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Anatahan

Anatahan

History · War · Based on True Story

NEW RESTORATION!  Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage in their ow…

Angry Harvest

Angry Harvest

War · Romance · Drama

Set in 1943 Poland, a wealthy farmer hides and nurses a married Jewish woman who is fleeing the Nazis. As they form a forbidden romance amidst the dangers of the occupation, they face constant threats and moral dilemmas.

Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn

Biography · Romance · Silent

The tragic story of the second wife of England's Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

The Apartment (1996)

The Apartment (1996)

Mystery · Drama

A recently engaged man overhears the melodic voice of his lost love in a crowded café and becomes obsessed with meeting her again.

Asphalt

Asphalt

World Cinema · Silent · Drama

Joe May's Sensual Drama of Life in the Berlin Underworld.

The Beloved Rogue

The Beloved Rogue

History · Silent · Romance

A rich historical romance starring John Barrymore as poet Frances Villon who battles against nasty King Louis the XI in 17th Century France. 

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Romance · Silent · Drama

A young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador finds himself the victim of his own desires, forsaking the pure love of the sweet-natured Carmen for the sinister charms of the exotic Doña Sol.

The Blue Angel (Deluxe Blu-ray)

The Blue Angel (Deluxe Blu-ray)

RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema · Musical

This landmark early sound film, directed by Josef von Sternberg, stars Marelene Dietrich and the great Emil Jannings. THE BLUE ANGEL is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, and the film that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. It is presented here in both the…

The Blue Angel

The Blue Angel

RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema · Musical

The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema, The Blue Angel is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability.

The Blue Light

The Blue Light

Drama · Mystery · Fantasy

An eccentric mountain girl whom the villagers believe to be a witch, befriends a painter and leads him to a forbidden grotto, not realizing the tragic repercussions of having disturbed a cache of ethereal crystals.

The Boat is Full

The Boat is Full

War · Jewish Interest · Drama

Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), The Boat is Full is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII.

Borderline

Borderline

Silent · Drama

When a Black couple rent a room above a tavern, it ignites the fears and jealousies simmering in a rural Swiss village.

Brigitte Bardot Collection: Naughty Girl, Please Not Now!, Two Weeks in September, Les Femmes

Brigitte Bardot Collection: Naughty Girl, Please Not Now!, Two Weeks in September, Les Femmes

Comedy · Romance · Drama

Brigitte Bardot is one of the most iconic actresses of all time, and this four-film collection brings together some of her most memorable performances.

Carmen (1918)

Carmen (1918)

Silent · Drama

Carmen retells Prosper Merimée’s classic tale of a Romani woman who seduces a military officer and sends each of them on a trajectory of dramatic self-destruction.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

Based on Literature · Drama

THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (1978), based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, is the shocking tale of an indigenous man driven to madness and revenge. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is a young Aboriginal half-caste raised in central New South Wales at the turn-of-the-century, a boy initiated by his…

La Chinoise

La Chinoise

World Cinema · Drama

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …

Cinema's First Nasty Women

Cinema's First Nasty Women

Slapstick · Silent · Action

This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play.

Clash of the Wolves and Where the North Begins

Clash of the Wolves and Where the North Begins

Drama

Filmed in the deserts of California (in what is now the Joshua Tree National Park), Clash of the Wolves marks the cinematic pinnacle of the original Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd rescued from a World War I battlefield, and brought to America where he became a screen sensation.

The Clockmaker of St. Paul

The Clockmaker of St. Paul

Drama

Tavernier's first film and one of his best. The superb Philippe Noiret stars as a watchmaker who must reevaluate his life after his son is arrested for murder.

Clouzot: Early Works

Clouzot: Early Works

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

Kino Classics is proud to present CLOUZOT: THE EARLY WORKS, which collects six varied features he worked on from 1931-1933: frothy comedies, boxing dramas, musicals and melodramas.

The Cocaine Fiends / The Pace That Kills (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 16)

The Cocaine Fiends / The Pace That Kills (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 16)

Mystery · Drama

A cocaine-snorting gangster lures a small-town waitress to the big city, where a series of tragedies unfold. When her brother attempts to locate her, he falls into his own whirlpool of drugs and moral degradation.

Colonel Redl

Colonel Redl

Academy Award Winners · Cannes Film Festival · Period Drama

Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Confidence

Confidence

Period Drama · War · Academy Award Nominees

1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion…

 The David O. Selznick Collection

The David O. Selznick Collection

Period Drama · Drama

Five masterworks culled from the personal collection of producer David O. Selznick, authorized by the Selznick Estate and preserved by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department. Includes A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932), NOTHING SACRED (1937), A STAR IS BORN (1937), BIRD OF PARADISE (1932) and LIT…

The Delicious Little Devil

The Delicious Little Devil

Comedy · Silent · Drama

When the virtuous daughter of a washerwoman loses her job as a hat-check girl, she is forced to make ends meet as a dancer at a roadhouse cabaret. But she can only get the job by pretending to be Gloria du Moine, the notorious mistress of the Duke de Sauterne.

Deluge

Deluge

Pre-Code · Thriller · Action & Adventure

Triggered by a series of earthquakes on the West Coast of the United States, a massive tidal wave circles the globe and-in a prolonged and spectacular special effects sequence-wipes out New York City. Sidney Blackmer stars as a man who, separated from his family, must begin to rebuild civilization i…

The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

Horror · Cult · Drama

Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical pleasure in such a ludicrous premise, Lugosi invests the character with an underlying sense of tragedy,…

The Devil Strikes at Night

The Devil Strikes at Night

World Cinema · Drama

The murder of a Hamburg barmaid seems an open-and-shut case until a recently demobilized Nazi soldier, reassigned to the police force, suspects it’s the work of a serial killer.

Dogtooth

Dogtooth

Academy Award Nominees · Cannes Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporar…

Drifting/White Tiger

Drifting/White Tiger

Crime · Drama

Drifting - An opium trafficker is caught between an undercover government agent and a fellow smuggler in a remote Chinese village. White Tiger involves a band of jewel thieves who employ a chess-playing automaton to gain entry into the homes of the wealthy.  

Farewell (Abschied)

Farewell (Abschied)

World Cinema · Drama

In a return to the realistic “Street films” of the German silent era, Robert Siodmak  directed this comedy drama of intersecting lives within the rooms of a working-class boarding house.

A Farewell To Arms (1932)

A Farewell To Arms (1932)

Based on Literature · Academy Award Winners · Drama

An Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is a ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, starring Gary Cooper (High Noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking c…

Fellini's Casanova

Fellini's Casanova

History · World Cinema · Drama

The incomparable Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) directs this visually stunning portrait of Casanova, the infamous Italian womanizer, adventurer, author and libertine.

Wages of Sin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 10)

Wages of Sin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 10)

Drama

Obliterated by the sensational leanings of '60s exploitation, whatever's left of Der Arzt stellt fest... comes to us as Wages of Sin, a soapy drama set in a women’s clinic accompanied by a live lecture and additional shorts on childbirth.

Girl Gang/Pin-Down Girl (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 11)

Girl Gang/Pin-Down Girl (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 11)

Crime · Drama

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"By the late 1940s, exploitation producers such as George Weiss (Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda?) drifted away from the pseudo-educational framework of the genre and began producing risqué crime melodramas. No films better represent the “mainstre…

Damaged Lives / Damaged Goods (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 13)

Damaged Lives / Damaged Goods (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 13)

Drama

Eugène Brieux’s play Les Avaries endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it.

Nudist Life plus 10 Days in a Nudist Camp/Shangri-La (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 14)

Nudist Life plus 10 Days in a Nudist Camp/Shangri-La (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 14)

Drama

Nudist Life follows a quintet of ringers in a Florida nudist colony. 10 Days in a Nudist Camp is a reworking and expansion of This Nude World (1932). In Shangri-La, former Jerry Lewis impersonator Sammy Petrillo provides loads of cringe-inducing laffs while he lasciviously eyeballs the sun-worshippe…

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

Drama

In the 75 years since its initial release, Kroger Babb’s Mom and Dad has achieved mythical cinematic status. It was a film that, during the height of the Production Code, not only dared to address issues of venereal disease and unexpected pregnancy but presented graphic footage of bodies scarr…

REEFER MADNESS / SEX MADNESS (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE Volume 2)

REEFER MADNESS / SEX MADNESS (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE Volume 2)

Drama

No films better represent the 1970s midnight movie phenomenon as Reefer Madness and Sex Madness: two finger-wagging camp classics that hysterically warned the public of the horrors of marijuana and syphilis.

UNASHAMED: A ROMANCE / ELYSIA (VALLEY OF THE NUDE) (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 3)

UNASHAMED: A ROMANCE / ELYSIA (VALLEY OF THE NUDE) (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 3)

Drama

In an unusual reversal of the usual exploitation formula—in which scenes of sex, violence, and drug abuse were wrapped in a dire warning of moral degradation—the nudist film took a more positive approach to its subject matter.

Marihuana / Narcotic (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 4)

Marihuana / Narcotic (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 4)

Cult · Drama

Dwain Esper was not only one of the most notorious figures of the exploitation genre (due to his ruthless business practices) he was also its greatest stylist. With an utter disregard for the laws of cinematic convention, his low-budget films verge on the avant-garde as they breathlessly wallow in e…

Tomorrow’s Children / Child Bride (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 5)

Tomorrow’s Children / Child Bride (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 5)

Cult · Drama

Exploitation films of the 1930s didn’t only warn citizens of the dangers of drugs and venereal disease. The genre brazenly confronted on a wide array of distasteful issues, as evidenced in this double feature of two of the most bizarre entries in the exploitation canon. Tomorrow’s Childr…

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

Exploitation · Drama

“She Should’a Said ‘NO’!” stars Lila Leeds as a party girl recruited by a hard-boiled cop to take down the sinister dope-pusher responsible for the addiction and death of her brother. George Weiss loaded his gymnasium pill-mill thriller "Devil’s Sleep" with three …

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Drama

Cathy and George seem like the perfect postwar American couple, but a medical deficiency deprives them of the children that will complete their happy home.

The Lash of the Penitentes (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol 9)

The Lash of the Penitentes (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol 9)

Drama

Los Hermanos Penitentes celebrated Lent by enacting elaborate tableaus of flagellation, self-mutilation, and crucifixion. Envisioning the box-office potential of such a spectacle, cinematographer Roland Price shot several reels of footage of the rituals, then teamed with producer Harry Revier to fas…

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Action & Adventure · Adventure · Silent

A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the ep…

Fritz Lang: The Early Works (3-DVD Collection)

Fritz Lang: The Early Works (3-DVD Collection)

Silent · Drama

Before he gained worldwide renown for such films as METROPOLIS, and M, Fritz Lang crafted a series of feature films that embody many of the thematic and stylistic trademarks that would come to define his work. Virtually unseen in the United States until this release, the three films in this collecti…

Galileo

Galileo

Drama · Theatre

Based on the play by Bertolt Brecht (originally translated by Charles Laughton), GALILEO explores not merely the infamous historical figure, but the philosophical concepts for which he was both celebrated and condemned.

The Girl From the Marsh Croft / The Final Chord  (Douglas Sirk Double Feature)

The Girl From the Marsh Croft / The Final Chord (Douglas Sirk Double Feature)

World Cinema · Drama

Prior to fleeing Germany in the 1930s, Douglas Sirk was already exploring the boundaries of the American melodrama, and ref

Girl on the Bridge

Girl on the Bridge

Comedy · Romance · Drama

Despairing of her future, a lonesome woman leaps into the Seine before being rescued by a carnival knife thrower, and unexpectedly becomes the new assistant, and target, for his act.

The Godless Girl

The Godless Girl

Romance · Silent · Drama

A naive teenager leads a Godless Society at her high school and encourages her fellow students to “Kill the Bible.” A pious schoolmate organizes a mob to destroy her headquarters, resulting in the death of her comrade.

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo

Horror · Musical · Drama

One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue.

Hell's House

Hell's House

Drama

An exposé of the American penal system, HELL'S HOUSE stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful girlfriend (Davis) of a wily bootlegger (O'Brien), the lad runs afoul of the law and is sentenced to a …

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Comedy · Drama

Before he became known as the Master of Suspense in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock had already established himself as a precociously talented filmmaker in England. Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection brings together five features he directed for the production company that first displa…

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Drama · Theatre

Considered the definitive film version of one of Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes.

Immensee/The Great Sacrifice

Immensee/The Great Sacrifice

Drama

Immensee stars Kristina Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in love with Reinhardt, a brillian

The Informer

The Informer

Drama

Based on Liam O’Flaherty’s popular Irish novel (which John Ford famously adapted in 1935), this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number kills the chief of police, he goes on the run. But when he returns …

Intimacy

Intimacy

Romance · Drama

Jay, a failed musician, finds himself involved with a woman who comes to his house once a week for violent, graphic sex. When he follows her home to find out more about her, he gets involved with her life more than he intended.

Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus

Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus

Romance · World Cinema · Cult

Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. New 4K restoration.

The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema

The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema

Religion · Horror · Period Drama

Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manhattan, Yidishe Kino endure not only as precious documents of a vanishing culture, but a fascinating …