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Home- December 18, 2020
I Vitelloni Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1953 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
300 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2007 | 116 min | Rated R | Oct 06, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Leonidas, the Grecian king leads 300 of his fellow Spartans into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / History / War / Comic book / Epic
V for Vendetta 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 133 min | Rated R | Nov 03, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself – and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book
- December 17, 2020
V for Vendetta 4K Blu-ray Movie
Exclusive Giftset / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 133 min | Rated R | Nov 03, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself – and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book
Made in Italy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 94 min | Rated R | Dec 01, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
Comedy
Claudine Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1974 | 93 min | Rated PG | Oct 13, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
In 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Giant from the Unknown Blu-ray Movie
The Film Detective | 1958 | 78 min | Not rated | Jan 19, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In Richard Cunha's Giant from the Unknown, scientists come upon a petrified lizard in the California Mountains. The lizard revives, proving the theory of suspended animation. Excitedly, scientist Wayne Brooks (Ed Kemmer) begins searching for a legendary Spanish giant called Vargas, who disappeared in the region 500 years earlier and who also may be in a suspended-animation state. Brooks discovers all too soon that his instincts a correct: a bolt of lightning releases Vargas (Buddy Baer) from his centuries-long slumber, whereupon the big brute goes on a homicidal rampage.
Drama / Horror
- December 16, 2020
The Secret Ways Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1961 | 112 min | Not rated | Oct 27, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Vienna, 1956. After Soviets crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.
Adventure / Mystery / Thriller
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2018 | 219 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Quinquin is now a grown-up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D'Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Our two heroes, Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier, investigate these alien attacks. The Extra-Human invasion has begun.
Comedy / Crime / Fantasy / Mystery / Foreign
The Face at the Window Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1939 | 70 min | Not rated | Oct 06, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In 1880, the criminal called "The Face" is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chavalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chavalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police...
Drama / Horror
The Ape Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1940 | 62 min | Not rated | Oct 20, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people...
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Tales of Terror Blu-ray Movie
Der grauenvolle Mr. X / Phantastische Filmklassiker - Die 60er #4 / Cover A
Anolis Entertainment | 1962 | 89 min | Rated FSK-16 | Apr 09, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences...
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor
- December 15, 2020
Puzzle of a Downfall Child Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1970 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 15, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York...
Drama
Love Me Tonight Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1932 | 104 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
LOVE ME TONIGHT is a madcap musical tour de force of infectious melody, effortless vivacity and ceaseless invention from first frame to last. Building on a foundation of songs by Rodgers and Hart (BABES IN ARMS, PAL JOEY), director Rouben Mamoulian (APPLAUSE) shepherds Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Macdonald through an exuberant romp that film maven Leslie Haliwell declared, "the most fluently cinematic comedy musical ever made." Carefree tailor Maurice Chevalier leaves a backlot Paris where music literally radiates from every shop, sidewalk and boudoir to collect on a past due bill at a recalcitrant aristocratic client's family chateau. Mistaken for royalty, Maurice runs a gauntlet of lunatic blue-bloods, including love-happy Myrna Loy and screwball icon Charlie Ruggles. But it is Princess Jeanette MacDonald's closely guarded heart that Maurice desires and it will take every ounce of his ingenious pluck to woo her without revealing his well-meaning romantic deception.
Musical / Romance
Frankenstein Created Woman Blu-ray Movie
Frankenstein schuf ein Weib Mediabook - Cover A - Limited Edition - Hammer Edition Nr. 30 | inkl. Postkarte
Anolis Entertainment | 1967 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 16, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A tormented girl (Susan Denberg) drowns herself after her lover is framed for her father s murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), experimenting with the transfer of souls, places her lover s soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. With no memories of her past life, she becomes driven by a ghostly revenge and carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Horror / Sci-Fi
The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy 4K Blu-ray Movie
Extended & Theatrical / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2001-2003 | 3 Movies, 6 Cuts | 682 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 01, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Epic
- December 14, 2020
La Strada Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1954 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampanò, a brutal strongman in a traveling circus. When Zampanò encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool, his fury is provoked to its breaking point.
Drama / Foreign
Total Recall 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1990 | 114 min | Rated R | Dec 08, 2020 | Randy Miller III
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he’s off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Weathering with You 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition | 天気の子 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD
Shout Factory | 2019 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 17, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
High school freshman Hodaka Morishima leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he quickly finds himself in financial trouble. Living his days in isolation, he eventually lands a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. Then one day in an alley, Hodaka meets a young girl named Hina Amano, bright and strong-willed, who possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Anime / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign
Girlfriends Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1978 | 88 min | Rated PG | Nov 10, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan, trying to be an artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love.
Comedy / Drama