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High Hopes
(1988) [M]

Set in and around King’s Cross and London’s suburbs in the early weeks of 1988, ‘High Hopes’ examines the contrasting lives and personalities of an assortment of characters.

Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine-gun the Royal Family and...  More

I See A Dark Stranger
(1946) [M]

Bridie is an Irish girl who decides that she will return to Dublin to assist in the war against the British. On the train she meets a Nazi officer attempting to rescue an accomplice. He sees Bridie as an attractive decoy so he takes her to England with him. When Miller is killed, Bridie is told...  More

Repulsion
(1965) [M]

Repulsion, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen...  More

Driving Miss Daisy
(1989) [PG]

An elderly matron (Jessica Tandy) manages to crash her 1948 Packard into her next-door neighbour's garden. She is unhurt after the accident but her son (Dan Aykroyd), fearing for his mother's safety, hires a chauffeur, a canny black widower in his early 60's (Morgan Freeman). The relationship...  More

Newsfront
(1978) [PG]

An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media. The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own. Newsfront is the story of...  More

Caravaggio
(1986) [M]

A powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art, 'Caravaggio' brings together Derek Jarman's twin worlds of film and painting.  More

The Accidental Tourist
(1988) [PG]

A bitter-sweet but ultimately life affirming, tragi-comedy from William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and director Lawrence Kasdan. Macon Leary (William Hurt), is the creator of The Accidental Tourist – a travel guide for businessmen who would rather stay at home. His marriage to Sarah (Kathleen...  More

The End Of St. Petersburg
(1927) [PG]

Filmed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, End of St. Petersburg was the second feature-length effort of director V. I. Pudovkin. Utilizing many of the montage techniques popularized by his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein, Pudovkin details the fall of St....  More

The Milky Way
(1969)

Two men making a religious pilgrimage through France form the basis for string of Luis Bunuel `jokes', parables, and surrealistic visions. Heretical, funny and haunting. French dialogue with subtitles. *MR  More

The Doors
(1990) [M]

Oliver Stone's visually stunning biopic of Jim Morrison, a headlong rush through the life of the lead singer of The Doors. Starring Val Kilmer in a career-best performance as Morrison, Meg Ryan as Pamela Courson, and Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Manzarek.  More