One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1977) DVD9

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story was a 1978 made for TV movie telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers. The movie was based on LeFlore's autobiography, Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues.
It follows LeFlore from his heroin addiction, to his time in Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary, and tells of his discovery in prison by Billy Martin, who was then the manager of the Detroit Tigers.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:35:17 | 4.53 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director: William A. Graham
Cast: LeVar Burton, Madge Sinclair, Paul Benjamin, James Luisi, Billy Martin, Zakes Mokae, Larry B. Scott, John McKee
Country: USA
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Two Flags West (1950) DVD5

Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate prisoners who agree to fight alongside Union soldiers against the Indians in New Mexico. Tucker's Union commander Kenniston (Jeff Chandler) despises all "Johnny Rebs," holding them responsible for the death of his brother. Kenniston has other problems too; he is deeply in love with his sister-in-law Elena (Linda Darnell), but refuses to express his devotion out of loyalty to his dead sibling. He also hates Indians with a passion, and has endangered the safety of his fort by brutally killing a chief's son. There seems to be only one way for Kenniston to purge the demons within him, and he finds that way during a climactic Indian attack.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:28:20 | 4.15 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: Francais
Genre: Western

Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson, Noah Beery Jr.
Country: USA
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The Devil’s Teardrop / La larme du diable (2010) DVD5

Tom Everett Scott and Natasha Henstridge star in this thrilling story of ransom and murder, based on the New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver. When a gunman shoots seven dead at Washington DC's Union Station, the FBI receives a note promising similar attacks every 24 hours until $20 million is paid. Desperate to solve the case before the killer strikes again, Agent Lukas turns to renowned handwriting analyst Parker Kincaid. Kincaid is a former FBI agent who quit the force after his young son was attacked by an escaped killer that Kincaid had helped capture. While joining forces with Lukas to track down the murderer, Kincaid is also fighting his ex-wife for what's most dear to him — the custody of his children.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:28:10 | 4.21 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Norma Bailey
Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Natasha Henstridge, Rena Sofer, Gabriel Hogan, Jonathan Higgins, John MacDonald
Country: USA, Canada
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Aayirathil Oruvan / Yuganiki Okkadu / One Man in a Thousand (2010) DVD5

The Cholas and Pandyas are two of the four ancient Tamil dynasties that ruled South India. In 1279 A.D. as the last great Chola dynasty is collapsing and the Pandya empire rises to take control, driving the Cholas out of their own territory, the Chola emperor sends his son and the Chola people to a secret location to hide them and ensure that the dynasty lives on. The Chola people take with them an idol that is sacred to the Pandyas. Though the enraged Pandyan army search every location, the Cholas, along with the stolen idol, seem to have vanished forever, waiting, as legend has it, for the day when a saviour will appear to them to lead them out of hiding.
Skip forward a few centuries to the present day, and people are still searching for the, now legendary, hidden Chola kingdom. Every person that has gone looking for it - based on ancient clues left by the original Pandyan soldiers seeking the hidden city - mysteriously vanishes. Archaeologist Chandramouli is the most recent person to have gone missing.
The Indian government organizes a search expedition led by officer Anitha to find Chandramouli and the Chola empire...

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 03:01:38 | 4.22 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Tamil (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Music

Director: K. Selvaraghavan
Cast: Karthi, Reema Sen, Andrea Jeremiah, Parthiban, Alagam Perumal, Prathap K. Pothan
Country: India
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Caro Michele / Dear Michael (1976) DVD9

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael's girlfriend Mara (Mariangela Melato), the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael's increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:43:55 | 5.08 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama

Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clement, Lou Castel, Fabio Carpi, Marcella Michelangeli, Renato Romano
Country: Italy
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Ban zhi yan / Metade Fumaca / Half Cigarette (2000) DVD5

The exotic sounding title of Riley Yip's Metade Fumaca means half smoked in Portugese, and refers to half a cigarette carried around by Roy (Eric Tsang) for the last thirty years.
The memory haunts Roy, who returns to Hong Kong after almost 30 years in Brazil to settle an old grudge before he dies from Alzheimer's. Claiming to be a former gangster known as Mountain Leopard, he enlists the help of a young street punk, Smokey (Nicholas Tse), to find a former enemy, Nine Dragons (Chan Wai-min).
Back in the '70s, the two vied over a mysterious beauty (Shu Qi), and the young Nine Dragons (Sam Lee), losing out, shot Roy (Stephen Fung) in the back and dumped him on a boat to Brazil. Or at least, that is how Roy tells it. Smokey discovers the truth is somewhat different.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:40:45 | 4.31 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Chinese
Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Ip Kam Hung (Riley Ip, Kam-Hung Yip)
Cast: Eric Tsang, Nicholas Tse, Shu Qi, Kelly Chen, Sandra Ng, Anthony Wong, Terence Yin, Stephen Fung, Sam Lee
Country: Hong Kong
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So Long Letty (1929) DVD5

Uncle Claude, an eccentric millionaire, brings his flapper granddaughters, Ruth and Sally, to a fashionable beach hotel, where he is accosted by Letty Robbins, a beauty parlor solicitor. Infuriated by her tactics, he calls upon the "personality man," Harry Miller, a would-be singer who charms the girls; Claude rushes into the adjoining suite to find Clarence De Brie, a composer, who tries to induce him to produce his new opera; and back in his own suite, he encounters Joe Casey, who wants to give him swimming lessons; thus he resolves to escape to the beauty salon. Later, Letty and Tom decide to swap partners with their neighbors Harry and Grace; complications ensue when Claude, who is Harry's uncle, arrives with his granddaughters; and when they are all booked in a raid on their "wild party," the judge straightens out matters.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:04:02 | 3.33 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Musical

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Charlotte Greenwood, Claude Gillingwater, Grant Withers, Patsy Ruth Miller, Bert Roach
Country: USA
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Kokoda: 39th Battalion (2006) DVD5

Kokoda is the ultimate tale of survival and loyalty against the odds. We follow the experiences of a small group of untrained soldiers (who have named them 'chocolate' soldiers, claiming they are inexperienced and will melt in the sun).
A platoon of Australian soldiers from the 39th Battalion is sent as forward patrol outside the village of Isurava on the Kokoda track in New Guinea, during World War II, but sustained Japanese bombardment and initial attacks cut them off from their supply lines and communication. Isolated, they endure without food for three days, carrying their wounded. As they emerge exhausted from the jungle, Isurava is about to fall to the Japanese, and they must gather their last ounce of strength and courage to rejoin the battle.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:06 | 4.11 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian
Subtitles: Nederlands
Genre: Action, Drama, War

Director: Alister Grierson
Cast: Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon, Simon Stone, Luke Ford, Tom Budge, Steve Le Marquand, Angus Sampson, Christopher Baker
Country: Australia
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Tchaikovsky / Chaykovskiy / Чайковский (1969) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great masters life of his friendship with Baroness von Meck an outstanding woman of her time who for many years was Tchaikovskys guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composers childhood and adolescent years with Tchaikovskys life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.

2 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | 01:12:18 + 01:15:09
6.42 Gb + 7.38 Gb + 3% rec
Russian, English, Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitle: Russian, Francais, Espanol, Nederlands, Japanese, Svenska, Arabic, English, Deutsch, Italiano, Portugues, Hebrew, Chinese
Genre: Biography, Drama

Director: Igor Talankin
Actors: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Evgeni Leonov, Maya Plisetskaya, Bruno Frejndlikh, Evgeni Evstigneev
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Dangerous Game (1993) DVD5

Director Eddie Israel(played by Harvey Keitel) is obsessed with making a movie about spiritual redemption. To be edgy it take place with a central woman who's tired of sex,drugs, and violence. This mirrors his and the stars life,fitting for the title of that film to be Mother of Mirrors. His two main stars(played by Madonna and James Russo)are playing there roles too good, and soon there fights from the screen come into the real world. Eddie isn't too hot either,as his life is starting to fall apart too,as his years of cheating on his wife are coming back at him.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:48:25 | 4.10 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Portugues (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Portugues, Espanol, Francais
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara, Reilly Murphy
Country: USA
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Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) 2 x DVD5

It's graduation day in the small west Texas town of Dancer. The town's largest graduating class in years - five students - includes Keller (Breckin Meyer), Terrell Lee (Peter Facinelli), Squirrel (Ethan Embry) and John (Eddie Mills). The four made a pact when they were 11 that they'd all leave Dancer for Los Angeles on the first bus after graduation. Whether they will go through with it intrigues the other 77 residents of the town; some of whom offer their advice, while the remainder bet on how many of them will actually board the bus. Keller, the instigator, is determined, but Terrell Lee is being pressured by his mother to stay and work in the family oil business. Squirrel's father is an alcoholic and John, who yearns for the farm life, is concerned because his father seems not to care whether he goes or not. Over the course of two days, the four must decide where their futures lie.

2 x DVD5 | NTSC | 01:37:19 | 4.14 Gb + 4.16 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Espanol, Francais
Subtitles: English, Espanol, Francais
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Tim McCanlies
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Eddie Mills, Ethan Embry, Ashley Johnson, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Neill, Alexandra Holden
Country: USA

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These Discs contain 2 versions of the film: one - widescreen, on the other - fullscreen version.
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Cesar 2006: Selection officielle courts metrages / Cesar 2006: A selection of short films (2004 – 2005) 2 x DVD9

Official selection of 12 films for the 2006 Cesar for Best Short Film.

12 short films:

DVD 1
- "Dans l'ombre" (In the dark, 2004) Olivier Masset-Depasse (27')
- "French Kiss" (2004) Antonin Peretjatko (19')
- "Celeste" (2005) Valerie Gaudissart (45')
- "Obras" (2004) Hendrick Dusollier (12')
- "Atomic Park" (2004) Dominique Gonzales-Foerster (9')
- "Pork And Milk" (extrait) Valerie Mrejen

DVD 2
- "Du bois pour l'hiver" (Kindling, 2004) Olivier Jahan
- "Sous le bleu" (Under the Overalls, 2004) David Oelhoffen (21')
- "Les princesses de la piste" (Painting the Town Red, 2005) Marie Helia (37')
- "La peur, petit chasseur" (Fear, Little Hunter, 2004) Laurent Achard (9')
- "De l'autre cote" (On the Other Side, 2004) Nassim Amaouche (30')
- "After Shave" (extrait) Hany Tamba

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Great Directors (2009) 2 x DVD9

Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera. She explores the filmmakers' artistic evolution and personal identity, the role of politics and history on their work, and the agony and dilemmas in the creative process. It also examines the challenges of being an artist in an age of commercialism and globalization. The film traces the influence of cinematic movements and iconic directors on these directors' work-from the role of Neo-Realism in Bertolucci's evolution to the influence of Federico Fellini on David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman on Catherine Breillat and Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Todd Haynes.

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:26:50
7.15 Gb + 6.97 Gb + 3% rec
English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 192Kbps) | Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

Director: Angela Ismailos
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles, Agnes Varda, Richard Linklater
Country: USA
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Beckett on Film (2000) 4 x DVD

In 1991, Michael Colgan, artistic director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, produced a Beckett Festival – all nineteen of Beckett's stage plays (minus Eleutheria), performed to rave reviews and then imported to London and New York. During this time he began to consider the idea of turning all of the plays into films. Eventually connecting with filmmaker Alan Moloney, the "Beckett on Film Project" was finally realized in 2000-2001: nineteen films by nineteen different directors, each charged with adapting their play to the demands of film while adhering to Beckett's careful directions. Partially funded by RTE and Channel 4, the project called upon a wealth of talent from all creative spheres – theater, film, television, acting, and even music. Although some of the "adaptations" raised some controversy, the final result is quite an acheivement, and represents a significant addition to the field of Beckett performance.

4 x DVD | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 622 min
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none

Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson
Cast: Alan Rickman, Julianne Moore, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, John Hurt
Country: Ireland
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Another Day in Paradise (1998) 2 x DVD5 Theatrical Version and Director’s Cut

Bobby (Vincent Kartheiser) is a teenage thief whose idea of a big score is emptying the coins out of a cigarette vending machine. When he gets caught in the action and is brutally beaten by a security guard, his girlfriend, Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner), is forced to call in medical help. Enter "Uncle" Mel (James Woods), who arrives with advice and drugs to dull the pain. Later, after Bobby has recovered, he and Rosie join Mel and his girlfriend/partner, Sid (Melanie Griffith), in a life of crime. When Mel asks Bobby if he's ready "to graduate from the world of screwdrivers and vending machines to some really serious larceny," the budding criminal can't refuse the lure of big money. So starts an odyssey around the Oklahoma back roads for a surrogate family united in its devotion to drugs, booze and outlawdom.

There are two versions of Another Day in Paradise on this DVD, the theatrical release and a director's cut. The DVD also includes audio commentary by director Clark and as music video as well.

Director: Larry Clark
Cast: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Otis
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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E-Love (2011) DVD9

Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. Instead of experiencing an emotional breakdown, she skeptically signs up for an Internet dating service hoping to find a new love and forget her troubles for a while. Before long, she is having passionate affairs with a wide variety of different men, but is still on a quest for mister right. With quirky humor and wit, Paule explores a vast jungle of men, and discovers that maybe the chase itself is the real prize.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:34:50 | 6.71 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Anne Villaceque
Cast: Anne Consigny, Carlo Brandt, Antoine Chappey, Rebecca Marder
Country: France
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Eclipse Series 35: Wild 90 (1967), Beyond the Law (1968) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Norman Mailer has always been a larger-than-life literary figure, one whose gargantuan personality regularly precedes and often supersedes the quality and passion of his prose. He's one of those authors that most people know by name, but whom they maybe have never read. His outlandish behavior and public spats regularly put him at the center of controversy, as did the wildly varied success of his writing. Whether a book of his was loved or loathed, he at least usually went for it with an admirable level of gusto.

So it makes a certain kind of sense that the author would gravitate to a medium where he could put himself front and center in every sense of the word. At the tail end of the 1950s, Mailer could see the status of the Great American Novel declining as other entertainments took over. He started peeking in on the New York cinematic circles, visiting the Actor's Studio and embracing "The Method." This coming together practically seems like an inevitable meeting of the minds. He was an author who often lived his writing, or at least the persona concocted as a byproduct of the prose; as an actor and filmmaker, he would live those stories, too. The timing is also hard to ignore. As Mailer was turning to movies, Truffaut and Godard and their peers in the Nouvelle Vague were altering the art form in exciting, innovative ways, freeing it from the studio-bound grandiosity of Golden Age Hollywood. John Cassavetes was doing the same on Mailer's home turf, blazing a trail for independent cinema and achieving pioneer status.

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Porfirio (2011) DVD9

Formerly a wealthy farmer and cattle rancher living in the Colombian village of Playa Rica, Aldana found himself caught in police crossfire in 1991, sustaining injuries that left his legs paralyzed. Several years later, civil unrest forced him to flee to the city of Florencia, where he now lives in a disheveled housing project and ekes out a living selling minutes from his cell phone. It's here that "Porfirio" introduces its actor-subject, sans backstory, the better to build a slow, minutely detailed portrait of a person for whom even the act of climbing into bed reps a near-Herculean feat.
Porfirio exhibits both courage and frustration in his encounters with the constant limitations of his physical freedom. Calls and even a visit to a lawyer supposedly representing him in his claims against the state are fruitless. But he perseveres ... and he makes plans.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:42:14 | 5.53 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Drama

Director: Alejandro Landes
Cast: Porfirio Ramirez, Jarlinsson Ramirez, Yor Jasbleidy Santos
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain
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Contre toi / In Your Hands (2010) DVD9

Kristin Scott Thomas as Anna Cooper, who we first meet as she stumbles, disoriented and distressed, out of a suburban house. When she returns home and listens to her messages, it transpires that she's a surgeon and that she has been missing for several days, having been kidnapped just before she was meant to go on holiday.

When Anna reports her kidnapping to the police, her story unfolds in flashback: she was kidnapped and held against her will in an empty room by Yann (Pio Marmai), the distraught husband of a former patient. Throughout the ordeal, Anna and Yann gradually develop feelings for each other, but is it a result of Stockholm Syndrome or something more complex?

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:17:31 | 4.83 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Francais (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Lola Doillon
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmai
Country: France
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Catch-22 (1970) DVD9

Unrepentant slacker Yossarian (Alan Arkin) desperately tries to avoid combat duty in air raids over Italy and Sicily, yet finds that no matter how crazy he behaves, the Army Air Corps is crazier. His superiors and peers are all buffoons and maniacs, yet are perfectly content to function under irrational orders. Indeed, the insanity of the war only seems to feed their personal aberrations, especially those of Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), a wheeler-dealer who soon has the entire war effort working for his personal profit. Even Yossarian's close buddies argue with him over his insistence that pacifistic cowardice is the only sane reaction to the slaughter and the waste. Eventually Yossarian is psychologically isolated with his personal Catch-22: Everyone knows the war is crazy, and only crazy men can be relieved of duty. But if you're sane enough to do crazy things to get out of fighting, it only shows that you know the war is crazy, and therefore you must be sane, and you have to ke ep fighting!

Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, War
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