Through a classic Surrealist conceit an elegant gathering of high society folk find that they are unable to leave the dinner party they are attending. Their impeccable bourgeois manners turn bestial as the servants disappear and the days pass... With savage wit and unfailing precision Bunuel shows the skill of a master filmmaker who has reached the peak of his maturity.
Whilst lawlessness in New Orleans reaches breaking point, Detective Devereaux (Kilmer) must work with his new partner to uncover the mystery surrounding his friend's death whilst delving deeper and deeper into the criminal underworld.
In his first historic feature for a Western audience, Jackie takes up the role of Jerry Kwan, a flamboyant Kung Fu expert, forced to compete in a no-holds-barred street-fighting tournament by heavy-hitting syndicate mobsters. Crafted by the director and producer that brought you the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon, BATTLE CREEK BRAWL is a stunning showcase for the remarkable physical prowess of Jackie Chan. Performing some of the fastest and most powerful Wing Chun hand techniques ever r...
Most criminals answer to the law. The world's most savage executioner must answer to Bronson! Holland (Charles Bronson) a professional killer is persuaded to come out of retirement when his friend a Latin American journalist is tortured to death by his country's dictator - the sadistic Dr. Clement Moloch. The journalist's widow Rhiana (Theresa Saldana) and her daughter Sarah provide cover for Holland by posing as his family. As Holland gets closer to Moloch and his coterie he begins to fear more for 'his' family's safety and insists they leave so he can get on with his deadly mission but the idealistic Rhiana is determined to witness the death of her husband's killer.
In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind. Special Features: We are Tetravaal Alternate Ending (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Extended Scene (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Chappie: The Streetwise Protector (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Arms Race: The Weapons and Robots (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Bringing Chappie to Life: The Visual Effects (Exclusive to Blu-ray) From Tetra Vaal to Chappie (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Keep It Gangster (Exclusive to Blu-ray) The Reality of Robotics (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Jozi: Real City and a Sci-Fi Setting (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Rogue Robot: Deconstructing the Stunts and Special Effects (Exclusive to Blu-ray) The Art of Chappie Gallery (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
One kiss dragged the dead from their graves...Claire Grandier is a medium with one thing on her mind... Blood drenched vengeance. She's a psychic black widow who'll stop at nothing to destroy the Duke De Haussement, the man she holds responsible for her husband's untimely death.After charming her way into the creepy basement of the Duke's crumbling castle on the promise of revealing occult secrets, she sets to work with a sick professor and a twisted dwarf, creating a demon-possessed Frankenstein zombie who's programmed to Kill! Kill! Kill! in this demented and mixed up Spanish classic.Wild 70s fashion and fashionable devilry collide with every clich in the gothic horror manual for a wild ride into sleazy retro Euro-terror. Prepare to feel the wicked caresses of Satan...
Robert Rodriguez (director of 'Sin City' and 'El Mariachi') wrote and executive produced this horror movie about black magic in the deepest recesses of Mexico City where a mysterious curandero or folk healer practices his craft. Stars Carlos Gallardo who played the title role in 'El Mariachi.'
Django the drifter returns in this classic Sixties Spaghetti Western from Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Addio Comin' At Ya!) starring Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) as the wandering gunslinger hired as executioner to a corrupt local politician who is framing innocent men sending them to hang in an evil scheme to take hold of their land. But Django has other ideas and cleverly faking the deaths of the condemned men he assembles them into a loyal gang who'll help him take down the boss a man who had a hand in the death of Django's wife years before. Thrill as Django gets his bloody revenge with a hail of bullets in this classic from a series of B-movie western that helped to define a genre. Prepare your coffin now! Special Features: New High Definition digital transfer of the film in the original 1.66:1 aspect ratio Optional English and Italian audio tracks Newly translated English subtitles for Italian audio and English SDH for the deaf and hard of hearing on the English audio Django Explained - A new interview with Spaghetti Western expert and author Kevin Grant Original Trailer Collector's booklet by critic and spaghetti western expert Howard Hughes
Anzio (1968): Robert Mitchum Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy star in the rivetting war drama Anzio a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio Italy in 1944 war correspondent Dick Ennis (Mitchum) and buddy Corporal Rabinoff (Falk) tell Anzio commander General Lesley (Kennedy) that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead. Four months and over 30 000 casualties later the Allied forces smash through the German lines and victoriously march to Rome. Directed by Edward Dmytryk Anzio is a powerful film and a symbol of heroic tenacity. Cockleshell Heroes (1955): In World War II Royal Marine Major Stringer (Jose Ferrer) and Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) chose volunteers for an unknown job. They trained the volunteers intensively in top secrecy for more than a year and then embarked with them on the most dangerous mission of the war - the canoe invasion of an enemy-held French port for the purpose of blowing up the giant battleships. The ten ""canoe commandoes"" were carried to their jump-off point by submarine despite a depth-charge attack. Facing fantastic hazards they paddled 70 miles through enemy waters to complete their mission. But only two survivors would return... Night Of The Generals (1967): Five years after their triumphant teaming in Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif reunited for this powerful World War II thriller about a Nazi General who becomes a serial killer. When a Polish prostitute is brutally murdered in Nazi-occupied Warsaw her killer is identified as a German General. The investigator Major Grau (Sharif) narrows the suspects to three Generals in the German high command: the heroic Tanz (O'Toole) the cynical Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence) and the weak Von Seidlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray). For years the crime remains unsolved until the killer strikes again bringing this mesmerising mystery to its unforgettable finish. Also starring Christopher Plummer Tom Courtney Philippe Noiret and Joanna Pettet The Night Of The Generals is an all-star thriller from a master of the form.
Four cult classics from Amando de Ossorio! They are called 'Blind Dead' heretic horsemen whose eyes were burned out to prevent them from finding their way back from Hell. Over the course of 4 unforgettable films writer/director Amando de Ossorio created what fright fans worldwide consider to be one of the most startling series in horror history. This unique quartet of shockers delivers a relentless onslaught of creepy atmosphere shocking violence forbidden sexuality and the stil
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Richard Greene stars as an FBI agent hot on the trail of his brother's killer in this thrilling crime drama from the mid '50s. Made concurrently with Greene's phenomenally successful TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, Contraband Spain also stars Anouk Aimée and Michael Denison. It is is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. A member of a smuggling gang is found murdered on the Franco-Spanish border with counterfeit bills in his pocket. Agent Lee Scott the dead smuggler's brother is assigned to investigate.
William H. Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard a Minneapolis car salesman who is by all accounts a loser. He is desperately in debt so decides to hires two thugs (who are bigger losers than he is) to kidnap his wife in the hope that his wealthy father-in-law (who bullies him regularly) will pay the ransom. When one of the kidnappers goes off the rails and events career out of control it falls to Marge Gunderson Chief of the Brainerd Police Department to set things right. Arguably the best of the Coen brothers films (they won an Oscar for the script) featuring two of their best usual suspects Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this role. The film raked in a range of other prestigious and International Awards 36 in total - including best direction at Cannes and David Lean Award for Direction at the 1997 BAFTA awards.
A superior Euro-sleaze horror! A newly-married couple living in Madrid, Andres (José MarÃa Guillén) and Ana (Mariana Karr) meet an eccentric couple of swingers in a chance encounter and are invited to a foreboding country estate. When a heavy thunderstorm and car trouble prevent Andres & Ana from leaving they stay overnight and the couples decide to try and communicate with spirits from the other side on a sinister Ouija-board, and engage in dangerous acts of seduction, cannibalism and a satanic orgy. Soon past sexual conflicts and arguments over an attempted suicide arise. But this is only the beginning of the satanic horrors that will haunt them in the house
In April 4th of 2010 Quintanilla family was found murdered in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. Atrocious shows the real images of such evidence. Quintanilla family traveled to their old farm house in Sitges where Christian and July investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. Both of them used to record all day whatever they did. On the fifth day of their arrival they were found dead under strange circumstances. Atrocious shows the last five days of life for Cristian Quintanilla and his siblings. It also shows the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
This is a 1996 all-star-cast version from Paris of the original French version of Verdi's epic five-act opera, Don Carlos. First produced in 1867, only Wagner would write musical drama on a grander scale, and due to the three-and-a-half-hour running time most subsequent productions have made substantial cuts. This is therefore a rare opportunity to witness Verdi's tragedy in its entirety.Set in the 16th century in the aftermath of war between Spain and France, Don Carlo (Roberto Alagna), the heir to the Spanish throne comes to France to meet with his beloved Elizabeth de Valois (Karita Mattila). Inevitably politics divide the lovers, and while Rodrigue (Thomas Hampson) falls in with Flemish rebels, the Inquisition is determined to be the power behind the peace. This is certainly not Verdi's greatest work, but it contains great music and the stars are allowed to shine with strong characterisations in an elegantly designed production. There are no gimmicks or attempts at spurious contemporary relevance here, simply singers of the calibre of Alagna, Mattila, Hampson, plus the outstanding Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. This is a production that continues in the 19th-century tradition, and in the process delivers the frisson of world-class opera. --Gary S. DalkinOn the DVD: While the running time precludes much in the way of special features, via DVD-ROM the libretto can be printed in French, together with an article and biographies. The picture is presented at approximately 1.7:1 and while far superior to video could still benefit from anamorphic enhancement. The sound is stereo or excellent Dolby Digital 5.0. The booklet offers a detailed synopsis in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and there are subtitles in the same languages. The disc is encoded for regions two to six. --Gary S. Dalkin
By all rights, Alex Cox's absurdist spaghetti western Straight to Hell, should be up there in the canon of must-see cult movies. It was written in three days and filmed gonzo-style in six weeks in the Andalusian desert landscape of Almeria, Spain, on an abandoned film set originally built for Savage Cowboys, a 1969 Charles Bronson western. The cast includes the good, the bad and the ugly of rock and roll--namely Joe Strummer, Courtney Love (in her first starring role) and Shane McGowan--and cameos from Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones and Jim Jarmusch. It also features a pre-Reservoir Dogs plot concerning three sharp-suited but incompetent hitmen on the lam in the desert with the proceeds of a bank heist and a pregnant girlfriend in tow (Love). There they stumble upon a remote, ramshackle town, home to a gang of coffee-guzzling gunslingers called the McMahons (the Pogues) who initially accept the bumbling assassins as one of their own. But the appearance of shadowy industrialist IG Farben (Hopper) throws the precarious peace into a trigger-happy turmoil. Despite the promise, the film was almost universally panned on its release, the main criticism being that although the cast and crew seemed to having a blast, not much thought was put into translating the joke to the audience. It's certainly anarchic and frivolous, but also silly and pointless. Sy Richardson as the Jheri-curled Norwood who steals the show, remaining stoic and super-cool as the chaos rages around him. On the DVD: "Back to Hell", a 20-minute feel-good featurette, reunites the majority of the cast members (minus Courtney Love) 14 years on to reminisce on their experience making the film. At the end, Alex Cox cannily manages to elicit guarantees from the actors to appear in a mooted sequel. The original dialogue plays at low volume underneath the commentary track, making it hard to hear what the filmmakers are saying at various points. A promo video for the Pogues rendition of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is tacked on at the end, but looks as if it was sourced from a worn videotape. --Chris Campion
""The Cost of Living"" was shot on location in Cromer on the Norfolk Coast in England: a typical old-fashioned and faded seaside resort. The summer season has petered to an end and an air of desertion hangs over the town. Eddie and David are disillusioned street performers. Eddie is tough confrontational and not afraid to defend his belief in justice and honesty. David is a dancer who has no legs; watching him makes you reconsider accepted notions of perfection. He is quietly determin
The mother of all Mexploitation finally arrives in the UK uncut for the very first time! Featured on the Director of Public Prosecution's original 39-title 'video nasties' list, at last you can see what all the fuss is about in this gorgeous new 16:9 transfer. Rene Cardona Sr - patriarch of Mexico's number one genre film-making dynasty - delivers this wonderfully silly tale of a dying young man given the heart of a gorilla to keep him alive. Unfortunately the man transforms into a murderous ape-like monster and goes on a girly hunt. Not one to be put-off, the surgeon (his father) tries again - this time with the heart of a female wrestler. This medical-horror-sci-fi masterpiece was written by Ren and his son Rene (who, incidentally, had a son called Rene), neither of whom had even a cursory knowledge of either medicine or science. This makes it w-a-a-y-yy more enjoyable... No surprise then that this was filmed in just three weeks (in May 1968), largely in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. While already chock full of gratuitous nudity and femmes-in-peril, US film-maker Jerald Intrator (Orgy at Lil's Place, Satan in High Heels) decided to improve on things by adding close-up, super-gory footage of open-heart surgery. He even filmed some new material to spice up the monster's attacks with sanguinary make-up effects and even more nudity. He did the same thing. Special Features: Video Nasties Introduction Two TV Spots Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Hidden Easter Egg Optional English/Spanish Audio and Subtitles for Both
In a glorious finish to the race for the Premiership crown Chelsea thumped arch-rivals and nearest challengers Manchester United 3-0 to win back-to-back titles for the first time in their history. The party could finally begin! In their Centenary season Jose Mourinho's men were in a league of their own and left their rivals trailing in their wake. The mighty Blues scored more goals and conceded fewer than any other team in the country and Stamford Bridge became a fortress with o
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