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Colonel Redl
(1985) [M]

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.  More

Masques
(1987) [PG]

Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci) poses as a reporter to interview a popular television personality (Philippe Noiret) he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his sister. The struggling actress had taken a job as a companion to the star's sickly ward Catherine (Anne Brochet). Roland...  More

Where The Green Ants Dream
(1984)

The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream.  More

Legend Of The Suram Fortress / Colour Of Pomegranates
(1968) [PG]

Legend Of The Suram Fortress: Directors Sergei Paradzhanov and Dodo Abashidze resurrected an old Soviet Georgian folktale as the basis for their film The Legend of Suram Fortress. The fortress in question is forever under construction, and forever collapsing before the last brick can be laid. The...  More

Crimes And Misdemeanors
(1990) [M]

Poignant, penetrating and scathingly hilarious, Crimes and Misdemeanors is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosm that they represent. Showcasing Allen’s brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his nineteenth movie, Crimes and...  More

Silver City
(1984) [PG]

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of...  More

Picnic At Hanging Rock: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [PG]

Based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day, Picnic At Hanging Rock is suffused with menace, mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900, a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly...  More

I Vitelloni
(1953) [G]

Fausto, the leader of a gang of shiftless young men in a small Italian seaside town, is forced by his father to marry a local girl after it is discovered she is pregnant. Irrespective of his predicament Fausto and his friends persist in their daily slothful rituals. All the while Fausto continues...  More

4 Adventures Of Reinette & Mirabelle
(1986) [G]

4 stories centred around two young women; one from the country and one from the town. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) [PG]

In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for...  More