Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
(2001) [M]

The story of Hollywood legend Judy Garland is vividly told in this widely acclaimed film,which features Emmy Award winning portrayals by Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard. Based on the book by her daughter, Lorna Luft, the remarkable story of Hollywood legend Judy Garland is vividly told in this...  More

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
(2004) [M]

The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers traces the British comic's turbulent rise from popular BBC radio performer to one of the world's most gifted comedic actors. Propelled by an overly possessive mother, Sellers struggled to reconcile his relationship with women, celebrity and his many selves....  More

A Night with Bobby Darin
(2001) [E]

In this highly rated 1970 television special taped at the peak of his popularity, Darin is joined by a young and just-emerging Linda Ronstadt, and the charming George Burns. Includes his classic songs "Simple Song of Freedom", "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher" and "I Ain't Got Nobody".  More

The Killing Fields
(1984) [M]

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help...  More

Blues Film Collection, Red, White and Blues
(2003) [M]

Guided by the phenomenal talent of Martin Scorsese as Executive Producer, The Blues consists of 7 feature-length films that are both personal and impressionistic, viewed through the lens of 7 world famous directors who share a passion for blues music. In the tradition of 'The Buena Vista Social...  More

Girl With a Pearl Earring
(2003) [PG]

Set in mid 17th Century Delft in Holland, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a coming-of-age drama about the imagined relationship between Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and a quietly beautiful peasant girl Griet (Scarlett Johansson).  More

Capturing the Friedmans (2 disc set)
(2003) [MA]

Capturing The Friedmans is a non-fiction film that explores the elusive nature of the truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history. The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award winning school teacher, his wife Elaine a...  More

Monster
(2003) [MA]

Monster stars Oscar winner Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos, the homicidal man-hater whose notorious killing spree eventually led to her execution in 2002, having been convicted of murdering six men. Director Patty Jenkins' remarkable debut feature film digs deep beneath the tabloid headlines to...  More

Prisoner of Paradise
(2003) [G]

The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well-known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920’s and ‘30’s. Among his greatest accomplishments Gerron co-starred with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the film classic, The Blue Angel. Gerron also sang...  More

Shattered Glass
(2003) [M]

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for Rolling Stones Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after...  More

Veronica Guerin
(2003) [MA]

Golden Globe winner Cate Blanchett (The Lord Of The Rings, Elizabeth) stars in VERONICA GUERIN, the critically acclaimed, powerful and poignant true story about a journalist who risked her life in search of the truth. In the mid-1990s, Dublin was nothing short of a war zone, with a few powerful...  More

I Want to Live!
(1958) [M]

Robert Wise's powerful I Want To Live is based on a true story of Barbara Gramham (an Oscar-winning Susan Hayward), executed for a crime she allegedly did not commit. So gruelling were the gas chambers scenes considered originally, they were cut entirely from the British cinema release, despite...  More

Sylvia
(2003) [M]

In Sylvia, Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath, a Cambridge student with some poems already published when she meets Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Attracted to each other and full of mutual passion and fire the two quickly fall in love and marry. The film explores their troubled and ultimately tragic...  More

In America
(2002) [M]

Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton) and their two young daughters, Christy and Ariel (Sarah and Emma Bolger) arrive in Manhattan to make a new start in the land of dreams. Immigrants from Ireland, they have left behind everything they knew in their own country, including...  More

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi)
(2000) [M]

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody...  More

Angela
(2002) [M]

True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.  More

Wonderland
(2003) [MA]

In 1981, at the lowest point of his career and the height of his drug addiction, larger-then-life porn superstar John Holmes (aka Johnny Wadd) was implicated in the gruesome murder of 4 people at a house on L.A.'s Wonderland Avenue. An A-list cast headed by Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow and hot rosing...  More

Seabiscuit
(2003) [M]

A homeless jockey, a millionaire, a washed-up cowboy and a horse named Seabiscuit are the four unlikely heroes who found hope in each other and inspired an entire generation. Tobey Maguire, Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper star in the critically acclaimed...  More

The Jolson Story/Jolson Sings Again
(1946) [G]

Together for the first time and for the first time on DVD, comes these two true-life tales that capture the music, the memories and the magic of Al Jolson. Larry Parks is unforgettable in the role of America's greatest performer, in two films that follow Jolson's career and life from renowned...  More

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
(2001) [M]

Vaslav Nijinksy was one of the most celebrated dancer/ choreographers of the 20th century, and undisputedly the greatest male dancer of his era. Yet at the height of his career - as with many artists ahead of their time - Nijinsky's modernist works fiercely divided the ballet world. Based on the...  More

American Splendor
(2003) [M]

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with...  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

Amadeus: The Director's Cut
(1984) [PG]

It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Maddened by envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by...  More

A Beautiful Mind (2 disc set)
(2001) [M]

Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind is a compelling look at one man's genius, his debilitating mental illness, and the fine line between the two. The film begins with John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) at Princeton, where he struggles to think of an original idea, and the stroke of genius...  More

Paradise Found
(2003) [M]

Based on a true story of the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, who abandoned his career, wife, children and homeland to live and paint in Tahiti.  More

Russian Ark
(2002) [G]

A groundbreaking feat of filmmaking, Alexander Sokurov's amazing journey through 300 years of Russian art and history is the first ever feature to be shot in a single, unedited take - the ultimate director's cut. Magically transported to St Petersburg's Hermitage museum in the early 1700s, a...  More

Auto Focus
(2002) [R]

Bob Crane became a household name as the star of the hit comedy series Hogan's Heroes - but the flipside to fame and fortune was Crane's insatiable desire to love hard and live fast. Crane's life would spin out of control and eventually lead to his brutal murder, which remains one of the most...  More

Nowhere in Africa
(2001) [MA]

A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, Nowhere In Africa (the 2003 Oscar winner of Best Foreign Language Film) is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her...  More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
(2002) [MA]

George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven), Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) star in the comedy thriller that poses an irresistable question: what would happen if a wildly successful TV producer was also a top-secret CIA assassin? While Chuck Barris (Sam...  More

Fargo
(1996) [MA]

Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan for his wife to be kidnapped and the ransom from her wealthy father to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires a couple of real losers from...  More