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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Two young English women, June and Cathy, cycle through France on holiday. Then Cathy disappears - or does she? A sinister young man says he is a detective and there is a killer at large - waiting, watching perhaps. Questions hang on the air of a late summer's day as the story moves to its terrifying climax.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
After the expiration of the statute of limitations, serial killer Lee Doo-Suk (Park Si-Hoo) publishes his book "I'm A Killer" which becomes a best seller. The book depicts crimes he committed in the past. Meanwhile, Det. Choi Hyung-Goo (Jung Jae-Young) attempts to capture the serial killer he missed 15 years ago
43) The Break-In
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Post-war Berlin, 1946: Three small-time, oddball crooks plan the heist of their lives. They want to break into the vault of the German Traffic Credit Union to steal the weekly Reichsbahn payroll. In preparation, they rent the top floor of the building and use it to spy on the bank. Despite several unforeseen incidents, the robbers are able to make off with the loot, but a motley police team gets on their heels. This crime comedy, with a stellar cast...
44) Monsieur Verdoux
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by notorious French serial killer Landru, Henri Verdoux lures wealthy women by promising them sweet happy-everafters. After the wedding bells chime, however, he murders them for their fortunes. In this particularly dark comedy, Chaplin questions our perception of evil: isn’t this refined criminal a mere amateur compared to weapons suppliers and dictators? We stand ready to condemn a murderer, but when war victims are counted in millions,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
Googie Withers stars as Rose Sandigate, a Bethnal Green housewife whose Sunday is turned upside down by the re-appearance of an old flame who is now an escaped convict seeking protection from the police. IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY shares rare glimpse into life in London's East End post WWII. *"The drama is managed without condescension and with enormous skill." - Peter Bradshaw, **Guardian*** *"Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. One day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The mayor of Sonnethal wants to gain attention for both himself and his small town by fostering a leading soccer team and a thriving sports culture. As he prepares plans for the youth club and the team, Barbara Schwalbe, the director of the agricultural school, counters his self-indulgent efforts by establishing a girls’ soccer team that will challenge the boys. Conflicts develop quickly, not only between the mayor and the school director, but also...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Nominated for Best British Film at the **BAFTA Film Awards.** WInner of the Best Production Design Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system." - Ben Walters, **Time Out***...
49) Things To Come
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1936.
Language
English
Description
It’s Christmas 1940, and Everytown resident John Cabal (Raymond Massey) fears that war is imminent. When it breaks out, the war lasts 30 years, destroying the city and ushering in a new dark age of plagues and petty despots. But there is hope in the form of Wings Over the World, a group of pacifist scientists and thinkers lead by Cabal. Their dream is to build a utopian society on the ruins of the old. But first they’ll have to unseat the latest...
50) Bulldog Drummond
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman, whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers. Nominated for 2 **Academy Awards**.
51) The Raging Moon
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a young, active man - until he finds himself struck down by a crippling disease and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is taken to a home for the disabled, but his bitterness and his dislike of rules and regulations only serve to make him angry and withdrawn. But he finds meaning in life once more when he falls in love with Jill (Nanette Newman), a polio victim. Happy, halcyon days follow for...
52) Dead of Night
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
An architect visits a country house only to get trapped in a recurring nightmare involving tales of the occult told by fellow guests at the manor. A portmanteau work from four of Ealing Studio's best directors, DEAD OF NIGHT preyed masterfully on the post-war fears and paranoia of the 1940's. Winner of the Most Interesting Screenplay Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival.** *"Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of spooky tales remains...
53) Foxtrot
Publisher
Icon
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of WWII, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. This 1970's classic was directed by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker, Arturo Ripstein, and stars Oscar-nominated actors, Charlotte Rampling, Peter O'Toole, and Max von Sydow.
54) King of Hearts
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance...
55) The Nun
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
Français
Description
Around 1750, a young girl is sent to a convent against her will. When she asks to renounce her vows, she finds herself caught in a fatal trap. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*In its sculptural compositions and meticulous choreography of bodies through space, it has a recognizably Rivettian formal beauty.*" - Justin Chang, **The Los Angeles Times**
56) Destiny
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1921.
Language
English
Description
A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in an effort to save the life of her fiance. Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begin three exotic scenarios of ill-fated love, in which the woman must somehow reverse the course of destiny: Persia, Quattrocento Venice, and a fancifully rendered ancient China.
57) 8 1/2
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Italiano
Description
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s *8 ½* (*Otto e mezzo*) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for *8 ½* was "The Beautiful Confusion," and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Winner of two **Academy...
58) The Third Lover
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Français
Description
An often-overlooked film from the early career of prolific French director Claude Chabrol (*The Swindle*), THE THIRD LOVER follows Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seem very close, he becomes jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally. The restored version of the film was an Official Selection at the...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Français
Description
The first and only narrative feature by American documentarian James Blue (Oscar®-nominated for A Few Notes On Our Food Problem), The OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE holds the dual distinctions of being the only French film to have been shot in Algeria during the Algerian War, and to have been the winner of the Prize of the Society of Film and Television Writers at the inaugural Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962. Filmed in Algiers and the...
60) Blackmail
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
During an attempted rape, Alice White kills her assailant in self defense. Her fiancé, Frank, a London detective, is assigned to the case, and he soon begins to suspect that Alice is involved. After a witness comes forward and threatens blackmail, Alice must decide whether to tell Frank the truth about what happened that night. *"BLACKMAIL marked Hitchcock's first use of sound, and it remains famous for innovations in that area. But it's now more...
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