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Home- March 07, 2023
Croupier Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 1998 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 05, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jack Manfred, an aspiring writer, accepts a job as a croupier in a small casino in London. There, he remains an observer, viewing the gamblers at his tables with the same cool detachment he brings to the novel he begins to write based on experiences. He never gambles, yet when a beautiful casino regular lures him into a dangerous, but perhaps lucrative caper, Jack is convinced the odds are in his favor.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Heist
Croupier 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 1998 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 05, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jack Manfred, an aspiring writer, accepts a job as a croupier in a small casino in London. There, he remains an observer, viewing the gamblers at his tables with the same cool detachment he brings to the novel he begins to write based on experiences. He never gambles, yet when a beautiful casino regular lures him into a dangerous, but perhaps lucrative caper, Jack is convinced the odds are in his favor.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Heist
- March 06, 2023
Secret of the Incas Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1954 | 100 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An American adventurer living in Peru teams up with a beautiful Eastern European refugee as he searches for a valuable hidden treasure high in the Andes.
Action / Adventure
Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection Blu-ray Movie
Almost Human / Syndicate Sadists / Free Hand for a Tough Cop / The Cynic, The Rat and the Fist / Brothers Till We Die / Blu-ray + CD
Severin Films | 1974-1978 | 5 Movies | 483 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Almost Human Blu-ray Movie
The Death Dealer / The Kidnap of Mary Lou / Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare / Blu-ray + CD
Severin Films | 1974 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the "big time" by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Syndicate Sadists Blu-ray Movie
Il giustiziere sfida la città / Blu-ray + CD
Severin Films | 1975 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign
Free Hand for a Tough Cop Blu-ray Movie
Il trucido e lo sbirro
Severin Films | 1976 | 92 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Camilla is a little girl suffering with a kidney disorder. Before she can receive her next due treatment, she gets kidnapped. The gangsters intend to blackmail her rich father.
Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist Blu-ray Movie
Il cinico, l'infame, il violento / Blu-ray + CD
Severin Films | 1977 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Luigi Maietto (Chinaman) escapes from prison he then orders two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonal led to his being jailed. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but lives. The local newspapers cover up for him and pretend the assassination had worked. When Tanzi's able to his superior wants him to hide in Switzerland. But Tanzi defies him and intends to make sure that Maietto is put back in prison.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Brothers Till We Die Blu-ray Movie
La banda del gobbo
Severin Films | 1978 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
Action / Thriller / Foreign
I'll Cry Tomorrow Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1955 | 119 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Lillian Roth has it all: youth, beauty, movie and Broadway fame and a devoted fiance. Then her fiance dies, and Lillian takes one drink to ease her grief. Then another. Then ten. Then thousands. And soon her youth, her career and her life are drowning in an ocean of booze.
Biography / Drama / Melodrama
- March 05, 2023
Mildred Pierce 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1945 | 111 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
Burn! Blu-ray Movie
Queimada / Imprint #194
Imprint | 1969 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 129 min | Rated ACB: M | Dec 28, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
During the 1840s, Britain sends secret agent Sir William Walker to break up Portugal's sugar monopoly on the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada. Walker incites the slaves to revolt under the leadership of a dock worker, José Dolores, while simultaneously convincing plantation owners to turn against the government. A decade later, however, Walker must return to Queimada to confront his one-time pupil, Dolores, who now leads a revolt to throw out the British.
Action / Drama / War / Foreign / Period
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1923 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 28, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
In fifteenth century Paris, Jehan, the evil brother of the archdeacon, plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt, which eventually leads to the peasants storming the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Meanwhile, Jehan's slave, a freakish hunchback named Quasimodo, falls in love with the young gypsy queen, Esmeralda, who in turn is in love with Phoebus, a gentleman soldier and a rogue with the ladies. Phoebus's gallant side is awakened by the beautiful peasant girl, and he soon returns her love. Unknown to him, his love is dangerous, because Jehan lusts for Esmeralda and is willing to kill the handsome soldier to possess her. But the hunchback will tolerate no harm coming to her, not even if it comes from his own master...
Drama / Horror / Romance
The Great Gabbo Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1929 | 92 min | Not rated | Jul 13, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
An insane ventriloquist uses his dummy as a means to vent his hated vengeance.
Drama / Musical / Romance
Leonor Will Never Die Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2022 | 101 min | Not rated | Mar 14, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
Drama
- March 04, 2023
Gallipoli Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1981 | 111 min | Rated PG | Jan 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Drama / War
Resident Alien: Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2022 | 707 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2023 | Martin Liebman
An alien on a mission to Earth crash lands and finds himself in the remote mountain town of Patience, Colorado.
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Comic book
DragonHeart 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1996 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 28, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
After being wounded in battle, the young King Einon is healed by Draco, a dragon, who gives Einon part of his heart. Some years later, Bowen, a knight, forms a partnership with Draco in which Draco terrorizes a village, then Bowen pretends to slay him and collects a reward from the grateful villagers. But now Bowen and Draco must save the entire kingdom from Einon, who has succeeded to the throne and become an evil tyrant -- and whose life is still protected by the heart that Draco gave him all those years ago.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Alice, Darling Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 89 min | Rated R | Mar 14, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
Drama / Thriller
The Woman One Longs For Blu-ray Movie
Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt
Kino Lorber | 1929 | 76 min | Not rated | Jun 08, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Foreign