To the Shores of Tripoli
(1942) [PG]

Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to  More

Hud
(1962) [M]

Paul Newman is Hud, a man at odds with his father, tradition and himself. Hud's only interests are fighting, drinking, hot-rodding his Cadillac and womanising. Melvyn Douglas is the father, an old-line cattle rancher, and Patricia Neal is the understanding and appealing housekeeper. Academy...  More

Little Big Man
(1970) [M]

In this sweeping epic that swings from high comedy to drama, Dustin Hoffman gives a "virtuoso performance" (Hollywood Reporter) as the 121-year old sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Narrating his colorful life story, he tells about everything from his adoption by Cheyenne Indians to his...  More

The Great Ziegfeld
(1936) [G]

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows...  More

Strangers on a Train (2 disc set)
(1951) [M]

Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that "some people are better off dead", and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous...  More

The Fugitive Kind
(1959) [M]

Valentine Xavier is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one too many times, he vows to quit the scene and start anew elsewhere. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small southern town somewhere between New Orleans and...  More

Spellbound (1945)
(1945) [PG]

Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature-or so she thinks. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled...  More

A Farewell To Arms
(1957) [PG]

In the Winter of 1917 an American ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) enlists in the Italian army and is wounded in action. He is gradually restored to health by a beautiful young nurse (Jennifer Jones). When they find themselves falling in love, they try to escape the horrors of the war by fleeing to...  More

The Parallax View
(1974) [M]

Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to...  More

Ciao! Manhattan
(1972) [R]

Susan, young and beautiful and excessive in everything; drugs, sex and spending extravagantly. She suffers an early, tragic death. A fascinating 1960s document that anybody interested in the Warhol Factory scene should watch.  More

Donovan's Reef
(1963) [PG]

Producer-director John Ford once again demonstrated his successful formula for rambunctious, combative comedy and romance in this action-packed John Wayne classic. Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies (John Wayne and Lee Marvin) is just about perfect - they spend most of their...  More

Coal Miner's Daughter
(1980) [PG]

Sissy Spacek gives an extraordinary performance as Loretta Lynn in a drama that reveals the life of the "Queen of Country Music." Tommy Lee Jones is Loretta's ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachia home to be his child bride. At eighteen, the mother of four...  More

Persona
(1967) [MA]

Widely recognised as one of Ingmar Bergman's most extraordinary and influential films, Persona is a rich and poetic study of womanhood and identity, featuring two of the Swedish master's greatest leading ladies, Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson. Elizabeth (Ullmann) is a famous actress who is...  More

Upstairs Downstairs :Series 1 (Disc 1 of 4)
(1971) [PG]

As the first major costume drama series written specially for British TV award-winning Upstairs Downstairs was an outstanding success. It became one of the best-loved and most acclaimed dramas of all time and now the 8 colour episodes from the 1st series are yours to enjoy in this sumptuous...  More

Ordinary People
(1980) [M]

An extraordinary motion picture, Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a...  More

A Bridge Too Far (2 Disc Set)
(1977) [M]

The true story of the Bridge at Arnhem is one of the great heroic catastrophies of the war. In an over ambitious bid to end the war quickly by invading Germany, the Allies lost more men than the entire Normandy landings. This film features one of the greatest all-star casts ever and director...  More

Wages of Fear
(1953) [M]

In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death. Subtitled...  More

12 Angry Men
(1957) [G]

Heralded as one of the all-time great classics, "12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict...  More

Rififi
(1955) [PG]

In Jules Dassin's classic noir Rififi, Jean Servais plays Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realises his girlfriend has thrown him over for a...  More

American Gigolo
(1980) [M]

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something...  More

Bhowani Junction
(1956) [M]

During the British withdrawal from India, Anglo-Indian WAC Victoria Jones is torn between two worlds. Traumatized by an attempted rape, Victoria turns from her callous Anglo-Indian lover to a full-blooded Sikh, then to British Colonel Savage, who is trying to prevent communist agitator Darvay...  More

The Bridge On The River Kwai (2 disc set)
(1957) [PG]

When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure based on Pierre Boulle's novel. Spectacularly produced, this winner of seven 1957 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director...  More

Get Carter
(1971) [M]

Jack Carter (Michael Caine) -- a vindictive and amoral London gangster -- returns to his home town of Newcastle after his brother dies in a car accident. Carter, however, is convinced that he was murdered, and begins an investigation into Newcastle's criminal underworld. When Carter is ordered to...  More

Les Enfants Terribles
(1950) [PG]

In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, teenage brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth create an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room. When outsiders intrude into their world however, the scene is set for tragedy. A hauntingly atmospheric film of Jean Cocteau's...  More

Kramer Vs Kramer
(1979) [PG]

KRAMER VS. KRAMER is a story of contemporary relationships, values and choices. Career-driven and ambitious, Ted Kramer (DUSTIN HOFFMAN from TOOTSIE) returns home from work late one night to be told by his wife, Joanna (MERYL STREEP from OUT OF AFRICA) that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of...  More

Gentleman's Agreement
(1947) [G]

Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura...  More

Point Blank
(1967) [M]

There are two kinds of people in this up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart. One man's quest for revenge: an action classic from the director of Deliverance. They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they...  More

Simba
(1955) [PG]

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.  More

Elmer Gantry
(1960) [PG]

Featuring Burt Lancaster in a brilliant, Best Actor Oscar-winning performance, Elmer Gantry is an unforgettable screen drama by writer/director Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof). Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and...  More

Exodus
(1960) [PG]

Adapted from Leon Uris’ international bestseller by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger's Exodus is an exciting, panoramic and deeply moving masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large...  More