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The American Friend
(1977) [M]

In Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel 'Ripley's Game', Dennis Hopper stars as American sociopath Tom Ripley, making a living as the middle-man selling the works of painter Derwatt, who has feigned his own death in order to increase the value of his works. At an auction in...  More

The End Of Violence
(1997) [M]

Two hit-men have been hired to kill Mike Max, a producer of gore movies... on the very day that his wife, Paige Stockard, walks out on him. The hoods abduct Mike, but the following day their decapitated bodies are discovered under a freeway junction – and there's no sign of their victim....  More

The Shawshank Redemption (2 Disc Set)
(1994) [MA]

Having been wrongly convicted of murdering both his wife and her lover, Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two life sentences, and is sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. During his first night, the barbaric treatment by prison guards, most notably the chief guard Byron Hadley, leads to the...  More

The League of Gentlemen
(1959) [PG]

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by...  More

The Crimson Rivers (2 Disc Set)
(2000) [MA]

When Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. The dead, whose hands and eyes have been removed, are clues to a terrible tradition the killer can no...  More

Un Flic (Dirty Money)
(1972) [PG]

Jean Pierre Melville's final film is a French gangster thriller that sees a small town bank heist go wrong. Scintillating performances from Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna and Alain Delon. *MR  More

Heaven's Burning
(1997) [MA]

Colin (Russell Crowe) is the getaway driver in a bank robbery which is witnessed by an unhappy Japanese bride named Minori. Her life is now in danger and the two outcasts find themselves thrown together in a quest for freedom culminating in a new found love.  More

The Hard Word
(2002) [MA]

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.  More

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead
(1988) [R]

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead is a startling and powerful film set entirely within the confines of a maximum security prison - a new generation prison painted in play school colours and resembling a supermarket - it goes beyond traditional prison themes of good and evil to draw a frightening...  More

Gorky Park
(1983) [M]

Murder, seduction and intrigue in the Kremlin form the backdrop for Gorky Park. Scripted by Dennis Potter from Martin Cruz Smith's best seller and directed by the versatile Michael Apted, Gorky Park is a gripping, intricate thriller co-starring Lee Marvin in his last great performance. When three...  More