Film

THE LION IN WINTER (1968) stars Katharine Hepburn in her Academy Award-winning role as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O'Toole in a powerhouse performance as King Henry II. Anthony Hopkins makes his feature film debut as Richard the Lion Heart and Timothy...

Comedy legend Tony Hancock makes his feature film-starring debut in this witty satire that takes both white-collar monotony and the pretensions of the art-world in its crosshairs. A self-taught artist with an enthusiasm that far exceeds any ability,...

Appearing in his second feature film-starring role, comedy legend Tony Hancock gives a memorable performance in this bittersweet comedy of small-town snobbery and one-upmanship. Content to scratch out a living in the faded seaside town of Piltdown,...

Screen legends Charles Bronson (Breakheart Pass, The Valdez Horses) and Jack Palance (Attack, Monte Walsh) star in a magnificent western as wild and untamed as the Old West itself. Bristling with dynamic action sequences and riveting performances,...

From Nicolas Roeg, the genius behind Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth and Don't Look Now, comes a scorching dissection of the basic needs of humanity; to eat, to love and to survive. Gerald Kingsland (legendary Hellraiser Oliver Reed) advertises for...

Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers, Bosch) and Bryan Brown (Cocktail, F/X) sizzle in this highly provocative drama from acclaimed director Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth). Nina (Rogers), a successful but world-weary art dealer, is surprised...

From Hong Kong's legendary Shaw Brothers studio comes a blood-drenched story of ninjas, eunuchs and dark palace intrigue: the old emperor is on his last legs, and his most ambitious and amoral son plots to cheat his way to the throne. But taking power is...

Part of his war trilogy, which includes Fires On the Plain and Killing, Shinya Tsukamoto's latest examines the lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post-World War II period. Part chamber drama, part road movie, Shadow of Fire tells the story of a...

A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it's...

Shinji Somai's beloved cult film Typhoon Club is widely heralded as the director's seminal feature and considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the...

A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life. This delightful minimalist micro-budget dramedy...

2nd part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime...

Part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). In the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chuetsu earthquakes, to report...

After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or support, he eventually encounters Nami, a part-time...

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the...