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Nights of Cabiria (1957)

8.1/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Franca Marzi

The third of Fellini's trilogy of solitude. 'Nights of Cabiria' features Giulietta Masina as an impoverished prostitute living on the outskirts of Rom... Read more

The Class ( Entre Les Murs ) (2008)

7.5/10
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Francois Begaudeau, Franck Keita, Nassim Amrabt, Esmerelda Ouertani

French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with the well-worn conceit of a teacher and his underprivileged students in this fresh and op... Read more

Just to Be Sure (Ôtez-moi d'un doute) (2017)

6.7/10
Director: Carine Tardieu
Starring: Francois Damiens, Cecile De France, Guy Marchand, Andre Wilms

A middle-aged bomb disposal expert faces a different kind of explosive situation when he learns that the man who raised him is not his biological fath... Read more

High Tension (2003)

6.8/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Fint...

This stalk-and-slash fright-fest from French director Alexandre Aja starts with two friends, Marie and Alexa, visiting family in the country. When ni... Read more

City by the Sea (2002)

6.1/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: George Dzundza, James Franco, Frances McDormand, Robert De Niro, Eliza Dushku, W...

Veteran Manhattan homicide detective Robert De Niro must confront a tortured family history when the prime suspect in a drug dealer's murder turns out... Read more

I Vitelloni (1953)

8/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi

This early Fellini masterpiece, and one of the great works of Neo-Realism, deals with the young, restless men in a small town on the Adriatic who are,... Read more

Talk of Angels (1998)

6.1/10
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Frances McDormand, Franco Nero, Vincent Perez, Polly Walker, Marisa Paredes, Pen...

The period prior to the Spanish Civil War provides the background setting for the arrival in Spain of young Irish governess Mary Lavelle (Polly Walker... Read more

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco, Ba...

An engrossing anti-war mystery from writer/director Paul Haggis ('Crash') with Tommy Lee Jones as the father of a recently returned Iraq vet who seems... Read more

The Bridge (aka Die Brücke) (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Wolfgang Panzer
Starring: Franka Potente, Daniel Axt, Francois Goeske, Lars Steinhofel

Just a few weeks before the surrender of Nazi Germany to the allies, young recruit Albert is drafted along with a cadre of soldiers to defend The Brid... Read more

Professional Gun (1968)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Jack Palance, Franco Nero

Aka "The Mercenary". Thrilling "Spaghetti Western" set in the Texas border region during the Mexican Revolution. Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Pa... Read more

Les Egouts Du Paradis (1979)

6.2/10
Director: Jose Giovanni
Starring: Francis Huster

In July of 1976, the Societe Generale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This mov... Read more

Jungle Girl (1941)

6.7/10
Director: John English, William Witney
Starring: Frances Gifford

Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he sett... Read more

Normandy Nude (2018)

Director: Philippe Le Guay
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Francois-Xavier Demaison, Julie-Anne Roth

A French mayor has to convince his villagers to pose naked for an American photographer. Read more

I Know I'm Not Alone (2005)

8/10
Director: Michael Franti
Starring: Michael Franti

Australian musician and activist, Michael Franti (from the band 'Spearhead'), travels through Iraq, Israel and Palestine exploring the human cost of w... Read more

Murder Most Horrid: Series 1 (1991)

7.4/10
Starring: Dawn French

In this winsome parody of the modern murder mystery, Dawn French, in various guises, embarks on a different mystery in every episode - but they're not... Read more

Tristana (1970)

7.6/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero

Toledo, Spain, 1923. Tristana, a young woman aged 18, has just lost her mother and is taken in by Don Lope, an impoverished aristocrat known as a free... Read more

Mamma Roma (1962)

7.9/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Ettoro Garofolo

Pier Paolo Pasolini's neo-realist masterpiece stars the great Anna Magnani ('Open City') as a middle-aged prostitute who saves money to buy an apartme... 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

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

6.9/10
Director: Sidney Salkow
Starring: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia

When a deadly airborne virus strikes down humanity, the immune Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) becomes the last man on earth. Yet Morgan is not alon... Read more

The Decameron (1971)

7.1/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Angela Luce

The first part of Pasolini's great trilogy, based on the ribald tales of Boccaccio, which deal with human sensuality and artistic creation. Pasolini h... Read more

Querelle (1982)

6.9/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau

The final film by Fassbinder was this searing adaptation of the controversial Jean Genet novel starring Brad Davis as a ruggedly handsome, narcissisti... Read more

127 Hours (2010)

7.6/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara

Based on the harrowing true story, this gripping drama from director/co-writer Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") follows mountain-climbing enthusias... Read more

Nerve (2016)

6.6/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Juliette Lewis, Emma Roberts, Dave Franco

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico (Emma Roberts) is tired of living life on the sidelines. Pressured by her friends, Vee decides to join Ne... Read more

11.22.63 (2016)

8.2/10
Starring: Chris Cooper, James Franco, Sarah Gadon

Jake Epping (James Franco), a recently divorced English teacher from Maine, is presented with the chance to travel back in time to Texas in 1960 by hi... Read more

The Institute (2017)

4.2/10
Director: James Franco
Starring: James Franco, Scott Haze, Lori Singer

Subjected to bizarre, increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel must escap... Read more

Murder Most Horrid: Series 1 & 2 (1991)

7.6/10
Starring: Dawn French

In this winsome parody of the modern murder mystery, Dawn French, in various guises, embarks on a different mystery in every episode - but they're not... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 1 (1994)

8/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Dawn French

The perfectly peculiar village of Dibley is in need of a new vicar after Reverend Pottle, aged 102, dies quite unexpectedly. Instead of the standard r... Read more

Django (1966)

7.3/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo

Aka 'Django Rides Again'. Franco Nero plays the stranger who arrives in a Mexican border town to settle a dispute - dragging a coffin that will give h... Read more

The Company (2003)

6.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco

With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Robert Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal live... Read more

7 Boxes (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori
Starring: Celso Franco, Victor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez

A.k.a. "7 cajas". It's Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of... Read more

The Match (2020)

6/10
Starring: Franco Nero, Caspar Phillipson, Armand Assante

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Ado... Read more

The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

6.1/10
Director: Julius Avery
Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Franco Nero

Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried t... Read more

Italian Film Festival 2006 (2005)

Director: Ermanno Olmi, Gianni Amelio, Pupi Avati, Ferzan Ozpetek, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giovanni Veronesi, Angelo Longoni, Roberto Faenza, Franco Maresco, Daniele Cipri, Alessandro D'Alatri, Giuseppe Piccioni, Ambrogio Lo Giudice
Starring: Carlo Verdone, Bud Spencer, Charlotte Rampling, Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessio Boni,...

This extraordinary set contains eleven highlights of the 2006 Italian Film Festival, plus a film from 2004. Films included are: 'The Manual of Love';... Read more

Bad Faith (2006)

6.2/10
Director: Roschdy Zem
Starring: Cecile De France, Roschdy Zem

AKA 'Mauvais foi'. Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair put to the ultimate... Read more

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

8.3/10
Director: Marcel Ophuls
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Mendes-France

A staggering documentary detailing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Combining interviews and archival film footage, director Marcel... Read more

Turning Tide (2013)

6.4/10
Director: Christophe Offenstein
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Guillaume Canet

A.k.a. "En solitaire". The directorial debut from famed cinematographer Christophe Offenstein. Turning Tide stars François Cluzet (The Intouchables) a... Read more

The Warring States (2011)

4.6/10
Starring: Francis Ng, Wu Jiang

Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Hong-lei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warrin... Read more

Nomadland (2020)

7.5/10
Director: Chloe Zhao
Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life ou... Read more

The Conjuring 2 (2016)

7.4/10
Director: James Wan
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Franka Potente, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Simon McBurney,...

The supernatural thriller brings to the screen another real case from the files of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Reprising their role... Read more

The Interview (2014)

6.6/10
Director: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park

Their trip to North Korea just went south. In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Ro... Read more

The Kitchen Brigade (2022)

Starring: Audrey Lamy, Francois Cluzet

Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hate... Read more

Nomadland (Blu-ray) (2020)

7.5/10
Director: Chloe Zhao
Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life ou... Read more

The Legend of Valentino (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Franco Nero, Suzanne Pleshette, Judd Hirsch, Yvette Mimieux

A dramatization of the life of the silver screen's greatest lover, actor Rudolph Valentino. Franco Nero stars in this portrait of innocence against th... Read more

French and Saunders: At the Movies (2005)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Join outrageously funny femmes Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French for this side-splitting collection of movie parodies from their BBC comedy series. Al... Read more

French and Saunders: Still Alive - The Farewell Tour (2008)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Britain's first ladies of comedy present their 'Still Alive' stand-up tour. Filmed at Cardiff, this celebratory farewell show features the best of the... Read more

French and Saunders: Live (2000)

8.2/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

The class double act of French and Saunders are at their hilarious LIVE best in this offering. Dawn French says of their show "I am an all seeing, all... Read more

French and Saunders: Complete Series 1 - 6 (2008)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

A 6-disc collection featuring all the 'French and Saunders' from Series One (1987) to Series Six (2004). Written by and starring Dawn French and Jenn... Read more

Homefront (Blu-ray) (2013)

6.5/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth

Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong ,and it cost the life of hi... Read more

Homefront (2013)

6.5/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth

Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong ,and it cost the life of hi... Read more

Let Them Eat Cake (2000)

8.2/10
Director: Christine Gernon
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Welcome to the Court of Louis XVI in the fabulous Palace of Versailles, France. Outside the gates, the pesants are on the verge of revolting, whilst i... Read more

Camelot (1967)

6.7/10
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Franco Nero

The epic Broadway hit comes alive with stunning performances by Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave as King Arthur and Lady Guenevere. Music by Freder... Read more

The Companeros (1970)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Jack Palance

An interesting Spaghetti Western with political themes in which mercenary Franco Nero joins revolutionary Thomas Milian to help free a pacifist profes... Read more

The Interview (Blu-ray) (2014)

6.5/10
Director: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park

Their trip to North Korea just went south. In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Ro... Read more

The Magistrate (1989)

5.9/10
Starring: Franco Nero, Catherine Wilkin, Steve Bastoni, Andy Anderson

Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crim... Read more

La Fille Du Regiment (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Natalie Dessay, Dawn French

The dazzling Donizetti opera is staged with Natalie Dessay assuming the role of Marie in this acclaimed revival by the Royal Opera. Juan Diego Florez,... Read more

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)

6.1/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen

Based on Pearl S Buck's gripping novel, this memorable Cold War drama follows priests William Holden and Clifton Webb as they are stationed at a remot... Read more

Madame Bovary (1991)

6.7/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer

The gloriously filmed, spectacularly designed adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's once controversial novel features performances by Isabelle Huppert as E... Read more

A Man Escaped (1956)

8.2/10
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: Francois Letterier, Charles Le Clainche

Director Robert Bresson totally involves the viewer in the gripping and uplifting true story of the escape of a second World War resistance fighter wh... Read more

Two in the Wave (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Emmanuel Laurent
Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut

The two are Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, friends and writers for the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, whose films "Breathless" and "The 400 Blows... Read more

Child of God (2013)

5.5/10
Director: James Franco
Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Jim Parrack, Scott Haze

James Franco (who directs, stars and co-writes) tackles Cormac McCarthy's first great novel, the eloquently grim tale of a Tennessee hillbilly's desce... Read more

The Disaster Artist (2017)

7.5/10
Director: James Franco
Starring: James Franco, Megan Mullally, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, Ari Grayno...

James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseauan artist whose passion was as si... Read more

The Young Lovers (2021)

6.4/10
Director: Carine Tardieu
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, Cecile De France

Two lovers meet 15 years after the first encounter, in the corridor of a hospital. She's 71, he's 45. Opposed but mesmerized by each other, they recon... Read more

Carnival of Souls (1962)

7.2/10
Director: Herk Harvey
Starring: Candice Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger

This extremely eerie, little known gem with nightmarish black and white photography, concerns a girl who, after a near-fatal car crash, is haunted by... Read more

Of Human Bondage (1934)

7.3/10
Director: John Cromwell
Starring: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee

Based on the novel by W Somerset Maugham, this is a poignant story of self-destructive love, starring Leslie Howard as a young clubfooted medical stud... Read more

Orpheus ( aka Orphee ) (1949)

8/10
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: Maria Casares, Jean Marais, Francois Perier

Jean Cocteau's 1940s update of the Orphic myth depicts Orpheus (Jean Marais), a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his... Read more

The Country Doctor (2016)

6.5/10
Director: Thomas Lilti
Starring: Christophe Odent, Francois Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt

François Cluzet (The Intouchables) is Jean-Pierre, a much-loved doctor in a rural French town. He reassures and cares for his patients day and night,... Read more

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

7.9/10
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin

Taking man's inhumanity to man as its central theme, this story traces the life of a donkey, christened Balthazar by a group of young children, from b... Read more

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

7.3/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell

Majestic in its scope, this rousing, superlative adventure details the camaraderie between British soldiers on the Northwest frontier of India. Gary C... Read more

King Lear (McKellen) (2007)

8.3/10
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Frances Barber, Ian McKellen, Jonathan Hyde

The Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of the famous tale of jealously and betrayal, filmed in high definition as it was performed live in 2007. K... Read more

The Transporter ( Blu-ray ) (2002)

6.8/10
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Francois Berleand

Frank Martin (Jason Statham - "Snatch") is the best at what he does: transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. Problems arise w... Read more

Olive Kitteridge (2014)

8.3/10
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins

A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, wh... Read more

The Hunter (2011)

6.8/10
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe

"The Hunter" is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech com... Read more

One Wild Moment (Un moment d'égarement) (2015)

6.3/10
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Francois Cluzet, Alice Isaaz

Two friends bring their daughters with them on a beach vacation and find themselves in an awkward situation. A remake of the 1977 film "Un moment d'ég... Read more

Camille (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Gregory Mackenzie
Starring: Sienna Miller, James Franco, David Carradine, Scott Glenn, Ed Lauter

A bizarrely twisted romantic comedy with James Franco as a petty thief who is blackmailed into marrying Sienna Miller, a dreamy girl-next-door who bel... Read more

Tristan and Isolde (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles

Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more

The Transporter (2002)

6.8/10
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Francois Berleand

Frank Martin (Jason Statham - "Snatch") is the best at what he does: transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. Problems arise w... Read more

The Big Tease (1999)

6.3/10
Director: Kevin Allen
Starring: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham

A bright, witty comedy/mockumentary about a Scottish hairdresser determined to compete in a huge L.A. Hairdressing Competition. This fish-out-of-water... Read more

Kiss or Kill (1997)

6.4/10
Director: Bill Bennett
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Matt Day, Chris Haywood

A fresh, funny, intelligent and powerful film about two young hustlers who accidentally kill a sleazy businessman with a drug overdose, leaving them w... Read more

Le Samourai (1967)

8.1/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier

A riveting thriller and a nightmare of urban alienation, this is director Melville's reinterpretation of the dark world of Hollywood's gangster 'noirs... Read more

Unmade Beds (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Alexis Dos Santos
Starring: Fernando Tielve, Deborah Francois, Iddo Goldberg

Alexis Dos Santos' vivid and seductive feature is a lyrical tale of two solitary expats crossing paths in the cosmopolitan art-rock milieu of a sprawl... Read more

Shiner (2001)

6/10
Director: John Irvin
Starring: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Andy Serkis, Frank Harper, Claire...

Michael Caine stars as Billy 'Shiner' Simpson, an East End boxing promoter with big ideas. In a crucial match which could lead to a place in the world... Read more

We'll End Up Together (2020)

Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche, Francois Cluzet

When Guillaume Canet’s star-studded comedy Little White Lies exploded at the global box office in 2010 (achieving a stunning 5.2 million admissions),... Read more

Love And Other Catastrophes (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell

Students Alice and Mia move into a new flat and plan a party while looking for another flatmate, as well as trying to sort out their loves and lives a... Read more

Madeline (1998)

6/10
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Starring: Frances McDormand, Hatty Jones, Nigel Hawthorne

Based on the beloved series of children's books by Ludwig Bemelman, this endearing family film tells of Madeline, an orphan who lives at a charity-run... Read more

One, Two, Three (1961)

8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz

James Cagney's 'retirement' film was this hilarious comedy about a Coke executive in contemporary West Berlin freaking out when the boss's visiting da... Read more

Pancho Villa (1972)

4.9/10
Director: Eugenio Martin
Starring: Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Anne Francis

This Italian spaghetti Western casts Telly Savalas as a famous Mexican revolutionary, leading an army against an American fort run by evil military co... Read more

The Hunter ( Blu-ray ) (2011)

6.8/10
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor

"The Hunter" is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech com... Read more

The Great Raid (2005)

6.7/10
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Fiennes, Marton Csokas

Telling the story of one of the most successful rescue missions in US armed forces history, in which Army Rangers raided a Philippine POW camp freeing... Read more

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

6.3/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff

Set 20 years before "The Wizard of Oz", director Sam Raimi's visually stunning prequel follows Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a con artist and small-time... Read more

Queen of the Desert (2015)

5.7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, Queen Of The Desert chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle... Read more

Tristan and Isolde (Blu-ray) (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles

Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Blu-ray) (2011)

7.6/10
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: Brian Cox, John Lithgow, James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto

A scientist (James Franco) searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease tests a drug on a group of chimpanzees, greatly increasing their intelligence... Read more

Shoeshine ( Sciuscia ) (1947)

8/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordini, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli

An early must-see example of Italian neo-realist cinema from Vittorio De Sica, ranking with such other classics as his 'Bicycle Thieves' (1948), 'Umbe... Read more

Oz the Great and Powerful ( Blu-ray ) (2013)

6.3/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff

Set 20 years before "The Wizard of Oz", director Sam Raimi's visually stunning prequel follows Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a con artist and small-time... Read more

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

7.6/10
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: Brian Cox, John Lithgow, James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto

A scientist (James Franco) searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease tests a drug on a group of chimpanzees, greatly increasing their intelligence... Read more

The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)

6/10
Director: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher
Starring: Jackie Chan, Michael Pena, Fred Armisen, Dave Franco, Kumail Nanjiani

The battle for NINJAGO City calls to action young Master Builder Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, also secret ninja warriors. Led b... Read more

Le Amiche (Blu-ray) (1955)

7.3/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Eleonora Rossi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Yvonne Fur...

This Italian drama, based on a novella by Cesare Pavese, follows Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), a young woman from Rome who relocates to Turin to open... Read more

Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)

7.8/10
Director: Frank Lloyd
Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone

The classic version, starring Charles Laughton in an unforgettable role as Captain Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian. This movie deservedly... Read more

Olivier Olivier (1993)

7.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin

A brooding, based-on-fact account of a country couple whose young son mysteriously disappears. Six years later he 'reappears' but is no longer the spe... Read more

Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? (1983)

5.6/10
Director: Henry Jaglom
Starring: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Frances Fisher

Karen Black and Michael Emil star in this comic story of a love affair between a pedantic, middle-aged divorcee and a neurotic would-be singer who are... Read more

Darkman (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels

A black, tongue-in-cheek movie influenced by old movies and comic books telling the tale of a scientist interrupted from his work developing plastic s... 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

Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)

6/10
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor

The Love of your life....isn't always the one you marry, 'Thank god he met Lizzie' is a bittersweet romantic comedy, which explodes the romantic myth.... Read more

The Iceman (2012)

6.9/10
Director: Ariel Vromen
Starring: Ray Liotta, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, James Franco, Michael Shannon

A gritty biopic tracing the career of New York contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a.k.a. The Iceman. After convincing his Catholic w... Read more

Queen of the Desert (Blu-ray) (2015)

5.7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, Queen Of The Desert chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle... Read more

The Time of Their Lives (2017)

6.1/10
Director: Roger Goldby
Starring: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup, Joely Richardson

A former Hollywood star enlists the help of a new friend in order to journey from London to France for her ex-lover's funeral, with the various mishap... Read more

The Joy Luck Club (1993)

7.6/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu

Amy Tan's sensational bestseller receives first rate treatment from director Wayne Wang as he explores the turbulent lives of four uncompromising Chin... Read more

The Best of the Lenny Henry Show (1990)

3.6/10
Director: Geoff Posner
Starring: Lenny Henry, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane

Thrill to revolution, romance, drama and sport with comprehensive comedian Lenny Henry, master of mimicry, devil of disguise. Includes some of the bes... Read more

Wild West: Series 1 (2003)

8.2/10
Starring: Dawn French, Bill Bailey, Catherine Tate

A quirky comedy set in the small, picturesque yet rather odd coastal village of St Gweep, Dawn French stars as Mary Tregwednack who lives above her Po... Read more

Le Bonheur ( Happiness ) (1964)

7.7/10
Director: Agnes Varda
Starring: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling un... Read more

This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)

7.8/10
Starring: Michael Franti, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon

This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the... Read more

Rock and Rule (1983)

Director: Clive A Smith
Starring: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Susan Roman

Animated fantasy about a rock and roll star who has plans to bring forth a demon from another dimension. The one vital element that he keeps searching... Read more

Manina - The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (1952)

Director: Willy Rozier
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Francois Calve, Howard Vernon

AKA "The Girl in the Bikini". Manina (Brigitte Bardot) is a beautiful young woman who lives with her father, who tends a lighthouse near the ocean. On... Read more

The Last Diamond (2014)

6.3/10
Director: Eric Barbier
Starring: Yvan Attal, Berenice Bejo, Jean-Francois Stevenin

The 'Florentin', a fabled, 137-carat yellow diamond last seen in 1918, has resurfaced and is up for sale at an exclusive Antwerp auction house. Simon,... Read more

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

8.2/10
Director: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Starring: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen

Explore the riveting, behind-the-scenes making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. Based largely on original footage, shot by Eleanor Coppola,... Read more

Ride To Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

Director: Julie Dash
Starring: Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Peter Francis James

Angela Bassett stars in this compelling docudrama about the strong-willed NAACP secretary whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman... Read more

Bad Neighbours (2014)

Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco

Aka "Neighbors". By all appearances, new parents Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) are living the American Dream - complete with an adora... Read more

I Am A Dancer (1972)

7.2/10
Director: Pierre Jourdan
Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Carla Fracci

A portrait of the great Rudolf Nureyev, from his homely beginnings in 1938 to one of the century's great dancers and superstars. Includes excerpts fro... Read more

The Fourth World War (2004)

7.3/10
Starring: Narrated by, Michael Franti, Suheir Hammad

Shot on the frontlines of struggles spanning five continents, this powerful documentary illustrates the often untold human story of men and women who... Read more

The Silent Invasion (1962)

4.5/10
Director: Max Varnel
Starring: Petra Davies, Francis De Wolff, Eric Flynn

A wartime drama starring Eric Flynn, Petra Davies and Francis De Wolff, 'The Silent Invasion' is set in the small French town of Mereux, where the sta... Read more

Chinese Puzzle (2013)

7/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly

Following on from "The Spanish Apartment" and "Russian Dolls", Romain Duris reprises his role as writer Xavier Rousseau. Having reached the age of 40,... Read more

Sister Smile (2009)

6.5/10
Director: Stijn Coninx
Starring: Jan Decleir, Sandrine Blancke, Cecile De France, Johan Leysen

Cecile de France stars in the true story of Jeannine Deckers, international '60s pop icon Soeur Sourire, or The Singing Nun. Jeannine's dull parents w... Read more

Letters to Juliet (2010)

6.6/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher...

In Verona, Italy - the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet - there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It... Read more

Tell No One (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Fran...

A pediatrician, Alexandre Beck (Francois Cluzet), misses his beloved wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze), who was brutally murdered eight years ago when h... Read more

Piaf: Her Story Her Songs (2003)

7.3/10
Director: George Elder, Raquel Bitton
Starring: Raquel Bitton, Marcel Cerdan Jr, Francis Lai

Raquel Bitton pays her one woman tribute to the late great Edith Piaf with this concert interweaving 20 of the songbird's finest with stories about he... Read more

The Wild Child (1970)

7.6/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean Daste, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol

Engrossing Francois Truffaut drama, based on a true story, follows an orphaned boy who is found living in the woods in 18th-century France. Unable to... Read more

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Blu-ray) (1991)

8.1/10
Director: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Starring: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen

Explore the riveting, behind-the-scenes making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. Based largely on original footage, shot by Eleanor Coppola,... Read more

The Spanish Apartment ( L'Auberge Espagnole ) (2002)

7.3/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Romain Duris, Cecile De France, Judith Godreche, Audrey Tautou

Aka "Pot Luck". From the director of "When the Cat's Away" comes this frothy romantic comedy in which Xavier, a French college senior, signs up for a... Read more

Heat Wave (2015)

6.1/10
Director: Raphael Jacoulot
Starring: Karim Leklou, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Franck, Gregory Gadebois

Aka 'Coup de chaud'.Heat kills. Just ask Camuss Meursault. Its not great for crops either. An unseasonable warm spell will set in motion a chain of... Read more

Love on the Run ( L'amour En Fuite ) (1979)

7.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Dani

Antoine Doninel, separated from his family, is still having girl trouble. The further amorous adventures of the character first glimpsed in 'The 400 B... Read more

The Skin Game (1931)

5.8/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Helen Haye, C V France, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden

Early Hitchcock drama, based on John Galsworthy's popular stage play, that was decidedly atypical of the Master's subsequent suspensers. The aristocra... Read more

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

5.8/10
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile De France, Jim Broadbent

As an adventurer, Passepartout (Jackie Chan) ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to j... Read more

OSS 117 - Cairo: Nest of Spies (2006)

7.1/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Berenice Bejo, Jean Dujardin, Jean-Francois Halin...

Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, French special agent OSS 117. After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment... Read more

21 Jump Street (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Starring: Ice Cube, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Jonah Hill, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle

The popular 1980s cop show gets a modern updating in this hilarious action/comedy. Rookie police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tat... Read more

Milk (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more

Spring Breakers (2012)

5.3/10
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Gucci...

Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are best friends anxious to cut loose for spring break,... Read more

Spider-Man 2 ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Alfred Molina, Kirsten Dunst, Rosemary Harris, Tobey Maguire, James Franco, Donn...

Spectacular sequel finds Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) questioning his abilities to juggle both everyday life and his role as crimefighter Spider-Man.... Read more

Milk ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more

About Adam (2000)

5.9/10
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Starring: Stuart Townsend, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Kate Hudson

Stuart Townsend is Adam, an amiable Irish fellow who has a way with the ladies. When he wins over Dublin pub waitress and wannabe singer Kate Hudson,... Read more

A Perfect Day (2006)

5.5/10
Director: Peter Levin
Starring: Rob Lowe, Christopher Lloyd, Frances Conroy, Paget Brewster

Family man Robert Harlan (Rob Lowe) is made redundant and decides to do something with the novel he's been writing. Thanks to literary agent Camille... Read more

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1977)

7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut

Writer/director Steven Spielberg's intelligent sci-fi story stars Richard Dreyfuss as an Indiana electrical lineman whose close encounter with a UFO o... Read more

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( Blu-ray ) (1977)

7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut

Writer/director Steven Spielberg's intelligent sci-fi story stars Richard Dreyfuss as an Indiana electrical lineman whose close encounter with a UFO o... Read more

The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)

4.8/10
Director: David L Cunningham
Starring: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy, Ian McShane

A loose adaptation of Susan Cooper's children's fantasy books follows the tale of young Will (Alexander Ludwig) who discovers that he is the latest in... Read more

The Escape (2017)

5.8/10
Director: Dominic Savage
Starring: Frances Barber, Marthe Keller, Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton

Tara is a housewife in suburban London who's raising two young children while married to an overworked, self-absorbed husband. In desperate need of a... Read more

Straight Into Darkness (2005)

5.1/10
Director: Jeff Burr
Starring: Scott MacDonald, Daniel Roebuck, David Warner, Ryan Francis

When two American soldiers go AWOL in nazi-occupied France, they stumble on a ragged band of resistance fighters holed up in an old school-house. The... Read more

The Resting Place (1986)

Director: John Korty
Starring: John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen

An impressive list of issues are raised about the American military and small town living in this made-for-TV special. John Lithgow stars as an army... Read more

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

6.9/10
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn

In this sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein", Peter Cushing's Baron is rescued from the guillotine and escapes to Carlsbruck, where he assumes a new... Read more

A Chance Encounter ( aka Quantum Love ) (2013)

Director: Lisa Azuelos
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Sophie Marceau, Niels Schneider, Lisa Azuelos

Pierre has been married for 15 years and has two kids. He still loves his wife and is fulfilled in his role as father. Overall, he's a contented man.... Read more