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News of the World 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 23, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Western
Nosferatu in Venice Blu-ray Movie
Vampire in Venice / Nosferatu a Venezia
Severin Films | 1988 | 93 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
While staying at a Venetian palace, a vampire scholar comes face to face with the renowned Nosferatu.
Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Tomorrow's Children / Child Bride Blu-ray Movie
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 5
Kino Lorber | 1935-1938 | 2 Movies | 118 min | Not rated | May 05, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Biography / Crime / Drama
Babylon Berlin: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2019-2020 | 605 min | Not rated | Nov 24, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The vaultingly ambitious, award-winning German series Babylon Berlin is a dizzyingly thrilling crime drama. Season 3 opens in the fall of 1929 in Berlin, during the tumultuous weeks before Black Friday’s stock market crash. Inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) are assigned to investigate the death of an actress, only to realize that the film industry is as rotten as the underworld. In the meantime, the fascist Black Reichswehr are regathering their forces for their next attempt to bring down democracy and provoke more clashes with the Communists.
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Foreign
The Great Caruso Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1951 | 109 min | Not rated | Mar 09, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Enrico Caruso's (Mario Lanza) only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his amazing voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy (Ann Blyth)
Biography / Drama / Music
Ingagi Blu-ray Movie
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 8
Kino Lorber | 1930 | 82 min | Not rated | Jan 05, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch as a virgin is sacrificed to a huge gorilla, who takes her away. The expedition follows the gorilla in an attempt to save the woman.
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Test Tube Babies / Guilty Parents Blu-ray Movie
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 7
Kino Lorber | 1934-1948 | 135 min | Not rated | Oct 13, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The seventh volume in the series Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture addresses the prickly problems of parenting. In Test Tube Babies, Cathy (Dorothy Duke) and George (William Thomason) seem like the perfect postwar American couple, but a medical deficiency deprives them of the children that will complete their happy home. Facing a future of childless debauchery (represented by an especially raucous adults-only house party, complete with female wrestling), they pay a visit to a fertility specialist, portrayed by deadpan exploitation legend Timothy Farrell, who proposes an unorthodox solution to their problems. J.D. Kendis’s Guilty Parents is one of the better-produced incarnations of the good-girl-gone-wrong cautionary tale, highlighted by a game of silhouette strip-tease at the wayward teens’ favorite roadhouse. Special Features: -Audio commentary for Test Tube Babies by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films -Sex and Romance (1951), a marital education short film -Theatrical trailer gallery
Drama
Test Tube Babies Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1948 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered a scandalous choice.
Drama
Guilty Parents Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1934 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
Drama
She Shoulda Said 'No'! / The Devil's Sleep Blu-ray Movie
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 6
Kino Lorber | 1949 | 2 Movies | 70 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Drama
Marihuana / Narcotic Blu-ray Movie
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 4
Kino Lorber | 1933-1936 | 2 Movies | 73 min | Not rated | May 05, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Biography / Crime / Drama
Narcotic Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 57 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Biography / Drama
Marihuana Blu-ray Movie
Marihuana, the Devil's Weed(Marihuana, the Weed with Roots in Hell!
Kino Lorber | 1936 | 57 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
Crime / Drama
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Chungking Express Blu-ray Movie
重慶森林 | Chung Hing sam lam | Remastered
Criterion | 1994 | 103 min | Not rated | Apr 15, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Day of the Dolphin Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1973 | 105 min | Rated PG | Feb 18, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A scientist who, along with his wife, trains dolphins to speak. During his experiments, the dolphins are kidnapped by the military, an organization that has other plans for them.
Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Rock Hudson Collection Blu-ray Movie
Seminole / The Golden Blade / Bengal Brigade
Kino Lorber | 1953-1954 | 3 Movies | 255 min | Not rated | Dec 08, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Adventure / History / War / Western
Bengal Brigade Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1954 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
At the end of 1856, in Northeast India's Malakai Pass, British Colonial troops under the command of Captain Jeffrey Steven Claybourne are staging an attack on Indian rebels' position. The rebels are part of a major Indian uprising against the rule of the British East India Company which acts as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. British colonial troops, formed with local recruits called Sepoys are divided between soldiers loyal to the British Crown and mutineers fighting against their former masters. Captain Claybourne has no reasons to be concerned with the loyalties of the Sepoys under his command. He is loved and respected by his soldiers, especially after he disobeys retreat orders and rushes to the aid of a doomed company of Sepoys which is caught in a meat-grinder during an ill-planned attack. Despite victory, the beloved captain is court-martialed for disobeying orders and cashiered out of the army.
Adventure / History / War
The Golden Blade Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 81 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
After vowing to his dying father to help establish peace in his homeland, Harun travels to Baghdad where he meets gorgeous Princess Khairuzan and uncovers a gold sword that only he can wield. When the Caliph's scheming advisor, Jafar, concocts a plot for Khairuzan to marry his son, Hadi, it is up to humble Harun to prove his worth and save his royal love from a terrible marital fate. Filled with sword-fighting, romance and mystery, it is an unforgettable epic story of passion and loyalty.
Adventure
Seminole Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A calvary Lt. on trial for murder, recounts his efforts make peace with the Siminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Western
Dark Web: Cicada 3301 Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 104 min | Rated R | Mar 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Genius hacker Conner discovers Cicada 3301, an online treasure hunt that could be a recruiting tool for a secret society. Soon Conner, art-expert friend Avi, and secretive librarian Gwen are dashing from graffiti sites to ancient libraries to uncover real-world clues. But they must outrun aggressive NSA agents, also hot on the trail of Cicada, who want the glory for themselves.
Action / Drama / Thriller