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Picnic At Hanging Rock: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [PG]

Based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day, Picnic At Hanging Rock is suffused with menace, mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900, a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly...  More

I Vitelloni
(1953) [G]

Fausto, the leader of a gang of shiftless young men in a small Italian seaside town, is forced by his father to marry a local girl after it is discovered she is pregnant. Irrespective of his predicament Fausto and his friends persist in their daily slothful rituals. All the while Fausto continues...  More

The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) [PG]

In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for...  More

The World Of Apu
(1959) [G]

Originally released in India as Apur Sansar, The World of Apu was the last of Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy". Pather Panchali (1955) covered Apu's early years in his native village, while Aparajito (1956) detailed his school years, and the tragedy that temporarily brought him back home. Now Apu...  More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1990) [R]

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up... Will this approach endear him to her?

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Mephisto
(1981) [M]

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own...  More

Cobra Verde
(1987) [PG]

Based on Bruce Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, the film stars Kinski as a farmer-turned- bandit in 19th-century Brazil who is exiled to West Africa to revive the slave trade. Herzog once again focuses on an outcast overwhelmed by a foreign environment, with grand visualizations of an...  More

Pump Up The Volume
(1990) [M]

Mark is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high...  More

The Night Of Shooting Stars
(1982) [M]

This magical film by the Taviani Brothers is set on the night of the Feast of St. Lawrence during the last days of World War II. A woman recalls her beloved and a night years ago when, on another such night, a group of peasants fled through the Tuscan countryside amid exploding shells lighting up...  More

Quiet Days In Clichy
(1990) [R]

A writer and a photographer meet in Paris during the 1930s. Together, they spend their days at the Melody Club, a place of ill-repute, where both men become obsessed with a young girl called Colette. Based on the provocative works of author Henry Miller.  More