Camila

$23.95 | 105 minutes

Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)

The Camila (1984) DVD deals with a wealthy young socialite and a young Jesuit priest fall in love and run away together to a small Argentinean village where they conceal their true identities. When they are discovered, a terrible tragedy ensues. One of the most controversial stories&hellip…

Dangerous Moves

$25.95 | 110 minutes

Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film

Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film&hellip&hellip…

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Broken Rainbow

$15.95 | 70 minutes

Best Documentary Feature

BROKEN RAINBOW is an Oscar-winning documentary about the U.S. government's forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians. The film draws on a variety of sources to help illustrate how current abuses reflect a much longer history of callous disregard. Interviews, archival footage and photographs all work to&hellip…

The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

Grand Prize(Nominee)

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Angela Lansbury is Grandma, who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome yet heavily&hellip…

The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Make Up Artist(Nominee)
Best Production Design/Art Direction(Nominee)
Best Special Visual Effects(Nominee)

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian&hellip…

Secret Honor

$34.95 | 90 minutes

FIPRESCI Prize, Forum of New Cinema

Set in August 1974; Produced and released in 1985. Robert Altman's adaptation of the one-man stage play about former president Richard M. Nixon features a high-powered performance by Philip Baker Hall (MAGNOLIA) as the unraveling president. The dramatic dialogue takes place in Nixon's personal&hellip…

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The Element of Crime

$34.95 | 104 minutes

Best Film

Danish director Lars von Trier's debut feature film--also his first English-language effort--is an extremely hypnotic, moody thriller. The story opens in the desert of Egypt, where police detective Leopold Fisher (Michael Elphick) is hypnotized and asked to recount the recent events of his life. It seems that Fisher&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Best Documentary

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices of his day&hellip…

Hour of the Star

$23.95 | 96 minutes

Candango Trophy, Best Director
Candango Trophy, Best Film

Macabea is an impoverished young woman who moves to the city of Sao Paolo from the northeast countryside of Brazil. With no chance for success, she finds moments of happiness through hope and fantasy&hellip&hellip…

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Cop au Vin

$21.95 | 100 minutes

Golden Palm(Nominee)

Claude Chabrol's murder mystery is both wryly humorous and boldly forward about exposing the greed and ill-will that governs his characters' actions. The plot centers on a teenage boy (Lucas Belvaux) who is smothered by his cruel and domineering mother (Stephane Audram). When a group of men scheme to rob the&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

Jury Prize
Golden Palm(Nominee)

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry&hellip…

When Father Was Away on Business

$21.95 | 135 minutes

FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Palm

It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes, this film&hellip…

Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Golden Camera

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares to sell the house, she&hellip…

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The Official Story

$17.95 | 117 minutes

Best Actress
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted&hellip…

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

$34.95 | 120 minutes

Golden Palm (Nominated)
Best Artistic Contribution (Won)

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking&hellip…

Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Best Screenplay
Best Film

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares to sell&hellip…

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Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Bronze Hugo, Best Film

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares to sell the house&hellip…

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The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

Special Mention

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Angela Lansbury is Grandma, who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome yet heavily eyebrowed&hellip…

The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

Audience Jury Award
Critics' Award
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Special Effects

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian&hellip…

The Element of Crime

$34.95 | 104 minutes

Grand Prize(Nominee)

Danish director Lars von Trier's debut feature film--also his first English-language effort--is an extremely hypnotic, moody thriller. The story opens in the desert of Egypt, where police detective Leopold Fisher (Michael Elphick) is hypnotized and asked to recount the recent events of his life. It seems that&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Audience Award, Best Documentary

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices&hellip…

Next of Kin/Family Viewing

$27.95 | 158 minutes

Best Achievement in Direction(Nominee)

Atom Egoyan's first pair of films offers viewers a chance to see two stunning efforts from one of the '90s best filmmakers. The double feature also allows us insight into some of Egoyan's main obsessions: sex, dysfunctional families, and video. Finally, the series serves up a tasty appetizer&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film
Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement, Actor

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls&hellip…

Dangerous Moves

$25.95 | 110 minutes

Best Foreign Film(Nominee)

Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film&hellip&hellip…

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The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

IDA Award

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices of his day. The film&hellip…

Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention
Special Mention

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent&hellip…

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The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

ALFS Award, Director of the Year

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Angela Lansbury is Grandma, who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome&hellip…

Ran

$34.95 | 160 minutes

Best Foreign Film
Best Music

For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday&hellip…

The Official Story

$17.95 | 117 minutes

Best Foreign Film

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political&hellip…

Brazil

$51.95 | 142 minutes

Best Director
Best Picture
Best Screenplay

3 Disc Set. BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered&hellip…

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

$16.95 | 101 minutes

Gloria (Carmen Maura) tries to hold her insane Madrid family together in this hilariously deadpan working-class comedy from Pedro Almodvar. Sharing their cramped tenement apartment is Gloria's husband (Luis Hostalot), an abusive cabdriver who forges letters from Hitler; her heroin-dealing son; a younger son who likes to sleep with older&hellip&hellip…

Twist and Shout/Zappa

$25.95 | 211 minutes

Best Actor
Golden Prize(Nominee)

This release contains two coming-of-age films from Danish director Bille August, set in 1960s Denmark. See individual titles for detailed information&hellip&hellip…

Cop au Vin

$21.95 | 100 minutes

Best Actor
Best Film(Nominee)

Claude Chabrol's murder mystery is both wryly humorous and boldly forward about exposing the greed and ill-will that governs his characters' actions. The plot centers on a teenage boy (Lucas Belvaux) who is smothered by his cruel and domineering mother (Stephane Audram). When a group of men scheme&hellip…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

Best Picture(Nominee)

When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unkown at the time, includes&hellip…

Ran

$34.95 | 160 minutes

Best Director
Best Foreign Language Film

For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his&hellip…

L'argent

$23.95 | 81 minutes

Best Director

Robert Bresson won a Best Director Award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prize for Creation, for this contemporary revision of Leo Tolstoy's short story. The tragedy tells of how an innocent prank goes wrong and becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. When a young man passes a forged&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices of his day. The film chronicles the&hellip&hellip…

Ran

$34.95 | 160 minutes

Best Foreign Language Film

For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday&hellip…

The Official Story

$17.95 | 117 minutes

Best Actress

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner&hellip…

L'effrontee

$17.95 | 92 minutes

Prix Louis Delluc

THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND IS NOT AVAILABLE. Claude Miller's L'EFFRONTEE explores both the universal adolescent angst of realizing that the world is not what you hoped it would be and the intense emotions associated with first love. Charlotte, a young girl from Savoie, quickly bonds with young&hellip…

The Element of Crime

$34.95 | 104 minutes

Best Special Effects
Best Sound
Best Production Design
Best Film
Best Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Cinematography

Danish director Lars von Trier's debut feature film--also his first English-language effort--is an extremely hypnotic, moody thriller. The story opens in the desert of Egypt, where police&hellip…

Twist and Shout/Zappa

$25.95 | 211 minutes

Best Actor
Best Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress

This release contains two coming-of-age films from Danish director Bille August, set in 1960s Denmark. See individual titles for detailed information&hellip&hellip…

Ran

$34.95 | 160 minutes

OCIC Award

For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday. However, Hidetora's&hellip…

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

$16.95 | 101 minutes

Best Film

Gloria (Carmen Maura) tries to hold her insane Madrid family together in this hilariously deadpan working-class comedy from Pedro Almodvar. Sharing their cramped tenement apartment is Gloria's husband (Luis Hostalot), an abusive cabdriver who forges letters from Hitler; her heroin-dealing son; a younger son who likes&hellip…

Day of the Dead

$15.95 | 101 minutes

Caixa de Catalunya, Best Actress

The third chapter in the saga that director George Romero started in 1968 with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD moves the story further along the timeline of the zombie apocalypse to a time when survivors are few and far between. At an underground Florida research station, Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) conducts&hellip…

Before Stonewall

$21.95 | 87 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

This is the story of the gay community and how they have strived to be accepted. focusing on the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots at a New York City gay bar (Stonewall Inn), and many other milestones in the brave gay movement for acceptance&hellip&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize, Documentary

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights&hellip…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unkown at the time&hellip…

The Brother From Another Planet

$11.95 | 110 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

A mute extraterrestrial with healing powers lands in New York, looking remarkably like an African American male. He quickly makes his way to Harlem, where he manages to fit in, despite his inability to speak and his off-kilter way of doing things. However, the harmless visitor's stay on Earth&hellip…

Love is Colder Than Death

$17.95 | 85 minutes

THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and stars in this, his first film, as Franz, a pimp who has refused to join a local crime syndicate. When a representative from the syndicate named Bruno comes to persuade Franz into joining, the two criminals hit it off. Soon, Bruno and Franz&hellip&hellip…

Crossover Dreams

$23.95 | 86 minutes

A popular salsa star in New York's hispanic community abandons his own culture in a futile quest to make a commercial crossover. When he realizes that his dream has failed, he becomes involved in a dangerous drug run&hellip&hellip…

Cop au Vin

$21.95 | 100 minutes

Claude Chabrol's murder mystery is both wryly humorous and boldly forward about exposing the greed and ill-will that governs his characters' actions. The plot centers on a teenage boy (Lucas Belvaux) who is smothered by his cruel and domineering mother (Stephane Audram). When a group of men scheme to rob the family of their assets, the&hellip&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong affair, though, as she suspects&hellip&hellip…

When Father Was Away on Business

$21.95 | 135 minutes

It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes, this film magnifies the emotions of his new experiences&hellip&hellip…

Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares to sell the house, she is reminded of her aunt&hellip&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

The Official Story

$17.95 | 117 minutes

People's Choice Award

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political&hellip…

Signs of Life

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The boredom of their isolated post and meaningless assignment leads to an inevitable crumbling of sanity&hellip&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices of his day. The film chronicles the&hellip&hellip…

Before Stonewall

$21.95 | 87 minutes

This is the story of the gay community and how they have strived to be accepted. focusing on the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots at a New York City gay bar (Stonewall Inn), and many other milestones in the brave gay movement for acceptance&hellip&hellip…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

Grand Prize, Narrative

When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unkown at the time, includes&hellip…

Parting Glances

$21.95 | 90 minutes

The gay scene in Manhattan is the setting for this contemporary love story revolving around a book editor, his friend and former lover who is dying from AIDS, and his current lover. All are just trying to get through life the best that they can&hellip&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

The Brother From Another Planet

$11.95 | 110 minutes

A mute extraterrestrial with healing powers lands in New York, looking remarkably like an African American male. He quickly makes his way to Harlem, where he manages to fit in, despite his inability to speak and his off-kilter way of doing things. However, the harmless visitor's stay on Earth might not last long, since two alien bounty&hellip…

Vagabond

$25.95 | 105 minutes

OCIC Award
Golden Lion
FIPRESCI Prize

A powerful, poignant study of the last few months in the life of a female vagabond, Mona Bergeron, played in an early and coldly powerful performance by Sandrine Bonnaire. After she's discovered frozen to death at the start of the film, the story flashes back to examine Mona's effect&hellip…