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CertificationPG Our Rating

An awesome film that probes the conflicts between morality and the law. When is a man merely following orders and when does he become responsible for the consequences of his actions? Using the post-war trials of four German judges accused of legalising Nazi atrocities Kramer creates a fasinating exploration of human responsibility.

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MCLIBEL (2005)

CertificationE Our Rating

When THE fast food chain issued a libel action against activists Helen Steel and Dave Morris in 1990, demanding an apology for allegations they had made in a leaflet, the corporate giant didn't expect the pair to not only refuse to apologise, but to actually invite McBully to bring it on. Absolutely nobody expected it to take 15 years and a victory for the pair at the European Court of Human Rights for the case to come to an end. Here the whole story is told with the requisite amount of humour find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Stirring courtroom drama with Lange as a lawyer called upon to represent her own father. The accusation that he perpetrated hideous war crimes 50 years previously seems at first preposterous, but as the trial continues she is forced to face some painful truths and make a heartbreaking decision. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Peter Watkins' astonishing pseudo-documentary comes blistering onto the screen in this long overdue re-release of his 1971 classic. Punishment Park tells the bleak story of a section of society whose political and social beliefs have landed them in a courtroom, facing ill-defined charges of hostilities against the state. Once found guilty, an inevitability I'm afraid, they face the choice of spending 20-odd years in prison or, and alarm bells should be ringing right about now, 4 days in Punishme find out more...
RED DUST (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Apartheid is over, ex-police torturer Hendricks is serving a long sentence but thinks he can get an amnesty from the True and Reconciliation Commission by appearing to confess to all. Hilary Swank plays an idealistic young lawyer returning from New York to represent Alex Mpondo, an ANC politician, who was tortured by Hendriks when arrested in the 1980s, and the parents of Steve Sizela, co-arrested with Mpondo, but never seen alive again. The truth of what happened may not be as simple as it appe find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group based in Munich University, 1943. Sophie and her brother are captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by a Gestapo officer quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, di find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

A body of a young woman, horrifically disfigured, is found in a skip. It is up to a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover why the womans sister has also disappeared...
Superior television conspiracy thriller, utilising the French expertise in 'policier' plotting.

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Certification18 Our Rating

A body of a young woman, horrifically disfigured, is found in a skip. It is up to a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover why the womans sister has also disappeared...
Superior television conspiracy thriller, utilising the French expertise in 'policier' plotting.

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Certification18 Our Rating

The hard-hitting, stylish and critically acclaimed French police thriller returns for a second series as Pierre Clement and Police Captain Laure Berthaud descend into the paranoid rivalries of the drug trafficking underworld. Providing a glimpse at the French legal system along with the seedier side of Paris, this series will leave you on the edge of your seat. Unflinchingly realistic and nail-bitingingly tense, the series follows the investigators into the dark and uncompromising world of or find out more...


Certification18 Our Rating

The hard-hitting, stylish and critically acclaimed French police thriller returns for a second series as Pierre Clement and Police Captain Laure Berthaud descend into the paranoid rivalries of the drug trafficking underworld. Providing a glimpse at the French legal system along with the seedier side of Paris, this series will leave you on the edge of your seat. Unflinchingly realistic and nail-bitingingly tense, the series follows the investigators into the dark and uncompromising world of or find out more...