La Haine

La Haine is packed with sharp street humour, intense action and brutally brilliant camera work.

Police viciously beat a 16-year-old housing estate kid they are questioning, leaving him almost dead. Responding to violence, teenagers from the estate turn their home into a 24 hour war zone. Among the people blinded by hate are Said, Vinz and Hubert, youths who survive on petty crime and dealing dope. In the intensely volatile environment, the teenagers find a chrome-plated Smith & Wesson 44 that a plain-clothes cop has lost. If killing a cop with his own gun doesn't express their rage then what will?

The French cabinet commissioned a special screening of this tragic story on its release, to see the problems of the angry French underclass on the streets of Paris.

"A brutally brilliant masterpiece of 90s cinema" - NME
 

Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class British, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of Britain's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production.

Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the charismatic leader of the group, whose death and last wishes sends his friends on a nostalgic journey from London to Margate to scatter Jack's ashes in the sea. After forty years of warming the seats at their favorite pub, longtime friends and WWII veterans Ray (Bob Hoskins), Lenny (David Hemmings), and Vic (Tom Courtenay) are forced to face the loss of one of their own as they make the "epic" journey accompanied by Jack's flashy, prodigal son Vince (Ray Winstone). As the four men make their way to Margate, going from pub to pub, they reflect on a lifetime of memories of Jack, which are recreated in a series of multi-layered flashbacks that explore the delicate interweaving of their friendships; full of secrets, resentments, and deeply rooted loyalty.

Reese Witherspoon gives a glittering performance as Elle Woods, the natural blonde sorority queen who enrolls at Harvard Law School. Expecting her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) to propose, Elle is mortified when instead he says he needs somebody serious as his wife. When Elle discovers Warner's brother is engaged to a law student, she discovers enrolling at Harvard might be the way to prove she is serious. She studies for the LSATs, submits a video essay - in which she appears in a sequined bikini - and, miraculously, is accepted. At first, Elle is rebuked by Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor) and is the target of snide comments from other students. But, gradually, it becomes clear that Elle is no fish out of water; she is smarter, more driven, and more likely to survive in the rarefied Harvard atmosphere than anyone else.

Witherspoon gets fine support from Selma Blair as Warner's new fiancee, Jennifer Coolidge as a beautician, Victor Garber as an unscrupulous professor, Ali Larter as a client from Elle's sorority, and Luke Wilson as a lawyer fascinated by Elle's unconventional approach.
 

From acclaimed director Luc Besson comes the hard-hitting, action-packed thriller, Leon.

Gary Oldman plays a corrupt government official whose maniacal greed leads to murder on the streets of New York. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues when he crosses paths with a lone hitman named Leon. Caught in the middle is an orphaned 12-year-old girl, who can't forgive or forget the man who killed her family.

With sharp execution and cunning force, Leon delivers exceptional drama and suspense right from the word go!
 

Liberty Heights

From the Academy Award winning director of Rain Man, Barry Levinson, comes a warmly funny, semi-autobiographical tale of a pivotal time in American social history. The year is 1954; a season of dramatic social upheaval and excitement is explored through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Baltimore.

The two sons, Van and Ben, discover the opposite sex: one becoming infatuated with a local, non-Jewish rich girl, the other befriending his school's first black student. In the meantime their father, a strip-club-owner, becomes increasingly involved in a money racket and is soon out of his depth.

A beautiful story of friendship and romance, set against a vivid background of racism, Cadillacs, rock'n'roll and religion. The times are indeed changing and it seems life will never be the same.
 

What have the Romans ever done for us?... You could say this is one of the greatest comedies ever, but the Monty Python team said it first! Life of Brian is all about (and here's the big surprise) the life of Brian, who was born in a Bethlehem manger next door to Jesus. Three wise men believe he is the messiah, but it becomes apparent that he is only Brian.

It's written and performed by the Monty Python lads, so you know what you're in for; if you don't, put this disc down and run away!
 

Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren and Peter Fonda team up with acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh for this critically lauded thriller that Newsday called "a lean and mean treat for savvy action lovers."

British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's "accidental" death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge.
 

They're Not Just Best Friends. They're Blood Brothers.

From the writers Karey Kirkpartrick (Chicken Run) and Larry Wilson (The Addams Family), The Little Vampire is a fang-tastic adventure that you can really sink your teeth into!

Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki) has just moved with his parents from a big, bustling city in America to a small village in a remote corner of Scotland and is finding it not very easy being the new kid in town, especially as he is obsessed by vampires!

One night a lone bat flies through Tony's window and transforms into a vampire boy called Rudolph (Rollo Weeks). The two become the best of friends when Rudolph enlists Tony's help to lift the curse of being a vampire forever by solving the mystery of the amulet Tony has seen in his dreams. But first they must scupper the dastardly plans of the evil Vampire Hunter, Rookery (Jim Carter).

With a powerful concoction of creepy, scary and slightly spooky slapstick and not forgetting flying cows, you're in for a shockingly good time!
 

Johnny (Jonny Lee Miller) dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his best friend (Jude Law), nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed (Ray Winstone), he charms his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for some real gangster action, Johnny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and another firm in South London.

Love Potion No.9

"A Light-hearted…Romantic Comedy…Entertaining." -Variety

In this charming romantic comedy, a brilliant but lonely biochemist (Tate Donovan) gets a mysterious potion from a gypsy who guarantees it will turn his life around. After showing it to his co-worker (Sandra Bullock), a shy animal psycho biologist, they achieve amazing amorous results in a chimpanzee experiment. Now the only way to see if it works on humans is to test it on themselves.