Movies & TV

An Academy Award winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan's Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone, Cronos). Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana...

Richard Gere, Sam Shephard, Brooke Adams. Lauded for it's stunning cinematography, the story of a Chicago steelworker on the run in the Texas panhandle is gritty, timeless, and highly evocative. 1978/color/95 min/PG.

Aging Helsinki salesman Wikstr?m (Sakari Kuosmanen) grabbed at a chance to ditch wife and career when he sank gambling winnings into a failing restaurant. Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) was trying to get his sister out of their homeland before...

College degree in hand and clueless as to his next move, suburban kid Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself drawn into an illicit affair by older, glamorous family friend Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Their brief liaison might have dire...

One of the most powerful of the family portraits by Yasujiro Ozu (TOKYO STORY), LATE SPRING tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players Chishu Ryu (THERE WAS A FATHER) and Setsuko...

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence/Bd Blu-Ray

Toshiro Mifune (SEVEN SAMURAI) is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from...

Two films are included. Wooden Crosses: In France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I regiment trudges from patriotism to disillusionment.

Part film noir, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of the mild-mannered piano player Charlie as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Direction: Francois Truffaut Actors: Charles...

In late-'30s Germany, a clan of wealthy industrialists had begun to do business with the Nazi Party. The night the Reichstag burned, the family's Hitler-hating patriarch was assassinated-and their slow degeneration over the ensuing years would reflect...

Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) in possession of a...

Far from the religious drama it's title implies, this powerful French drama follows the slacker-like existence of a 20-year-old epileptic man who spends his time riding around on his motorbike with his unemployed pals, and the violence that erupts when...