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Home- September 22, 2020
Those Who Deserve to Die Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2019 | 90 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A troubled veteran returns home to resume his life, but first he must fulfill a dreadful family obligation.
Horror
Indiscretion of an American Wife Blu-ray Movie
Terminal Station / Stazione Termini
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 88 min | Not rated | Mar 31, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Drama / Romance
All I Desire Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 88 min | Not rated | Aug 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
New scandals erupt and old ones resurface when an aging stage actress (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her small hometown and the family she abandoned ten years earlier.
Drama / Melodrama / Period
The Eagle and the Hawk Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 68 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) is a powerful anti-war drama in which Cary Grant and Fredric March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor during World War I.
Action / Drama / War
The Sound Barrier Blu-ray Movie
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 118 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Drama / Romance / War
Curve Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2015 | 85 min | Rated R | Aug 18, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Julianne Hough stars in this horror-thriller as a young bride-to-be who deliberately crashes her car off a deserted highway in an attempt to escape from a charming, predatory hitchhiker, played by Teddy Sears. When the plan backfires, trapping her in an overturned vehicle, she defends herself against a terrorizing psychopath -- only to uncover a shocking truth that fuels her fight for survival.
Horror / Thriller
- September 21, 2020
Breezy Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1973 | 108 min | Rated R | Aug 25, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged man, Frank Harmon who takes her in and will unexpectedly fall in love with her.
Drama / Romance
The General Died at Dawn Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1936 | 98 min | Not rated | Apr 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In revolution-torn China, American mercenary O'Hara is entrusted with a perilous mission, to get arms for the helpless authorities in a province ravaged by warlord General Yang. On the train to Shanghai, he meets Judy Perrie, whose father is in league with Yang. Will Judy regret agreeing to lure O'Hara to his doom, and if so, can she make it up to him? The balance of power seesaws to a perilous conclusion.
Adventure / Crime / Thriller
The Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection Blu-ray Movie
Fando y Lis / El Topo / The Holy Mountain / Psychomagic, A Healing Art | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + CD
abkco | 1968-2019 | 4 Movies | 432 min | Not rated | Sep 18, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented on this collection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films, presented here alongside his stunning new film Psychomagic, bedazzled audiences with their unique aesthetic, contrasting violence and beauty; the sublime and the sacrilegious; the mystical and the macabre...
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Western / Imaginary / Foreign / Surreal
Fando y Lis Blu-ray Movie
Fando and Lis
abkco | 1968 | 97 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
This strange film tells the tale of two young people who search through a destroyed world for a mythic city called Tar, where it is believed that all of one's wishes can come true. Instead, along the way, they are corrupted and driven mad...
Fantasy / Romance / Foreign / Surreal
El Topo Blu-ray Movie
Remastered / Blu-ray + CD
abkco | 1970 | 125 min | Not rated | Apr 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An experimental tale in which master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals while on an ever-increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self enlightenment and surreal resurrection.
Adventure / Western / Foreign / Surreal
The Holy Mountain Blu-ray Movie
Remastered / Blu-ray + CD
abkco | 1973 | 116 min | Not rated | Apr 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
"The Alchemist" is a man who assembles a group of people from all walks of life and renames them for the planets in the solar system. Putting his recruits through strange mystical rites and divesting them of their worldly baggage, he leads them on a trip to Lotus Island to ascend the Holy Mountain and displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Imaginary / Foreign / Surreal
Psychomagic, A Healing Art Blu-ray Movie
Psychomagie, un art pour guérir
abkco | 2019 | 105 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky unveils his theory of trauma therapy.
Documentary / Foreign
Hell Bent Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1918 | 50 min | Not rated | Aug 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Western
Wake Island Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1942 | 87 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines try to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Action / Drama / War
There's Always Tomorrow Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1955 | 81 min | Not rated | Aug 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In this romantic tale of passion, an unlucky-in-love fashion designer (Barbara Stanwyck) must decide if she should succumb to her feelings for a married man (Fred MacMurray).
Drama / Romance / Melodrama
Outlander: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2020 | 700 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie’s fight to protect those they love.
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Period
Outlander: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + CD
Sony Pictures | 2020 | 699 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie’s fight to protect those they love.
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Period
- September 20, 2020
Parasite Blu-ray Movie
기생충 / Gisaengchung / Theatrical and B&W versions
Criterion | 2019 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 132 min | Rated R | Oct 27, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Foreign
Death Wish 3 Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1985 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 16, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police detective to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Action / Crime / Drama