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Amazon Women on the Moon (Special Edition)

Amazon Women on the Moon (Special Edition)

Comedy

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

Action · Crime · Thriller

After ten years in the cooler, Duke Anderson heads for the luxurious apartment of his ex-girlfriend, where he masterminds an elaborate plot to rob the entire building.

Arabesque (4KUHD)

Arabesque (4KUHD)

Romance · Drama · 4K UHD DISC

An American hieroglyphics professor is hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message. When the hidden meaning is revealed, the chase is on as he and the oil magnate’s exotic yet unpredictable companion find themselves caught in the middle of an assassination plot.

Audie Murphy Collection II [Sierra / Kansas Raiders / Destry]

Audie Murphy Collection II [Sierra / Kansas Raiders / Destry]

Western

This collection features three western 1950s classics, starring screen legend Audie Murphy.

Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn

War

A remorseful WWII fighter pilot-turned-minister eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea. But now he must fight... and face the past once again.

The Beloved Rogue

The Beloved Rogue

History · Romance · Silent

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

Botany Bay

Botany Bay

Romance · Adventure · Drama

In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.

Breakout (Special Edition)

Breakout (Special Edition)

Action · Adventure

Jay Wagner is framed for murder by his scheming grandfather and faces 28 hard years of confinement in a crowded Mexican prison. Wagner’s wife Ann turns to pilot Nick Colton and his partners Hawk and Myrna to help Wagner escape.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Film Noir · Drama

When a journalist winds up dead while investigating gang-related murders, Ida Arnold sets out to find the truth. On the trail of the true murderer, she becomes romantically involved with young hoodlum Pinke Brown ...but unbeknownst to Ida, Pinkie is the very murderer she's looking for!

Burke & Hare (Special Edition)

Burke & Hare (Special Edition)

Historic Drama · Comedy · Horror

A colorful, early ’70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels, and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.

Butley

Butley

Theatre

Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day.

The Carpetbaggers (Special Edition)

The Carpetbaggers (Special Edition)

Romance · Drama

George Peppard is a ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multimillion-dollar empire in 1930s Hollywood.

Checkered Flag or Crash

Checkered Flag or Crash

Comedy · Adventure

Susan Sarandon is C.C. Wainwright, a tenacious photojournalist who joins Walkaway on the Manila 1000, a three-day, off-road race through the Philippine jungle.

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

World Cinema · Based on Literature · Period Drama

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.

China

China

Drama · War

An American gasoline salesman in 1941 China, joins a band of guerrillas on a daring heist.

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Comedy · Science Fiction

In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and still living in the Côte D'Opale. When the townsfolk start behaving strangely, our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and Carpentier begin to suspect an alien attack.

Columbo: The Return

Columbo: The Return

Mystery · Television

Columbo is the landmark series that set the standard for the murder-mystery genre. The original run ended in 1978, but the series triumphantly returned in 1989 with an older and wiser Columbo!

The Crusades

The Crusades

History · Adventure · Drama

In order to obtain supplies for his soldiers, England’s king, Richard the Lion-Hearted, is forced to marry a princess he has never met. The two are soon involved in a treacherous battle for survival of the Holy City of Jerusalem—and of their love.

Desire

Desire

Romance · Comedy · Crime

A beautiful and conniving “Countess” embezzles a small fortune of pearls. As she makes her getaway to Spain to deliver the hot goods, her escape is thwarted by car trouble, until a handsome and likable young tourist helps her out.

Double Crossbones

Double Crossbones

Comedy · Adventure

Donald O’Connor stars as a bumbling shopkeeper’s apprentice who finds his true calling on the South Seas in the comedy adventure.

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

Historic Drama · Documentary · Film Documentaries

A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Movies is a monumental collection of 140 archival motion pictures.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Film Noir Box Sets · Drama · Crime

This collection features three film noir classics.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI [Mystery of Marie Roget / Chicago Deadline / Iron Man]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI [Mystery of Marie Roget / Chicago Deadline / Iron Man]

Box Set · Film Noir Box Sets · Film Noir

This collection features three film noir classics.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX [Captain Carey USA / Appointment with Danger / Make Haste to Live]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX [Captain Carey USA / Appointment with Danger / Make Haste to Live]

Box Set · Film Noir Box Sets · Film Noir

This collection features three film noir classics.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVI [Dr. Broadway / Smooth as Silk / The Great Gatsby]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVI [Dr. Broadway / Smooth as Silk / The Great Gatsby]

Romance · Drama · Mystery

This collection features three unsung gems of classic film noir.

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · Comedy Drama

Heartfelt comedy about three 40-something couples who frequently vacation together, while life’s ups and downs take their toll.

The Good Fairy (Special Edition)

The Good Fairy (Special Edition)

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · Romance

A naïve girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a “good fairy” to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

Graveyard Shift (4KUHD)

Graveyard Shift (4KUHD)

4K UHD DISC · Horror

In a very old textile mill with a serious rat infestation, deadly accidents start happening, but the corrupt foreman continues to put his workers in danger, until they discover a horrifying secret deep in the basement.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Romance · Film Noir · Mystery

Jay Gatsby works his way from poor fisherman to extravagant Long Island millionaire and then risks it all to woo back his former love.

The Great Train Robbery (Special Edition)

The Great Train Robbery (Special Edition)

Crime · Adventure

Sean Connery is Edward Pierce, a thief who conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold from a railroad car. But to pull off this most daring heist, Pierce must join forces with a safecracker and his own beautiful girlfriend in a series of intricately plotted thefts.

Hang ‘Em High

Hang ‘Em High

4K UHD DISC · Western · Drama

Oklahoma, 1873. Jed Cooper, mistaken for a rustler and killer, is lynched on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson and a rampaging band of vigilantes. But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, there’s one very important detail they’ve overlooked: Cooper is still alive!

Havana

Havana

Drama

High-rolling poker player Jack Weil is trying to make one big score in 1958 Havana. But his plan doesn’t include falling for Roberta, the beautiful, enigmatic wife of revolutionary Arturo Duran.

High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

Romance · Western · Music

Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brenna is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland. Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage.

Hyperspace: 3-D Director's Cut

Hyperspace: 3-D Director's Cut

Comedy · Sci-Fi

Hyperspace: Lord Buckethead & The Attack of the Gremloids: A cocky UFO scientist is on the trail of an evil Intergalactic Space Lord, who has unknowingly landed on Earth. The Fright Before Christmas: After Mom & Dad drop off the kids at their Grandma’s house the week before Christmas, …

I Could Never Go Vegan

I Could Never Go Vegan

Documentary

On a quest for the truth, a filmmaker sets out on a journey to find out the leading arguments facing the vegan movement, and if they're justified.

In Celebration

In Celebration

Theatre

Taught adaptation of David Storey's emotionally-charged family drama.

Itzhak

Itzhak

Music · Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary on Itzhak Perlman looks beyond the sublime musician, to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability.

The Killer is Loose (Special Edition)

The Killer is Loose (Special Edition)

Crime · Film Noir · Drama

An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.

King of Hearts

King of Hearts

Comedy · War

This legendary cult classic is a satirical look at the absurdities of war is presented in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.

The Last Train From Madrid

The Last Train From Madrid

Action · Adventure · Drama

Protected by only a single guard while escaping from Madrid on a train, a group of weary individuals from different social classes share snippets of life and love before and during the war illustrating the profound impact it has had on their lives.

Li'l Quinquin

Li'l Quinquin

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

French auteur Bruno Dumont, best known for uncompromising and austere dramas, proves with the comedy Li'l Quinquin that he is capable of shifting gears without conceding his signature style. This absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow…

Little Man, What Now?

Little Man, What Now?

Pre-Code · Drama

Fired for marrying his sweetheart Emma instead of his boss’s daughter, Hans  moves his pregnant wife to Berlin where he gets a job as a salesman.

The Lost Man

The Lost Man

Romance · Crime · Drama

The secretive leader of a Black militant group, Jason Higgs plots a dangerous payroll robbery. When the heist goes horribly wrong, Higgs and his men go on the run, with the entire Philadelphia police force following their every move.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan

Film Noir · Drama

A New York gangster is unwillingly drafted into the army and deserts but becomes patriotic when he stumbles upon foreign spies bent on stealing American military secrets.

Luther

Luther

Biography · Religion · Theatre

John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther, examining his central role in the birth of Protestantism and revolt against the Roman Catholic Church.

Macbeth (Special Edition)

Macbeth (Special Edition)

History · Drama

Orson Welles adapts, produces, directs and stars as the titular Scottish lord who is tragically undone by his own vaulting ambition.

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Documentary

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret.

Mississippi Burning (Special Edition)

Mississippi Burning (Special Edition)

Crime · Drama

Two philosophically opposed FBI agents attempt to overcome their differences and uncover the chilling mystery of a small Ku Klux Klan-ridden community before it tears itself apart.

NOTFILM

NOTFILM

Biography · Documentary

After restoring the short Film, Ross Lipman wanted to explore its surprising history. He ended up making a mesmerizing feature-length essay about Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton and other luminaries! 

Never Say Die

Never Say Die

Comedy · Romance · Musical

A misdiagnosis of only a month to live sends millionaire hypochondriac Bob Hope into the arms of Martha Raye and on a madcap matrimonial romp through a Swiss spa in this side-splitting screwball comedy.

No Time for Love

No Time for Love

Comedy

Sophisticated fashion photographer Katherine Grant is assigned to photograph the tough construction workers at a tunnel project site. One of the cocky, well-built workers falls for the upper-class Katherine, but the picture is not pretty when he loses his job and she hires him to be her assistant.

North Dallas Forty (4KUHD)

North Dallas Forty (4KUHD)

4K UHD DISC · Sports · Comedy Drama

Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by former Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent, North Dallas Forty depicts Nick Nolte as an aging ballplayer who, through a woman he meets, is drawn away from the masculine, violent world in which he has lived so long.

O.S.S.

O.S.S.

Thriller · Drama · War

A cunning captain (Alan Ladd) of an O.S.S. team is sent undercover into Nazi-occupied France to blow up a railway tunnel.

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

Romance · Based on Literature · Drama

In John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE, Leslie Howard (GONE WITH THE WIND) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Davis fearlessly embraces Mildred's dark side, and delive…

The Olive Thomas Collection

The Olive Thomas Collection

Comedy · Biography · Documentary

Beautiful, talented and charismatic, Olive Thomas reigned as a Hollywood star briefly but magically… and her untimely death was mourned worldwide. Also features her charming comedy, The Flapper

Pursued (Special Edition)

Pursued (Special Edition)

Western · Film Noir

Jeb Rand's love for his stepsister, Thorley, triggers a fatal gun battle with her brother Adam. Despite this tragedy she marries Jeb, intent on avenging the death on their wedding night. But Jeb’s dark past closes in with the arrival of a stranger with a score to settle who sets off a brutal c…

Red Mountain

Red Mountain

Western · Drama

In the waning days of the Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries led by the bloodthirsty General Quantrill. Along the way he drags an innocent gold-prospecting couple into danger when the husband is accused of murder.

Remembering Gene Wilder

Remembering Gene Wilder

Documentary

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy with clips from his classic films like The Producers and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, narration from his audiobook memoir, and interviews with Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane.

Rock, Pretty Baby!

Rock, Pretty Baby!

Music · Comedy Drama · Drama

A high-school senior yearns to be a professional musician, much to the disappointment of his father, and sets out to prove he can make it in the L.A. music world.

The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming

Comedy · War

When sightseeing Soviet commander (Alan Arkin, The In-Laws) runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew's attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Arkin leads and all-star cast that includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith and Jonathan Win…