The Brother From Another Planet
(1984) [M]

The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States....  More

The Conversation
(1974) [M]

A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.  More

Sweetie
(1989) [M]

Oscar®-winning director Jane Campion's stunning debut feature is a feast of colourful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters. Tough and tender, Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director as well as the breakthrough of antipodean cinema, which would take the...  More

The Secret Of Roan Inish
(1994) [G]

10 year old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a selkie -- a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle, and some think...  More

Heavy Traffic
(1973) [R]

An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an...  More

Spanking The Monkey
(1994) [R]

Ray is a promising pre-med student at MIT, home briefly (he thinks) before leaving again for a prestigious internship. His plans evaporate when his callous father insists he stay home to care for his mother after an accident, while the father travels on sales calls. The ensuing days are spent...  More

Seven (2 Disc Set)
(1995) [R]

Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is only a week away from retiring from his job at a New York City precinct. Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) has been transferred to the city and is anxious to pick up where Somerset leaves off. Both detectives soon find themselves on the trail of a vicious serial...  More

Redheads
(1992) [M]

The story concerns Lucy (Claudia Karvan), a young trouble-maker who lives in a juvenile penitentiary for girls. She has been having a sexual affair with an older, wealthy head of a law firm. When her lover is killed while she is at his apartment, she flees the scene hiding the video tape she made...  More

The Brothers McMullen
(1995) [M]

This angst-filled tale of three Irish-Catholic brothers explores men's relationships with women. Three different situations are set up on parallel plotlines, with each brother facing a different kind of crisis. Their common bond as family, as well as close lifelong friends, allows them to express...  More

An Awfully Big Adventure
(1995) [MA]

Stella leaves the doldrums of Liverpool and looks for life in the theatre. She soon meets the heartless director, Meredith Potter, and falls in love. She also charms the rest of the cast and observes their sordid lives...  More

The Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb
(1993) [M]

A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques. Tom meets a variety of strange creatures and eventually discovers a race of miniature humans like himself.  More

Amateur
(1994) [M]

An ex-nun believes she is a nymphomaniac, even though she has never experienced sex. She keeps active by writing short stories for a porno magazine. Thomas has been wandering the New York streets and cannot remember who he is. Their unlikely friendship takes them on the run from corporate...  More

Butterfly Kiss
(1995) [MA]

From director Michael Winterbottom (9 Songs, 24Hr Party People) comes a film full of macabre humour, centered around two extraordinary women, Eunice, unpredictable and highly dangerous, paces the highways of the North of England in search of Judith, the only person who has ever loved her. She...  More

The Basketball Diaries
(1995) [R]

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in...  More

Clockers
(1995) [R]

The night manager of a fast-food restaurant is murdered, but a no-nonsense Brooklyn cop doesn't believe that the young man who confessed to the crime is really guilty. He's got his eye on the suspect's brother (Phifer), who works for the neighborhood drug czar. A penetrating, multilayered look at...  More

Sister My Sister
(1994) [MA]

Based on a true story this dark tale focuses on Madame Danzard and her daughter Isabelle. After hiring Christine as a maid life appears perfect, until her younger sister Lea joins the household...  More

Vanya On 42nd Street
(1994) [G]

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props...  More

Crush
(1992) [M]

A passionate story of lives turned upside-down. Crush is a darkly comic tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge. Wreaking havoc is brash Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), whose reckless driving leaves her friend Christina hospitalised. Fleeing the scene, Lane then crashes into the lives of a novelist and...  More

Empire Records
(1995) [M]

The director of Pump Up the Volume cranks it up another notch with this comedy about an eventful day in the lives of the young slackers, doers and dreamers who work at the bustling store called Empire Records. "This music is the glue of the world", one of Emprire's clerks says. "It holds it all...  More

Kids
(1995) [R]

An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.  More

Caine Mutiny Court Martial
(1988) [PG]

A film adaptation of Herman Wouk's classic tale of the trial of the infamous Captain Queeg.  More

A Pure Formality
(1994) [M]

Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through...  More

Boxing Helena
(1993) [R]

The seductive Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) is the overwhelming obsession of Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands), a brilliant surgeon. He saves her life after a violent car accident and disguises her entrapment in his home aspart of the healing process. What ensues is a terrifying story coloured with desire...  More

Small Faces
(1996) [M]

Teenage brothers: gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, live in a slum suburb of Glasgow, Scotland circa 1968. While Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex’s downward spiral after he...  More

Down By Law (2 disc set)
(1986) [M]

Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body...  More

Dogma
(2000) [MA]

The plot is set in motion by two banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck). After a few millenia in Wisconsin, they've discovered a loophole in Catholic doctrine that would allow them back into heaven - but prove the fallibility of God and destroy the universe. Unaware of the...  More

Annie Hall
(1977) [M]

Arguably the best of all of Woody Allen's movies, Annie Hall portrays with candour the fragility of relationships in an amusing and touching manner. As with Allen's other movies you don't have to look far to find the idiosyncratic neurosis that is innate in most of his work but his handling of...  More

The Million Dollar Hotel
(2000) [MA]

A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles flea-pit, known locally as "the Million Dollar Hotel". When one of the residents comes to a grisly end, the hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation led by FBI hardliner Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson). Every inhabitant of the...  More

Leaving Las Vegas
(1995) [R]

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. Cage won Best Actor Oscar and the film received 3 other...  More

Suture
(1996) [M]

When Clay Arlington's father is murdered, his estranged half-brother Vincent becomes the most likely suspect. Eager to throw the police off his trail, Vincent invites Clay to visit him soon after the funeral, then secretly plants a bomb in the car Clay is to drive. Vincent has put his own...  More