Treasure Island
Treasure Island
An adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of a young boy’s search for buried treasure….
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Lost - The Complete First Series
Lost - The Complete First Series
The story concerns the survivors of a terrible plane crash, who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with seemingly little chance of a rescue. Medical doctor Jack takes a position of leadership, helping to rally the survivors and prepare them for a period of difficulty as they learn how to survive on the paradisiacal island. But everything is not as it seems, as the island offers potential danger in the form of a large, mysterious creature, and evidence is found that the plane crash may…
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Shanghai Surprise
Shanghai Surprise
Glendon is a fortune hunter looking for a way out of China. He meets a missionary nurse who wants opium for her patients; the two set off on a quest for stolen drugs, but so are all the thugs and smugglers in Shanghai. Original songs and soundtrack by ex-Beatle George Harrison …
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Tom Hanks - Bachelor Party / Big / The Man With One Red Shoe / The Road To Perdition / That Thing You Do (Box Set)
Tom Hanks - Bachelor Party / Big / The Man With One Red Shoe / The Road To Perdition / That Thing You Do (Box Set)
Five features. ‘Bachelor Party’, ‘Big’, ‘The Man With One Red Shoe’, ‘The Road To Perdition’, and ‘That Thing You Do’ a cautionary pop fable following the meteoritic rise of ‘The Wonders’, a fictitious foursome during the early days of pop-rock fandom. When jazz drummer Guy Patterson fills in for a session with a friend’s band, a hit single is born and the smalltown boys find themselves riding a rollercoaster of success, guided by the opportunistic hand of a smooth-talking record label agent. Fu…
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Wild In The Country
Wild In The Country
The story of a rebellious farmboy who finds himself facing a man-slaughter charge. To complicate matters he becomes involved with three beautiful women from the Shenandoah Valley….
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Thieves Highway
Thieves Highway
A young GI returns to San Francisco and instead of settling into life as a vet he becomes involved in his father’s feud with a rival truck driver….
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Gantz - Vol. 3 (Animated) (Subtitled And Dubbed)
Gantz - Vol. 3 (Animated) (Subtitled And Dubbed)
Director Ichiro Itano presents a hellish vision of the afterlife in the brutal horror anime series GANTZ. High school student Kei and his childhood friend Kato are helping a hobo who has fallen onto the subway tracks when they are run over and violently decapitated by an oncoming train in a spectacularly grisly fashion. Transported to a strange post-death limbo, the pair find themselves in a barren room overlooking Tokyo with a motley group of strangers including two hotheaded gangsters and a na…
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Love Is The Devil
Love Is The Devil
John Maybury’s dazzling debut feature is an extraordinarily powerful study of the passions that drove one of Britain’s greatest and most controversial painters, Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi - I Claudius). The film charts the turbulent and complex relationship that developed between the flamboyant artist and George Dyer (Daniel Craig - the new James Bond), the petty thief who became not only Bacon’s lover but the model for some of his most intense and celebrated paintings. Set in the bohemian worl…
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Miracle In Milan
Miracle In Milan
A rescued orphan becomes the leader of Milan’s poor and homeless. He reorganises their shanty towns and gives them back their self-respect….
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Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio de Sica’s remarkable 1947 drama of desperation and survival in Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses a real-life environment and cast non-professional actors to frame this moving drama of desperation. The impoverished Antonio’s new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible se…
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Jesus Of Montreal (Subtitled) (Special Edition)
Jesus Of Montreal (Subtitled) (Special Edition)
When attendance at a church’s annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange parallel between the actors now persecuted believers and the authorities. But the actor, who is beginning to feel at peace with the character he plays (Christ), insists that the show will go on… no matter what…
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Women Of Courage - Nurse Edith Cavell / Carve Her Name With Pride / A Town Like Alice (3 Disc)
Women Of Courage - Nurse Edith Cavell / Carve Her Name With Pride / A Town Like Alice (3 Disc)
Three features. In ‘Nurse Edith Cavell’, an English nurse working in Belgium fights to treat and save all the casualties of war no matter which side they are on. However distraught by the plight of the people after the Germans have conquered them she helps out with a secret underground movement. Also includes ‘Carve Her Name With Pride’ and ‘A Town Like Alice’….
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Center Stage (Wide Screen)
Center Stage (Wide Screen)
All Jody Walker (Amanda Schull) has ever wanted is to be a ballerina in the American Ballet Company. Her dream begins to come true when she’s accepted to the company’s Academy in New York City. Along with street-smart Eva (Zoe Saldana), veteran student Maureen (Susan May Pratt), sensitive Charlie (Sascha Radetsky), and flamboyant Erik (Shakiem Evans), Jody embarks on the stringent Academy training program with the hope of being one of the select few chosen for the Company. But Jody has her own s…
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U-Turn (Wide Screen)
U-Turn (Wide Screen)
Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (Nick Nolte) to kill his beautiful young wife, Grace (Jennifer Lopez). Initially reluctant, he’s finally forced to contemplate the deal. But the fun doesn’t really begin until Grace hires Bobby to kill Ja…
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The Fisher King (Wide Screen)
The Fisher King (Wide Screen)
Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) a self-obsessed ’shock jock’ who thinks he has it all, is about to hit rock bottom. The cult personality spends his time on the radio insulting and berating his listeners, but when one caller takes Jack’s advice literally and opens fire on a New York City nightspot, Jack is sent swirling down into a depression that has him suicidal three years later. However, he is rescued out of the night by a different kind of knight in shining armour a homeless man named Parry, playe…
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In Her Shoes
In Her Shoes
In this screen adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s bestselling novel, Toni Collette (MURIEL’S WEDDING) is Rose Feller, an overweight, overworked, and painfully undersexed lawyer who fills an emotional void with pints of Haagen-Dazs and a closetful of expensive shoes that she never wears. Little sis Maggie (an always radiant Cameron Diaz), who is prone to public drunkenness, one night stands, and wearing lingerie as outerwear, is as lacking in career prospects as her sister is in romantic ones. When…
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Bee Season
Bee Season
Based on the bestselling novel by Myla Goldberg, ‘Bee Season’ follows a family of seekers, each of whom is looking to God, transcendence, or love, in their search for something greater than themselves. Eleven-year-old Eliza Nauman (Flora Cross in a promising debut) is on her way to becoming the national spelling bee champion, much to the delight of her heretofore somewhat dismissive father, Saul (Richard Gere). A professor of religion who wrote his thesis on Jewish mysticism, Saul has previously…
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Separate Lies
Separate Lies
A wealthy and successful couple find their life changed forever following a car crash in which their housekeeper’s husband is killed. Lies and deception are rife as the police begin to investigate….
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Trinity Goes East (Platinum Edition)(2 Disc)
Trinity Goes East (Platinum Edition)(2 Disc)
The infamous thief, Trinity, steals a rare dragon ball from a temple in South East Asia. Part of a totem treasure the owner of the complete treasure will be regarded as supreme ruler. On the trail are Inspector Bambino of the Interpol and a gang of martial arts experts. Who will be the winner?…
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The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle
Directed by John Huston, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is considered by many to be the defining film of the crime oeuvre. After many years in prison, Doc (Sam Jaffe), a seemingly over-the-hill and retired (i.e. rehabilitated) criminal decides upon his release to make one last go of it. His attempts at reuniting the old gang come up against the intentions of his partner who intends to start a Kentucky horse farm with his share of the take. Doc’s lecherous tendencies for young curvaceous women get him nowher…
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