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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
2 disc set.
Language
English
Description
Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...
6) Creepshow
Language
English
Description
Five horror stories presented in the style of classic 1950's comic books, like Tales from the crypt.
Language
English
Description
Tales of terror (1962): Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
While preparing a new Green Lantern recruit for battle, Hal Jordan shares stories of previous conflicts and the story of the first Green Lantern.
An anthology of six tales that show Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns policing the galaxy a la 'Gotham Knights.'
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes animation, documentaries and newsreels, early American movies and serial episodes, trailers, and previews for lost films and serials, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage and films of ethnic communities.
10) V/H/S/94
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1994, a mysterious VHS tape is found, which leads to a police swat team launching a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, where a sinister cult compound is discovered.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Recut, extended, unrated.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Six men share a railway compartment. One of them introduces himself as Dr. Terror and takes out a deck of Tarot cards. He calls the cards his "house of horrors" and explains that the cards are used to predict the future. Dr. Terror predicts grotesque deaths for all five men.
14) V/H/S/85
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A horror anthology film comprising five different narratives.
15) 24 frames
Series
Criterion collection volume 956
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The gorge. Three best friends go hiking on a fun morning expedition when a sudden avalanche leaves them trapped in a cave with no way out. Now imprisoned in a living nightmare, how long can the three survive before they begin to turn on each other? On Sabbath Hill. A chilling tale about a handsome playboy professor who is a stickler for student attendance. When his wandering affections cause a female admirer to commit suicide, his stern attendance...
17) V/H/S/99
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Witness a hellish vision of 1999, as social isolation, analog technology, and disturbing home videos fuse into a nightmare of found footage savagery.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Gene Kelly brings his remarkable talents as star, director and choreographer to this glittering gala of music, dance and pantomime--and the result is a lush, one-of-a-kind musical flight of fancy. In Circus, a clown (Kelly) in a small carnival troupe is hopelessly in love with the show's high-wire walker. Ring around the rosy is a satiric tale about a bracelet which travels from the wrist of one fickle lover to another. Sinbad the sailor blends live...
19) September 11
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade Center tour guide who is on the verge of a breakup...
20) Tales of terror
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Morella: When Doctor Patricia Morella becomes terminally ill and turns all her energies to a bizarre embryonic experiment, not even Dr. Lynden, her lover and collaborator, suspects her true intentions.
The black cat: A detective arrives to investigate a series of murders and finds a few tell-tale paw prints here and there.
The case of M. Valdemar: A sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell.
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