Dead Sexy
Dead Sexy
A female detective investigates a number of murders involving female victims and an escort agency….
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Cruel And Unusual (Wide Screen)
Cruel And Unusual (Wide Screen)
He’s a lover, a mentor and a friend, but Art Stoner (Tom Berenger-Training Day) is also a cold, calculated killer who charms his way into peoples’ lives. The mysterious murderer assumes the identities of his victims, but when his trail of death and deceit takes him to a small fishing town and a job in an isolated lighthouse, it seems the bloodbath may be finally over. He forms a bond with Mike (Tygh Runyan-15 Minutes), a troubled young man who also lives and works in the tower, and falls in love…
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Science fiction writer, Richard becomes obsessed with his beautiful neighbour and tries anything to get close to her……
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High And Low (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
High And Low (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
Based on KING’S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy, hardworking businessman. As Gondo plans a coup that will secure his position as the head of his Yokohama shoe company, he is contacted by a criminal who informs him that he’s kidnapped his son. The crook demands a huge ransom for the boy’s return–an amount that has taken Gondo 30 years of labour to amass. As the worried industrialist prepares to pay the ransom, he discovers that his…
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Leon Morin, Pretre (Subtitled)(Wide Screen)
Leon Morin, Pretre (Subtitled)(Wide Screen)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (A BOUT DE SOUFFLE) stars in this film set during the French Occupation. He plays Leon Morin, a handsome young priest who captures the attention of an attractive and flirtatious young widow named Barny (Emmanuele Riva). A communist and an atheist, Barny enters Morin’s church on a whim one day and engages him in a conversation during which she severely criticises his faith. Surprisingly intrigued by his replies, Barny comes to develop a platonic relationship with the priest, bu…
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Knife In The Water
Knife In The Water
Roman Polanski’s first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka). On their way to the lake for a weekend of sailing, they are accosted by a young hitchhiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz) who jumps in front of their car, forcing them to stop. Annoyed by the youth’s daredevil…
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Black Rainbow
Black Rainbow
Rosanna Arquette plays Martha Travis, a spiritual medium who travels America’s Bible-Belt with her manipulative, alcoholic father (Jason Robards). She all-too accurately foretells the circumstances of a violent murder, even before it happens. In fact, Martha knows too much for her own good, she is soon forseeing the death of her own father……
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Fear
Fear
A pretty teenager meets and falls in love with a charming, mysterious young man at an all-night rave party in Seattle. When she stops seeing him after discovering he’s cheating on her with her best friend, he snaps, vowing vengeance against her and her family. A tense thriller….
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Out Of Sight
Out Of Sight
Based on Elmore Leonard’s famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT finds director Steven Soderbergh back in Hollywood after a brief return to the independent world with SCHIZOPOLIS and GRAY’S ANATOMY. A funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama, OUT OF SIGHT tells the story of the unlikely relationship that forms between an FBI agent and a career criminal. After Jack Foley (George Clooney) escapes from jail with the help of his partner, Buddy Bragg (Ving Rhames), he takes Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), a sexy…
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The Skulls 2
The Skulls 2
A sequel to 2000’s THE SKULLS, THE SKULLS II once again delves into the world of a secret Ivy League society known as the Skulls (loosely based on Yale’s Skull & Bones fraternity). Here, new inductee Ryan Sommers (Dunne) faces a dilemma when, soon after having taken an oath not to betray any of the society’s secrets or its powerful members, he witnesses a murder inside the Skulls’ private chambers. Pressured by the authorities and convinced that his brothers in the Skulls are watching him, Ryan…
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Jaws 2
Jaws 2
Amity police chief Brody discovers that there’s more than one fish in the sea–the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This action-packed sequel features the welcome return of Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary reprising their roles from the original blockbuster that did for ocean beaches what PSYCHO did for showers….
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Jaws 4 - The Revenge
Jaws 4 - The Revenge
The now widowed Ellen Brody must re-live the horrors of the past when she moves to the Bahamas to be with her marine biologist son Michael. The nightmares start when her grand-daughter is attacked by a Great White Shark……
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Jaws 3 (Wide Screen)
Jaws 3 (Wide Screen)
The third film in the successful JAWS franchise follows yet another great white shark with an appetite for humans, this time invading the opening ceremonies of a marine park in Florida. The brand new complex offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on the seabed. When a 35-foot great white breaks into the structure–seemingly in revenge for the death of its progeny–a group of marine biologists must do battle with the mighty mother beast….
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Frozen In Fear
Frozen In Fear
A talented yet disturbed artist, Sean’s (Eric Roberts) morbid yet undeniably enticing paintings are shaped by the horrifying memory of his mother’s murder. Beautiful art dealer Lacy (Catherine Oxenberg) is so fascinated by Sean’s work that she travels across the country to visit him in his tiny desert town. She arrives to a community distraught with fear and loss, as a series of young women have recently gone missing. When she accidently comes upon Sean’s dark secret–a series of ice sculptures…
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Paycheck
Paycheck
Adapted from a mind-bending sci-fi thriller by Philip K. Dick, the slick and riveting PAYCHECK is directed by John Woo (THE KILLER, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II)–the king of artful gunfighting flicks–who shows off his agility here with flat-out, white-knuckle cinematic entertainment. Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a high-paid engineer who works on hush-hush computer inventions and technology for shady companies. Later, his memory is wiped clean, so he has no recollection of his work. His so-called…
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The Birds
The Birds
Spoilt socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister’s birthday; he recognises Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a…
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is Hitchcock’s remake of his own 1934 film of the same title. While vacationing in French Morocco, an American family becomes accidentally involved in a series of international incidents after the father overhears an assassination plot. Compared with its 1934 predecessor, this version is lavish, with a larger budget and a much bigger cast. While maintaining Hitchcock’s fascination with an average Joe caught up in menacing events, the characters portrayed by Jimmy Stewar…
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Vertigo
Vertigo
VERTIGO is Alfred Hitchcock’s haunting tale of deception, madness, and death, a masterful exploration of fantasy and anxiety. The film ranks with REAR WINDOW as one of the director’s most closely studied films for its psychological complexity, while the obsession of its protagonist–John Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart)–can also be seen to parallel that of Hitchcock’s own fascination with the icy-blonde leading lady he recreated at the center of so many of his films. Scottie Ferguson is a retir…
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Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent
Hitchcock espionage thriller. American crime reporter Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) is sent to Europe in 1938 to cover the build-up to World War Two. Johnny becomes romantically involved with Carol Fisher (Laraine Day), whose father runs an international peace organisation. When Dutch diplomat Van Meer (Albert Basserman) is kidnapped, Johnny and Carol become mixed up in the espionage and intrigue. …
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Rear Window
Rear Window
A man confined to his apartment with a broken leg passes the time by spying on his neighbours. He suspects one of his neighbours of murder and must try to convince non-believers….
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