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The Return Of The King (1980)
(1980) [G]

This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas...  More

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
(1959) [M]

A modern version of the eighteenth century story. Two lovers discuss a love game involving an innocent young girl and all three become the victims of their own obsession. Subtitled. Based on a novel by Choderlos De Laclos.  More

Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]

Peter Cushing is a spendid Holmes and Andre Morell is the perfect Dr. Watson in this adaptation of the Conan Doyle classic from Hammer Studios and co-starring Christopher Lee. A fiendish evil lurks beneath the mist-shrouded cliffs of the fabled moors. In the form of a hellish hound, it feeds upon...  More

Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1982)
(1982) [G]

The adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, who, under the alias of 'the scarlet pimpernel', saved the lives of many French noblemen, following the French revolution.  More

The Russia House
(1990) [M]

Adapted by Tom Stoppard from John Le Carre's novel, director Fred Schepisi's The Russia House stars Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer as two people caught in a web of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya (Pfeiffer), a beautiful Russian book editor, attempts...  More

Mutiny On The Bounty
(1935) [G]

HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn...and into movie lore as an American Film Institute Top-100 American Films selection. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring...  More

The Great Gatsby
(1974) [PG]

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a story that could have only taken place in the Jazz Age - an era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and...  More

Quiet Days In Clichy
(1990) [R]

A writer and a photographer meet in Paris during the 1930s. Together, they spend their days at the Melody Club, a place of ill-repute, where both men become obsessed with a young girl called Colette. Based on the provocative works of author Henry Miller.  More

Doctor Faustus
(1967) [PG]

A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves. Faustus (Richard Burton) is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He...  More

The Rainbow
(1989) [M]

Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing...  More