Blow Up
(1966) [M]

Director Michelangelo Antonioni packs nonstop action into a controversial cinematic close-up of mid-sixties mod London where Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles star with David Hemmings in this expose of British counterculture. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city...  More

Straw Dogs (2 disc set)
(1971) [R]

Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.  More

The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 1 of 5)
(1976) [PG]

London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings. Beautifully presented in a...  More

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(1976) [M]

Some little girls can be murder! Thirteen-year-old Rynn (Foster) is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father...all alone. Or does she? When Rynn's nosy landlady and a lecherous neighbor (Sheen) begin to susupect that this little girl is hiding a dark and dangerous...  More

Doctor In The House
(1954) [G]

Doctor In The House was so successful that it spawned not only six sequels but also a television spin-off. Oddly enough this success works against it, as it is easy to forget how good the original was. Medical school provides a good background for the comedy capers, as well as providing a sound...  More

Cross Of Iron
(1977) [R]

James Mason and James Coburn star in this gripping account of a doomed German platoon facing annihilation at Russian hands during 1943, who discover that their instinct for war is greater than their instinct for survival. While the enemy attack, two officers fuel the conflict with their hell-bent...  More

Richard III (1955)
(1955) [G]

The deformed Richard of Gloucester cuts a bloody path to the throne in Shakespeare's historical tragedy. Determined to seize the French throne from his brother Edward IV, he rouses Edward's hatred from their brother Clarence, who is arrested and murdered while imprisoned. The cunning Richard woos...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

The Red Shoes (1948)
(1948) [G]

The Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. The winner of two Academy Awards in 1948, for Hein Heckroth's Art and Set Direction, and Brian Easedale's music score, THE RED SHOES is the story of young ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), who...  More

39 Steps, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]

Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) meets up with a young nanny (Faith Brook) he'd come across earlier during the day. At the theatre that evening they attend a vaudeville performance by Mr. Memory (James Hayter), and afterwards Hannay takes her back to his London flat. There he discovers that she is...  More

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
(1965) [M]

Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story. Based on the...  More

The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]

Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the...  More

Sunday Bloody Sunday
(1971) [M]

A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they actually know each other as well. Despite...  More

Becket
(1964) [PG]

Peter O'Toole delivers an electrifying performance as the mischievous Henry II, who surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted valet Thomas Becket (Richard Burton in a career defining role) as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop Of Canterbury, Becket shocks the...  More

Zulu
(1964) [PG]

ZULU is one of the great movies, an epic adventure of courage in the face of incredible odds. Based on a true story it tells the amazing tale of 100 British soldiers who stood fast against an overwhelming force of 4,000 of the Zulu nation's mightiest warriors in the defence of Rorkes Drift in...  More

The Looking Glass War
(1969) [PG]

At the height of the Cold War, British Intelligence discovers evidence that suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. With no active agents available to investigate, Fred Leiser must be called back to the colours and sent East. Once behind the Iron Curtain, Leiser...  More

A Technicolour Dream
(1967) [M]

A Technicolour Dream is the story of the underground movement during the sixties leading up to its culmination at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, a "musical happening" at Alexandra Palace on April 29th, 1967. The story takes in CND marches in the early sixties, the foundation of the London Free...  More

Frost Nixon The Original Watergate Interview
(1977) [G]

Sir David Frost's legendary 28 hour interview with former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon remains the greatest political interview ever recorded, and has been immortalized in the Oscar nominated film Frost-Nixon. Watched by nearly 50 million viewers in the US when originally broadcast in May of...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

The One That Got Away
(1957) [PG]

The One That Got Away is the thrilling true story of Lt. Franz von Werra (Hardy Kruger), the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War to escape from numerous British POW camps and return to his homeland. Roy Ward Baker's excellent direction and Kruger's sympathetic...  More

The Quiller Memorandum
(1966) [PG]

After the brutal murder of two British agents, secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is assigned to West Berlin where he must uncover the operations of the mysterious neo-Nazi organisation believed responsible. His methods of exposing this menace are as unorthodox as the ruthless men he encounters....  More

The Mackintosh Man
(1973) [M]

A top-notch spy thriller about an agent who is assigned the task of killing a communist spy who has infiltrated the ranks of British Intelligence. Based on 'The Freedom Trap' by Desmond Bagley. *MR  More

The Battle Of The River Plate
(1956) [G]

The Battle of the River Plate is a war film from the incomparable team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Ten days before before the outbreak of WW2, the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic....  More

Doctor in Clover
(1966) [G]

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job....  More

Doctor in Trouble
(1970) [PG]

Doctor in Trouble was the final film in the Doctor series. The madcap doctor team are at it again. This time Dr Burke (smooth-talking Leslie Philips) stows away on a cruise ship when his girlfriend is assigned a modelling job aboard the vessel, and ends up as a ship's doctor.  More

Operation Amsterdam
(1959) [G]

During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to help the Dutch underground keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Gestapo, knowing that one of their number may be a traitor.  More

Twelfth Night (BBC)
(1980) [G]

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new...  More

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
(1973) [PG]

Featuring a wealth of stars, this powerful period drama follows the illustrious life of King Henry VIII and his six wives. From his death bed Henry (Keith Michell) reminisces over his life and loves...  More

Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
(1968) [M]

A village trembles in fear, a priest forsakes his vows in the service of evil and young beauties fall victim to a mysterious seducer. Each night now brings a new threat of death... because Dracula Has Risen from the Grave! In his third incarnation as Bram Stoker's infamous vampire, horror Legend...  More

George and Mildred (The Movie)
(1980) [PG]

Television’s most famous bickering couple, George & Mildred Roper, graduate to the big screen in the 1980 feature-length comedy starring Yootha Joyce & Brian Murphy. Mildred’s planned wedding anniversary celebrations hilariously go sour when George is mistaken for a vicious hit man leading to...  More