Sales Gallery: Recent Releases
1 Oct 0001
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980)
- Alec Guinness returns as John Le Carre's retired agent George Smiley, this time lured back to trace an infiltrator at his old stomping ground.
- 1 Oct 0001
Ran (1985)
- The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
- 1 Oct 0001
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
- 8 May 2025
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)
- Nail biting, meticulous and realistic account of a German U–boat's prowlings through the North Atlantic. The most expensive German film to…
- 1 Oct 0001
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963)
- Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…
- 1 Oct 0001
La Dolce Vita (1960)
- An episodic film following the very cool Marcello Mastroianni, a disillusioned journalist trapped in shallow, so called 'decadent' society. A…
- 1 Oct 0001
Don't Look Now (1973)
- After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
- 1 Oct 0001
Alex (1993)
- Fact–based story about teenager Alex Archer, who overcame rivalry and tragedy to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Evocative of…
- 1 Oct 0001
Desert Rats, The (1953)
- No–nonsense British Army officer Richard Burton assumes command of an Australian platoon, but struggles to win their respect. Sequel to The…
- 1 Oct 0001
Gone with the Wind (1939)
- One of the greatest examples of story–telling on film, this maintains one's firm interest for nearly four hours with its romantic story, strong…
- 1 Oct 0001
North by Northwest (1959)
- Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
- 1 Oct 0001
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1967)
- The third, the funniest and most violent of Clint's association with director Leone. Set during the Civil War, three low–lifes search for a…
- 1 Oct 0001
F for Fake (1974)
- Ostensibly a documentary, on unrepentant art–forger Elmyr de Hory and 'fake biographer' Clifford Irving, this material is cunningly subverted…
- 1 Oct 0001
Latcho Drom (1993)
- A moving testament to the plight of inter–continental gypsy culture and to the redemptive and communicative power of music, Tony Gatlif's…
- 1 Oct 0001
Rashomon (1951)
- The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
- 1 Oct 0001
Fellini's Roma (1972)
- The Italian master's eclectic home town portrait blends reconstructed memoirs and contemporary images (incl. a stunning traffic jam sequence) into a…
- 1 Oct 0001
Nashville (1975)
- An American classic, 70s watermark and widely considered Altman's masterpiece. Story of 24 characters gathered for a political rally in the country…
- 1 Oct 0001
Cookie's Fortune (1998)
- A satisfying, home–spun Southern patchwork, stuffed with little–biddy–town idiosyncracies and a slightly kooky plot surrounding the…
- 1 Oct 0001
Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) (1998)
- Winner of both Best Foreign Film and Best Actor Oscars (a first for an actor speaking a foreign tongue) as well as the top prize at Cannes, Roberto…
- 1 Oct 0001
Fire (1996)
- Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
- 1 Oct 0001
Amarcord (1974)
- Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…
- 1 Oct 0001
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- A fantasy–fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw–dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a…
- 1 Oct 0001
Rainbow Bridge (1972)
- A thinly–contrived hippy fable, notable though for featuring footage of the last–ever concert by Jimi Hendrix.
- 1 Oct 0001
Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1998)
- Vivid depiction of teenage angst and restlessness that became a cause celebre (and box–office hit) in its native Sweden for frank, passionate…
- 1 Oct 0001
Spirited Away (2002)
- Animation visionary Hayao Miyazaki gets to fully unlock his boundless imagination through the otherworldly adventures of an innocent young girl that…
- 23 Apr 2015
Hidden Agenda (1990)
- Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
- 1 Oct 0001
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
- Landmark musical presents a 'faux–negro' folk story accompanied by the sophisticated musicianship of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and…
- 1 Oct 0001
Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The (1971)
- Minor British comedy from the 'liberated' 70s, sees various comedians run the gamut of sinful behaviour in the company of some saucy female…
- 1 Oct 0001
Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)
- An unusual hospital drama from dir. Kurosawa, collaborating for the final time with Mifune, who here plays a tough doctor coaching an intern (Kayama)…
- 1 Oct 0001
New York Doll (2005)
- Affecting yet hilarious documentary about the bass–player of influential glam–punk band The New York Dolls, Arthur 'Killer' Kane, whose…
- 1 Oct 0001