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American Beauty (1999) #391 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. |
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Harry Brown (2009) #402 Remove Directed by Daniel Barber. With Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles. An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. |
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008) #170 Remove Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC. | |
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Good Bye Lenin! (2003) #284 Remove Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. |
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) #522 Remove Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. |
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Much Ado About Nothing (1993) #529 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton. Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. Shakespeare. |
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Iris (2001) #486 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. |
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Harry Brown (2009) #402 Remove Directed by Daniel Barber. With Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles. An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. |
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Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) #175 Remove Directed by Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon. With Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen. A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth. |
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The Reader (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. |
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The Weather Man (2005) #58 Remove Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine. A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive. |
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Chicago (2002) #9 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. |
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Iris (2001) #486 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. |
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The Lion King (1994) #430 Remove Directed by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. With Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg. Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble. Disney |
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Shutter Island (2010) #297 Remove Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. |
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Sorority Row (2009) #226 Remove Directed by Stewart Hendler. With Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Teri Andrez. A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer. |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) #101 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
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Iris (2001) #486 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. |
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) #104 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson. British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways. |
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State of Play (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend. |
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The Founder (2016) #1365 Remove Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini. The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness. |
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Decoding Annie Parker (2013) #250 Remove Directed by Steven Bernstein. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones. Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer. |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) #1071 Remove Directed by Peter Webber. With Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works. |
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Milk (2008) #129 Remove Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna. The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. |
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Little Voice (1998) #193 Remove Directed by Mark Herman. With Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor. A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend. |
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On the Basis of Sex (2018) #1407 Remove On the Basis of Sex: Directed by Mimi Leder. With Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston. The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice |
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The Greatest Showman (2017) #1153 Remove Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. |
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The Ninth Gate (1999) #218 Remove Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Shakespeare. |
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St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) #308 Remove Directed by Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson. With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Talulah Riley. The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate. |
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We'll Take Manhattan (2012) #338 Remove Directed by John McKay. With Sascha Bailey, Frances Barber, Aneurin Barnard, Fiona Button. A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. |
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La musica del silenzio (2017) #1199 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. aka The Music of Silence |
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Eat Pray Love (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Ryan Murphy. With Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis. A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself". |
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Anamorph (2007) #221 Remove Directed by Henry Miller. With Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Don Harvey, James Rebhorn. A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas. |
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Virus (1999) #621 Remove Directed by John Bruno. With Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula. When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed. *3rd of 3 items in 'single file' disk* |
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Perfect Sense (2011) #118 Remove Directed by David Mackenzie. With Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen. A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. |
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Frankenweenie (2012) #418 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau. Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. |
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Hereafter (2010) #341 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic. A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways. |
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Black Earth Rising (2018) #1144 Remove With Michaela Coel, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni, Lucian Msamati. Kate Ashby was rescued as a child from the Rwandan genocide by her renowned international lawyer adopted mother Eve. Living in London and working for barrister Michael Ennis, Kate's mother takes on a case involving an African militia leader which will upend both their lives forever. 8x1 hour episodes. BBC. |
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Salt (2010) #21 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski. A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. |
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Sully (2016) #1030 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey. The story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew. |
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State of Play (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend. |
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We'll Take Manhattan (2012) #338 Remove Directed by John McKay. With Sascha Bailey, Frances Barber, Aneurin Barnard, Fiona Button. A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. |
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A Bridge Too Far (1977) #575 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure. |
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True Grit (2010) #336 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin. A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer. |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) #526 Remove Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. |
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Frida (2002) #134 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro. A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. |
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La musica del silenzio (2017) #1199 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. aka The Music of Silence |
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The Barbarian Invasions (2003) #79 Remove Directed by Denys Arcand. With Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son. |
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Takers (2010) #375 Remove Directed by John Luessenhop. With Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective. |
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Testament of Youth (2014) #978 Remove Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. |
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No Country for Old Men (2007) #44 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) #293 Remove Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield. A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. |
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) #1277 Remove Directed by Taika Waititi. With Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House. A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. |
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Jonathan Creek (2010) #162 Remove With Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders. Easter Special |
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The Great Gatsby (2013) #271 Remove Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire. A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. |
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Frantz (2016) #1057 Remove Directed by François Ozon. With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber. In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers. |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Shakespeare. |
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Glorious 39 (2009) #288 Remove Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II. |
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Flushed Away (2006) #1474 Remove Flushed Away: Directed by David Bowers, Sam Fell. With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno. The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) #101 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
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Shutter Island (2010) #297 Remove Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. |
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009) #32 Remove Directed by Julian Kemp. With Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel. Duncan navigates the unsteady world of romance and relationships, going through five girlfriends in four years. Unfortunately, none of them turn out well. |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Shakespeare. |
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith. A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth. |
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The Best Offer (2013) #504 Remove Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland. In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in ... aka Deception |
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The Debt (2010) #127 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds. In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them. |
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The Three Tenors in Concert (1990) #644 Remove The Three Tenors in Concert, recorded live in Rome in 1990, holds the distinction in the Guinness Book of World Records (in 2010) of being the best-selling classical album of all time. The concert, held at the Baths of Caracella, took place July 7, 1990, just before the opening of the Soccer World Cup Final. This concert and album, which initiated the Three Tenors phenomenon, had the original purpose of raising funds for the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation and boosting the career of Carreras, who had only recently recovered from the disease. Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Carreras take turns singing opera arias, Broadway hits, and traditional Neapolitan songs, but on several tracks, the three tenors sing together. Zubin Mehta accompanies the singers, leading the orchestras of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. |
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Testament of Youth (2014) #978 Remove Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. |
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Brave (2012) #448 Remove Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. With Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. Disney |
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A Night to Remember (1958) #1178 Remove Directed by Roy Ward Baker. With Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Brassed Off (1996) #37 Remove Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. Best aspect ratio. |