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Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

Joe Dante's classic 1984 comedy-horror about what happens when young Billy Peltzer inadvertantly breaks three important rules concerning his new and weird pet, Gizmo: no water, no food after midnight, and no bright light.

Richard O'Brien's brilliantly bizarre story of creation, love, hate, adventure, and, most of all, sex. A young couple stumble upon a Transylvanian house party in this 1975 classic, based on O'Brien's stage musical.

Written and directed by film maverick Jim Jarmusch, the Palme d'Or-nominated Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley.

Before they worked together on Marvel’s Iron Man 3, writer-director Shane Black and Robert Downey Jr. made this trippy cult classic crime-comedy about a thief (Downey Jr.) posing as an actor who winds up in the middle of a murder investigation...

Christmas family-comedy from star Will Ferrell and director Jon Favreau. 

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

In this drama from Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies), Penny and Phil lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

Six Otago Uni students discover crime should be left to criminals in this classic comedy.

Prehistoric family adventure from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, makes of An American Tale. Littlefoot  an orphaned brontosaurus, sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley...

The classic '90s slasher flick directed by writer-director-author Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis lead James Cameron's classic '90s action-comedy about a secret agent trying to undo a terrorist plot. At the same time, he must deal with the fact that his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman.

In the first instalment in The Santa Clause trilogy, Tim Allen makes his film debut starring as a reluctant, clumsy stand-in Santa Claus after accidentally sending Santa himself to an early grave.

Winner of three Academy Awards and nominated for Best Picture, director James Ivory's 1992 period romance depicts a battle of the classes during Edwardian England. 

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

An American Christmas comedy/adventure film, Lost in New York is the second entry in producer John Hughes' Home Alone series. Macaulay Culkin reprises his role as Kevin, as do Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the 'Wet Bandits.' Directed by Chris Columbus.

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in this romantic drama about a butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years post WWII, and realises too late how misguided his loyalty has been.

Woody Allen drama about a writer who becomes drawn into the life of a psychiatry patient whose conversations she eavesdrops on.

1986 adaptation of Stephen King’s short story about four preteen boys who venture into the woods to find the body of a missing boy. Directed by Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride).

On top of the movie world after The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola continued to push cinematic boundaries with this fantasy musical. But One from the Heart - with a ballooning production - ended a colossal flop critically and financially...

In this 1978 crime thriller set in Toronto, a bored bank teller accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.