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Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's...

Bergman didn't often try his hand at comedy, but when he did the results were remarkably successful. David is a gynaecologist who's involved with a young patient. His wife, Marianne, learns of...

George Stevens' lavish adaptation of this classic casts Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as the star-crossed lovers. As George Eastman (Clift) hitchhikes into the town where a job awaits him...

The prestigious film-making trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was...

Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW) found a story worthy of his gift for conspiracy-driven drama in this adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their...

The film that launched Brigitte Bardot on an unsuspecting world and changed the face of movies forever! Roger Vadim's directorial debut broke box office records the world over and showed St...

Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, "Annie Hall" is Woody Allen's supreme masterpiece. Coming between such early, slapstick farces as "Sleeper" and "Love and...

She might not have worn a real crown, but Barbara Stanwyck will always be 'The Queen.' Six classics in one box set.

C. C. Bloom and Hillary. Get the hankies out girls, 'cause this one's a tear-jerker.

Bette Midler plays ROSE a relentless stage mother. A tour de force performance that demonstrates the talents of Ms Midler as her character takes every knock and still gets up again.

Finally available on DVD, Vittorio De Sica's drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power.

A spinster, a wannabe pop and a tongue-tied schoolteacher are just some of Mike Leigh's brilliantly conceived gallery of suburban types, living lives of quiet desperation and frequent absurdity....

The winner of two Oscars; the romantic comedy that sparkles like diamonds! Holly Golightly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George...

John Mortimer adapted Evelyn Waugh's tale of Oxford undergrads into this multi-award winning TV miniseries, collected here in one volume.

Michael Redgrave gives the performance of a lifetime in this classic adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play. Public schoolmaster Crocker-Harris has become a bitter, disillusioned man. Stuck in a...

Mobsters and Broadway collide in this hilarious comedy. John Cusack is David Shayne, a young writer who'll do anything to make it on Broadway, but he may have to team up with the mob to do it....

After collecting eight Oscars and captivating cinema audiences worldwide, this digitally remastered special edition celebrates the film's thirtieth anniversary with some divinely decadent extras.

The Deadwood Stage is comin' to town, bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock in this entertainment from the golden age of movie...

Hailed as the most shocking adult movie ever made, this $25 million orgy of sexual excesses - with a superstar cast - will take you beyond your wildest dreams into a realm where one has absolute...

Meet Candy. A naive New Jersey girl who embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery in this trashy, fun late-sixties movie.

Based on the novel by Stephen King, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, Carrie is the story of a young girl with telekinesis, who has the power to move objects by the force of her mind. The...

Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore...

In this beautifully presented box set, the BFI has collected five classic Kurosawa titles spanning sixteen years of his career.

Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is the richly textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, and uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to...

From the agony of dying, legendary director Ingmar Bergman creates a testament to the strength of the soul, and from a story of unbearable pain, a film of absolute power. Karin and Maria come...

Hideous in it's blatant racism though it is, Birth of a Nation truly is an amazing movie. It's collected here with four other titles, including Intolerance.

Squeal like a pig! Four ordinary men in two canoes navigate a river they only know as a line on a map, taking on a wilderness they only think they understand.

George Stevens' epic screen adaptation of one of the most moving documents to emerge from World War II - the diary of a thirteen year old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. To escape the horrors of Nazi...

On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny is the mastermind, Sal is the follower, and disaster is the result - because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even...

More American than Mom and Apple Pie, this boxset collects six of Doris Day's most memorable appearances.

An excellent rendering of Steinbeck's novel, much appreciated by the author himself. While Dean makes his sensational starring debut as a misunderstood troubled teenager in fraternal competition...

A very young Christian Bale stars in Steven Spielberg's epic about a boy's harrowing experiences in World War II-era China after the Japanese invasion.

What would drive Alan Strang, a troubled adolescent stable boy, to blind six horses with a metal spike? Psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigates these unspeakable acts and delves into Alan's...

Before Ingmar Bergman came to enjoy his reputation as one of the world's leading film directors his work as script writer on a number of powerful dramas, such as Eva, helped to cement his...

Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and...

Step in to the bawdy, erotic and titillating world of Rome during the days of Emperor Nero, where two competing teachers play tricks on each other while vying for their young male lover's charms.

Casanova in his waning days travels from bubonic-plagued Venice to syphilitic London via tubercular Germany. Along the way he has a variety of amorous and political adventures.

Double Academy Award winner Michael Caine plays the relentless title character, an ice-cold, efficiently lethal London mobster investigating his brother's death in the seedy Newcastle underworld.

The classic 'rock and roll' film of the '50s and the ultimate Jayne Mansfield movie. Legendary moments include her hot strut down the street to Little Richard's title song, leaving ice blocks...

Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt star in this 80's classic as two Catholic schoolgirls desperate for a place on Chicago's Dance TV. Sneaking off after class to attend the audition round, the...

Stewart stars as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood's obsession with Harvey has...

The mother of all black comedies is back in this special edition re-release! Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is beginning to tire of her membership in the powerful, cruel clique of 'Heathers' at...

Bette Davis delivers a powerhouse performance as Charlotte Hollis, a reclusive spinster still mourning the savage murder of the man she loved some 37 years ago. When the state wants her property...

Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a compassionate semi-autobiographical film detailing the lives of a group of young bloods (the 'young calves' of the title) drifting aimlessly and...

This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of the great director Ivan Passer and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave.

The Passion play has been a success for more than 40 years in the famous Montreal basilica, but the passage of time has made it seem old-fashioned, and modern audiences are growing restless. Itâ€...

Almost 40 years after her death, Judy Garland remains one of the major cultural icons of the 20th century. In this series of DVD releases, you get the opportunity to revisit her rarely seen TV...

Three DVD set of the legendary and rarely seen CBS television variety show, starring the legend herself and her all-star guests. Co-produced by Judy Garland Show, the show was very well received,...

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, this internationally award-winning film is set pre- and post-World War One, and tells the tale of two young students - Jules (Oskar...

A bumper box set of classic films featuring, 'The First Lady of Cinema', Katherine Hepburn!

Winner of three Oscars, this harrowing epic true story is rereleased in a special two-disc collectors edition.

Dramatic story of an ageing lesbian actress whose world collapses when she is written out of a popular TV serial.

Bresson's classic film, adapted from a story by Tolstoy, tells of the tragic chain of events which ensue when two schoolboys pass a forged banknote in a photography shop. The note is transferred...

Cocteau's retelling of the classic 'Beauty and the Beast' is addressed to 'what remains of the child in all of us', but by avoiding all whimsy and sentimentality its appeal is universal. The...

Marcello Mastroianni plays a cynical columnist casting his eyes over Rome's decadent upper-crust society all the while trying not to be swept along with them.

October 1921: Constance, Lady Chatterley, and her husband Clifford have been living at Wragby Hall on the Chatterley estate in the heart of England’s mining country for a year or two. Four...

The very embodiment of camp, excessive glamour and incessant showmanship, experience the legend of Liberace with three sellout shows: Valentine's Day in the Las Vegas Hilton; Live with the London...

A host of stars appear in this seventies adaptation of Joe Orton's farcical comedy. OK - you've robbed the bank, where you gonna hide the loot?

Thelma and Louise is as extraordinary and admirable a film in retrospect as it was when it was first shown. Nothing has dated about its tale of two waitresses who decide that being outlaws and...

Wow! So she never actually said 'come up and see me some time' but this cracking boxset still has the best one-liners around.

In this adaptation of Terry Southern's offbeat novel, an eccentric millionaire adopts a down-and-out vagrant he stumbles upon in the park as his son. The pair embark on a series of practical...

A bumper box set of classic films featuring the incomparable, Marilyn Monroe.

Maria and Hermann Braun marry in Germany close to the end of World War II but are shortly separated. Just after being sent to the Russian Front, Hermann is reported missing and, although Maria...

Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and...

1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto), who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have...

This Academy Award-winning Best Picture features Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in standout roles as a con man and a Texas hustler trying to survive on the tough streets of New York. Hoffman...

A young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country. Billy (Brad Davis), suffering through...

Finally out on DVD for the first time, this camp classic features a performance by Joan Crawford that finally won her an Oscar.

The outrageous and controversial story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and her struggle with the duel roles of fading actress and tormented mother. The Public Crawford was...

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl who, under the guidance of Professor Higgins, played by Rex Harrison, becomes the Belle of British Society. Winner of 8 Academy Awards...

One of the most notorious films ever made, Myra Breckinridge caused an outcry on its release, prompting one reviewer to call it 'a pornographic remake of Charley's Aunt'. Since then this over-the...

Sam Fuller's expose of small town American standards and morals, seen through the eyes of a high class callgirl who tries to put her old ways behind her.

Compelling, frightening and beautiful: the story of a "preacher" - his knuckles eerily tattooed with the words "love" and "hate" (in case you're wondering, it all started here) - roams the...

George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead is a black and white classic that spawned the zombie genre from its 1968 release.

The classic tear-jerker starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda as a family spending their summer holiday at their New England cabin on Golden Pond. Family tensions explode when...

The classic tear-jerker starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda as a family spending their summer holiday at their New England cabin on Golden Pond. Coupled with Sophie's Choice -...

Milos Foreman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman, presents a biting and tragic satire about mental institutions and the human...

A retelling of the Greek myth set in post-war Paris. When a famous poet falls in love with the strange Princess Death, he is compelled to follow her anywhere in search of inspiration - even into...

Regarded by critics and filmmakers alike as one of the world’s greatest directors, Yasujiro Ozu has been praised for his deliberate and striking visual style. After his directorial debut in...

A collection of classic movies from lauded Japanese director, Yasujiro Ozu. Regarded by many as the world's finest director, and renowned for his, formalist style, Yasujiro Ozu made his first...

Witty, sparkling and bright adaptation of Philip Barry's hit Broadway play about the rich upper class becoming blinded to the simple joys of life. The story centres around socialite Tracy Lord ...

Winner of three Oscars for Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Suporting Actress this classic has now been released in a special edition two DVD set.

SOn Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During that idyllic sun-drenched afternoon...

A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend and all the finest things money can buy. His envious friend, on the other hand, has nothing but his charm, good looks and a wickedly sinister...

Academy Award-nominee Julia Roberts and charismatic leading man Richard Gere light up the screen in one of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. Roberts stars a street-wise, down-on-her-luck working...

In one of cinema's most influential - and gripping - roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of most postwar teens - and...

RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the...

Within a week of watching a mysterious videotape, a group of teenagers are dead. The bodies are found gruesomely contorted, their eyes frozen as if they had seen something more terrifying than...

The 'Love Goddess' herself, Rita Hayworth, in six of her very best films on DVD.

The Rite marks Bergman's first made-for-television project, it explores an issue that he continued to return to throughout his career; the artist's place in society and the often troubled...

From Luchino Visconti - the master director of such classics as La Terra Trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard - comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La Dolce...

Three Polanski classics; Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant and Chinatown, in one box set.

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star crossed lovers in 'Romeo and Juliet', but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most...

Experienced manservant Barrett (a superbly sinister Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the chagrin of Tony's girlfriend ...

The Black Death is wiping out the population of Europe as Antonius Block, a knight, returns disillusioned from the Crusades. Death appears before him, but asking for a chance to live he proposes...

A journalist fakes his way into an asylum to try to solve a murder. Once inside he discovers that even in the land of the insane, nothing is ever what it seems.

United since childhood in apparent incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman's sombre view of modern man's condition - wherein human...

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood worked at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank...

Paul, a streetwise young black man, talks his way into the home of Ouisa and Flan Kettredge, claiming to be a friend of their children and the illegitimate son of Sidney Poitier. They soon learn...

The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three...

When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting they quickly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the...

Was there another screen goddess capable of putting the 'sigh' in siren? Over thirteen hours of the unforgettable Ms. Loren!

With every song a classic and every moment a masterpice, share the magical, heart-warming true-life story of Fraulein Maria, the swarthy Captain Von Trapp, and his emotionally (and muscially)...

This edition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC gives you the opportunity to watch the whole film or just your favourite songs, with or without Sing-along subtitles. The magical,...

This edition of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific gives you the opportunity to watch the whole film or just your favourite songs, with or without Sing-along subtitles. This tender romance,...

Joanna (Katherine Ross) reluctantly moves with her husband and children from New York City to the suburban community of Stepford, Connecticut. But when life in Stepford begins to seem too...

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn both give sparkling and witty performances in this entertaining comedy adventure. Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburn), and her crooked father are escaping France, one step...

Cher, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright head an all-star cast in this semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli.

Hoffman plays an actor, quite as temperamental and impossible as Hoffman himself evidently is in real life, who pretends to be a woman just to get a part in a daytime TV soap opera. Numerous...

Torment (also known as Frenzy) based on Ingmar Bergman's first screenplay and was directed by another great Swedish director, Alf Sjöberg, who, like Bergman, was to influence generations of...

Irvine Welsh's darkly comic first novel screams to life in this acclaimed film adaptation from the collaborative team of director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew...

French cinema master Robert Bresson brings his trademark cinematic minimalism to this powerful re-telling of the story of Joan of Arc. Adapted from historical records of the trial and featuring a...

Jacques Demy's haunting romantic musical is an enchanting, one-of-a-kind musical experience. It's basically a movie operetta, in which the characters sing all the dialogue (or, rather, lyrics--by...

Let others in 1968 Prague fret over such things and liberty and the pursuit of happiness! Prague surgeon and avowed womaniser Tomas is focused on the happiness of pursuit. He's determined to live...

Screen legends Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten star in Under Capricorn, a lush technicolor melodrama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cotton plays Sam Flusky, a native Briton banished to Australia...

An entertainingly psychedelic adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's splendidly trashy novel telling the story of three remarkable women whose lives are affected by show-business celebrity. Revered...

Ingmar Bergman's tenth film as director was his first foray into the realm of comedy. Made after the international success of A Summer Interlude, Waiting Women was released to favourable reviews...

The film that paired two of the greatest screen-actresses not only lived up to its promise, but provided years of Hollywood gossip at the expense of the two warring stars! Baby Jane (Davis) was...

The film that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director's richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, professor Isak Borg (masterfully...

Withnail And I portrays the last throes of an eccentric friendship during the final days of the sixties. Withnail and I are two young would-be actors who wake up one morning to find only ninety...

Ding! Dong! The Witch is dead! The magical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's tale of Dorothy and Toto, whisked away to the Land of Oz by a freak storm. Landing on the Wicked Witch of the West (and...

Ding! Dong! The Witch is dead! The magical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's tale of Dorothy and Toto, whisked away to the Land of Oz by a freak storm. Landing on the Wicked Witch of the West (and...

This compelling rendition of the literary masterpiece is a visual stunner and very likely the most sensuous film ever made. Glenda Jackson garnered the first of her two Oscars for her superb...