of every wrinkle, every gray hair, an... Read more

The Last Station (2009)

7/10
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff,...

In 1910, famed novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) vehemently disagree over the rights to Tolstoy's literary... Read more

Ballykissangel: Series 1 (1996)

7.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Deirdre Donnelly, Bosco Hogan, Dervla Kirwan, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Niall Toibin, Step...

Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson) is an English priest who is sent to a small Irish parish in the town of Ballykissangel. Full of delightfully misc... Read more

Ballykissangel: Series 2 (1997)

7.5/10
Starring: Niall Toibin, Deirdre Donnelly, Gary Whelan, Stephen Tompkinson, Dervla Kirwan,...

All eight episodes from the second series are here. They include Father Clifford being won in a slave auction by Assumpta; an abandoned baby; a beaut... Read more

The Duke (2020)

6.9/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Matthew Goode, James Wilby, Helen Mirren, Anna Maxwell Martin, Fi...

In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying t... Read more

Torrid Zone (1940)

6.9/10
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Andy Devine, Ann Sheridan, George Tobias, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Helen Vinso...

With his Central American banana business in danger after his workers are scared off by armed revolutionaries and lured away by sultry saloon singer A... 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

Upstairs Downstairs: Series 1 (2010)

7.4/10
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh, Anne Reid, Keeley Hawes, Art Malik, Ed Stoppard, Neil...

One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines, lifting the... Read more

The Skin Game / Rich and Strange / Number Seventeen (1931)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Betty Amann, Edmund Gwenn, Frank Lawton, Henry Kendall, Jill Esmond, Joan Barry,...

'The Skin Game' (1931), based on John Galsworthy's popular stage play, was decidedly atypical of the Master's subsequent suspensers. The aristocratic... Read more

The New Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1985)

Director: Martha Coolidge, Peter Medak, Rick Friedberg, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Wallace, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, etc
Starring: Bruce Willis, Terry O'Quinn, Annie Potts, Arliss Howard, Dee Wallace, James Crom...

Making its television debut in 1989, the New Twilight Zone followed the same format as its ground-breaking predecessor (minus Rod Serling), with stori... 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