Sales Gallery: Recent Releases
14–1 Jun 0001
Most Fertile Man in Ireland, The (2000)
- Kris Marshall is the Irishman with the high sperm–count, who is recruited by Catholics and Protestants alike to boost their numbers.…
- 14 Jun 0001
Rainbow, The (1989)
- The director steers away from his usual excesses for D.H. Lawrence's portrait of a young woman's sexual and feminist liberation, set in Edwardian…
- 1 Jun 0001
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
- 1 Jun 0001
Jack Be Nimble (1993)
- Alexis Arquette gets his American tongue around a Kiwi accent to portray an abused twin who finally reunites with his estranged sister. Though this…
- 1 Jun 0001
Mr. Wrong (1985)
- A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
- 1 Jun 0001
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy become perplexed parents of son–in–law Sidney Poitier, in this agreeable mixed–marriage comedy.
- 1 Jun 0001
Hamlet (1990)
- Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
- 1 Jun 0001
Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963)
- An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…
- 1 Jun 0001
Bridges of Madison County (1995)
- Meryl Streep's exceptional talent finds a worthy vessel in a repressed housewife whose passions become enflamed by a nomadic photographer (Clint…
- 1 Jun 0001
Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage.
This gleefully (though…
- 1 Jun 0001
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
- Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
- 1 Jun 0001
Memory and Desire (1998)
- Director Niki Caro pulls out the art–house stops for her feature debut: a love–story about a mismatched Japanese couple whose honeymoon…
- 1 Jun 0001
Dogs of War, The (1980)
- Frederick Forsyth's best–seller gets reasonably good treatment here, Christopher Walken playing a hard bastard mercenary hired by Big Business…
- 1 Jun 0001
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
- 1 Jun 0001
Northern Exposure (TV Series) (1990-1995)
- A softer, kinder version of TWIN PEAKS, unfolding among a moderately eccentric community in the State of Alaska, comprised of native Indians,…
- 1 Jun 0001
Law and Order (TV Series) (1997)
- The original US police and courtroom drama from which various satellite shows and TV movies have sprouted, which contrasts its polish with fairly…
- 1 Jun 0001
Overlord (1975)
- Remarkable one–off that seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this accounts a twenty–year–old’s…
- 1 Jun 0001
Little Romance, A (1979)
- Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
- 1 Jun 0001
Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001)
- The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
- 1 Jun 0001
Te Rua (1991)
- Dir. Barry Barclay's second feature film concerns a group of Maori who travel to Germany to reclaim sacred 'taonga' from a museum, a century after…
- 1 Jun 0001
Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981)
- Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…
- 1 Jun 0001
Vera Drake (2004)
- An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
- 1 Jun 0001
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby (TV Series) - Series 2 (2008)
- Second series of this un–PC yet tremendously popular Kiwi comedy series tracking the old fashioned teaching methods of Mr Gormsby and his…
- 1 Jun 0001
Casque d'Or (Golden Marie) (1952)
- A gangster’s moll falls in love with a reformed criminal, igniting underworld violence, in this lush, overwhelming tragi–romance set in Paris…
- 1 Jun 0001
Billy T James - The Legend, The Man, The Cuz (2009)
- Latest compilation of the most popular sketches from irrepressible comedian Billy T James, including Te News, the Traffic Cop, the Hard Case, the…
- 1 Jun 0001
O'Horten (2007)
- The director of KITCHEN STORIES follows up with another comic delicacy about a 67–year–old engineer and his oddly challenging quest to…
- 1 Jun 0001
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Although intended to be viewed in 3–D, this extraordinary trip inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France – home to the oldest known…
- 1 Jun 0001
Deep Blue Sea, The (2011)
- Post–war romantic drama in which Rachel Weisz plays the wife of a British Judge caught in a self–destructive love affair with a Royal Air…
- 1 Jun 0001
Las Acacias (2011)
- An improbable gem of the road movie genre, about the slow–forming relationship between a long–haul truck driver and the woman (and…
- 1 Jun 0001
Quartet (2012)
- Another pleasant surprise for the retiree set, this time centred on a home for retired musicians, and the recently arrived opera diva (Maggie Smith)…
- 1 Jun 0001