A Place In The Sun
(1951) [G]

Director George Steven's stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' garnered six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man...  More

Lafayette Escadrille
(1958) [PG]

William Wellman directs this wartime romance based on his experiences in World War I. The story is centered on a group of American ace pilots, flying for France in the early years of the war, who encounter romance as well as combat. American youth Thad Walker (Tab Hunter) falls in love with a...  More

Rocky
(1976) [PG]

It's the film that inspired a nation - and won the 1976 Best Picture Oscar! Audiences and critics alike cheered this American success story of an "everyman" triumphing over all odds. Featuring a dynamic musical score, a thrilling fight sequence and four Oscar-nominated performances, this rousing...  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

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

The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce)
(1964) [M]

Fresh from his success with the critically acclaimed Jules et Jim, Truffaut chose to direct yet another film focusing on the intricacies and complications involved in a love triangle. Pierre (Jean Desailly) is married and has a child. A distinguished author and publisher by profession he is often...  More

Cousin Cousine
(1975) [M]

When Marthe and Ludovic discover that their respective partners are having an affair they plan a series of 'accidental' meetings. French dialogue with subtitles.

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The Woman Next Door
(1981) [M]

Following the success of The Last Metro, this was Francois Truffaut’s second film with Gerard Depardieu – and the first of two with future wife, Fanny Ardant - and stands as the director’s most startling and anguished portrait of destructive passion.

Bernard Coudray (Depardieu)...  More

The Red Squirrel
(1993) [M]

Lisa suffers a motorcycle accident and loses her memory. Jota is a musician, desperate after separating from his girlfriend. When he meets Lisa he takes advantage of the situation and reinvents her life according to his desires.  More

Scenes From A Marriage (Theatrical version)
(1973) [M]

Marianne and Johan always seemed like the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Shot in intense, intimate close-ups by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist, the film chronicles ten years of...  More

Legends Of The Fall
(1994) [M]

An epic adventure of brotherhood and betrayal, "Legends of the Fall" is a powerful story about a close-knit family which is forever changed when the youngest of three brothers brings home his dazzling bride-to-be, inadvertently sparking passions and creating a rivalry.  More

Only The Brave
(1994) [R]

Two teenage Greek-Australian girls, Alex and Vicki, are wild and out of control. Their emotions are in tatters as they try to cope with sex, boredom, their families and much more. Their friendship reaches breaking point as their needs change and differ.  More

The Eddy Duchin Story
(1956) [G]

The era of the big bands, grand ballrooms and casino nightlife comes alive in The Eddy Duchin Story, a musical biography of the talented pianist and bandleader who set New York society on its ear in the 1930s and 1940s. Tyrone Power portrays a determined Duchin, who arrives in Manhattan dreaming...  More

Rich and Famous
(1981) [PG]

Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead...  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

Indiscretion Of An American Wife
(1953) [PG]

Mary spends the last few hours of her stay in Rome at the giant railroad station, trying to make the heart-rending decision whether to go to her husband or remain with her lover.  More

A Handful Of Dust
(1988) [PG]

Critically-acclaimed story of a devoted couple who inadvertently invite an idle socialite to stay. He soon triggers off a series of events which will drastically change the course of all their lives, starting with the husband running off to the Amazon where he is held prisoner by a strange...  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

Sense And Sensibility (BBC TV)
(1981)

Devoted sisters Elinor and Marianne are forced by tragic circumstances to set about the delicate task of finding suitable husbands. Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience, falls for the handsome, dashing but heartless John Willoughby. The outwardly collected Elinor is in...  More

When Night Is Falling
(1995) [R]

Camille and Martin are in love and teachers at a christian college; they get the opportunity to get a better job, but they would have to marry for that. But when Camille's dog dies, she recognizes that her love for Martin is not even as big as the love for her dog. After that, Camille gets to...  More

L'Amour En Douce
(1985) [M]

In this standard romantic drama, a tangled web of relationships may not be that easy to straighten out for the people involved. Marc (Daniel Auteuil) is a lawyer married to Jeanne (Sophie Barjac), but his roving eye leads him into sexual encounters with other women on a regular basis -- and...  More

Lady Caroline Lamb
(1972) [PG]

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.  More

Sophie's Choice
(1982) [M]

Sophie's Choice is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust survivor, adapted from William Styron's best selling novel. Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the choice she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp. Now in the United States, she has found a reason to live...  More

Before Sunrise
(1995) [M]

Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A change encounter on the train in cites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to...  More

Mrs. Soffel
(1984) [PG]

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintry wasteland.  More

Heritage (The Chauvel Collection)
(1935) [G]

Heritage explores 150 years of Australian history through the national myths of the visionary, the pioneer and the nation-builder. Opening with an historical re-enactment, Heritage evolves into a fictional story of the hard-drinking, hard-living James Morrison, and his match, fiery Irish girl,...  More

Jedda (The Chauvel Collection)
(1955) [G]

On a lonely cattle station in the Northern territory, Sara McMann (Betty Suttor) adopts an orphaned aboriginal baby in place of her own baby who has died the day before. Sara names the baby Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth) after a wild bird, and raises her as a white child, forbidding her to have contact...  More

Carrington
(1995) [M]

Written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, Carrington is a provocative, hypnotic film. She was a gifted artist, he was an eminent writer and together they created a controversy that sent shock waves through polite society. This is the true story of...  More

Circle Of Friends
(1995) [M]

Two girls escape the dull confines of distant Knockglen to attend college in Dublin, where their education really begins. Benny and Eve learn all about love and friendship. Their teachers are the worldly Nan and Jack, the handsome and charming star of the rugby team. Join them on a romantic...  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