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Power Games: New German Shorts

Drama · Documentary · Animation

The four current award-winning German short films featured in the compilation "Power Games" brilliantly touch on worldwide radicalization and extremist tendencies, the apparent problem that history seems destined to repeat itself, and the role power plays even in unexpected situations. Furthermore, …

Princess Tam Tam

Comedy · Music & Dance · African-American

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.

Return of the Hero

Comedy

France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the nai?ve Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry, pushing her sister Elizabeth to write fake letters on be…

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.

The Romantic Englishwoman

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), and directed by Joseph Losey, THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a wildly entertaining ride…

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…

Saint Clara

Comedy · World Cinema

A Russian immigrant teenager's clairvoyant powers create mayhem among the students at Golda Meir Junior High in this jumpy, highly energetic, off-kilter Israel where first love and the apocalypse seem interconnected.

Sally Of The Sawdust

Comedy · Silent

W. C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster).

Scavenger Hunt

Comedy

It’s a mad, mad mob of maniacs in a wild and hilarious $200,000,000 winner-takes-all Scavenger Hunt! The nutty and newly-departed millionaire’s will was specific: his fifteen would-be heirs are to participate in a highly-unusual Scavenger Hunt and whoever finds all the items first, wins …

Scrapper

Comedy · Drama

Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl (Lola Campbell) who secretly lives alone in her London flat following the death of her mother, until her estranged father (Harris Dickinson) arrives and forces her to con…

The Seduction of Mimi

Comedy · Erotic · 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.

Seven Beauties

War · Drama · Comedy

COMING SOON IN A NEW 2K RESTORATION!  Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while…

The Sex Thief

Comedy · World Cinema · Erotic

From its opening title sequence, it is apparent that director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE, GOLDENEYE) intended his first feature, a low-budget sex romp called THE SEX THIEF, to be an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women of every variety, the roguish title character (David Warbec…

Silent Shakespeare: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On...

Comedy · Drama · Silent

Digitally restored by the BFI's National Film and TV Archive, this DVD product features seven charming, emotional silent adaptations of Shakespeare's classics by early cinematic pioneers.

Slack Bay

Comedy · World Cinema · Slapstick

The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family—among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi—have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitut…

The Son of Joseph

Spirituality · Drama · Avant Garde

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisi…

Straight to Hell: The Director's Cut

Comedy · Western · Action

Four hapless bank robbers bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town, but very soon find three black-suited killers-for-hire. After missing their intended target and trying to escape the wrath of their employer (Jim Jarmusch), they head for the desert and rob a bank en-route. …

Summer Night

Comedy · World Cinema

NEW DCP COMING SOON! Mariangela Melato (Swept Away) stars as Signora Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. She is fed up with the terrorists who poach Italy's rich beauty, and as part of a crazy retaliation scheme she hires a former CIA agent to abduct the number one violat…

Swept Away

Cult · Drama · Comedy

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is the most famous and controversial film about sex, love, and politics from influential Italian director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Director.

Synonyms

Comedy · Drama · Comedy Drama

Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman), Synonyms tells the story of a young Israeli who moves to Paris with little more than a dictionary and an obsession with erasing his origins.

The Cook and Other Treasures

Comedy · Silent

One of the finest collaborations between Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, THE COOK leads this collection of rediscovered comedy classics along with A RECKLESS ROMEO (1917) and NUMBER, PLEASE? (1920)

Three Ages

Comedy · Slapstick

A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age,…

Tip Top

Comedy · World Cinema · Romantic Comedy

Serge Bozon's TIP TOP is a sharp and witty absurdist political commentary that will leave audiences with more questions about modern day France than answers. Farid, an Algerian turned informant for the French police, is found murdered in a small French town. Two offbeat and unethical female investig…

Tokyo Pop

Comedy

Bleach-blonde rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) spontaneously moves from New York City to Tokyo with dreams of making it big as a singer in this forgotten gem of ‘80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty

Comedy · Action

Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty stars Francisco Melo as a vigilante who enlists the support of a young beauty, her geeky brother and a trigger-happy drag queen to avenge the murder of his son.

A Town Called Panic

Comedy · RT Certified Fresh · Animation

Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit’s Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toy…

The Trouble With You

Comedy · World Cinema · Romantic Comedy

When a widowed police detective (Adèle Haenel) learns her dead husband was a crooked cop, she tries to help the man scapegoated for his crimes get back to his life and his wife (Audrey Tautou), setting off a spectacular sequence of events in this slapstick comedy set in the French Riviera.

The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection (Blu-ray Box)

Comedy · Slapstick · Silent

FINAL CHANCE. All of the Kino Classics' Buster Keaton releases are now together in one super-sized high definition boxed set.

The Wanderers

Youth Film · Cult · Drama

Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price (The Night Of), Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change.  New 2K restoration!

The Werewolf of Washington (Director's Cut)

Comedy · Horror

The Werewolf of Washington is a biting satire that savagely attacks beltway politics while paying playful  homage to the wolfman pictures of the past.

West is West

Comedy · World Cinema · Romance

A broke student on visa and a feisty bohemian artist become entangled in a series of increasingly elaborate schemes in order to keep him in the country.

Winnebago Man

Comedy · Documentary

A search for the legendary RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts were caught on video and became an online phenomenon. Winnebago Man is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man's response to unintended fame.

Woman in the Moon (Restored Version)

Comedy · World Cinema

Two years after revolutionizing the science fiction film with his epic Metropolis, director Fritz Lang revisited the genre with an ambitious spectacle that dramatizes the first lunar expedition. Rather than a flight of pure fantasy, Lang, screenwriter Thea von Harbou and a group of technical consult…

Yom Yom

Comedy · World Cinema

In YOM YOM, the second film in Amos Gitai's (DEVARIM, KADOSH) celebrated "City Trilogy," Israel's preeminent writer-director weaves, "a darkly comic tale of characters driven by divided loyalties and neurotic inhibitions" (THE VILLAGE VOICE) in the mixed nationality Mediterranean port city of Haifa.

Zizou and the Arab Spring

Comedy · Drama

Férid Boughedir charmingly pulls off a lighthearted comedic fable about, of all things, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tunisia. This year we’re treating the Friends of the Film Festival to the sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him…