Hurly Burly
(1998) [MA]

Hurly Burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting and decadent lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes whose personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything peddled by the studios.  More

The Age Of Innocence
(1993) [G]

Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive...  More

Lolita
(1997) [R]

When schoolteacher Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons), marries his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), it's purely to get close to her daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain) who reminds him of the childhood sweetheart he lost in tragic circumstances. But Humbert's forbidden love becomes an...  More

Exodus
(1960) [PG]

Adapted from Leon Uris’ international bestseller by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger's Exodus is an exciting, panoramic and deeply moving masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large...  More

Hawaii
(1966) [PG]

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy. Based on...  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

The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)
(1936) [PG]

Alfred Tennyson's epic poem of the heroic charge at Balaclava during the Crimea War (1853 - 1856), is brought to the screen in all its magnificence and glory. Errol Flynn and Olivia De Haviland head a a stellar cast in this fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the still unanswered...  More

Snow Falling On Cedars
(1999) [M]

In December 1950, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto is discovered dead in the icy waters, and his friend Carl Heine is the suspected murderer. As the trial gets under way, newspaper journalist Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke) is assigned to cover the proceedings. It is challenging for...  More

The Talented Mr Ripley
(1999) [M]

Nominated for Five Academy Awards in 1999, the Talented Mr Ripely was billed as one of the best films of that year. To be young and carefree amid the idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s... that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Law) leads....  More

The End Of The Affair
(1999) [MA]

When brooding novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) meets Mrs Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) in 1939 war-torn London, their attraction is instant and the two begin a passionate, illicit affair. Their love seems as powerful as the bombs exploding around them, until the day Sarah suddenly and...  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

Mansfield Park
(1999) [M]

At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as...  More

Wives And Daughters (2 disc set)
(1999) [PG]

Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866 and adapted for television by the BBC in 1999.

The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial...  More

West Side Story (1961)
(1961) [PG]

Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a...  More

All The Pretty Horses
(2000) [M]

Academy Award-winner Matt Damon stars in director Billy Bob Thornton’s action-filled tale of love and loss based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel. John Grady Cole (Damon) and his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) leave Texas and head south of the border in search of adventure...  More

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
(1934) [PG]

The classic story of one of the greatest romantic heroes of all time - Sir Peter Blakeney alias 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', the bold and intrepid adventurer, the man who snatched French aristocrats in breath-taking escapes from death by guillotine in Revolutionary France.  More

The Golden Bowl
(2000) [M]

Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo...  More

Hearts In Atlantis
(2001) [M]

When middle-aged photographer Bobby Garfield (David Morse) returns to his hometown for the funeral of a childhood friend, the unforgettable memories of 1960, his eleventh summer, come flooding back. It all began with the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Ted Brautigen (Anthony Hopkins), who...  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

The Shipping News
(2001) [M]

Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench join talents with Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett in this deeply moving motion picture from director Lasse Hallstrom. After tragedy strikes, Quoyle (Spacey) moves with his daughter from upstate New York to his ancestral home in a small Newfoundland fishing village....  More

The Count Of Monte Cristo
(2002) [M]

Alexander Dumas’ classic story of an innocent man wrongly accused but deliberately imprisoned is given an exciting treatment by director Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, Waterworld). Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose...  More

The Sum Of All Fears
(2002) [M]

Ben Affleck is ready for action, commanding the role of CIA agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller. America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when...  More

The Importance Of Being Earnest
(2002) [G]

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth and Rupert Everett, here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as...  More

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]

Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam...  More

The Four Feathers (1977)
(1977) [G]

Four Feathers is a classic tale of romance and courage in a time of war. It's 1880 and Harry Feversham (Beau Bridges) is forced, by his family's history, into a lifelong career in the military. However, falling in love makes him realise his long and painful fear of war, and on the eve of his...  More

Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]

This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More

The Four Feathers
(2002) [MA]

Set in 1898 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of...  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

Daisy Miller
(1974) [G]

Cybill Shepherd is Daisy Miller, a woman who did as she pleased, but seldom pleased anyone except herself. Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller is adapted from Henry James’ classic novella about an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is...  More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(1954) [PG]

The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler,...  More