Plan B (2009) DVD9

When Bruno sees his ex-girlfriend Ana with her new boyfriend, Pablo, he decides he wants her back, even though she only seems interested in occasional sex sessions. Realising the usual tactics won't work to get her back – he comes up with a Plan B. He's heard Pablo has had liaisons with guys, so Bruno determines that he'll befriend Pablo without letting him know who he is, and then make him fall in love with him. Then, after this causes Pablo and Ana to break up, he can swoop in and be her knight in shining armour when she's sad and lonely.
However, life has a habit of never sticking to any plan that we map out, and to Bruno ... and everyone's surprise, it's he who ends up falling in love with Pablo and suddenly all their lives are turned upside down in this sweet romantic comedy.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:43:10 | 7.56 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Marco Berger
Cast: Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro, Mercedes Quinteros
Country: Argentina
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Among Grey Stones / Sredi serykh kamney / Среди серых камней (1983) DVD5

This film is based on a short story of Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer. The story is about the writer's childhood, about his sad experiences of losing beloved people (his own mother and a little girlfriend Marusya).
Kira Muratova made this film under the pseudonym of Ivan Sidorov in 1983, but the official release came in 1988. This somber drama tells of a judge who is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with is new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:23:00 | 3.96 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, History

Director: Kira Muratova
Cast: Stanislav Govorukhin, Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Roman Levchenko
Country: Soviet Union
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Silver City (1951) DVD9

Edgar Buchanan and De Carlo are a father and daughter who lease a silver mine from Fitzgerald. They find a rich pocket of ore, but with it comes trouble in the form of Fitzgerald's hired gun, Michael Moore. O'Brien is a mining expert who's been disgraced and is trying to return to his former profession. Arlen is trying to stop him. When O'Brien comes to the aid of Buchanan and De Carlo, he wins the daughter's heart.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:30:55 | 4.68 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Western

Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Arlen, Barry Fitzgerald, Gladys George, Kasey Rogers, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Moore
Country: USA
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Agnes Varda: Mur murs (1981), Documenteur (1981) DVD9

Documenteur, Agnes Varda's companion piece and follow-up to her documentary Mur murs, shares with it a filming location and a similarly punning title (a menteur is a liar, in French). But the similarities end there: while Mur murs is a more or less straightforward film that purports to document the murals, the artists who created them, and the effect the pictures have on the neighborhoods surrounding them, Documenteur, which includes shots of some of those same murals and has scenes set in those same neighborhoods, is, by its own admission, "an emotion picture". Neither pure fictional feature film nor documentary, it's perhaps best described as a documentary with a fictionalized main character.
Both films were made during Varda's second sojourn to L.A. from 1979 to 1981. This time, Varda was separated from Jacques Demy, filming Mur murs for French television, and trying in vain to put together financing for an ultimately abandoned film called Maria and the Naked Man. She was charmed by L.A. with its glittering facades and population of dreamers, but felt isolated by its sprawling highway system that encouraged segregation and discouraged community. Feeling adrift and alone after the completion of Mur murs, Varda picked up her camera and, in a sense, turned it on herself to make Documenteur.

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Les mille et une mains / Alf yad wa yad / A Thousand and One Hands (1974) DVD5

Two families of Moroccan rug-makers are contrasted in this award-winning French-language film. The poor family makes its living by dyeing the wool used in the rugs made in the richer family's factory. When the boss of the factory refuses to see the son of the poor family following an accident which has injured his father, the poor son breaks into the boss's house. He is met by unsupportable abuse from the rich wife, who flogs him for dirtying her carpets.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:00:02 | 3.88 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Arabic-Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais, Arabic, Espanol, Portugues
Genre: Drama

Director: Souheil Ben-Barka
Cast: Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed
Country: Morocco, France
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) DVD9

Dr. Clitterhouse, a successful and respected Park Ave. doctor, decides the best way to study the criminal mind is to become a criminal. He begins by robbing the safes of his wealthy friends, but soon wants to observe the underworld more closely and test his theory that criminal activity changes the personality. He seeks out Jo Keller, a well-known fence, and is surprised to discover that Keller is a beautiful woman. While the doctor's devoted nurse, Randolph, covers for him, Clitterhouse joins the gang of criminals run by Keller and Rocks Valentine. Jo falls in love with Clitterhouse, now nicknamed "the Professor". Unfortunately, Rocks grows concerned that Clitterhouse's massive intellect will unseat him as the gang leader.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:27:07 | 5.15 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian
Subtitles: English, Francais, Russian
Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp, Gale Page, Henry O'Neill, John Litel
Country: USA
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After Office Hours (1935) DVD5

Clark Gable is fast-talking, take-no-prisoners-newspaper editor Jim Branch, who is determined to dig up a juicy story on a corrupt millionaire. He starts sucking up to the newspaper's music reviewer, wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Bennett), when he discovers she is close to the impending story. After the millionaire's wife turns up dead, Sharon and Jim disagree on the culprit. Jim becomes determined to crack the case and reunite with Sharon, whom he has now fallen in love with.
Film is a pleasant mix of romance, comedy, and mystery.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:11:28 | 2.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke, Harvey Stephens, Katharine Alexander, Hale Hamilton, Henry Travers
Country: USA
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A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (2005) DVD9

An impressive collection of the Oscar-nominated short feature films of 2005, including Six Shooter, a dark tale by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, Our Time Is Up with Kevin Pollack as a psychiatrist, The Last Farm about death in rural Scandanavia, Runaway about a German child and man, Cashback, where a graveyard shift grocery store worker indulges in flights of fancy, plus 3 more and 2 cartoons.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 7.43 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: Espanol
Genre: Short

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James Benning’s California Trilogy: El Valley Centro (1999), Los (2000), Sogobi (2001) DVD9 + DVD5

Produced at the junction of two millennia, the California Trilogy is James Benning's three-part topographical study of America's "Golden State". Looking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2.5 minutes long. Formal restraint and compositional precision combine with ambient sound and an unheard social commentary to create a hypnotic journey across the 31st US State; from the Great Central Valley (El Valley Centro) through greater Los Angeles (Los) to the Californian wilderness (Sogobi). This 2-disc set presents the complete California Trilogy for the first time ever on DVD.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 3 x 87mins | 7.59 Gb + 3.92 Gb + 3% rec
Language: none
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

Director: James Benning
Country: USA
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Ruby Gentry (1952) DVD5

Even though she lived in the house of big businessman Jim Gentry (Karl Malden) as a teenager, Ruby Corey (Jennifer Jones) was born on the wrong side of the tracks. She's excluded from the social whirl in her Southern town, even though she catches every man's eye. Well-born Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) returns from South America to drain a swamp and make his fortune, and he and Ruby rekindle their fiery romance. But when Boake instead weds a more socially acceptable debutante, Ruby goes wild, vowing revenge upon her lover and the whole hypocritical town as well.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:22:38 | 4.29 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: King Vidor
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully, Phyllis Avery, Frank Wilcox
Country: USA
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Tatt av kvinnen / Gone with the Woman (2007) DVD9

The nameless lead, simply called "Him" (Trond Fausa Aurvaag) of Gone with the Woman is just your average guy. He's the quintessential bachelor, enjoying his space and delighting in the quirks of solitary male life. The harmony of his routine however, which is ironically displayed on his t-shirt, is quickly thrown out the window by the arrival of Marianne (Marian Saastad Ottesen). She just shows up, praising the wonder of silence, yet not understanding that in order to get it, she'd have to be quiet. But he doesn't tell her that, or anything for that matter. He just lets her visit more and more, slowly morphing his life into what she wants it to be.
Marianne is soon turning his existence upside down...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:27:27 | 5.41 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Norsk
Subtitles: English, Svenska, Norsk, Suomi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Petter Naess
Cast: Trond Fausa, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Henrik Mestad, Anna Gutto
Country: Norway
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Surcos / Furrows (1951) DVD5

An average family migrates to Madrid in search of work; what they find instead is bad housing, treacherous people and black marketeering. Often hailed as Spain's first neo-realist film, Furrows is a curious combination of city symphony, social drama and gangster thriller.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:39:26 | 4.14 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Jose Antonio Nieves Conde
Cast: Luis Pena, Maria Asquerino, Francisco Arenzana, Marisa de Leza, Ricardo Lucia
Country: Spain
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Sherlock Holmes (1964–1965) 4 x DVD9 Season 1

The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never at the expense of sturdy, straightforward storytelling. The 13 episodes on this DVD set include such favorites as "The Red-Headed League" and "The Six Napoleons," as well as lesser-known stories like "The Beryl Coronet" and "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." Douglas Wilmer plays Holmes with all the traditional accouterments: the deerstalker cap, the pipe, the aquiline nose, the obsessive and abrasive nature, the mix of haughty superiority and moral compassion. Nigel Stock is a typically affable but dense Watson. The supporting casts feature an abundance of unknown but capable character actors who bring flavor and zest to their roles. Some episodes have a hint of film noir or the pulp surrealism of Fantomas, with good use of shadows and things not quite seen. The best stories traffic in the macabre. In "The Devil's Foot," a woman dies overnight while playing cards with her brothers, who each went mad; they sit at a round table, the woman's hand covered in melted wax from the candle, the men grinning, twitching, and laughing. Holmes, of course, will suss out the truth--but the truth is less likely to stick in the mind than that weird domestic image. Sherlock Holmes walks that fine line between morbid imagination and complete faith in the power of the rational mind.

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