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The Samurai: Volume 2
(1962) [PG]

Deathless One While he and his companions are resting in an inn, Shintaro sees a scared rat running from the closet and realises there is someone hiding inside. Unseen Enemy When the leader of the infamous Koga society harangues Kurobei for failing to rescue another ninja from Shintaro, Kurobei...  More

The Samurai: Volume 3
(1962) [PG]

The Spider Shintaro goes to the rescue when he sees a band of villainous sedan-chair carriers running off with a girl named Chikage. Then he decides to help her locate her father. Die Like a Ninja Shintaro and his companion have finally arrived in Kofu after many adventures but their arrival is...  More

River Queen
(2005) [MA]

A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's...  More

The Twelve Gold Medallions (Shaw Brothers)
(1970) [R]

As a valiant Chinese general and his men battle Tartar invaders, patriot swordsmen attempt to stop the delivery of 12 medallions sent by a traitor that could spell the doom of the Sung Dynasty. When a powerful kung fu master assumes responsibility for the deliveries, his daughter and a former...  More

Jet Li's Fearless
(2006) [M]

A young mainland boy living with his family in Tianjin and forbidden by his father to practice martial arts grows up to become the founder of the Jingwu school of fighting in a lavish biopic detailing the remarkable life of turn-of-the-century martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia. Bullied on the...  More

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
(2005) [M]

From the team behind 24 Hour Party People comes the hilariously inventive adaptation of the notoriously un filmable comic novel 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen' by Laurence Stern. Skipping back and forth between the 18th century and efforts of the 21st century filmmakers to...  More

Robbery Under Arms (1985)
(1985) [PG]

The classic tale of Australia‘s most colourful outlaw for the first time on DVD! Acclaimed actor Sam Neill (The Dish, Jurassic Park) stars as the suave and enigmatic bushranger Captain Starlight in this lavish action adventure tale set in the rugged Australian outback. Joined by bush larrikin,...  More

Curse of the Golden Flower
(2006) [M]

China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou) but there are chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li)....  More

Becoming Jane
(2006) [PG]

Fictional romantic biopic of author Jane Austen. A young girl's future prospects in English society of 1795 are based around marrying for financial gain. As a rebellious twenty-year-old, Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) contemplates a future mapped out for her by her parents, when into her life rides...  More

Amazing Grace (2 disc set)
(2006) [PG]

Amazing Grace is the incredible true story of William Wilberforce, who tirelessly led the campaign to abolish slavery in Britain. At a time when the slave trade was not only perceived as acceptable but as a necessary for the economy, Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists dared to speak out...  More