War And Peace - Vol. 3 & 4 of 6, (2 tape set)
(1972) [PG]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 5 & 6 of 6, (2 tape set)
(1972) [M]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

The Getting Of Wisdom (2 Disc Set)
(1977) [PG]

Told with a delicate blend of satire and nostalgia, this award-winning coming-of-age tale introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambothan (Susannah Fowle). Chronicling her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne...  More

The Royal Hunt
(1990) [PG]

In 18th century Russia, Catherine is now the reigning Empress in a country which does not accept primogeniture (rule by the oldest born) but requires that the oldest born be male. It has taken quite a lot of almost supernatural scheming to remain on the throne which, by an accident of fate, is...  More

Fortunes Of War (2 Tape Set)
(1987) [M]

Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty, gays, lesbians] that cross and re-cross their...  More

Anna And The King Of Siam
(1946) [G]

In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his courtiers. In due course, she becomes the king's confidant and diplomatic...  More

Camille Claudel
(1979) [M]

Bruno Nuytten's Camille Claudel is the moving, passionate and tragic true story of France's greatest sculptor, Rodin, and his muse, Camille Claudel. Camille became an apprentice to Rodin and, despite their differences in age and much opposite, they fell in love. Their stormy love affair lasted...  More

Ulysses
(1967) [M]

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry...  More

Country Life
(1994) [M]

Starring Sam Neill, Creta Scacchi and Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore's delightfully evocative comedy is a tale of love, lies and betrayal. Set on a rambling Australian sheep station shortly after the first world war , Country Life is a beautiful and sensual adaptation of Chekhov's tragic comedy...  More

Reap The Wild Wind
(1942) [PG]

In this turbulent swashbuckler, Cecil B. DeMille presents a tale of daring piracy and hot-blooded love. 1840s Key West is filled with salvage businesses thriving on the cargo of wrecked ships. Ship owner Loxi Claiborn (Paulette Goddard) suspects salvager King Cutler (Raymond Massey) of foul play,...  More

Little Women
(1994) [G]

With her husband off at war, Marmee (Susan Sarandon) is left alone to raise their four daughters -- her "little women." There is the spirited Jo (Winona Ryder); conservative Meg (Trini Alvarado, Paulie); fragile Beth (Claire Danes, Romeo & Juliet); and romantic Amy (played at different ages by...  More

Autobiography Of A Princess
(1975) [PG]

Made for British television by the correctly esteemed Merchant/Ivory partnership, with an expected well-wrought screenplay from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, this short (one hour) film is essentially a chamber piece for two characters, shot primarily within a single room of a London town house, but the...  More

Pavlova
(1984) [G]

This biographical film is made especially for ballet aficionados. Focusing on the short life of the remarkable Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1882?-1931), it features several dance sequences and provides a backdrop of the historical events in the Soviet Union and Europe during her life. Pavlova...  More

Middlemarch (2 tape set)
(1994) [G]

This Masterpiece Theatre production, set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, chronicles, the life, loves, foibles and politics of the fictional English town of Middlemarch. Adapted from the George Eliot classic of the same name, the plot centers on the socially conscious, but naive Dorothea...  More

Young Catherine (2-Tape Set)
(1991) [PG]

A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.  More

La Ronde (1964)
(1964) [M]

Director Roger Vadim's remake of Max Ophuls' classic post war film "La Ronde," about various people having affairs, eventually forming a chain that comes full circle. Billed as "The Married Woman", Jane Fonda is a wife who has a fling with a young student - one of a chain of sexual liaisons that...  More

Tess
(1979) [PG]

Roman Polanski's beautiful, Oscar-winning adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. In 19th-century England a peasant named John Durbeyfield discovers he descends from a noble family, the d'Urbervilles. He sends his eldest daughter Tess (Nastassja Kinski) to live with Alec d'Urberville (Leigh...  More

Once Upon A Time In China 2
(1992) [M]

In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military. With his...  More

The Man In Grey
(1943) [PG]

James Mason, Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger star in an elaborate, romantic costume drama. Told in flashback this classic Bodice ripper feature Phyllis Calvert as Clarissa who befriends impoverished stunner Hester (Lockwood). Who re-pays her friend's kindness by trying to steal her husband...  More

D'Artagnan's Daughter
(1994) [M]

Bertrand Tavernier's 'D'Artagnan's Daughter' is a hugely enjoyable swashbuckling comedy. It has all the pace and liveliness of the classic period action/adventure films, yet it was made with a light touch and a careful avoidance of cliche. It is 1654, and Eloise discovers a plot to assassinate...  More

Jefferson In Paris
(1995) [PG]

Screen favourite Nick Nolte (The Prince Of Tides) stars in this impassioned epic of political upheaval and forbidden love! JEFFERSON IN PARIS recounts the scandalous private life of Thomas Jefferson, America's most famous statesman, during his term as ambassador in pre-revolutionary France....  More

Le Colonel Chabert
(1994) [M]

A dishevelled man visits a lawyer in 1817 Paris claiming the rank and fortune of the dead Colonel Chabert. French dialogue with subtitles.  More

Napoleon And Josephine: Part 1of 3
(1987) [M]

Following the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte (Armand Assante)is called to Paris to control royalty uprisings. After becoming a general, he meets and carries Josephine de Beauharnais (Jacqueline Bisset), widow of a French aristocrat. Napoleon is sent to Italy to fight. Meanwhile, in Paris,...  More

Napoleon And Josephine: Part 3 of 3
(1987) [M]

Napoleon and Josephine (ARMAND ASSANTE and JACQUELINE BISSET) are reunited. A royalist assassination plot fails. Napoleon and Josephine move into Versailles Palace and Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France, waging war on any country that objects. Because Josephine cannot produce an heir to...  More

Once Upon A Time In China 3
(1993) [PG]

Wong Fei-Hung and sidekick Chung arrive in Peking just as the Empress announces a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Also accompanying him is cousin Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption, to whom Wong is secretly betrothed. Wong faces a possible romantic rival in a Russian diplomat,...  More

Madame Bovary (1991)
(1991) [PG]

A classy adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel, directed by the great Claude Chabrol. In 19th century France, Emma Rouault (Isabelle Huppert), the daughter of a country squire, has visions of a romantic life, but she is sadly disillusioned by her marriage to Charles Bovary (Jean-Francois...  More

Ivanhoe (2 tape set)
(1997) [M]

In one of the greatest adventure stories of all time, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to reclaim his honour, his inheritance and the hand of his beloved. Screenplay by Deborah Cook, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott.  More

Up At The Villa
(2000) [M]

Somerset Maugham was a master teller of stories about superficial people who are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck. His novella Up at the Villa is a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World...  More

Conduct Unbecoming
(1975) [M]

Tradition, honour and comradeship are at the core of this gripping and tense courtroom drama, set in a British colonial outpost in India at the end of the 19th century. Michael York (Austin Powers) stars as the young officer who has to defend a subaltern being court-martialed for assaulting the...  More

The Buccaneers (2 tape set)
(1995) [M]

Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy.  More