A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky.... find out more...

The Mayan Empire is at its peak, the last mighty roar before its cataclysmic fall, and there are no Central American people, however small and nomadic their tribe, that remain free of its murderous grasp. When his people are massacred and Jaguar Paw captured he, with the remnants of his tribe, begins a long and merciless journey to the Mayan capital, a place due to be his last, brief, bloody home. But the knowledge of the survival of his wife and child wills Jaguar on to become more than just an find out more...

"I am dying in time to the splash of their oars - if arms as steady as these had embraced me in life...". This film is Jarman's vision of the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573 - 1610). Caravaggio revisits periods of his tempestuous life in a series of deathbed flashbacks and prose-poem voice-overs, focusing particularly on the intense relationship between himself and a couple who model for him in Rome, Lena and Ranuccio. This sexual and violent love triangle eve find out more...

 

 

Scrat’s pursuit of the nirvana acorn causes yet another continental cataclysm which plunges our three bestest buddies into yet another perilo find out more...

A beautifuly staged historical epic set in a sixteenth century Japanese civil war. find out more...

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The man who broke the back of Catholicism, or certainly compacted a few vertebrae, Martin Luther, the German Augustinian who questioned the doctrine of the established church and created a Christian revolution. Set at the beginning of the 16th Century when Luther was still young, this is a lush dramatisation of the man behind the birth of the Protestant faith. find out more...

Nominated for five Academy Awards; Michael Curtiz's expansive period drama sets the tumultuous on-again, off-again affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the second Earl of Essex against Essex's powerful ambition to assume power in England. Having won several important battles, Essex's popularity among the masses is soaring, but despite his own substantial cunning he is ultimately no match for his Queen, a woman Essex greatly admires but has sworn to usurp. An epic, rip-roaring reinterpretation of find out more...

The heart-pounding tone of Michael Curtiz's classic swashbuckling adventure is established moments after the opening credits, when 16th Century British pirate captain Geoffrey Thorpe leads a raid on the galleon of a Spanish ambassador. After the chaotic clash is over, Thorpe's men have captured the ambassador and learning that the Spanish are planning to wage war against England, our hero rushes home to warn Queen Elizabeth. It's back in England that Thorpe discovers the royal court is easily as find out more...

A sexy but highly fictionalised account of the early years of Henry VIII's reign, basically the Tudors for the MTV generation. find out more...