Hilary And Jackie
(1998) [M]

Hilary and Jackie tells the remarkable story of one of the world's best-known cellists, the late Jacqueline du Pre. The exquisite passion of Jackie's playing provides a magnificent backdrop to a story of volatile passions, thwarted ambitions and sibling rivalry. Both Emily Watson as Jackie and...  More

All That Jazz
(1979) [M]

All That Jazz is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar®, Tony and Emmy Award winner. Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the award-winning musical...  More

Passion (AUS)
(1999) [R]

Between music and love lies a secret obsession. The story of Percy Grainger. Passion is the story of this 20th century maverick and his intense personal relationships. Interwoven with Grainger's complex life, the film explores his obsessive musical odyssey and his intriguing sadomasochistic desires.  More

Gods And Monsters
(1999) [M]

Ian McKellen delivers a riveting, award-winning performance as Hollywood horror director James Whale. It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past....  More

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
(1993) [G]

As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', the recording that Gould made famous), each giving us an insight into some aspect...  More

The Miracle Worker
(1962) [M]

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke deliver remarkable, Oscar-winning performances in Arthur Penn's film The Miracle Worker. Locked in a frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness since infancy, 7-year-old Helen Keller (Duke) has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her...  More

The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]

Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More

It All Starts Today
(1998) [M]

Based upon the experiences of director Bertrand Travernier's screenplay collaborator, Dominique Sampiero, 'It All Starts Today...' revolves around Daniel Lefebvre, the director of a kindergarten in Hernaing, a poor area in Northern France. Appalled by the deprivation that his pupils must endure,...  More

Rogue Trader
(1999) [M]

Nick Leeson was the working class lad whose unscrupulous dealings ran up debts of almost one billion dollars, bankrupted blue-blooded merchant bank, barings and threatened to send the world's money market into a disastrous free fall. Based on a true story.  More

The Hurricane
(1999) [M]

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington plays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man who in the prime of his boxing career, found himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir 'The Sixteenth Round' inspired a teenager (Vicellous Reon Shannon) from Brooklyn...  More

Angela's Ashes
(1999) [M]

Angela's Ashes tells a powerful, autobiographical story of one boys' upbringing in the 1930s. Born in Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents (Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson) returned to Ireland disillusioned with future prospects in America. Based on...  More

Bangkok Hilton (2 Disc Set)
(1989) [M]

Gripping drama about Kat Stanton, a young Australian woman who, whilst searching for her father, ends up in Thailand where she falls in love with Arkie Regan, a photographer. Arkie asks Kat to carry some luggage through Thai customs for him. She finds herself arrested for drug smuggling. She is...  More

The Straight Story
(1999) [G]

"The Straight Story" chronicles a trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower. The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle.  More

Music Of The Heart
(1999) [PG]

Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (One True Thing) stars with Angela Bassett (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) in a heartwarming, acclaimed true story of how one woman's musical gift affected those who least expected it! A single mother with little more than talent and the determination...  More

Topsy Turvy
(1999) [M]

Winner of the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Best Director awards, and Oscar winner for costume design and make-up, TOPSY TURVY combines all the elements of wonderful entertainment: Egos, Music, Women and Scandal. For nearly a decade, Gilbert & Sullivan's collaborations have delighted and...  More

I Dreamed Of Africa
(2000) [M]

Academy Award winner KIM BASINGER stars in this epic tale of a woman's quest for adventure and a new life in the majestic, untamed lands of rural Africa. Based on the true story of Kuki Gallmann, this breathtaking film chronicles her life as she leaves her pampered existence in Italy for the...  More

The Perfect Storm
(2000) [M]

In October 1991, the fishing community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, experienced the full wrath of Mother Nature when a freak meteorological event produced the fiercest storm in modern history. Director Wolfgang Petersen has fashioned this heroic true story (as chronicled in Sebastian Junger's...  More

Erin Brockovich
(2000) [M]

Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts in her Oscar winning role) was never trained, or indeed meant to work in a lawyers office. Circumstances take this down-on-her-luck, twice-divorced mother of three into a legal practice. Here she discovers some legal files that don't add up. On investigation she...  More

RKO 281
(1999) [M]

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst,...  More

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
(1999) [R]

Canadian Gough Lewis' documentary takes an unflinching look at two years in the life of Singaporean-born porn star/artist Annabel Chong (nee Grace Quek), during which she has sex with 251 men in 10 hours for a porn shoot in order to break the record held by an Amsterdam sex worker. To offset...  More

Remember The Titans
(2000) [PG]

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington gives a victorious performance in this stirring and uplifting film. Based on a real-life drama, Remember the Titans is a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. After leading his...  More

Noel Coward - Private Lives & Biographical Film (2 tape set)
(1999) [PG]

- PRIVATE LIVES It is the first night of Amanda's honeymoon and everything is perfect: the view is breathtaking, cocktails are on the way and someone is singing a love song. Unfortunately, that "someone" is her ex-husband, Elyot, and he is also on honeymoon - in the neighbouring hotel room......  More

Almost Famous
(2000) [M]

From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe brings us Almost Famous, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay. Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to...  More

Night And Day
(1946) [G]

Swellegant and elegant. Deluxe and delovely, Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous...  More

Blow
(2001) [MA]

Blow is a fast-paced mix of Boogie Nights and Scarface set amid the glitz and glamour of the 1970s and the ruthless Colombian drug cartels. It chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of George Jung, a small-town American boy who became one of the most powerful cocaine importers in the USA. From...  More

Shackleton
(2002) [M]

The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.  More

Ali (2 Disc Set)
(2001) [M]

In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American's in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of...  More

Rabbit Proof Fence (2 disc set)
(2002) [PG]

It's the 1930's in outback Australia. Three young Aboriginal girls - sisters Molly (Everlyn Sampi) and Daisy (Tianna Sansbury) and their cousin Gracie (Laura Monagham) are snatched from their mothers' arms in Jigalong, Western Australia and sent to a remote settlement at Moore River. 1500 miles...  More

Iris
(2001) [M]

Here is the powerful true story based on John Bayley's novels that earned Jim Broadbent an Academy Award for Best supporting Actor and Academy Award Nominations for Best Actress Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet. Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love) and Kate Winslet (Titanic) bring...  More

Leunig Animated (2 disc set)
(2002) [G]

No-one looks at the world quite like whimsical Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig. His poignant, often controversial cartoons never fail to touch a chord. Michael Leunig is cartoonist, artist, philosopher, poet and social commentator. "Leunig" is an animated series produced by Australian actor...  More