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La Ronde (1964)
(1964) [M]

Director Roger Vadim's remake of Max Ophuls' classic post war film "La Ronde," about various people having affairs, eventually forming a chain that comes full circle. Billed as "The Married Woman", Jane Fonda is a wife who has a fling with a young student - one of a chain of sexual liaisons that...  More

Tess
(1979) [PG]

Roman Polanski's beautiful, Oscar-winning adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. In 19th-century England a peasant named John Durbeyfield discovers he descends from a noble family, the d'Urbervilles. He sends his eldest daughter Tess (Nastassja Kinski) to live with Alec d'Urberville (Leigh...  More

Once Upon A Time In China 2
(1992) [M]

In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military. With his...  More

The Man In Grey
(1943) [PG]

James Mason, Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger star in an elaborate, romantic costume drama. Told in flashback this classic Bodice ripper feature Phyllis Calvert as Clarissa who befriends impoverished stunner Hester (Lockwood). Who re-pays her friend's kindness by trying to steal her husband...  More

D'Artagnan's Daughter
(1994) [M]

Bertrand Tavernier's 'D'Artagnan's Daughter' is a hugely enjoyable swashbuckling comedy. It has all the pace and liveliness of the classic period action/adventure films, yet it was made with a light touch and a careful avoidance of cliche. It is 1654, and Eloise discovers a plot to assassinate...  More

Jefferson In Paris
(1995) [PG]

Screen favourite Nick Nolte (The Prince Of Tides) stars in this impassioned epic of political upheaval and forbidden love! JEFFERSON IN PARIS recounts the scandalous private life of Thomas Jefferson, America's most famous statesman, during his term as ambassador in pre-revolutionary France....  More

Napoleon And Josephine: Part 1of 3
(1987) [M]

Following the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte (Armand Assante)is called to Paris to control royalty uprisings. After becoming a general, he meets and carries Josephine de Beauharnais (Jacqueline Bisset), widow of a French aristocrat. Napoleon is sent to Italy to fight. Meanwhile, in Paris,...  More

Napoleon And Josephine: Part 3 of 3
(1987) [M]

Napoleon and Josephine (ARMAND ASSANTE and JACQUELINE BISSET) are reunited. A royalist assassination plot fails. Napoleon and Josephine move into Versailles Palace and Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France, waging war on any country that objects. Because Josephine cannot produce an heir to...  More

Once Upon A Time In China 3
(1993) [PG]

Wong Fei-Hung and sidekick Chung arrive in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Also accompanying him is cousin Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption, to whom Wong is secretly betrothed. Wong faces a possible romantic rival in a Russian diplomat,...  More

Ivanhoe (2 tape set)
(1997) [M]

In one of the greatest adventure stories of all time, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to reclaim his honour, his inheritance and the hand of his beloved. Screenplay by Deborah Cook, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott.  More