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L'Age D'or

Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema · Avant Garde

L'AGE D'OR, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available on DVD to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come.

L'Immortelle

Erotic · Drama · World Cinema

L'MMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights yet sadistically confounds expectations. A Frenchman (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) traveling in Istanbul becomes entranced by a mysterious woman who seems to encourage his attentions but remains just beyond his reach. His erot…

The Last Laugh (Restored Version)

Silent · World Cinema

One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) stars Emil Jannings stars as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his…

The Last of England

Historic Drama · Horror · Culture

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.

Le Gai Savoir

Experimental · World Cinema

While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the m…

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Romance · Based on Literature · Drama

Sex becomes sport as Valmont and Juliette manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the 16-year-old Cécile, since she has eyes on Cécile’s prospective fiancé Court.

Let's Get Lost

Documentary

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what tur…

Lost in the Stars

African-American · Theatre

Lost in the Stars transforms Alan Paton's world-famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country, into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you've ever seen. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's lucid lyrics and Kurt Weill's (The Three Penny Opera) powerful music, and guided by Daniel Ma…

Love & Anarchy

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · World Cinema

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.

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.

The Maids

Theatre

Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant relationship. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play, itself inspired from a true life case.

Maigret Sets a Trap

Crime · World Cinema

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfect as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable wh…

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Crime · World Cinema

Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die.

Man With A Movie Camera

Documentary · World Cinema · Avant Garde

This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. USSR. 1929. 68min. B&W.

Marriage Italian Style

Academy Award Nominees · Drama

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of…

The Mask 3D

Horror · 3D Movies

After the shocking death of a disturbed patient, psychiatrist Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) comes into possession of the ancient tribal mask that supposedly drove the young man to his doom. When Barnes puts on the mask, he is assailed with nightmarish visions of monsters, occultists, and ritual to…

Master Shot: The Films of Miklós Jancsó

Period Drama · Cannes Film Festival · Historic Drama

Kino Lorber is proud to bring to North American theaters this touring series featuring restorations of six films by Miklós Jancsó, "the greatest Hungarian film director of all time" (Béla Tarr). All films are restored in 4K from their original 35mm camera negative by Nation…

Maya Deren Collection

Photography · Academy Award Winners · Experimental

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time and Kino Classics and Re:Voir are proud to present new 2K restorations of her essential work. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she …

Mephisto

Period Drama · Historic Drama · Academy Award Winners

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.   

Metropolis (2002 Restoration)

Fantasy · Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Silent

METROPOLIS can now be appreciated in its full glory! It is, as A. O. Scott of THE NEW YORK TIMES declared, "A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927."

The Complete Metropolis

RT Certified Fresh · Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Silent

The Complete Metropolis, the most comprehensive restoration of Fritz Lang's classic with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage and the original Gottfried Huppertz score.

Michael

Silent · Drama · LGBTQ

Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.

Moana With Sound

Documentary

Seeking to make another "Nanook of the North", Robert Flaherty chose Samoa for the docu-fiction film "Moana" in 1924. Fifty years later, Flaherty's daughter Monica returned to Samoa to produce a unique sound version. In 1924, documentary film pioneers Robert and Frances Flaherty and family traveled …

Mädchen in Uniform

Lesbian · LGBTQ · Drama

As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed land…

Die Nibelungen

Fantasy · Silent · World Cinema

One of the greatest artistic and technical achievements of the German silent cinema, Fritz Lang's DIE NIBELUNGEN is a passionate retelling of Nordic legend, invested with all the resources of the colossal Ufa Studios.

Northern Lights

Drama

Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers' political struggle against the bankers and railroad magnates pushing them into bankrupcy.

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

Vampires · RT Certified Fresh · Horror

A cornerstone of the horror genre, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from a 35mm restoration.

Nostalghia

Drama · 4K UHD DISC

Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.

Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection

Silent · Drama · Musical

This essential collection features 17 films, including seven new restorations, by the prolific independent director whose pioneering explorations of contemporary Black life paved the way for generations. Presented in partnership with the Library of Congress.

Our Hospitality

Silent · Comedy

Our Hospitality (1923) broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Buster Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist.

Personal Problems

Drama · African-American

This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja & Hess and wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby's The …

Peter Pan

National Film Registry · Family · Silent

Herbert Brenon (Beau Geste) directed, James Wong Howe (The Thin Man) was cinematographer, Ernest Torrence (Tol'able David) made a gorgeously robust Captian Hook, and Anna May Wong was Tiger Lily. This 1924 film of James M. Barrie's timeless play retains all its period charm.

The Phantom of the Opera (Restored Version)

Horror · National Film Registry · Cult

This edition presents the 1929 theatrical version, restored from archival 35mm elements by Film Preservation Associates. It is highlighted by the Technicolor Bal Masque sequence (in which the Phantom interrupts the revelry wearing the scarlet robes of the Red Death), as well as meticulously hand-col…

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Theatre

The American Film Theatre's Philadelphia, Here I Come! presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar" O'Donnell on the eve of his emigration to America.

Pin-Down Girl

Crime · Drama

No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL GANG and PIN-DOWN GIRL, and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone Timothy Farrell.  PIN-DOWN GIRL stars Peaches Page as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wr…

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers

Box Set · Silent

This important collection of new 2K and 4K restorations shines a light on the contributions of women filmmakers in shaping the language of early cinema. Includes work by Lois Weber, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Zora Neale Hurston. Produced in collaboration with the Library of Con…

Princess Tam Tam

Comedy · African-American · Music & Dance

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity.

The Queen

Documentary · LGBTQ · Cannes Film Festival

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag, as well as LGBTQ icons Flawless Sabrina and Crystal LaBeija.

Red Psalm

History · Drama · Historic Drama

Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.   Structured as a passion play. An awesom…

The Red and The White

Period Drama · Drama · Historic Drama

A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with s…

Rhinoceros

Comedy · Theatre

The film version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play tells of a French city where the citizens begin to turn mysteriously into rhinoceroses. Zero Mostel creates his Tony-winning Broadway role. Includes the marvelous Karen Black.

Rhythm Thief

Drama

Winner of the jury prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, RHYTHM THIEF stars Jason Andrews (Last Exit to Brooklyn) as a NYC music bootlegger who finds himself in deep trouble after ripping off the music of an all-girl punk band (fronted by rocker Cynthia Sley of the Bush Tetras). "A Lower East Si…

The Round-Up

Period Drama · Historic Drama · Drama

Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and …

Russian Ark

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

Russian Ark is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the museum and travels through Russian history.

The Sacrifice

RT Certified Fresh · 4K UHD DISC · Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, THE SACRIFICE is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.

Sadie Thompson

Silent

Gloria Swanson stars as a prostitute caught on a tropical isle with a platoon of Marines and a fanatical minister played by Lionel Barrymore.

The Scar of Shame

Silent · Drama · African-American

When a young woman (Lucia Moses) escapes from her abusive father (William E.Pettus), she is rescued by an aspiring composer (Harry Henderson), but encounters opposition from his class-conscious mother. This edition of THE SCAR OF SHAME includes four minutes of newly-restored material.

Scum

Drama · Historic Drama · Cult

A landmark expose of Britain's violent reform schools, Alan Clarke's SCUM is a controversial shock to the system. Originally made for TV in 1977, the BBC withheld the program from release, due to its intense depictions of suicide, rape and racism. Refusing to be censored, Clarke reshot the film as a…

Sebastiane

Historic Drama · Religion · Drama

Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores.

The Seduction of Mimi

Erotic · Comedy · World Cinema

This raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away) is a blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, taking aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

September Storm 3D

Cult · Drama · 3D Movies

The long-lost 1960 3-D and Cinemascope feature September Storm is back, fully restored by the 3-D Film Archive!  New DCP now available! This drama of treasure hunters exploring the Mediterranean Sea was the last 3-D picture filmed in the 1950s, and the first to be released in 3-D CinemaSco…

Silent Avant-Garde

Avant Garde

SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.

The Son of the Sheik

Silent · National Film Registry

Rudolph Valentino portrays a cultured yet untamed young man who is lured into a thieve’s trap by a beautiful dancer, Yasmin (Vilma Banky). 

The Spiders (Restored Version)

Silent · World Cinema · Action & Adventure

Influenced by the French serials of Louis Feuillade (Fantomas) and infused with Lang's own fascination with Asian culture, THE SPIDERS follows international adventurer Kay Hoog (Carl de Vogt) in his quest for Incan gold and the precious "Buddha's head" diamond.

Spies (Restored Version)

Spies · Romance · World Cinema

Having defined the espionage genre with Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Fritz Lang returned to the genre with this surprisingly fast-paced and remarkably grim thriller. Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple…

Spies (Restored Authorized Edition)

Spies · Silent · World Cinema

Previously seen in the U.S. in a severely truncated form, Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length. This newly restored edition of Spies is composed of the best surviving 35mm film elements, assembled from archives throughout the world. It is more than 50 mi…

A Star Is Born (1937)

Academy Award Nominees · Academy Award Winners · Drama

From maverick filmmaker William A. Wellman (The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred) comes the original, timeless tale of Hollywood fantasy and heartbreak: A STAR IS BORN. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, a small-time girl who get a lucky break in Hollywood with help from movie star Norman Maine (Fre…

The Tempest (Jarman)

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Cult

Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood high camp and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of the classics while its lush se…

The Collected Films of Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin: Short Films Compilation

Short Films

Shooting on location in New York City and capturing intimate moments in the lives of the common person, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin have come to be recognized as pioneers of the American independent cinema. Kino Lorber now presents the most comprehensive collection of Engel and Orkin’s work in…

The Devil's Needle

Silent · Drama

THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE stars silent goddess Norma Talmadge as a morphine-addicted artist’s model who sends a neurotic painter down a path of moral deterioration.