The Rose
(1979) [M]

In an Oscar-nominated performance, Bette Midler portrays a rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard living it eventually causes her downfall. Trapped in a self-created hell, Rose begs her manager (Alan Bates) for time off from her concert tour. When he refuses, she...  More

The Mothman Prophecies (2-Disc set)
(2002) [M]

From the director of ARLINGTON ROAD comes a spine-tingling supernatural thriller based on actual events that will rattle your nerves and shake your beliefs. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife (Debra Messing), John Klein (Richard Gere), is mysteriously drawn to a small West...  More

The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]

Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but...  More

The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a...  More

A Kind Of Loving
(1962) [M]

The legendary John Schlesinger (Yanks, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy) made his feature film directorial debut with this bittersweet and beautifully acted drama about a young draughtsman, Vic Brown (Alan Bates), whose life comes apart at the seams when he begins a relationship with typist Ingrid...  More

Whistle Down The Wind
(1961) [G]

Bryan Forbes' enchanting film, based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell, is a family classic. Three children (Hayely Mills, Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes) living on their widowed father's farm in the north of England discover a wanted man (Alan Bates) hiding out in a barn. They come to the...  More

The Shout
(1978) [M]

During a cricket match at a lunatic asylum, patient Crossley (Alan Bates) relates a strange story to a composer Anthony Fielding (John Hurt) and his wife Rachel (Suzannah York). Crossley once lived with Australian aborigines, who taught him the secret of a deadly shout which has the power to kill...  More

A Voyage Round My Father
(1982) [PG]

John Mortimer's autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father, about his relationship with lawyer father Clifford Mortimer (Sir Laurence Olivier). Alan Bates co-stars as the younger Mortimer, who must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself. His father, a successful...  More

Women In Love
(1969) [M]

D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel about two love affairs is here well-adapted for the big screen. Jackson's galvanizing performance is nearly overshadowed by a lurid nude wrestling scene between Bates and Reed. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy...  More

Zorba The Greek
(1964) [M]

Michael Cacoyannis's powerful film starring Anthony Quinn garnered seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba, a boisterous, gregarious peasant...  More