Three working-class friends rob the local trade union safe but all they get away with is a set of books. The brightest works out their meaning........ A superb thriller full of references to the atomisation of the working class by institutional means. find out more...

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

Felix Bush has lived as a hermit for 40 years. With death looming and guilt weighing him down, he decides to shuffle off with a funeral party. As he tells funeral director Frank Quinn, who finds the request bizarre since Felix plans to attend his own wake, "Time for me to get low". Invitations are posted around the county along with a land raffle to encourage as many people to attend as possible because the one thing Felix is dying to hear about are the tall tales that the community have created find out more...

American Maxwell Smart works for a government spy agency in an administrative capacity. When the agency's head office is attacked, the Chief reluctantly decides to assign Maxwell as a spy and partners him, much to her chagrin, with Agent 99. The duo, constantly handicapped by Maxwell's ineptitude, must take on an evil genius whose goal is to disrupt the very fabric of their great nation. A big screen outing of the 1970s TV show, this is a very silly but super slick action comedy helped considera find out more...

A tour de force with a stellar cast, events unfold over the period of just one day as a series of apparently random characters, from a game show host too an ex-boy genius, weave into each others lives through chance, circumstance and even divine intervention. 'Magnolia' is a drama of the highest order with both comic and very dark touches, some fine performances and an absorbingly intricate story line. find out more...

Benjy Taylor is a rookie cop who goes undercover to nab a gang of car thieves led by Ted Varrick. Taylor becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the car thieves, and falls in love with Varrick's sister Ann.
If it sounds similar to Fast and Furious movies, it's because it's the prototype for em! A super-slick 80s thriller.

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"The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she smokes, cusses, and is almost as devious and manipulative as he is. They join forces as swindlers..." - Hal Erickson, Rovi.

Peter Bogdanovich's masterpiece, and shamefully overlooked by many! find out more...

This is a bizarre hybrid, a hi-tech caper movie with lo-tech charm, an action pic with incongruously mellow Californian pacing, a post-Cold War thriller with sassy wit. Redford heads a team of 'sneakers' - freelance tech-heads who execute computer heists to test corporate security systems. It's basically an old folk's operation, with crusty CIA vet Poitier, wild card conspiracy nut Aykroyd, blind genius Strathairn, and McDonnell as a mature femme fatale, only Phoenix guarantees the teen market. find out more...

"He was born with The Courage of An Eagle, The Strength of a Panther and The Power of A God" ... and his best friends are two pine martens. So there you go. A magic world and a magic quest. Classic sword and sorcery from the early Eighties. Total wackjob script but lots of fun. find out more...

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. What would YOU do? It doesn't matter. Sheen and Douglas have got that s**t on lockdown.

HERCULES IN NEW YORK: Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business. Somehow, everyone seems to understand what he's saying.

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