Green For Danger
(1946) [G]

In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have...  More

Scaramouche
(1952) [G]

Let danger befall him. Let winds of fate blow where they may. Andre Moreau will strike a blow for vengeance and the French Revolution. First, he must hone his skill with the blade. By the day Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges.. and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of...  More

On The Beach
(1959) [PG]

The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction. Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news; the...  More

The Night Of The Hunter
(1955) [M]

Robert Mitchum gives one of his finest performances as the psychopathic preacher, Harry Powell, who is arrested for a minor offence in a small West Virginian town. His cell mate, Ben Harper, who faces the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. By the time that...  More

The Way To The Stars
(1945) [G]

In 1940, an airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a Bomber Command station. In 1942 advance units of the American Air Force arrive to join the Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of World War II. So unfolds the story of a group of flyers. Peter Penrose (John Mills), a young RAF...  More

Razor's Edge, The (1946)
(1946) [PG]

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's highly acclaimed 1944 novel, this is a sprawling, ambitious account of one man's quest for spiritual identity. Over a number of years and continents, we watch as Chicago scion Larry Darrell, newly returned from World War I, breaks off his engagement to the lovely...  More

The Searchers
(1956) [G]

With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, and ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger,...  More

Midnight Cowboy
(1969) [M]

A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly...  More

Dersu Uzala (2 disc set)
(1975) [G]

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asiatic hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns at the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilisation. Four...  More

North West Frontier
(1959) [PG]

Kenneth More keeps his upper lip stiff in this colourful adventure set in colonial India. Captain Scott (More) is sent by the British Governor to rescue a five-year-old Hindu Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), when a rebellion breaks out amongst the tribesmen....  More

All Quiet On The Western Front
(1930) [PG]

Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing...  More

East Of Eden (2 disc set)
(1955) [PG]

Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his...  More

Rebel Without A Cause
(1955) [M]

In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's...  More

Giant (2 Disc Set)
(1956) [PG]

The legendary epic that's as big as Texas. Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the...  More

Heart And Soul (Cuore)
(1947) [PG]

This film was based on Edmondo De Amicis' 1886 book CUORE, meant to instill patriotic and moral values, and which has been filmed several times. It is set in 19th Century Turin, and its central character is a paternal and caring teacher, Maestro Perboni (Vittorio De Sica) whose young students...  More

The Golden Salamander
(1950) [M]

A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.  More

Conspiracy Of Hearts
(1960) [PG]

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous  More

To Sir With Love
(1967) [PG]

A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of the teens in the 60's. SIDNEY POITIER gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out of work engineer who turns to teaching in London's...  More

Highly Dangerous
(1950) [PG]

When British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtain country is developing insects as weapons they persuade eminent entomologist Frances Gray to get into the country to collect some specimens. On arrival her cover is almost immediately blown and her contact murdered. The future looks grim for...  More

Staying On
(1980) [PG]

A retired Indian Army colonel and his wife chose to stay on in India when the British withdrew in 1947. Now, twenty-five years on, they find the new India increasingly difficult to understand. An award-winning companion to 'Jewel In The Crown'.  More

Sunset Boulevard
(1950) [PG]

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the...  More

How Green Was My Valley
(1941) [PG]

Winner of five Academy Awards, this inspiring, yet heart-breaking "Hollywood milestone" (Halliwells's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is "a perfection of screen art" and "one of the finest" pictures ever made (Variety). Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his...  More

The Grapes Of Wrath
(1940) [PG]

This remarkable film version of John Steinbeck's novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director Oscar and Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the...  More

The Three Faces Of Eve
(1957) [M]

For her impressive portrayal of a woman with multiple personality disorder in The Three Faces Of Eve, Joanne Woodward brought home the 1957 Best Actress Oscar. Based on Corbett H. Thigpen's novel of the same name, "The Three Faces Of Eve" follows the fascinating story of a deeply troubled young...  More

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(1955) [PG]

Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent temporarily staying in Hong Kong during the Korean War. While there he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian Doctor. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and families pressure them to stop the cross cultural relationship....  More

The Good Earth
(1937) [G]

The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them to leave their land and live in the town. However it turns out to be a blessing in...  More

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
(1967) [PG]

Nominated for 10 1968 Academy Awards®, this masterpiece of modern cinema features powerhouse performances by an impressive cast of Academy Award ® Winners. A heart-warming tale of love in the face of adversity, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is made even more poignant by the fact that it was to...  More

Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)
(1945) [PG]

Poetic realism reaches sublime heights in this ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music and design, director Marcel Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters...  More

Woman Of The Dunes
(1964) [M]

When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a place to spend the night. They soon lead him to a house at the bottom of a sandpit. Upon climbing into the pit, he finds a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) living alone. Placed...  More

Open City
(1945) [M]

Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, film...  More