Apocalypse Now
(1979) [R]

Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Willard receives orders to seek out a renegade military outpost led by the mysterious Colonel Kurtz, and to "terminate his command with extreme prejudice". Willard's mission becomes an...  More

The Tin Drum (2 Disc Set)
(1979) [M]

This powerful adaptation of the Gunter Grass epic novel won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1979 as well as Best Film at the Cannes festival the same year. The narrator of the film is little Oscar, a precocious child of a permissive petty bourgeois couple. He decides to stop growing on...  More

Man Of Marble
(1977) [PG]

Wajda's film brilliantly juxtaposes the repressiveness of Stalinism in the Poland of the 1950s with that of the regime cracking down on the burgeoning Solidarity movement of the 1970s. The director frames his film around a documentary being made by film student Agnieska (Krystyna Janda) about one...  More

Empire Of The Passions (Ai no borei)
(1978) [R]

Based on the true story of a nineteenth century housewife. Seki and Toyoji are embarking on an illicit love affair, and decide that Seki's husband must die, rather than discover their sordid secret...  More

Coming Home
(1978) [MA]

Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Hal Ashby's Coming Home earned eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars: Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Best Actor (Jon Voight) and Best Screenplay. Hailed by critics as dazzling, gripping and...  More

The Shout
(1978) [M]

During a cricket match at a lunatic asylum, patient Crossley (Alan Bates) relates a strange story to a composer Anthony Fielding (John Hurt) and his wife Rachel (Suzannah York). Crossley once lived with Australian aborigines, who taught him the secret of a deadly shout which has the power to kill...  More

Bye Bye Monkey
(1978) [R]

An anarchic comedy which revolves around a man leading a bizarre lifestyle in New York. His life is changed even more when he chances upon a new-born chimpanzee.  More

The Tree Of Wooden Clogs
(1978) [G]

Olmi gathered together an ensemble cast of peasants from the area as actors, used direct sound and shot in almost documentary style. The result is a wonderfully authentic film whose characters exist so naturally that you are immediately transported to another time and place. A testament to the...  More

The Duellists
(1997) [M]

Based on a story by Joseph Conrad. Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor.  More

Padre Padrone
(1977) [M]

The first film to win both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this haunting tale of a peasant boy's brutal coming-of-age in rural Italy established the reputation of acclaimed fraternal filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

It tells the story of Gavino,...  More