Besieged
(1998) [PG]

A young African woman takes lodgings with a reclusive English pianist in the heart of Rome. She is slowly drawn into his life within the elegant and delapidated house and alive with the music of Bach, Mozart and Grieg.  More

Heaven's Burning
(1997) [MA]

Colin (Russell Crowe) is the getaway driver in a bank robbery which is witnessed by an unhappy Japanese bride named Minori. Her life is now in danger and the two outcasts find themselves thrown together in a quest for freedom culminating in a new found love.  More

Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks
(1992) [M]

The beautiful Hebe has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title - from Greek...  More

Tristan and Isolde
(2006) [M]

One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Donnchadh (David O'Hara) of Ireland has become the de facto ruler of England, but one of his underlings, Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell), dreams of uniting...  More

The Illusionist
(2006) [M]

Nothing Is What It Seems. A supernatural mystery that combines romance, politics and magic, The Illusionist is the latest film from the producers of Crash and Sideways, starring Oscar nominees, Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as...  More

Across the Universe (2 disc set)
(2007)

Set in America during the Vietnam war at the height of political and social unrest, this powerful love story from award-winning director Julie Taymor (TITUS) uses music by the Beatles to tell its heart-felt story. Part Moulin Rouge, part Hair and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, Across...  More

Atonement
(2007) [MA]

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.  More

Hunting and Gathering
(2007) [M]

From Oscar-winning director Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE, TESS) comes Hunting and Gathering, a delightful drama starring the lovely Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) and the equally charming Guillaume Canet (TELL NO ONE). Filmed fittingly in the city of love, this Parisian romance centers on Camille...  More

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2 disc set)
(2008) [M]

"I was born under unusual circumstances."

And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time.

We follow his...  More

Nights in Rodanthe
(2008) [PG]

Diane Lane and Richard Gere, who previously played a couple in UNFAITHFUL, star here as an unhappily married woman and a conflicted man drawn together by a storm in the town of Rodanthe, North Carolina.  More

Milk
(2008) [M]

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1990) [R]

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up... Will this approach endear him to her?

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The Long Hot Summer
(1958) [PG]

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and...  More

The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]

Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the...  More

Sense And Sensibility
(1995) [G]

Elinor uses her head...Marianne follows her heart. Two sisters on very different paths, are about to discover there's only one road that leads to true love. SENSE & SENSIBILITY is the glorious adaptation of JANE AUSTEN's timeless story, brought to life with humour, heart and wonderful...  More

Casanova
(2005) [M]

Set in the beautiful location of eighteenth century Venice, the story begins with Casanova as older figure, writing the memoirs of his life and his conquests, "ten thousand pages; that's about one woman per page." As the action moves to Casanova as a young man, we see his talent for seducing the...  More

Valmont
(1989) [M]

Based on the classic French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Valmont stars Colin Firth (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Oscar nominee Annette Bening (American Beauty) as embittered aristocrats who weave a wicked web of cruel intentions and savage seductions. Directed by...  More

Journey in Italy
(1954) [PG]

Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn't love him, the memory...  More

Away from Her
(2006) [M]

Together for fifty years, the union between Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This facade of serenity is broken only by the occasional reference to more troubled times in their past – lapses that are a...  More

The Duchess
(2008) [M]

Based on the remarkable, true story of the beautiful, powerful and notoriously scandalous Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess unfolds the tale of a woman who became one of the world’s first celebrities, who was adored by all the people of England, save one: her husband, the Duke. Once she...  More

The Young Philadelphians
(1959) [PG]

Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to...  More

The Painted Veil
(2006) [M]

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920’s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in...  More

Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad)
(1961) [M]

In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because...  More

Breakfast At Tiffany's
(1961) [PG]

The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling Novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays...  More

Immoral Tales
(1974) [R]

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being...  More

Home from the Hill
(1960) [PG]

Captain Wade Hunnicutt is the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his Texan town; he is also a notorious womanizer, which has turned his wife Hannah against him. She has brought up their son Theron to be dependent upon her; but as he reaches adulthood, Hunnicutt insists on taking over his...  More

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
(1958) [PG]

Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the dying days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who, having...  More

Portrait in Black
(1960) [M]

Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan.

San Francisco cargo shipping czar, Matthew Cabot (Lloyd Nolan) is bedridden and slowly dying as his beautiful and ultra-glamorous wife Sheila (Lana Turner) becomes more and...  More

Lili Marleen
(1981) [M]

Fassbinder's Lili Marleen is an extravagant story of love, war and propaganda in the shadows of Nazi Germany. Willie (Hanna Schygulla) is a German cabaret singer working in Zurich. She is in love with Robert, a Jewish anti-Nazi activist and composer. When Willie's version of Robert's song "Lili...  More