The American Nightmare

$21.95 | 73 minutes

In this thought-provoking documentary from filmmaker Adam Simon, legendary horror directors reveal the inspirations behind their groundbreaking films of the 1960s and '70s. Through film clips and interviews, masters of mayhem George Romero, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Landis, John Carpenter, and Tom Savini discuss&hellip&hellip…

Children Underground

$21.95 | 104 minutes

Showing the horrendous effects of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime, Edet Belzberg's CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is an unflinchingly brutal, eye-opening work of social commentary. Ceausescu's decision to ban contraception and abortion as a way of increasing the country's work force resulted in a generation of children born&hellip&hellip…

The Filth and the Fury

$15.95 | 103 minutes

A documentary about the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols, THE FILTH AND THE FURY puts the band's story in the context of 1970s Britain. Depicted as a time when pop culture was clownish and sociopolitical divisions were exacerbated by hypocrisy in the government and angst among the people, the film mixes archival footage of 1970s&hellip&hellip…

The Isle

$23.95 | 89 minutes

The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-colored fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her&hellip&hellip…

Chunhyang

$26.95 | 120 minutes

Director Im Kwon Taek's ninety-seventh film, CHUNHYANG, is an adaptation of a popular Korean folk tale. The movie takes place in 18th century Korea, where Mongryong, the son of the Governor of Namwon, is studying before he goes to school in Seoul, where he will study to become a royal official. During the summer before he leaves, he meets&hellip&hellip…

Southern Comfort

$19.95 | minutes

For her film SOUTHERN COMFORT, veteran documentarian Kate Davis found a rare subject in Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transsexual living in Tuccoa, Georgia. Eads, a charming, laconic cowboy apparently "male" enough to once be propositioned to join the Ku Klux Klan, began life as a female, married, had two sons, and lived as&hellip&hellip…

The Circle

$21.95 | 91 minutes

Banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi's THE CIRCLE is set almost entirely on the busy streets of Tehran--a place where women are restricted by numerous laws, including a repressive dress code, and can only travel accompanied by a man. The beginning of the film focuses on two women, Arezou (Mariam Palvin Almani) and Nargess (Nargess Mamizadeh)&hellip&hellip…

Things Behind the Sun

$12.95 | 90 minutes

Directed by Allison Anders (GAS, FOOD, LODGING), this serious, powerful film centers on a Florida-based musician, Sherry (Kim Dickens), whose hit song recounts the dark story of her childhood rape. Having distanced herself from that horrible experience, Sherry doesn't quite remember what actually took place. Therefore, when she is approached&hellip&hellip…

Bangkok Dangerous

$12.95 | 105 minutes

Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses. BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy: it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the stinging pop is strangely alluring. It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing, textured visual sensuality, and aural assault. It's so incredibly&hellip&hellip…

25 Watts

$20.95 | 0 minutes

This affable low-budget affair from Uruguay captures a day in the life of three friends--Leche (Daniel Handler), Javi (Jorge Temponi), and Seba (Alfonso Tort)--as they bumble their way through a lazy, hungover Saturday in Montevideo. Along the way, they encounter a series of bizarre characters who remind&hellip&hellip…

Dr. T and the Women

$9.95 | 122 minutes

Robert Altman follows up the good-natured COOKIE'S FORTUNE with this biting satire of an upper-class elitist Dallas community. Richard Gere plays Sullivan "Sully" Travis (better known as Dr. T), a man whose good looks and overflowing charm have made him the most popular gynecologist in all of Texas. Things begin to go wrong for Dr. T&hellip&hellip…

Virgil Bliss

$19.95 | 94 minutes

After serving twelve years in prison, an ex convict tries to start a "normal life" while on parole. Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) decides to find a good job, get married, and start a family. The only problem is that he's living in a halfway house and doesn't know any women. His roommate Manny Alvarez (Anthony Gorman), a hood with a chip&hellip&hellip…

JSA - Joint Security Area

$16.95 | minutes

This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens to plunge the countries into war&hellip&hellip…

Rocco & His Brothers

$26.95 | 168 minutes

Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti's (DEATH IN VENICE) powerful epic is one of the most internationally adored Italian films in history. The story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS stars the gorgeous French actor Alain Delon as Rocco, a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and&hellip&hellip…

Down and Out with the Dolls

$7.95 | 88 minutes

After the turbulent dissolution of her famed Portland, Oregon punk band, The Snogs, well-known scenester Fauna (Zoe Poledouris) meets young, enthusiastic guitar player Kali (Nicole Barrett) in a coffee house. Kali asks her to start a new group, and Fauna is not interested---until she sees Kali talking to Levi (Coyote Shivers), a local&hellip…

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The Mirror

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Building upon the revolution in Iranian cinema initiated by Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi has created a daring, innovative body of work, concerned with the human experience of social inequality as manifested on the streets of Tehran. THE MIRROR is the second in an interwoven trilogy that also includes THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE&hellip&hellip…

Huevos De Oro

$15.95 | 95 minutes

Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In this satire of Latin machismo and the excesses of the 1980s, Bardem plays Benito Gonzalez, who dreams of building a mighty skyscraper and thereby&hellip&hellip…

Crane World

$29.95 | 90 minutes

This artistic black-and-white film unfolds in two parts, each in a different construction site in Argentina. The first half of the movie takes place on the rooftop of a tall city building where a gigantic mechanical crane gracefully skims the skyline. The second site, 300 kilometers away from the first, is alongside a barren, dusty road&hellip&hellip…

Sound of the Sea

$15.95 | 95 minutes

In this steamy Spanish love story directed by Bigas Luna (JAMON JAMON), sexy young Marina (Leonor Watling), falls for gorgeous literature teacher Ulises (Jordi Molla) who arrives in town and takes a room at her parents' humble boarding house. On long walks through the hills in Valencia, Spain, bordering the deep blue Mediterranean Sea&hellip&hellip…

La Ciénaga

$23.95 | 100 minutes

This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon each new event. The most notable characteristic of LA CIÉNAGA is its mood--a brooding, dreadful, fearsome tension that does not wain or cease&hellip&hellip…

Amores Perros

$7.95 | 153 minutes

Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film deals with love in the lives of several individuals&hellip&hellip…

Cool and Crazy

$26.95 | 89 minutes

The Berlevag Male Choir are a group of men who sing songs of spirituality in and around their home country of Norway. This documentary introduces audiences to this unique singing group. It also follows the singers as they prepare for a Russian tour. This portrait of the choir highlights both the talent on display as well as the deep bond&hellip&hellip…

Late Night Shopping

$23.95 | 92 minutes

LATE NIGHT SHOPPING captures twenty-somethings stuck in dead end jobs with few prospects. In the tradition of GO and the gritty style of TRAINSPOTTING, the film features four young people who unhappily work the graveyard shift at different, miserable jobs. Vincent (James Lance) is an incorrigible flirt, Sean (Luke DeWoolfson) and Lenny&hellip&hellip…

Memento

$20.95 | 116 minutes

MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator who witnesses a brutal attack on his&hellip&hellip…

Chico

$26.95 | 112 minutes

Best Director
Crystal Globe(Nominee)
Award of Ecumenical Jury

A mixed-race man finds his beliefs stretched to breaking point as he finds himself caught up in Hungary's communist regime in director Ibolya Fekete's (BOLSHE VITA) CHICO. The man, named Chico, has spent most of his life surrounded by turmoil; having lived&hellip…

Gaudi Afternoon

$21.95 | 88 minutes

Barcelona has not turned out to be the romantic dreamland that Cassandra Reilly (Judy Davis) thought it would be. Nearly broke from her fledgling career as a translator, she is prepared to return to her American homeland when the beautiful and mysterious Frankie Stevens (Marcia Gay Harden) offers her an abnormally large sum of money&hellip&hellip…

Bolivia

$23.95 | 75 minutes

Shot in stark, grainy black and white, BOLIVIA chronicles two days in the life of Freddy (Freddy Waldo Flores), a Bolivian immigrant in Buenos Aires who works in a job that pays him 15 pesos a day, under the table, as cook in a small, rundown café. Ten of those pesos go to make a telephone call to his family back in Bolivia; another peso&hellip&hellip…

Beijing Bicycle

$26.95 | 113 minutes

Wang Xiaoshuai's moving, emotional BEIJING BICYCLE tells the story of a young country boy, Guei (Cui Lin), who comes to the big city determined to make it. He soon finds a job as a bike messenger in which he gets a small percentage of each delivery, working hard to build up enough credit to eventually own the bike for himself. As he grows&hellip&hellip…

Lost and Delirious

$10.95 | 100 minutes

ADF Cinematography Award

The story of three roommates at a private school for girls, LOST AND DELIRIOUS centers on Mary (Mischa Barton), who is shy and lonely, having spun on a downward spiral ever since the death of her mother three years before. But when she arrives at prep school and meets her new roommates, Pauline (Piper&hellip…

Under the Skin of the City

$21.95 | 93 minutes

Netpac Award

From Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, the prolific Iranian filmmaker who makes her U.S. debut with this film, UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY is a stirring drama that puts contemporary Tehran in sharp focus. A family of five lives in close quarters in the inner city. Tuba, the head of the family, is a dutiful woman who works days&hellip…

Firefly Dreams

$12.95 | 105 minutes

Netpac Award - Special Mention
Crystal Glove(Nominee)

Naomi (Maho), like many teenagers, spends more time thinking about her possessions that the people in her life. When her mother leaves the family, however, her father decides to get Naomi out of the city for the summer. He sends her to the country, to work in her aunt and&hellip…

Border Radio

$34.95 | 83 minutes

BORDER RADIO was Allison Anders's directorial debut, made in collaboration with Kurt Voss (who would later work with her, and John Doe, on 1999's SUGAR TOWN), and Dean Lent. The film is an early indication of Anders's low key, wittily observant style. The plot involves a desperate musician, Jeff (Chris D, of the L.A. punk band, The Flesheaters)&hellip&hellip…