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  • 13 Tzameti
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Intensely engaging and uniquely insightful, 13 TZAMETI is a thrillingly surreal journey that follows the descent of a young man into a sinister criminal underworld in which men gamble on each other’s lives in a shockingly brutal new sport...22 year-old Sebastien leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbours house, he o… more
  • 16 Years Of Alcohol
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Scottish writer and former vocalist for the punk band the Skids, Richard Jobson makes his directorial debut with 16 Years of Alcohol, the stylised psychological drama based on his own semi-autobiographical novel. Through voice-over narration and various flashback methods, troubled young man Frankie Mac (Kevin McKidd – Trainspotting) recalls his childhood (played by Iain De Caestaecker as a boy) … more
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (Re-re…
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) and Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) are flatmates, struggling university students in the twilight years of Communism in Romania. Confronted with an unplanned pregnancy, the meek and indecisive Gabita turns to her best friend for help and guidance. Otilia, much more adept in navigating the harsh realities of life under Ceausescu’s regime, assists her friend in arranging an aborti… more
  • 9 Songs
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • Lisa, is an American student living in London. She meets Matt at a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert in Brixton. The attraction is immediate. They fall in love. Their affair is passionate, tender, intensely sexual. One year later, they part forever. Michael Winterbottom's explicit and intimate film is a frank and beautiful portrait of a highly charged erotic relationship, from its beginn… more
  • A Sister's Secret
  • DVD / Suspense Drama / M / $19.95
  • Twenty years ago, JANE PARKER (Cynthia Preston) had a wonderful life. However, that was short-lived when she lost her twin brother Sean to suicide after his girlfriend KATHERINE (Alexandra Paul) broke up with him. Heartbroken over the loss of her son, Jane’s mother FLORENCE, never recovered from the tragedy and since then, Jane was stuck at home caring for her mother. She never forgot that Kathe… more
  • Acting Out
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Suspended from high school because of her continued lewd outbursts, Skye is forced to undertake therapy - but this isn't the first time. ACTING OUT tells of the experiences of a young woman dealing with issues of intimacy and a fear of relationships as a result of family problems that led to the separation of her parents. It's these issues that drive her to 'act out' as she craves attention fr… more
  • Amber's Story
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $9.95
  • Based on a heart-wrenching true story and starring Elizabeth Rohm from TV’s Law & Order. The kidnapping of Amber Hagerman in January 1996 resulted in a new system to help find missing children: The Amber Alert. This is the story of what happened to an innocent girl and how her family came together to help others as a result of her tragedy.… more
  • American Gun
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • American Gun is a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America Dramatically affect and shape the every day lives of its citizens. The film opens at the start of another day in a Virginia gun store, where owner Carl, continues to sidestep controversy while running the shop he loves. His newest employee is his granddaughter Mary Ann. Despite h… more
  • Animal Farm (Re-issue)
  • DVD / Drama / Animation / G / $19.95
  • Based on George Orwell’s book of the same name, ANIMAL FARM told the story of animals staging a coup, taking over the land from their tyrannical master Farmer Jones and discovering the pitfalls of social order. Led by Snowball and Napoleon, the two most intelligent pigs on Manor Farm; the animals set out to create a life of equality, harmony and prosperity. Life runs smoothly at first but gradua… more
  • April Showers
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • From writer/director, Andrew Robinson, a survivor of the Columbine High School tragedy, April Showers is a dramatized retelling of what it was like to be a survivor in the midst of the nation’s largest school shootings. Based largely on actual events, April Showers follows the story of Sean Ryan as he and fellow survivors attempt to make sense of the horrors they’ve just witnessed and, for Sea… more
  • Arranged
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / PG / $19.95
  • Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.… more
  • Baghead
  • DVD / Mystery Drama / M / $24.95
  • Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror flick about a group of friends tormented by a villain with a bag over his head -- starts to come true? Released by Sony Picture Classics in the US, BAGHEAD was a festival audience favourite and ranked as one of th… more
  • Battle In Heaven (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • A working-class man named Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general for whom he drives, who does sexual acts to any man for pleasure. Marcos confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief, and then finds himself on his knees amid the multitude of believers moving slowly t… more
  • Beautiful
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Searing and luscious BEAUTIFUL tells the story of Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls, and of Daniel, a shy introverted 14 year old boy whose two main obsessions are photography and Suzy – a sixteen year old Lolita, a dangerous combination of youth and sexuality. Using his crush to her advantage Suzy asks Daniel that in… more
  • Beauty In Trouble
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Left homeless by a flood, and all out of passion for her tightly-wound petty criminal husband, the alluring Marcela (Aña Geislerová) takes her two kids and moves in with her mother. The mother's boyfriend is a monster, and the kids are unhappy, but Marcela can't afford to relocate - until a prosperous older man becomes besotted by her, and offers to help. Can Marcela distinguish love from gratit… more
  • Beeswax
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters, Jeannie and Lauren, living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a vintage clothing store with Amanda, a semi-estranged friend who she fears is trying to end their partnership. Lauren leads a looser, less tethered existence and is considering getting out of the country altogether. When Jeannie receives an email from A… more
  • Bird People In China, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • One of the most extraordinary films from an extraordinary director, The Bird People in China employs a magical realism to explore human yearning & frustration. We’re taken on a journey, with a Japanese ‘salary-man’ and a Yakuza debt-collector, of investigation into a jade mine, which leads to a search for the ‘bird people’ but ultimately becomes a voyage of ideological discovery of moder… more
  • Bitter & Twisted
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • In the living room of a suburban home, Liam Lombard lays dying. His family watches – helpless. There was no warning. No signs. And no time for goodbyes. Three years later the self-destructive world of the four people who loved him most is changed forever as they come to realise what really died that day was themselves. BITTER & TWISTED is a movie about identity – or essentially how our past sh… more
  • Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • Black Sun; The Nanking Massacre is an uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by critics as one of the most disturbing films ever released, Black Sun; The Nanking Massacre is unflinching in its depiction of the barbaric cruelty with which the occupying arm… more
  • Blind Flight
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • Brian Keenan, from Belfast, was in Beirut teaching English in 1986 when he was taken hostage by the Islamic Jihad. Blind Flight tells the story of his imprisonment. After his abduction, Keenan (played by Ian Hart) is held alone in a tiny, dark cell for a long time. He’s ordered to cover his eyes whenever his captors enter the room. Eventually, he is moved to a new location, where he has a cellma… more
  • Bloom
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • On the morning of June 16, 1904, Leopold Bloom set out on a Odyssey that was to become one of the greatest tales of the 20th century. Adapted from James Joyce's "Ulysses", "Bloom" is an enthralling story of love, loss and lust - a fantastical adventure into the imaginations and desires of its three main characters… more
  • Body Antibody
  • DVD / Suspense drama / MA / $19.95
  • Described by one critic as the ‘darkest, kinkiest, and funniest film I’ve seen,' Body/Antibody has the erotic romance of THE SECRETARY and chilling sex appeal of AMERICAN PSYCHO. Kip Polyard is an obsessive/compulsive shut-in whose entire life transpires inside of a germ-free, hermetically sealed apartment. When the beautiful Celine, who comes with her own share of baggage moves in next do… more
  • Body Language (Episodes 1 - 4)
  • DVD / Erotic Drama / R / $19.95
  • The daring new erotic series by the master of the genre, Zalman King (9½ WEEKS), explores the world of exotic dancers and their high-risk job of pleasure. As seen on Showtime Australia, this DVD contains the first 4 episodes out of a total of 13 episodes of BODY LANGUAGE series from the master of erotica famous for bringing 9½ WEEKS to mainstream audiences. Every erotic episode contains a story … more
  • Body Language (Episodes 5-8)
  • DVD / Erotic Drama / R / $19.95
  • The daring new erotic series by the master of the genre, Zalman King (9½ WEEKS), explores the world of exotic dancers and their high-risk job of pleasure. As seen on Showtime Australia, this DVD contains fa further four episodes pf the BODY LANGUAGE series from the master of erotica famous for bringing 9½ WEEKS to mainstream audiences. Every erotic episode contains a story about exotic strippers… more
  • Body Language (Episodes 9-12)
  • DVD / Erotic Drama / R / $19.95
  • The daring new erotic series by the master of the genre, Zalman King (9½ WEEKS), explores the world of exotic dancers and their high-risk job of pleasure. As seen on Showtime Australia, this DVD contains a further four episodes of the BODY LANGUAGE series from the master of erotica famous for bringing 9½ WEEKS to mainstream audiences. Ep.9 “Cat Fight Fever” – Two best friends from the Cl… more
  • Bruce LaBruce Box Set (Re-release)
  • 4DVD / Arthouse Drama / R / $49.95
  • A collection from subversive auteur Bruce LaBruce featuring the films Otto, Hustler White, No Skin Off My Ass and Super 8 ½.… more
  • Bullet Boy
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • You Only Get One Shot At Life. "Bullet Boy" is a story of two brothers - 12 year old Curtis and 18 year old Ricky. Fresh out of prison, Ricky is trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but on returning home, finds himself caught in a clash with street gang members. What starts out as a minor confrontation spirals out of control with devastating consequences. As Ricky sacrifices family and a new… more
  • Bully (Re-issue)
  • DVD / Drama / R / $19.95
  • LIVE. LOVE. KILL. FOR KICKS. Acclaimed director Larry Clark delivers his most powerful film since Kids. Marty (Brad Renfro) is a tormented surfer who, despite vicious abuse, relies on his longtime pal, Bobby (Nick Stahl), for rides to the beach and local South Florida bars. When Bobby turns his unwanted attention to Marty’s new girlfriend Lisa (Rachel Miner) and her best friend Ally (Bijou Phill… more
  • Burke & Wills
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Shot in inner city Sydney, Burke and Wills is about two young men going through a life transition. Burke (Oliver Torr) is a fragile, troubled soul, and Wills (Matthew Zeremes) is a naive, talkative, dreamer. The two are thrown together in a share house after Wills outstays his welcome in the home of his girlfriend. A newspaper classified advertisement leads him to Burke, who has a room to rent. … more
  • Cake Eaters, The
  • DVD / Romance Drama / M / $19.95
  • Award-winning actress Mary Stuart Masterson makes her feature film directorial debut with this quirky, romantic drama starring Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Adventureland) which explores the lives of two interconnected families as they confront old ghosts and discover love in the face of devastating loss. Beagle Kimbrough (Aaron Stanford) and his father, Easy (Bruce Dern), are still grieving over t… more
  • Choking Man
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Choking Man is an intense blend of psychological drama and magical realism that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America. Jorge (Octovio Gomez Berrios) is a shy Ecuadorian dishwasher toiling away in a shabby New York diner run by Rick (Mandy Patinkin). He works all day long in the shadow of the ever-present Heimlich Maneuver poster which hangs in the diner kitchen and pines fo… more
  • City Of Lost Souls (Repackaged)
  • DVD / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Explosive and stylish, this turbo-charged thriller from Audition director Takashi Miike is an all-out assault on the senses. Set in Rio, Okinawa and Tokyo’s notorious Shinjuku district, City of Lost Souls takes a journey deep into the seedy underside of Japan’s gangland, exploring its eccentric characters and extreme violence. When a Brazilian-Japanese named Mario is released from jail, he set… more
  • Clubbed
  • DVD / Drama / R / $14.95
  • CLUBBED is an underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman. Danny, intimidated by life, depressed and battered in front of his kids is on the verge of a breakdown, so he decides to fight back. He becomes involved with a group of doormen who take him in and give him the confidence to stand his ground. As he is … more
  • Conspirators of Pleasure
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, i… more
  • Corroboree
  • DVD / Drama / Experimental / M / $19.95
  • Conor, a beautiful young man from the streets is paid to attend some acting workshops as part of a video elegy to a dying theatre director. He arrives at a secluded mountain retreat with little information of the script or the character he will play. He encounters five seductive actresses who re-enact scenes from the director's life. Conor quickly becomes absorbed in the performance, learning tha… more
  • Crazy Love
  • DVD / Documentary Drama / M / $19.95
  • Dan Klores' Crazy Love tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which made international headlines during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's s… more
  • Criminal Lovers
  • DVD / Drama / R / $19.95
  • From Francois Ozon comes this nasty tale of Alice and Luc, two young teenage lovers with a lust for murder, who decide to kill their narcissistic but beautiful classmate Said and take his body deep into the forest. In the forest, the murderous duo face something more terrifying than their most devious acts. A merging of crime noir and fairy-tale, this is an erotic and dangerous thriller from the F… more
  • Dare
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow), Zach Gilford (TV's Friday Night Lights) and Ashley Springer (Teeth) head up a stellar cast including Ana Gasteyer (Mean Girls), Rooney Mara (A Nightmare on Elm Street), comedienne Sandra Bernhard (TV's Roseanne) and Alan Cumming (X2: X-Men United) in this captivating story of high school seniors at the crossroads of their adult lives. When a pompous actor tel… more
  • Day On Fire
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • DAY ON FIRE tells the story of a singer, a model, an Arab woman journalist, and a physician as they criss-cross New York City over a 12 hour period. Their intersecting lives unfold against the backdrop of a ghastly suicide bombing in Israel, and the strange New York City wanderings of a malevolent Handsome Man, whose predatory intents lend an air of inevitable, horrific violence. Beautifully an… more
  • Death In Love
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • What burdens do the survivors of those who survived carry? A young woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her life by seducing the young doctor who performs medical experiments on prisoners. Cut to decades later, when that same woman (Bisset) is living in New York City and married with two grown sons.The two siblings have developed differently under a mother with a long history of erratic behavi… more
  • Death of Mister Lazarescu, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Internationally acclaimed as one of the best films of the past decade, THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU explores the dire consequences of an ailing medical system in Romania and the one man who bears the brutn of it all. Mr Lazarescu is a 63-year-old widower who drinks to excess on a regular basis affecting his health. Suffering from pains in his head and his stomach, he calls for an ambulance to take hi… more
  • Dog Days
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • Famed for his controversial documentaries Models and Animal Love, Ulrich Seidl makes his first fiction film with this impassioned attack on the banality and emptiness of modern suburban life. Using a documentary shooting style and mostly non-actors, Seidl weaves together a series of vignette story lines into a tapestry of loneliness and quiet desperation. A retired old man obsesses over meaningles… more
  • Eagle Hunter's Son, The
  • DVD / Drama / TBC / $24.95
  • Twelve-year-old nomad Bazarbai lives in the Altai mountains on the border between Mongolia and Kazakhstan. He is reluctant to follow the family line of highly-skilled eagle handlers and dreams of living in Ulan Bator, a large city that he associates with wealth and glamour. When his brother is given the opportunity to move to the city, Bazarbai’s sense of abandonment is rewarded by a trip to a r… more
  • East West East: The Final Sprint
  • DVD / Comedy / Drama / MA / $24.95
  • Albania, 1990: A former national champion is ordered by the authorities to assemble a cycling team to represent Albania in an international race in France, but the team only gets as far as Trieste when they discover via TV that full blown revolution has broken out and they must get back home - while their country still exists.… more
  • Europa (aka Zentropa)
  • DVD / Drama / M / $34.95
  • Lars Von Trier's early masterpiece, EUROPA, is one of the most visually striking films ever made. Alternating between glorious black-and-white and lush colour cinematography and other astonishing visuals, EUROPA is symbolic of the death throes of Nazism and the moral culpability of Americans and others who arrived too late to save the victims of this violent and oppressive regime. In 1945, Leo … more
  • Everyone Else
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • On the surface, Chris and Gitti are lost in perfect amorous bliss during their getaway in their Sardinia vacation home. But amidst their playful romps, secret rituals and silly habits belies an underlying tension. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic Gitti is fearless in expressing her love and devotion for Chris, while Chris is more reserved in his outlook on life and sports varying personal and prof… more
  • Everything
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • The story of a policeman and a prostitute who form an unlikely friendship to uncover some dark truths. Richard (Ray Winstone) is a cop whose frequent visits to a prostitute raise more questions than they answer. Is he a nervous first-timer or a voyeur with a twisted agenda? As their relationship develops, she discovers he is a father, searching for his daughter who has become involved in the sex t… more
  • Evilenko
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Based on the true story of A. R. Cikatilo, also known as the monster of Rostov. A. R. Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is a serial killer who killed and ate more than 50 children in old Soviet Republic. V. T. Lesiev (Marton Csokas) is the detective who tracks down and catches him.… more
  • F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song for …
  • DVD / Drama / G / $29.95
  • F W Murnau's long-cherished masterpiece tells the story of a naive countryman (George O'Brien) living an idyllic, bucolic lifestyle with his virtuous wife and young child. The serenity is shattered when a beautiful femme fatale from the city (Margaret Livingston) enters his life. He soon falls madly in love with her, aware for the first time that there may be more to the world than the life he has… more
  • Fallen Angels
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Ming is an ice-cold killer but tired of the risks, he wants to quit. His agent, who has broken the professional code of no personal involvement, persuades him to do one last job. With fatal results. From master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. Directors of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and the groundbreaking CHUNGKING EXPRESS, comes a Hong Kong film noir. An intoxicating and kinetic journey from the east that could… more
  • Faust
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $34.95
  • Jan Svankmajer’s long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed ALICE is an equally astounding version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Merging live action with stop-motion and claymation animation, Svankmajer has created an unsettling universe presided over by diabolic life-size marionettes and haunted by skulking human messengers from hell. Faust (movingly incarnated by one of the Czech Republic’s fines… more
  • Films Of Carlos Reygadas, The
  • 3DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $34.95
  • From the new master of World Cinema come three masterpieces that have ignited the landscape of Modern Cinema. Hailed by H. Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth) and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (21 Grams, Babel) as Mexico’s greatest auteur, this is the first time all three films - Japon, Battle In Heaven and Silent Light - have been available in one deluxe edition. Compassionate, controver… more
  • Fix
  • DVD / Comedy Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Shot in the first person by the actors in the film, FIX is a one-day odyssey through the myriad worlds of Los Angeles as filmmakers Bella (Wilde) and Milo (director Tao Ruspoli) race to get Milo’s brother Leo (Andrews) from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for 3 years. Inspired by true events, we follow the trio on their roller-coaster ride from the Calabasas police station throu… more
  • Founding Of A Republic, The
  • DVD / History / Drama / M / $24.95
  • After World War 2 destroyed large parts of China, the Chinese faced a new crisis as the country was torn apart in a civil war. The rising Communist party and the ruling KMT fought bloody battles for control of modern China. The Founding of a Republic charts the rise of the man who was to become Chairman Mao and bring together the billion strong people of the Chinese nation, and the treachery, betr… more
  • Fritz Lang's "M"
  • 2DVD / Drama / PG / $39.95
  • 'M' tells the sordid tale of Hans Beckett (Peter Lorre), a devious child murderer who has long thrived beneath the surface of society. As Beckett takes another victim, hysteria builds. Doggedly pursued by the police, hunted by the criminal underworld, hated by all, Beckett has nowehere to go. He can no longer exist beneath the surface, no longer stalk in the shadows; he is now visible and as vulne… more
  • Frozen Days
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Meow (Anat Klausner) is a young woman roaming the streets and clubs of Tel Aviv. She lives in empty apartments and surfs the internet chat rooms. One night, she decides to meet Alex, her chat buddy. The road leading to the blind date is full of obstacles and mistaken identities. They plan to meet in a nightclub but a suicide bombing prevents their meeting. After she finds Alex in the hospital, com… more
  • Game Of Their Lives, The
  • DVD / Drama / G / $9.95
  • Based on a true story. In the spring of 1950, the United States was extended an invitation to compete in the Soccer World Cup in Brazil. Faced with budgetary restrictions and no official soccer team to call their own, the U.S. recruits a group of young friends with no professional or international playing experience, only an unabashed love of the game. With the odds considerably against them, the … more
  • Garage (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, eliciting idle kindness, benign tolerance and occasional scorn, Josie (Irish comedy legend Pat Shortt) has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small countryside town. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. But then, over the course of a summer,… more
  • Go-Getter, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • After the death of his mother, a curious teenager named Mercer takes a road trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother and develops a life-altering telephonic connection with the forgiving and mysterious girl he took it from. As he sets out with her phone calls as guidance, Mercer's motives find focus as he travels across the postmodern highways of the former Wild West to seek self-knowled… more
  • Good Life, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • In the small-town heartland that has always been the defining state of mind for America, there are two worlds. There is a community whose focal point is the local sport team, and there is the alienated existence of the kid who doesn’t fit in. In THE GOOD LIFE, director Steve Berra sketches a portrait of life in these worlds that is full of both torment and hope. JASON PLAYER (Mark Webber) works… more
  • Guitar, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • How would you behave if you had to confront your own mortality? Especially if you were young, in your twenties or early thirties, how would you react if you learned you had less than two months to live? These questions create the point of departure for Amy Redford’s whimsical fairytale The Guitar, a thoroughly engaging almost mythological allegory that is fueled by the exceptional performance of… more
  • Gymnast, The (Special Edition)
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Jane Hawkins as a top American gymnast, failed to fulfill her Olympic destiny through injury and events. After twenty years in obscurity and a passionless marriage, she is secretly trying to get pregnant, against her husband's wishes, and though she is still in peak condition, her doctor says she has waited too long to have children. A chance meeting with her former teammate Denise, provokes he… more
  • Heart In Winter, A
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $19.95
  • A HEART IN WINTER tells the story of Stephane and Maxime, who run a renowned violin making and repair business. One fateful day Maxime introduces his business partner to Camille, an accomplished violinist he has been seeing. Camille is instantly attracted to the enigmatic and introverted Stephane, who seems to share the same attraction but is incapable of expressing any emotion. Convinced that she… more
  • Heavy
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • In upstate New York, seemingly located off the beaten highway, is the roadside tavern, "Pete & Dolly's", where Victor, an introverted, over-weight pizza chef, maintains his daily vigil. Under the domineering sway of his mother, Dolly, Victor cooks her an elaborate breakfast every morning and does whatever else she wants. It amounts to a very passive, out-of-the-mainstream existence. Into this sett… more
  • Home Of The Giants
  • DVD / Drama / M / $14.95
  • Home of the Giants is a coming-of-age story told through the eyes of Gar (Haley Joel Osment), a high school journalist who covers the basketball team as it heads toward a state championship. Gar's best friend, Matt (Ryan Merriman), is the team's star; when Matt is asked by a drug dealer and small-time hood to throw the big game, Gar inevitably gets caught in the middle. … more
  • Hours And Times, The
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • In 1963, just mere months before Beatle mania swept the world, John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein took a four-day vacation together in Barcelona. They were there to relax after a grueling series of concerts, but the trip remained charged with an unspoken sexual tension that threatened to ignite. THE HOURS AND TIMES captures the intimacy and intensity of a friendship that would soon be d… more
  • Hustler White (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Delving into the gutters of L.A, HUSTLER WHITE tells the story of angel-faced Santa Monica hustler Montgomery (Tony Ward) who is hiding out from the law following a hit and run accident that has left a fellow skinhead hustler an amputee. While on the run he meets a seedy lovelorn sociologist (Bruce La Bruce) who convinces Montgomery to act as his guide on a tour into the underbelly of the sex and … more
  • I Stand Alone
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • The debut feature from Gaspar Noe, director of the controversial IRREVERSIBLE, just as potent and confronting. I STAND ALONE is set in France in 1980 and tells the story of THE BUTCHER (Philippe Nahon) a retired horsemeat peddler, locked into a loveless marriage with his nagging, pregnant wife and a hateful mother-in-law. Living in their cramped apartment and taunted by the women every moment of t… more
  • Imagining Argentina
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Set in Buenos Aires during a military junta in the late 1970’s, this is the story of an Argentinean playwright (Antonio Banderas) with the psychic ability to see the locations of the missing loved ones of people by looking at their faces (at the time, many people were being abducted by the police, known as “los desaparecidos”, or “the disappeared”), but he is frustrated when his own wife… more
  • Import Export
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • In his follow-up to the extraordinary and critically acclaimed film, DOG DAYS, Ulrich Seidl once again takes us on a journey of the dark underbelly of human behaviour. IMPORT EXPORT tells two stories which move in diametrically opposed directions. Olga is a young nurse and mother living in the Ukraine who, wanting more from life, seeks an escape from her low-paying job. She finds the answer in the… more
  • Irreversible
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • An extreme act of violence will forever change the lives of three Parisians over the course of one night; some will be faced with the realisation of what they are truly capable of, and the harsh reality that our fate is pre-determined. Gaspar Noe's dark masterpiece starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, two of Europe's hottest actors, shows us a world that is both savage and beautiful, a fil… more
  • Japon (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • A man leaves Mexico City for the remote countryside to prepare his death. There he finds lodging with an old Indian widow in her rickety home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild, breathtaking nature, he confronts the old woman’s infinite humanity and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His dulled senses return to him, reawakening his desires and instincts for life and r… more
  • Jinx Sister
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Laura (Sara Wiseman) thinks she is a jinx. People who get close to her have a habit of dying. She thought fleeing to the other side of the world would help. Instead, she developed a serious drink problem. Finding her life unraveling, Laura returns to New Zealand where she discovers that you have to let go of your past in order to embrace your future. Jinx Sister is a 'growing of age' story, a med… more
  • Journey From The Fall
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon—and those who were forced to stay behind, Journey From The Fall follows one family’s struggle for freedom. April 30, 1975 marked the end of Vietnam's two-decade-old civil war and the start of the exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Despite his allegiance to the toppled South Vietnamese gov… more
  • Jump
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • The story of the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his generation. Set in 1928 Austria during the rise of Nazism, the story looks at the events leading to his father's death, and focuses a sharp but delicate eye upon the anti-Semitic atmosphere that quickly l… more
  • La Belle Noiseuse
  • 2DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • LA BELLE NOISEUSE tells the story of an artist (Michel Piccoli) who ten years previously, abandons his greatest masterpiece, a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin) entitled "La Belle Noiseuse". His inspiration is rekindled when he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart of NATHALIE, 8 FEMMES and the upcoming STORY OF MARIE AND JULIEN) to return to the unfinished canvas us… more
  • Last Life in the Universe
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Last Life in the Universe brings together three of the most exciting talents in current world cinema: director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Japanese superstar Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong-based Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle (HERO, DUMPLINGS). Under the guidance of this much-celebrated triumvirate, refugee elements of Japanese yakuza films, an unpredictable succession of lush and intoxicatin… more
  • Lena Baker Story, The
  • DVD / Historical Drama / M / $19.95
  • Based on the true life story of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery, The Lena Baker Story takes place in the early 1900’s through 1945 in Cuthbert, Georgia. It’s the story of one woman’s attempt to rise above the challenges of life, the choices she makes, and the consequences of those choi… more
  • Little Ashes
  • DVD / Biography/ Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Robert Pattinson, the young British star of Twilight, takes on the challenging role of playing eccentric artist, Salvador Dali. The film focuses on Madrid in the jazz era of 1922 when the young artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, with playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and renowned filmmaker Luis Bunuel (Matthew McNulty). Salvador Dali arrives at the university as an 18 year… more
  • Little Otik
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (FAUST, ALICE) brings a famous Czech legend eerily to life in the darkly hilarious cautionary tale of LITTLE OTIK. An ordinary couple, Karel and Bozena, are unable to conceive a child. When Karel digs up a tree root and whittles something vaguely resembling a human baby, Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a (literally) mons… more
  • Little Traitor, The
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $19.95
  • This captivating coming-of-age story of a precocious young Israeli boy, Proffy, and his inconceivable friendship with British Sergeant Dunlop (Alfred Molina), takes place in Palestine in 1947. Based on the best-selling novel by Amos Oz, the film parallels the maturation of the impressionable young boy with Israel, as it transitions into statehood, and revolves around the poignant but problematic a… more
  • London to Brighton
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son, Stuart, has found his father and wants answers. Derek, Kelly's pimp, needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays. Kelly and Joanne need to get through the next 24… more
  • Love and Dance
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $24.95
  • Chen, a young kid, is battling a cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. She is cultured and used to the finer things in life, including theater and fine dining. He is gruff on the outside but sweet on the inside - a Sabra; and looking to make his young son a man rather than the wimp his mother is raising. One day, Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class for young p… more
  • Love Live Long
  • DVD / Erotic Drama / M / $19.95
  • When Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) was invited to film the Gumball Rally, the famous high-speed race in Istanbul, he decided instead to craft a raw and intimate film that exposes the effects of an unexpected sexual encounter and the high stakes of the race on two strangers. For seven days, Figgis shot in his signature run-and-gun style—the result is a courageous new wo… more
  • Loves Comes Lately (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama/Comedy / M / $19.95
  • The story of a man who’s imagination got control of him. Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life – both real and imagined – with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. Based on the short stories “The Briefcase”, “Alone” and “Old Love” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, LOVE COM… more
  • Map Reader, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his small-town life by immersing himself within a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is Michael’s peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets. Suspended beside it all i… more
  • Mary
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • Mary Magdalene: disciple of Jesus, possessor of the Holy Grail and the catalyst of Abel Ferrara's latest film, MARY, where characters are forever and positively linked by her spirit and mystery. Tony Childress (Matthew Modine), an infamous, egotistical and obsessive actor/director is playing the lead role of Jesus in his controversial new film, THIS IS MY BLOOD, a Pirandellian film-within-a-fil… more
  • Maternal Obsession
  • DVD / Suspense Drama / M / $19.95
  • Lily (NICHOLLE TOM), 31, an average woman with an average life, is pretty, friendly, and does well at her job. But one facet of Lily's life is totally abnormal—her mother. Moving back in with her sick mother Inez (GWYNYTH WALSH), to help take care of her, she now can’t get away. Her mother is a lonely and bitter woman after her husband left years ago and she has tangled such a web of guilt … more
  • Millennium Mambo
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $24.95
  • From one of the world's greatest living directors and critically acclaimed as his finest film, MILLENIUM MAMBO is as stylish, hypnotic and mesmerizing as Wong Kar-Wai's hit film, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, which it clearly resembles in its evocative portrayal of an intense relationship and in its stylish direction powered by a thumping electric soundtrack. Winner of the Grand Prix Prize at the Cannes F… more
  • Missing In America
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • It's never too late to come home. Jake Neeley has lived alone in the woods since the Vietnam War, shunning society and hiding from memories long buried. Jake’s gruff exterior and lonely routines help keep his torment at bay... until a young Vietnamese-American girl is abandoned in his care. An unwelcome reminder of all that he has struggled to forget, the little girl forces him to confront his c… more
  • Mister Lonely (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / M / $14.95
  • The story is of a young American man lost in Paris. He scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing in the streets, in public parks, at tourist spots and trade shows. Different from everyone else, he feels as if he's floating between two worlds. During a car show Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe. Haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, joi… more
  • My Tehran For Sale
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear. … more
  • Night At The Golden Eagle
  • DVD / Drama / R / $9.95
  • Tommy is an ageing career criminal, released from prison after a seven-year stretch, to be reunited with his old heist buddy, Mick. Mick takes Tommy to his room in the crumbling splendor of the Golden Eagle Hotel in a downbeat area of Los Angeles. The Hotel's inhabitants are a bizarre mixture of elderly bums, prostitutes and pimps. Mick, however, has a plan for he and his pal to escape this mess, … more
  • No Skin Off My Ass (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Previously banned in Australia where it was originally granted an X certificate, NO SKIN OFF MY ASS is now regarded a radical and important work in Queer cinema. Examining the boundaries in the relationship between master and slave NO SKIN OFF MY ASS tells of a punk hairdresser who picks up a skinhead in the local park. Locked into a guest room the skinhead is kept trapped and used to satisfy the … more
  • Normal
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • NORMAL is the story of three strangers who have avoided coming to grips with the aftermath of a senseless tragedy, and their role within it. While the accident claimed the life of one young man, it is slowly deconstructing everyone that was touched by it. In the two years since the death of her eldest son and star athlete, Nicky, Catherine is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with a husban… more
  • One Last Chance
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Tullybridge is a one-horse town in the middle of nowhere in the Scottish Highlands. Nothing much happens in Tullybridge, until three friends, Fitz (Jamie Sives), Nellie (Iain Robertson) and Seany (Kevin McKidd) accidentally find gold. This discovery triggers a series of increasingly absurd and desperate events, made worse when their foolproof moneymaking scheme reaches the ears of local Big Man Ha… more
  • Only
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $19.95
  • Daniel lives in a motel, managed by his parents, in northern Ontario. People come, people go, Daniel hardly notices. Until one day a girl arrives and changes his world. ONLY is a glimpse into the heightened impressions and dreams of two unlikely 12-year-olds. Over the course of a single day, they venture on a journey, exploring deep secrets, dark fears, and first love in a pure and powerful meetin… more
  • Out Of Season (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $14.95
  • Love comes when you least expect it. When Micki Silva struts into beautiful Cape May, New Jersey - all leather jacket, Marlboros, and attitude - she thinks she knows what to expect. She’s there to care for her dying uncle, to forget about her photography career and her ex, and then get out of town as soon as possible. However, Micki’s in for a few surprises. Uncle Charlie has his own plans in … more
  • Overheard
  • DVD / Action / Drama / MA / $24.95
  • A major stock exchange in the world, Hong Kong attracts not only money but also many who try to manipulate the market. At the Hong Kong Police Force Commercial Crime Bureau, an operation is under way against insider trading involving Feng Hua International, a listed company. The interception team at the Criminal Intelligence Bureau is sent in. Led by Inspector Leung Chun-Yi (Lau Ching-wan), the te… more
  • Partition
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • Partition is an epic romantic story of two people caught in the events that divided India and Pakistan in 1949 – the partition. Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry), resigns from the British Indian Army to live a quiet life in his Sikh village in Northern India. His world is soon thrown into violent turmoil when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the lif… more
  • Passchendaele
  • DVD / War Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Set during the height of the First World War, Passchendaele tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross), a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred. While in the military hospital in Calgary, he meets Sarah, a mysterious and attractive nurse with whom he develops a passionate love.When Sarah’s younger asthmatic brother David s… more
  • Persona
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • "FROM INGMAR BERGMAN, ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR OF "THE SEVENTH SEAL" AND "WILD STRAWBERRIES" Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) is a famous actress who has suddenly taken ill and is left without speech. While recovering on the coast, she is cared for by Nurse Alma (Bibi Anderson) and, silenced by the effect of her - possibly psychosomatic - illness, finds that her nurse does the talking for both of… more
  • Phantom
  • DVD / Drama / R / $24.95
  • Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) is a brooding, lonely man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men in the city's darkest, dirtiest corners. Sergio is alienated from life--he has no friends or family, and even his sexual encounters fail to engage him or satisfy his desires. One night he meets an attractive man who seems to be… more
  • Poison
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • POISON is the celebrated first feature by TODD HAYNES. The film was inspired by the writings of Jean Genet and deftly interweaves three tales - Hero, Horror and Homo - and builds towards a devastating climax. Hero, shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; Horror, filmed like a delirious '50s B-movie melodrama, is the gothi… more
  • Pure
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • A group of young Montrealers seek, in their own limited ways, for the meaning of life, love, sex and friendship. Misha is a street-smart college student who is torn between completing her degree and her party-girl past. During her summer off in the suburbs she meets Josh, a sweet sensitive guy she instantly falls for. Misha brings him along to the city to help her find an apartment, register for c… more
  • Question In Details
  • DVD / Drama / TBC / $19.95
  • Eszti is in a park waiting for a date, where Zoli turns up to snatch a few quiet minutes for himself. It’s all a misunderstanding, and the girl wants to make it clear there is no chance of them being together. Two total strangers in the heart of Budapest on a date that goes astray, they start talking and it is a meeting of two totally different worlds. Yet they are just about to start getting to… more
  • Red
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • In this electrifying thriller, Brian Cox plays Avery Ludlow, an older, reclusive man who's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means available to him.… more
  • Red Kebaya, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Latiff, a famous but lonely photographer who was orphaned as a small child, sets out on an expedition to photograph abandoned houses around Malaysia. On his journey he is haunted by images and sounds that remind him of his traumatic childhood. At one particular house on the island of Penang he is transported back through time to witness the shocking events that took place in the house over 50 y… more
  • Relative Evil
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • When JJ returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who is plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday. Caught in a web of self-destruction, JJ struggles to stay clean in an environment overflowing with temptations and deceit. With a winning performance by Johnathan Tucker and a beguiling turn from Jennifer Tilly, this dark dram shows “Home Sweet Home… more
  • Room
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • Once again, Julia Barker arrives late for work at Paradise Bingo, in the strip-mall. Inside her splitting mind, disturbing visions continue to erupt: rippling water, wooden rafters, blinding white glare through cavernous windows of a warehouse-sized room - all menacing and mysterious. Julia is a frantic breadwinner struggling to raise her daughters; paying the bills, chauffeuring the family, del… more
  • Saints And Soldiers
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • A handful of fighting men must defy the odds to save their own lives and thousands of others in this drama set during World War II. In late 1944, a band of nearly a hundred American soldiers are making their way through a wooded region of Belgium when they are ambushed by German forces in a battle that became known as “the Malmady Massacre.” Inspired by a true story, Saints and Soldiers was th… more
  • Savage Grace (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Based on Nathalie Robins & Steven Aronson's award winning novel, SAVAGE GRACE tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Bakeland, dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful and charismatic Barbara is still not a match for her better-born husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extre… more
  • Scenes From A Marriage
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • "FROM ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MASTER DIRECTOR INGMAR BERGMAN. To most, Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) always seemed like the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, the veil of perfection has been lifted and they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. With intense, close photography by master cinematographer Sven Ny… more
  • Self-Medicated
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew Erickson’s life is spiralling out of control, his descent into drugs and violence rapidly gaining momentum. Andrew’s mother is helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own, but she refuses to watch her only child destroy himself. As a desperate last resort, she hires a private company to kidnap and confine … more
  • Seven Time Lucky
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • In 7 Times Lucky, Harlan (Kevin Pollak) is a con man who loses a sizeable amount of money belonging to his boss. Unable to see a way out of the sticky ending that is surely coming his way, a desperate Harlan decides to try out a harebrained scheme cooked up by his girlfriend in order to pay his boss back and make the two of them very rich. Or, they could just wind up dead. Full of inventive con ar… more
  • Silent Light (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / M / $19.95
  • A mesmerising and deeply moving tale of love and betrayal played out against the pastoral backdrop of the North Mexican Mennonite community. SILENT LIGHT tells the story of Johan, a married man who against the laws of his faith and traditional beliefs, falls in love with another woman, thus facing an internal dilemma, whether to betray his wife, the woman he once loved and disrupt the apparent sta… more
  • Silent Wedding
  • DVD / Comedy / Drama / M / $24.95
  • Romania, 1953. In a small village, a young couple is about to get married. Guests arrive, the banquet is ready and everything is prepared for the ceremony. Unexpectedly, the Russian Army shows up - Stalin is dead, a national mourning is declared, and the wedding party have one hour to break up. They finally decide to celebrate against all odds and make it silent…… more
  • Snow Walker, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • In the grand tradition of epic adventure, The Snow Walker tells the compelling story of two people struggling for survival against the harsh elements of the Canadian Arctic. Charlie Halliday, a maverick bush pilot, is on a routine job in the Arctic wilderness when he encounters a small band of Inuit fisherman. With them is a sick young woman, Kannaalaq, whom they want Charlie to fly to hospital. W… more
  • Sonny
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Freshly discharged from the army and on his way to a better future, Sonny (James Franco) stops by his home in New Orleans and visits the bordello run by his mother. Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), domineering, tough and painfully in need of her son's love and labour, runs a whorehouse in the French Quarter. Her looks have faded, but her will to survive has not. Her prized new attraction is Carol (Mena Suv… more
  • Spinning Into Butter
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • Spinning Into Butter is a story on a critical and timely subject told with heart, humanity and humour. Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker), a highly educated white, liberal dean has barely settled into her new position as dean of students at an elite New England college when a series of hate crimes sends her world spinning out of control. … more
  • Stoning of Soraya M, The
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $24.95
  • In a world of secrecy, corruption and injustice, a single courageous voice can tell a true story that changes everything. This is what lies at the heart of the emotionally charged experience of THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Based on an incredible true story, this powerful tale of a village’s persecution of an innocent woman becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule… more
  • Story Of Marie And Julien
  • DVD / Drama / M / $24.95
  • Madame X is a rich and beautiful woman. Like all rich and beautiful women, she has two secrets - one is dangerous, the other unspeakable. 40-something Julien is a failure with destructive impulses. Like all failures, he's decided to blackmail Madame X. He knows everything about her traffic of antique objects, and above all, he's discovered the strange secret which links Madame X to the sublime Mar… more
  • Story Of Richard O, The (Re-release…
  • DVD / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Richard is in the thrall of his desire for women. He is in a constant search for lust and above all – love. In the company of his friend Le Grande, he will explore the mysteries of the erotic underground, through Paris and its inhabitants one sweltering August. Romantic, erotic, pornographic and profound, The Story Of Richard O is a film for all lovers. One of the most sexually explicit films yo… more
  • Strip, The
  • DVD / Comedy Drama / M / $19.95
  • Melissa has now become an established part of 'The Strip' - the colourful red light district where her club is located. Having won over the locals she's no longer a 'fish out of water'; but the passionate relationship which developed with Adam (one of her strippers) looks to be turning nasty. But pretty soon there's a new guy on the block who's vying for her attention. Her daughter, Paige, has le… more
  • Studs
  • DVD / Comedy/Drama / MA / $19.95
  • It's another bleak mid-winter Sunday and Bubbles (David Wilmot) is still the captain of amateur football team Emmet Rovers who are getting hammered… again! This bunch of losers are playing the same dire football with no heart, no conviction and now, not even a manager. Bubbles, who once played in the big league, is threatening to quit altogether when a mysterious stranger, Walter Keegan (Brendan… more
  • Sucker Free City
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • Sucker Free City is an original film directed by Spike Lee that takes a riveting look at the seductive, dangerous world and life choices of a diverse group of young people inextricably caught up in the unique gang culture of San Francisco. When racial tension erupts and emotions collide three young men from different ethic backgrounds perpetrate low-level crimes that eventually infringe upon each … more
  • Super 8 1/2 (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Previously banned in Australia and very rarely seen, SUPER 8½ is the debut film from renowned gay provocateur Bruce La Bruce. Drawing again on his obsessions with pornography, the cinema of Godard and the queer taboo SUPER 8 ½ tells of a down-on-his-luck adult film star who sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker. But she is exploiting him in order to get financial … more
  • Swoon
  • DVD / Drama / M / $29.95
  • Two gay lovers, estranged from society, concoct a bizarre plot: the deliberate murder of an innocent. Not all goes to plan and ultimately the young men are arrested and tried for the killing. Based on the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder trial, "Swoon" presents these murderous lovers as victims -- like the small boy they slaughter, the two appear as sacrificial lambs. A Queer classic that has be… more
  • Tabloid
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • In the ratings war... people will get hurt. Darren Daniels (Matthew Rhys) is a deeply insincere talk show host whose show Tabloid TV uncovers the darkest secrets of even the most virtuous celebrity guest. Every personality is queuing up to be seen on the Russian Roulette of talk shows, despite the 1-in-5 chance of humiliation. One fateful, hedonistic night, Darren is introduced to the malevolent V… more
  • Tender Hook, The
  • DVD / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Set in a stylised version of 1920’s, THE TENDER HOOK tells the story of Iris, a beautiful young woman caught at the apex of a dangerous love triangle. Her English lover McHeath, a rogue boxing promoter, suspects her involvement with his new young protégé Art. In a flawed moral landscape each struggles to retain their personal sovereignty as McHeath is provoked to acts of jealousy and violence.… more
  • The Ring Finger
  • DVD / Erotic Drama / M / $29.95
  • Iris (Olga Kurylenko, the new Bond girl from the upcoming James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace") is twenty years old and works on the assembly line of a fizzy drink factory. One day, she loses the tip of her ring finger in an industrial injury, leading her to quit her job and move to the port city nearby. Wandering the town, Iris comes across a laboratory of a very peculiar kind, where she is engag… more
  • Three Monkeys
  • DVD / Arthouse Drama / M / $29.95
  • After his critically acclaimed mood pieces DISTANT and CLIMATES, Nuri Bilge Ceylam moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience, nuance and astonishing cinematography. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2008 Cannes Film festival, THREE MONKEYS tells a twisty, noirish tale that opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident. Afraid of hurt… more
  • Time For Dancing, A
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • Sam and Jules have been friends since they were six, as close as friends can be, or so they think. But they are about to learn there is much more to find out about themselves and each other, when a crisis teaches them there is a time for loving, a time for living and A Time For Dancing.… more
  • Totally F***ed Up
  • DVD / Drama / R / $24.95
  • Provocative 'guerilla-style' filmmaker, Gregg Araki, pulls no punches with a realism that is hard to shake, in this most challenging, high-risk and heartfelt movie. His liveliest, most deeply felt fiction, he describes as a "kinda twisted cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick." Confronting the tenacious subculture of gay and lesbian teenagers, seemingly iso… more
  • Tracey Fragments, The
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog. Tracey’s journey leads us into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home, through the brutality of her high school, the clinical cat and mouse games with her shrink and her soaring fantasies of Billy Zero – her boyfriend … more
  • Travellers & Magicians
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $9.95
  • In the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, nestled deep in the Himalayas, two men seek to escape their mundane lives. Dondup, an educated university graduate, decides that he will be better off picking grapes in the United States than working as a government officer in a remote rural village. Tashi, a relentless youth studying magic, cannot bear the thought of a life consigned to his village. The two men … more
  • Tricks
  • DVD / Family Drama / PG / $29.95
  • A fatherless boy tries to tempt fate in TRICKS, a pitch-perfect portrait of working-class life in a Polish provincial town--and of growing up as the much younger brother of an adored older sister. The charming, bittersweet narrative unfolds from the point of view of siblings Stefek, 6, and Elka, 18, and Elka's car mechanic boyfriend Jerzy during a sun-drenched summer. Stefek's worldview is shaped … more
  • Trouble With Sex
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Dublin. The present. Michelle, an attractive twenty-something, is a hard working city-lawyer who has an on-going relationship with Ivan for three years. At a party one night, Ivan openly flirts with another woman in front of Michelle. They have a terrible row in which Michelle breaks up with Ivan and leaves the party in tears. Fleeing Ivan and the rain, Michelle stumbes into a bar close by, Flynn… more
  • Twentynine Palms
  • DVD / Drama / R / $24.95
  • Award-winning filmmaker Bruno Dumont's devastating TWENTYNINE PALMS is a mesmerizing story of love, sex and evil set deep in the California desert. Dumont's self-professed "experimental horror film" follows a couple in the throes of a torrid love affair as they journey through the blazing heat of the Mojave desert. David (David Wissack), an American photographer, and his Russian girlfriend Katia (… more
  • Violin, The
  • DVD / Drama / R / $29.95
  • Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a coun… more
  • Waiting Room (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $24.95
  • Lone parent Anna (Anne-Marie Duff – The Magdalene Sisters, Garage, Notes on a Scandal) is involved with her next-door neighbour George (Rupert Graves – Death at a Funeral, V for Vendetta), whose marriage has settled into a rut. Meanwhile care worker Stephen (Ralf Little – The Royle Family, 24 Hour Party People) is having doubts about his own long-term relationship. When Anna and Stephen meet… more
  • Wassup Rockers
  • DVD / Teen Comedy / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Larry Clark's “Wassup Rockers” is about a group of Latino teenagers in South Central Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride their tricked out skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dangerous home turf is an everyday challenge. The Rockers decide to travel by bus to skate the world f… more
  • Water Drops On Burning Rocks
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • Germany in the 70s. Leopold, a 50 year old businessman, meets Franz, who is 19. He invites him back to his place. A love affair begins. One day, something of little importance leads to a difference of opinion. And from this moment on, there's no such thing as "we" anymore. From Francois Ozon, director of SWIMMING POOL, 8 FEMMES and CRIMINAL LOVERS comes this Queer Classic, with a blistering scr… more
  • Way Of Life, A
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $9.95
  • A Way Of Life is a teenage tragedy which offers a chilling insight into racism, while connecting us with the lives of five adolescents struggling to cling to their dreams. The film centres around teenage mother Leigh-Anne Williams and her three friends Robbie, a 17 year old determined to move beyond his dead-end community. Gavin, also 17 desperately chasing love, and Stephen, a 15 year old yearnin… more
  • Welcome Stranger
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $29.95
  • A strange day begins for 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any contact, Luke is eager for a reunion. Bewildered, Adam sets off to meet up with his childhood mate. What follows is a sequence of interactions with Luke's family members, overlaid with a drug and alcohol binge. As the day progresses through a series of funny, sad and violent clash… more
  • Wilby Wonderful
  • DVD / Comedy/Drama / M / $29.95
  • Wilby Wonderful is a bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as a sex scandal threatens to rock the town to its core. The town’s video store owner, Dan Jarvis (James Allodi) – depressed over the pending revelations about his love life – decides to end it all, but keeps g… more
  • Wild Horse From Shangri-La
  • DVD / Drama / PG / $24.95
  • In a mountain village in Shangri-la there is a Tibetan boy known as "Wild Horse" because he is the fastest runner of his generation. His peaceful life is turned upside down when his sister Gerui is in desperate need of a heart operation. Geza's father passed away a long time age. Although the 10,000RMB in medical fee is an astronomical figure for the family, Geza refuses to give up on his beloved … more
  • World Traveller
  • DVD / Drama / M / $9.95
  • Following his acclaimed debut The Myth of Fingerprints, Bart Freundlich poses the question “what would it be like to run away from your life?” The film centers on a restless New Yorker named Cal (Billy Crudup) who one day drives off into the open road, leaving his wife and infant son behind. A series of flashbacks show Cal’s domestic malaise and disillusionment with his life. Cal meets a num… more
  • XXY (Re-release)
  • DVD / Drama / MA / $14.95
  • Alex is not like other girls. She is a 15-year-old with a secret, one that no other can claim. Her parents keep her hidden away at a coastal town in amongst the dunes of the shoreline, buying time before they must decide on a life-threatening operation. When old family friend and plastic surgeon Ramiro arrives with his teenage son Álvaro, Alex begins to realise that his visit could change her lif… more
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