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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
$34.95 | 93 minutes
A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL is one of director R.W. Fassbinder's most powerful pictures. Brought together by a jeering barmaid, Emmi and Ali are surprised to find that&hellip…
Andrzej Wajda War Trilogy
$68.95 | 288 minutes
Wajda's three remarkable films about life in Poland during World War II: A GENERATION, KANAL and ASHES AND DIAMONDS. See individual titles for descriptions…
Antigone
$23.95 | 82 minutes
Antigone achieves greatness in following the dictates of her own conscience, sacrificing her life in defiance of King Creon's authority when he forbids her to bury her brother, Polyneices. The definitive filming of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy&hellip…
Blue Velvet
$11.95 | 120 minutes
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer. Truly an auteur film, if there is such…
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
$15.95 | 96 minutes
A raucous and intimate road movie of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, DON'T LOOK BACK may be perhaps the most influential rock star documentary of all time. D.A. Pennebaker's trademark cinema verit approach, with its comprehensive perspective, captures the paradoxical Dylan in alternating moments of confrontational&hellip…
Breathless
$34.95 | 90 minutes
Former "Cahiers du Cinma" critic Jean-Luc Godard threw everything he had learned from years of movie watching into his debut feature--creating an enormously influential film and a seminal study of existential longing and betrayal. Within the first few minutes, Michel (Belmondo), a foul-mouthed Parisian who idolizes Humphrey Bogart&hellip…
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
$31.95 | 213 minutes
Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece! PART 1: Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER, PART I. Using special effects, extremely complex editing, fade outs, animation techniques and superimpositions&hellip…
Drunken Angel (Yoidore Tenshi)
$34.95 | 98 minutes
In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, Toshirô Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small-time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office of Sanada (Takashi Shimura), a disillusioned yet passionate doctor, who treats the wound and, in the process, discovers Matsunaga has&hellip…
Elizabeth Taylor: The Warner Archive Classics Collection
$59.99 | 450 minutes
ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE WARNER ARCHIVE CLASSICS COLLECTION Witness Elizabeth Taylor's astonishing transformation from precocious child star to coltish ing?nue to breath-taking, self-assured leading lady in this captivating collection of five of her films. CONSPIRATOR (1949) 17 year-old Elizabeth Taylor is joined by Robert Taylor in this…
Green for Danger
$34.95 | 91 minutes
From British writer/director Sidney Gilliat comes this delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery. In a rural British hospital, Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) must determine whodunit when the head nurse is done away with after revealing that the death of a patient under anesthesia was no accident. The hospital is full of suspicious&hellip…