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Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet is Marty Mauser, a silver-tongues hustler with a dream that no one respects: to become the world champion table tennis player. Hopping from one scheme to the next, Marty goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness, journeying from the Lower East Side to London, Paris, Tokyo, the Great Pyramids, and back with a trail of scorned lovers, business moguls, and mobsters hot on his tail. Acclaimed filmmaker Josh Safdie delivers a masterfully crafted, full-throttle thrill ride featuring an all-star cast, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma (Tyler, the Creator), Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher.
9 Academy Award nominations for:
Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, director Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn exotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch’s wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as well as 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress, Anora confirms Baker as one of our preeminent auteurs.
In May of 2020, as the Covid pandemic is tearing through the world, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and the mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico. A provocative, era-defining thriller from Ari Aster that unpacks the forces that led us to where we are today, featuring a powerhouse ensemble including Austin Butler and Emma Stone.
Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield and Burl Ives star in this American drama directed by Samuel Fuller. When young actress Julie (McNichol) unwittingly runs over a white Alsation one night, she panics and takes the animal to the vet. While trying to find the stray dog's owners Julie takes him home with her where he proves useful as he fends off an attack from a rapist. Suspecting that something is not quite right with the dog, Julie takes it to a specialist trainer where she learns that the dog has been trained to attack black people. Can Julie and the trainer reprogramme the dog into being the loving family pet he once was?
This truly is the definitive Sophia Loren boxset, defining her life-time achievement featuring her four most awarded films - including her Best Actress Oscar which made her the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance for TWO WOMEN. This Blu-ray set includes her most notable 1960s performances, where she's also joined by the Award-winning Marcello Mastroianni. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963), won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Marriage, Italian Style (1964) earned Loren another Oscar nomination The later A SPECIAL DAY (also Oscar nominated) is a moving, must see film by Ettore Scola which Loren describes as her favourite film. Both Loren and co-star Mastroianni, who both played against their (impossibly) glamorous image, agreed this was the highlight of their acting careers! With a career that has already spanned six decades and been honored with 50 awards, Sophia Loren remains one of the most beloved and recognisable figures in the international film world. The Academy awarded Loren another Oscar in 1991 for her body of work and was declared by the Oscar Academy itself "one of world cinema's greatest treasures.
Two Women (1960)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
A Special Day (1977)
This controversial film stars Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, an angry young man seeking retribution for the murder of his father. Derek becomes the leader of a skinhead white-power movement, espousing racist views to his peers and using his intelligence to stir up as much race-hate as possible. Derek's actions culminate in murder and he is jailed. Three years later his girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) and brother Danny (Edward Furlong) await his release, but discover that Derek is a changed man, ashamed of his past and no longer driven by hatred. However, the consequences of his actions still haunt Derek's family and the threat of a return to violence is never far away.
Updated version of the 1952 classic period drama, set in the 18th Century. The Scottish hero Rob Roy (Liam Neeson) borrows money from the powerful Marquess of Montrose (John Hurt) in order to provide for his MacGregor clan. However, Montrose's evil henchman Cunningham (Tim Roth) has other ideas and is determined to stop Roy getting his way.
Cult road trip movie beloved of car and music fans for featuring an impressive hot-rodded 1955 Chevy, and for starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) in the two lead roles. Two car boys, secure in the knowledge that nobody has a ride like their '55 Chev, cruise around America looking for gullible marks to race. The Driver (Taylor) and The Mechanic (Wilson) are so into their ride that it's become a sort of auto-nihilism and they barely even care to talk to one another. They pick up a winsome hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who's soon enamored of their dedication. One day they meet their future likeness in GTO (Warren Oates) - an ageing pump jockey at a remote gas stand. His tales of hotrods past and his younger years spent under the hood and behind the wheel of some classic yankee iron, captivate the Chev boys. Unbeknownst to them, he's a liar and soon they're locked in a race to The Capitol with him - the keys to the Chev and those to the elderly liar's mint '70 Pontiac GTO hanging on the outcome.
All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries starring James Nesbitt and Frances O'Connor. When Tony and Emily Hughes (Nesbitt and O'Connor) travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt), their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a private investigation. The cast also includes Tchéky Karyo and Anastasia Hille.
Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, easily influenced and keen to live the good life. When he joins up with the local Mob family, all his dreams seemingly come true. But living a life of crime, as Henry soon finds out, can be very dangerous. Especially when the guys in your crew, the Goodfellas, are psychotic and can't be trusted. Covering a 30-year stretch in the lives of three key Mafia figures, this bold, unpredictable classic was one of the most powerful films of the 90's.
All ten episodes from the second season of the action adventure show starring Hayley Atwell as the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter. Following the Second World War, Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) agent Peggy moves to Los Angeles intent on stopping new, atomic age threats to humanity. In this season, Peggy finds links to Isodyne Energy after a powerful new substance is discovered, which, in the wrong hands, could have potentially catastrophic results. The episodes are: 'The Lady in the Lake', 'A View in the Dark', 'Better Angels', 'Smoke and Mirrors', 'The Atomic Job', 'Life of the Party', 'Monsters', 'The Edge of Mystery', 'A Little Song and Dance' and 'Hollywood Ending'.
All 38 episodes from the first four seasons of the TV crime drama following an ex-con who assumes the identity of a sheriff in the fictional town of Banshee, Pennsylvania. Having served 15 years in prison following a diamond heist, the unnamed man posing as Sheriff Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) and his crime partner and ex-girlfriend Carrie (Ivana Milicevic) risk having their dark pasts and real identities publicly exposed by the threat of old enemies. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'The Rave', 'Meet the New Boss', 'Half Deaf Is Better Than All Dead', 'The Kindred', 'Wicks', 'Behold a Pale Rider', 'We Shall Live Forever', 'Always the Cowboy' and 'A Mixture of Madness'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Little Fish', 'The Thunder Man', 'The Warrior Class', 'Bloodlines', 'The Truth About Unicorns', 'Armies of One', 'Ways to Bury a Man', 'Evil for Evil', 'Homecoming' and 'Bullets and Tears'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Fire Trials', 'Snakes and Whatnot', 'A Fixer of Sorts', 'Real Life Is the Nightmare', 'Tribal', 'We Were All Someone Else Yesterday', 'You Can't Hide from the Dead', 'All the Wisdom I Got Left', 'Even God Doesn't Know What to Make of You' and 'We All Pay Eventually'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Something Out of the Bible', 'The Burden of Beauty', 'The Book of Job', 'Bloodletting', 'A Little Late to Grow a Pair', 'Only One Way a Dogfight Ends', 'Truths Other Than the Ones You Tell Yourself' and 'Requiem'.
The complete series 1-8 of the medical drama starring Hugh Laurie as the stony-faced MD, Dr Gregory House - who, although very well qualified, is completely devoid of any bedside manner. Despite being difficult to get along with, Dr House is often the only one who can solve medical cases that have other doctors baffled. The episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Paternity', 'Occam's Razor', 'Maternity', 'Damned If You Do', 'The Socratic Method', 'Fidelity', 'Poison', 'DNR', 'Histories', 'Detox', 'Sports Medicine', 'Cursed', 'Control', 'Mob Rules', 'Heavy', 'Role Model', 'Babies and Bathwater', 'Kids', 'Love Hurts', 'Three Stories', 'The Honeymoon', 'Acceptance', 'Autopsy', 'Humpty Dumpty', 'TB Or Not TB', 'Daddy's Boy', 'Spin', 'Hunting', 'The Mistake', 'Deception', 'Failure to Communicate', 'Need to Know', 'Distractions', 'Skin Deep', 'Sex Kills', 'Clueless', 'Safe', 'All in', 'Sleeping Dogs Lie', 'House Vs God', 'Euphoria: Part One', 'Euphoria: Part Two', 'Forever', 'Who's Your Daddy?', 'No Reason', 'Meaning', 'Cane and Able', 'Informed Consent', 'Lines in the Sand', 'Fools for Love', 'Que Sera Sera', 'Son of Coma Guy', 'Whac-A-Mole', 'Finding Judas', 'Merry Little Christmas', 'Words and Deeds', 'One Day, One Room', 'Needle in a Haystack', 'Insensitive', 'Half-Wit', 'Top Secret', 'Fetal Position', 'Airborne', 'Act Your Age', 'House Training', 'Family', 'Resignation', 'The Jerk', 'Human Error', 'Alone', 'The Right Stuff', '97 Seconds', 'Guardian Angels', 'Mirror Mirror', 'Whatever It Takes', 'Ugly', 'You Don't Want to Know', 'Games', 'It's a Wonderful Lie', 'Frozen', 'Don't Ever Change', 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Living the Dream', 'House's Head', 'Wilson's Heart', 'Dying Changes Everything', 'Not Cancer', 'Adverse Events', 'Birthmarks', 'Lucky Thirteen', 'Joy', 'The Itch', 'Emancipation', 'Last Resort', 'Let Them Eat Cake', 'Joy to the World', 'Painless', 'Big Baby', 'The Greater Good', 'Unfaithful', 'The Softer Side', 'The Social Contract', 'Here Kitty', 'Locked in', 'Simple Explanation', 'Saviors', 'House Divided', 'Under My Skin', 'Both Sides Now', 'Broken', 'Epic Fail', 'The Tyrant', 'Instant Karma', 'Brave Heart', 'Known Unknowns', 'Teamwork', 'Ignorance Is Bliss', 'Wilson', 'The Down Low', 'Remorse', 'Moving the Chains', '5 to 9', 'Private Lives', 'Black Hole', 'Lockdown', 'Knight Fall', 'Open and Shut', 'The Choice', 'Baggage', 'Help Me', 'Now What?', 'Selfish', 'Unwritten', 'Massage Therapy', 'Unplanned Parenthood', 'Office Politics', 'A Pox On Our House', 'Small Sacrifices', 'Larger Than Life', 'Carrot Or Stick', 'Family Practice', 'You Must Remember This', 'Two Stories', 'Recession Proof', 'Bombshells', 'Out of the Chute', 'Fall from Grace', 'The Dig', 'Last Temptation', 'Changes', 'The Fix', 'After Hours', 'Moving On', 'Twenty Vicodin', 'Transplant', 'Charity Case', 'Risky Business', 'The Confession', 'Parents', 'Dead and Buried', 'Perils of Paranoia', 'Better Half', 'Runaways', 'Nobody's Fault', 'Chase', 'Man of the House', 'Love Is Blind', 'Blowing the Whistle', 'Gut Check', 'We Need the Eggs', 'Body and Soul', 'The C Word', 'Post Mortem', 'Holding On' and 'Everybody Dies'.
A British boy living in Shanghai becomes separated from his parents when Japan invades China at the outset of World War II. The film, based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, traces his progress through prison camp life and his steely determination to survive. The score is by John Williams.
Hold onto your hats as one fearless woman redefines heroism in the perilous arena of international espionage. With equal parts brains, beauty and brawn, Marvel’s Agent Carter ignites a firestorm of adventure, suspense and action-packed fun integral to the origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 1946, top SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) operative Peggy Carter is still reeling from the loss of Steve Rogers (a.k.a., Captain America). But now that the war is over, peacetime deals her yet another blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Now her “missions” consist of fetching coffee and answering phones—until old acquaintance Howard Stark is framed for selling his deadliest weapons to the highest bidder, and he contacts the one person he trusts to clear his name: Agent Carter. Working as a secret double agent with the aid of Stark’s butler, Edwin Jarvis, Peggy must evade both her SSR colleagues and mysterious foreign assassins as she attempts to track down those responsible and dispose of the weapons before they inflict mass destruction. Relive all the glamour and excitement of Agent Carter - Season 1with this must-own DVD set that will transport you to a by-gone era full of modern-day thrills.
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. (Academy Award nominations for: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay)
Professional thief Frank (James Caan) needs just one more job before he can retire with girlfriend Jessie (Tuesday Weld). The opportunity arrives in the form of a proposition from gangster Leo (Robert Prosky), who wants Frank to get into a high-security vault in Los Angeles. Frank agrees, enlisting the help of his friend Barry (James Belushi), but it transpires that the job is not as straightforward as it at first seemed.
The complete collection of episodes of the popular US biker drama. The story follows the lives of the SAMCRO crew as they find themselves involved in gangs, gun violence and deals with corrupt politicians. The group has to deal with threats to its authority, as well as internal tensions, such as the ever-growing doubts of its deputy leader, Jax (Charlie Hunnam), about the gang's role in the town. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Seeds', 'Fun Town', 'Patch Over', 'Giving Back', 'AK-51', 'Old Bones', 'The Pull', 'Hell Followed', 'Better Half', 'Capybara', 'The Sleep of Babies' and 'The Revelator'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Albification', 'Small Tears', 'Fix', 'Eureka', 'Smite', 'Falx Cerebri', 'Gilead', 'Potlatch', 'Fa Guan', 'Balm', 'Service', 'The Culling' and 'Na Triobloidi'. Season 3 episodes are: 'So', 'Oiled', 'Caregiver', 'Home', 'Turning and Turning', 'The Push', 'Widening Gyre', 'Lochan Mor', 'Turas', 'Firinne', 'Bainne', 'June Wedding' and 'NS'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Out', 'Booster', 'Dorylus', 'Una Venta', 'Brick', 'With an X', 'Fruit for the Crows', 'Family Recipe', 'Kiss', 'Hands', 'Call of Duty', 'Burnt and Purged Away', 'To Be, Act 1' and 'To Be, Act 2'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Sovereign', 'Authority Vested', 'Laying Pipe', 'Stolen Huffy', 'Orca Shrugged', 'Small World', 'Toad's Wild Ride', 'Ablation', 'Andare Pescare', 'Crucifixed', 'To Thine Own Self', 'Darthy' and 'J'ai Obtenu Cette'. Season 6 episodes are: 'Straw', 'One One Six', 'Poenitentia', 'Wolfsangel', 'The Mad King', 'Salvage', 'Sweet and Vaded', 'Los Fantasmas', 'John 8:32', 'Huang Wu', 'Aon Rud Pearsanta', 'You Are My Sunshine' and 'A Mother's Work'. Season 7 episodes are: 'Black Widower', 'Toil and Till', 'Playing With Monsters', 'Poor Little Lambs', 'Some Strange Eruption', 'Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em', 'Greensleeves', 'The Separation of Crows', 'What a Piece of Work Is Man', 'Faith and Despondency', 'Suits of Woe', 'Red Rose' and 'Papa's Goods'.
Nothing on Earth can rival the epic spectacle and breathtaking grandeur of Titanic, the sweeping love story that sailed into the hearts of moviegoers around the world, ultimately emerging as the most popular motion picture of all time. Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominee Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose, the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece. (Winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director)
Shakespeare's play is transferred to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach, California. The Montague and Capulet families are embroiled in a long-running feud. When Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), a Montague, attends a Capulet ball in disguise, he falls in love with the beautiful Juliet (Claire Danes). Although already engaged to Dave Paris, whom she does not love, Juliet vows to marry Romeo. They ask the kindly Father Laurence to perform the ceremony in secret, but bloodshed and tragedy threaten the couple's future together.
Collection of nine films directed by Tim Burton. In 'Pee-Wee's Big
Adventure' (1985) man-child Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) loses his
bike and sets off on a cross-country adventure to locate it. Along the
way he encounters bikers, bums, convicts and a phantom trucker.
The entire fourth series of the award-winning ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home. It's 1922, and six months after a tragic car accident, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) is still trying to come to terms with her loss. Meanwhile, as mass unemployment, political upheaval and economic crisis threaten the social order of the day, the family and staff of Downton Abbey try to adjust to life in a changing world.
The major adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance Wolf Hall presents an intimate portrait of Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant consigliere to King Henry VIII, as he manoeuvres the corridors of power at the Tudor court. Directed by BAFTA award-Wwinner Peter Kosminsky, this powerful series follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of Cromwell - a pragmatic and accomplished power broker, from humble beginnings and with an enigmatic past. Cromwell serves king and country while navigating deadly political intrigue, the King's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformation.
Screen adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller. In 1935 Louisiana prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) meets convict John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and it is an experience which will change his life forever. Coffey, an eight foot giant, is on Death Row convicted of the murder of two children - and he is afraid to sleep in his cell without a night-light. Coffey also has a special gift, one which he uses to prove to the guards that he has been wrongfully convicted.
Robert De Niro plays a nerd with a mission, a fantasist who is determined to get himself on television, namely the Jerry Langford Show. But when Langford (Jerry Lewis) gives him the cold shoulder, De Niro hatches a banal kidnap plan. |
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