Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each segment revels in the ecstasy of pleasure: an old man regains his youth with the aid of a... Read more
For over two decades, Ronald Arthur Biggs, the Great Train Robber himself, was the world's most hunted fugitive. Biggs was able to travel half way aro... Read more
Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each segment revels in the ecstasy of pleasure: an old man regains his youth with the aid of a... Read more
On her return from vacation 19-year-old Lili is told by her parents that her twin brother Loic has left home after a violent argument with her father.... Read more
Sierra Nevada Jones (Barbara Stanwyck), a feisty young woman, attempts to stake her claim in the cattle business despite threats from greedy land grab... Read more
A cop on the edge of an emotional collapse is on the trail of a violent madman in this edgy crime thriller. Jaded, alcoholic, aggrieved and discredite... Read more
This vintage 1950's tv series, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's characters, includes "The Case of the Red-Headed League", "The Case of the Vanished Detec... Read more
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
In this vintage 1950s TV series Sherlock Holmes and sidekick Dr. Watson sleuth 'The Case of the Eiffel Tower', 'The Case of the Jolly Hangman', 'The C... Read more
BBC drama from 1974, adapted from the classic Francis Durbridge novel. Journalist Guy Foster (Peter Barkworth) returns home to find that his wife has... Read more
These short films listed below, made for television where filmed in France in the mid 1950s and feature Ronald Howard, the son of the actor Leslie How... Read more
Sherlock Holmes was by all accounts born on 6th January 1854, and for more than a century his name and appearance has been known in every country of t... Read more
Aka "Wanted". Daniel Foray is the leader of a wacky group of burglars in Paris. When Daniel is instructed by his boss to go to Chicago to pull off an... Read more
Joan Sutherland and Ronald Stevens star in this majestic version of Franz Lehar's opera, featuring the Australian Opera and the Elizabethan Philharmon... Read more
Naval officers Charles Lockwood and Hans Christian Adamson wrote this WW II thriller chronicling the true story of one of the most daring submarine op... Read more
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Nanni Moretti's hilarious and intimate film diary, which follows his personal experiences over 18 months, was received rapturously at Cannes where it... Read more
From the Mark Twain fable about an American receiving a one million pound note and the ensuing turmoil. This well-acted tale stars Gregory Peck, Jane... Read more
This brillantly cast, strange mixture of screwball comedy and lynch-mob melodramatics focuses on an accused arsonist, a Supreme Court judge and the gi... Read more
Ruth Rendell (the 'Queen of Crime') has written more than 40 books and been translated into 20 languages. She penned this original story of murder and... Read more
Aka "De toutes nos forces". Julien is 17, has a great sense of humour, bags of charm, and is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their lov... Read more
Frank Capra's hypnotic and perversely appealing adaptation of James Hilton's novel is a work of lost innocence and spiritual redemption. A plane fleei... Read more
The enthralling study of the life and times, the artistry and the anguish of the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich - a Russian who fell from grace... Read more
The worlds of a young Russo-German cop who investigates within the Berlin Russian mafia milieu and a young Russian woman who is forced into prostituti... Read more
An engrossing drama based on a true incident and starring Marlon Brando as a British agent sent to a 19th Century Caribbean island to investigate a re... Read more
Considered by many critics to be Visconti's greatest work, follows a mother and her four sons as they move from rural Italy to the slums of Milan. Ala... Read more
Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director Ernst Lubitsch substitut... Read more
To Wai-cheung (Chapman To), a long-time film producer, has yet to produce anything resembling a hit. Beset by financial troubles, he agrees to recreat... Read more
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local milita... Read more
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Kenny, a Melbourne-based port-a-loo installer, is someone who knows the ins and outs of everybody's in and outs. As he goes about his daily business,... Read more
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
Ronald Howard reprises his acclaimed BBC radio role as Sherlock Holmes for the only American serial version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detecti... Read more
Patricia (Juliet Berto) and Emile (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meet nightly on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes... Read more
Taking shock therapy as a metaphor, this investigative documentary explores "disaster capitalism," in which unstable nations are first jolted by catas... Read more
Adapting one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time, Capital in the 21st Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power... Read more
Aka 'Taste of Fear'. The wheelchair-ridden Penny Appleby arrives in France to join her father whom she has not seen in ten years. She meets her stepm... Read more
This British television series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur C... Read more
It is the end of the 80s, Detective Timurovic Lesiev (Marton Csokas), a young magistrate and family man, must urgently find an answer to this horrible... Read more
This British television series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur C... Read more
When Philip Ashley's (Richard Burton) wealthy cousin, Ambrose (John Sutton), dies suddenly, his suspicions drift to Ambrose's new and icy wife, Rachel... Read more
Aka 'Underground', 'Under the World'. The true story of a Polish Jewish family whose members had to literally bury themselves alive underground in ord... Read more
A.k.a. 'Anne and Muriel'. At the turn of the century, an aspiring young writer (Jean-Pierre Le'aud) spends a holiday on the Welsh coast with two Engli... Read more
A frank and gripping biography of Australian career criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read; a man who has spent more than 23 years behind bars, been shot at, st... Read more
Volume 1 contains Series 1 & 2. 12 episodes. During the Second World War, a small town in France is under occupation. The community has to live in a w... Read more
A tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer Dirk Bogarde is assigned to learn Japanese in orde... Read more
Based on the early stories of O Henry. Follow the hilarious adventures of the heroic Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and his bungling sidekick Pancho (Leo... Read more
This Western drama stars ex-US President Ronald Reagan as a marshal looking to retire with lady love Dorothy Malone, but he's forced to strap on his s... Read more
Four prisoners in a cell - Carrere, Marcus, Daisy and Lassalle. Behind a stone slab, mysteriously pulled loose, they discover a book: the diary of a p... Read more
Blacklisted for his daring "anti-French" masterpiece, 'Le Corbeau', Henri-Georges Clouzot returned to cinema with this provocative adaptation of autho... Read more
AKA 'Contest Girl'. Shirley (Janette Scott) - young, pretty and impressionable - finds herself the focal point of a human-interest story manufactured... Read more
TV director Dominik Graf makes an overdue and very welcome return to the big screen with Beloved Sisters, an enthralling, gorgeously mounted depiction... Read more
In late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress. Read more
This warm and affectionate film, the penultimate in the Antoine Doinel series, depicts French middle-class life with ironic and wry humour. Jean-Pierr... Read more
This dig at French film-making stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a faded auteur, who having seen Maggie Cheung in some Hong Kong action flicks, casts her as... Read more
Based on the enormously popular and successful film franchise, this 4 disc set contains all 14 episodes from the short-lived television series. After... Read more
Based on Catherine Heath's book, this 1989 four-part mini-series stars Judi Dench as a woman whose life is initially shattered when her husband decide... Read more
A young English boy, suffering from neglect at home, runs away and becomes friends with a French girl in the same plight. Together, they go to an idyl... Read more
When her husband dies suddenly, Caterina (Jill Clayburgh) takes her teenaged son to Italy, where she will be performing in several operas. As she imme... Read more
All is not well with Simran (Kangana Ranaut), a young, beautiful, alcoholic spiralling out of control when she meets Akash (Emraan Hashmi) a singer in... Read more
An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges... Read more
Aka 'Les quatre cents coups'. Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart,... Read more
Godard was at the peak of his powers when he directed this tale of a young man, fresh out of the army, who becomes disillusioned with his life. For a... Read more
Aka 'Les quatre cents coups'. Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart,... Read more
When the concerned father of an autistic girl decides to remove his daughter from the hospital where she is being treated, their escape is unexpectedl... Read more
This alternately touching and hilarious film about an inept but likeable jerk-of-all-trades, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Legud) which began with 'The... Read more
Born in a decade of political turmoil, Godard's caustic farce has become a cinematic marker for the significant historical events sorrounding its crea... Read more
Set in the alternate-universe fictional location of Atlantic-Cite, with comic book-bright colours and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays trib... Read more
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove... Read more
More dramas with the working class (though not often 'working') Boswell family of Liverpool. Matriarch Nellie (Jean Boht) struggles to keep her rauco... Read more
Tony Hancock dvd double feature. "The Rebel" (1960) - As a frustrated creative artist and bored city clerk, Hancock decides to escape across the chann... Read more
A film based on the successful play by Willis Hall about a British patrol in Burma who are determined to kill an innocent Japanese prisoner in a mad r... Read more
A proper English gentleman, traveling in the American West, inadvertently stops an Indian attack on the stagecoach in which he is a passenger. When th... Read more
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
Charlie and Reggie are two London crooks who con a couple of rich Italians out of half a million pounds. Reggie stashes the loot in a Swiss bank accou... Read more
When Zak (Daniel Sauli) and his girlfriend Delphina (Annie Parisse) visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia... Read more
Given a big budget for the first time, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven weaves a colourful, erotic and gritty story of a rag-tag group of mercenary soldi... Read more
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins at the precipice of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Chur... Read more
East Germany, 1980. Barbara (Nina Hoss), a young doctor, is starting a new job at a small hospital in the remote countryside. She has been transferred... Read more
Russ Meyer's outrageous chronicles of an all-girl rock group's rise to fame and their eventual seduction by sex, drugs and rock and roll was co-writte... Read more
Based on the memoirs of famous 19th century French detective Francois-Eugene Vidocq, this fantasy mystery was the directorial debut of visual effects... Read more
Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indiffere... Read more
Aka "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark". Harrison Ford is an adventure-seeking archeologist after rare and well-guarded ancient artifacts.... Read more
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
A group of 20-somethings are trapped within a bizarre cult. As the "mysterious" Enhancement Day approaches - some members desperately want to get out.... Read more
Meet the Boswells, a working-class family barely scraping by with the help of Social Security payments and the occasional odd job. Standing firm at t... Read more
As Judy Traherne, the fast-moving Long Island socialite whose world skids to a stop when she discovers she has less than a year to live, Bette Davis i... Read more
Thi action-packed offering tells of two reluctant soldiers (Michael Caine and Cliff Robertson) sent on a suicide mission on a Pacific Island during WW... Read more
Two hitmen kill an ex-getaway driver, then hunt for the money he purportedly stole in a previous robbery. They probe their victim's past, seeking clue... Read more
With 'Vampyr', Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery ('The... Read more
Dr. Indiana Jones, a renowned archeologist, and expert in the occult is hired by the U.S. Government to find the ark of the covenant, which is believe... Read more
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins at the precipice of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Chur... Read more
Based on the novel "These Foolish Things" by Deborah Moggach, this upbeat comedy/drama follows seven British senior citizens to Jaipur, India, where t... Read more
Laura Holt is a female private detective in an all-male racket, so to beef up business she invents a male boss, Remington Steele. However when her im... Read more
A biopic of the trailblazing Maori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries, champion the rights of Maori,... Read more
Godard's attempt at a mainstream detective story is still something unique to the influential director. In a Parisian hotel, two detectives are inves... Read more
In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears at King Arthur's court b... Read more
When their mother goes missing in Spirit Lake, three half-sisters travel home to settle her affairs. The youngest sister, June, a documentary filmmake... Read more
Scripted by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this bawdy British farce sees long-suffering Mr. Armitage (Donald Sinden) calling in a band of private det... Read more
"The Railway Children" (1970, 103 minutes). Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel "The Railway Children" was adapted for the big screen in 1970 by Lionel Jeffries... Read more
A powerful drama based on true stories. Unmarried mothers in 1960s New Zealand were treated harshly - sent to secluded homes to have their babies, the... Read more
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, trade unions threaten to walk, shooting must somehow... Read more
Perhaps Shaw's most well-known play, 'Pygmalion' stars Lynn Redgrave in the Eliza Doolittle role being taught her Ps & Qs by professor Henry Higgins.... Read more
Australia's most notorious detective, Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson hooks up with the Wild Colonial Psychos in an on-stage extravaganza not to be missed... Read more
Now that his first venture has been proven successful, ever-confident Sonny (Dev Patel) is busy juggling plans for a second resort... as well as his o... Read more
Based on the novel "These Foolish Things" by Deborah Moggach, this upbeat comedy/drama follows seven British senior citizens to Jaipur, India, where t... Read more
Kevin Whately returns as Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis, ably assisted by his young sidekick, D.S. Hathaway (Laurence Fox), in the fifth series of t... Read more
Glenda Jackson stars as England's strong-willed 'Virgin Queen' in this acclaimed Masterpiece Theatre presentation. Beginning with her ascendance to th... Read more
What personal tragedy helped inspire the creation of Superman? What pop phenomenon put Batman back on the cultural radar? What changes to Wonder Woman... Read more
Kevin Whately returns to the role of Inspector Robbie Lewis with his young partner D.S. Hathaway (Laurence Fox) in every epsiode from Series 8 – 9. To... Read more
The Girl King paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are agai... Read more
Now that his first venture has been proven successful, ever-confident Sonny (Dev Patel) is busy juggling plans for a second resort... as well as his o... Read more
Kevin Whately returns to the role of Inspector Robbie Lewis with his young partner D.S. Hathaway (Laurence Fox) in every epsiode from Series 6 – 7. To... Read more
This sequel to "Once Were Warriors" again stars Temuera Morrison as Jake Heke, who having turned his back on his family, must deal with a new set of c... Read more
Fijian playwright Vilsoni Herenko has lived in Hawaii since 1991, but returned to Fiji to make his first feature film. A beautiful coming of age stor... Read more
While still a film student in the late 1970s, Vincent Ward made a documentary called 'In Spring One Plants Alone' about an elderly Tuhoe woman called... Read more
AKA 'Life in a...Metro'. In the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai the lives of several people interconnect as they form relationships, have affairs and... Read more
A big, juicy, and really quite weird melodrama, the film cruises through the creepier side of small-town life, with Reagan in a very appealing groove.... Read more
"The Borgias" is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renai... Read more
Ben Kingsley and Mercedes Ruehl star in this wonderful family film, with Kingsley playing a reclusive magician who lives in an old mansion rigged with... Read more
Director Lee Tamahori's stunning debut film focuses on a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop. This insightful, gutsy drama fe... Read more
Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. It's first screen incarnation came in 194... Read more
Director Lee Tamahori's stunning debut film focuses on a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop. This insightful, gutsy drama fe... Read more
Siggy is a teenage bad-girl who lives and works in Auckland's red light district. She dreams of getting off the streets, her flatmate dreams of Tibet... Read more
Hongi (James Rolleston) - a Maori chieftain's teenage son - must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his lov... Read more
Legendary filmmaker Francois Truffaut followed the life of one of his favourite characters from rebellious adolesence to irresponsible adulthood over... Read more
Saddle up for this classic collection of TV westerns. Featuring exciting stories from the wild west, filled with non-stop action and adventure, this 5... Read more
A shy college student (Carly Pope), obsessed with finding the reason behind her mother's death, is befriended by an enigmatic comic book store owner (... Read more
A crackling good family adventure startring Bruce Greenwood as a New York City oil-company engineer who interrupts a vacation with his young son, Mac... Read more
A.k.a. "Camille redouble". Camille was sixteen when she fell madly in love with Eric and gave birth to their daughter. On New Year's Eve twenty-five y... Read more