A highly visual movie with three intersecting stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about a man in pursuit of eternal life. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life, a medical researcher, working with tree sap, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife and, finally, a space traveller with an aged tree in a bubble moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula. find out more...

In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost (William Demarest) goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to "Dr. W.T.G. Morton, the Benefactor of Mankind, with the Gratitude of Humanity". A supposed historical drama about the inventor of anaesthesia. But the screwball impulse is always hovering on the edge of the frame. find out more...

France 1834 is ravaged by a cholera epidemic, whole towns are quarantined and strangers are driven away or killed. A beautiful young noblewoman, unable to return home, and a handsome fugitive soldier are thrust together for the action adventure of a lifetime... find out more...

Hawthorne is breathtaking as poor old King George, who, after 30 years reign, has gone completely barking mad. While his evil son plots to steal the throne, the men in the white coats subject the captive King to a stomach-churning array of torturous treatment. Bawdy, shockingly funny and just brilliant! find out more...

Adrien Fournier is a young French officer who is left horribly scarred in the opening battle of the First World War. What follows is five years spent recovering from his physical and mental wounds in a military hospital, where, with the help of his fellow patients and the nursing staff, he begins to piece together his shattered life and rediscover some self-worth.
'The Officers' Ward' is a deeply moving film, beautifully shot and with some fine acting. It also stands as one of the most in find out more...

Flighty upper class Londoner Kitty is desperate to escape her repressive family life and accepts the marriage proposal of uptight Shanghai based bacteriologist Walter. Quickly bored she instigates her husband's hatred by having an affair with promiscuous diplomat Charlie and, as if in revenge, Walter drags her off to work in a mountainous cholera infected province in rural China. Some couples grew apart, some together....highly recommended. find out more...

A beautifully filmed adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's magical story of a young orphan girl sent to her uncle's house, where she discovers a hidden garden. As the garden blossoms it symbolises the recuperative effect she has on the whole household, especially her young bedridden young cousin. An enchanting story and a superb cast. find out more...

Following an early and promising political career, Franklin Roosevelt, the only US president to be elected three times, was stricken with polio at 39 years of age. This film follows his struggle with paralysis, the refuge he took in an obscure and run-down Georgia health spa, the place in which he found the opportunity for peace, solace and the will to continue, and the family pressure to return to public life and politics. Perhaps the most significant battle he fought with the stigma of paralys find out more...

At the National Institute For The Deaf and Dumb in Paris, a barely clothed and dirty young boy, found in a forest, unable to speak, communicate or function in society, was admitted. Christened Victor by the hospital staff, his case was taken up by Doctor Itard, a lone physician, who had an unyielding dedication to re-integrating the lad into society. But the road to tame the beast was a rocky one and Itard would have to work tirelessly to teach Victor how to reclaim his place in the world...even find out more...