The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume One: The First Days (1934 – 1940) DVD9

Widely considered one of Britain's greatest documentary filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings has long been critically acclaimed for films which beautifully evoke everyday heroism in times of war and peace. Combining poetic observation and humanism with a subtle yet intense national feeling that is also very personal, Jennings was a visionary and progressive patriot in the tradition of Williams Blake and Morris.

For the first time ever, The British Film Institute will release the complete films of Humphrey Jennings. The BFI's release of The Complete Humphrey Jennings is an important cultural event. Everyone who admires Jennings, all who love film, even anyone interested in England, will regard it as an essential purchase.

This, the first of three volumes, gathers 14 films from the period 1934-1940 and provides a fascinating insight into Jennings' early days as a filmmaker learning and developing his craft. It features the critically acclaimed Spare Time and London Can Take It! as well as some previously neglected works, many of which will be available for the first time since their original release.
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A Long and Happy Life / Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn / Долгая счастливая жизнь (2013) DVD5

The film depicts in gloomy tones, the sad story of Sasha, a farmer who is invited by the local government administrators to close his business, located at the Kola Peninsula, in exchange of a monetary compensation. Trying to fight for a land he put so many efforts in, Sasha realizes he is completely tied by the corrupt authorities and constantly struggles with the idea of having to open the door of poverty to his employees, most of them not so young. The situation gets more complicated when his girlfriend, Anya, who works for the government, doesn't stay on his side when he decides to stand firm for his farm and workers.
Sasha is initially hailed as a hero by local villagers. But one by one they desert him, citing family commitments, unpaid wages or jobs elsewhere...

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:15:40 | 4.19 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Boris Khlebnikov
Cast: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anna Kotova, Vladimir Korobeynikov
Country: Russia
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27 Missing Kisses (2000) DVD5

In a sleepy little town, a mop-haired teenaged nymphet named Sybille arrives to spend her vacation with her aunt. Sybille is struck with the overwhelming sense that both her aunt and the town of Krasnyje Utki have nothing to offer her and are down right dull. Sybille soon changes this reality. She falls in love with a man twenty-six years her senior and infuses the little town with her love potion. But Sybille must pay a price: the son of the man she loves is in love with her, and will stop at nothing to get her. Before the season is through, Sybille owes a young man 100 kisses.
But since he only gets 73, the rest of the story is about the 27 missing kisses ­ and what happens when a secret screening of a pirated Emmanuelle film at the local armaments factory turns the whole town upside down.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:35:15 | 4.14 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian, International Mix (Georgian, Russian, French, English)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nana Dzhordzhadze (as Nana Djordjadze)
Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Shalva Iashvili, Pierre Richard, Amaliya Mordvinova
Country: Germany, Georgia, UK, France
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Antares (2004) DVD9, DVD5

Antares tells three stories of passion jealously, routine and violence. Love is the cause of, and driving force behind the character's emotional and physical experiences. This film also tells us what this fundamental energy of life brings about and how it leads to human action or suffering. And finally, what it is capable of triggering in the way of longing and destruction, tenderness, fear, loneliness and courage.

Alex and Nicole are divorced but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is facing tough times because of her pregnancy and becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. While Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has her life turned upside-down by a fling with Tomasz. They all live in the same impersonal housing estate, emotionally messy individuals within a uniform concrete facade.

Antares features explicit sexual content and mature themes in its portrayal of these modern relationships.

Director: Gotz Spielmann
Cast: Petra Morze, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest, Dennis Cubic, Martina Zinner
Country: Austria
Genre: Drama

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Hu Tu Tu (1999) DVD9

Based on one of his own short stories, the film is Gulzar's statement on the nation's pet hate - politics. Hu Tu Tu is about the game politics plays with the life of an ordinary, close-knit family from Shewri village in Maharashtra. Panna (Tabu) sees her mother Malti Barve (Suhasini Mulay) transform from a schoolteacher to a chief minister.
As Malti begins to enjoy the power that comes with politics, her ties with the family begin to disintegrate. Alienated, the impetuous Panna finds her soulmate in Aditya (Sunil Shetty), the equally disenchanted son of a corrupt industrialist (Kulbhushan Kharbanda).
One day Panna is abducted by Aditya and his group of revolutionaries, and held by them. It is there that Panna learns about the atrocities committed by her mom in the name of politics, and it is then she must decide whether to be loyal to her mom, or take the side of Aditya and the revolutionaries.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:53:06 | 7.52 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Gulzar
Cast: Nana Patekar, Sunil Shetty, Tabu
Country: India
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A Summer Place (1959) DVD9

A Summer Place, based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine.
Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) plays a former lifeguard who returns to the Maine island summer resort, where he'd worked years in his younger days, as a millionaire with his bigoted wife Helen (Constance Ford) and comely teenage daughter Molly (Sandra Dee). The resort has fallen on hard times financially and is currently run by Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy), the drunken son of the man who'd built it. He now lives there year round with his wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), who'd had a passionate affair with lifeguard Ken in her youth, and their hunk son Johnny (Troy Donahue).
Obviously, the two attractive youngsters are drawn to each other as are their former lover parents...

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 02:10:00 | 5.50 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Country: USA
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The Caller (1987) DVD5

In THE CALLER, a young woman who is living alone in a house in the woods, is startled when she receives a late night visit from a stranger. The man, claiming to have a flat, makes his way into the woman's home under the guise that he needs to contact a towing company. But almost immediately it's clear that there is another reason as to why he is there. It is apparent that he knows a lot about the woman, from the details surrounding the details of her husband's death in the war, to general details about her young daughter(who is supposedly away at a friend's house). Suspicious of the mysterious stranger, the woman begins to ask him questions about himself, and the more and more that he divulges, the more faults the woman finds in the man's story. The two of them begin a bizarre relationship, which the man continues to follow the girl, as the continue the game of revealing one another's secrets. This goes on for couple of days and slowly they're getting closer to solve the mystery...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:48 | 4.27 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne
Country: USA
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Teenage Cowgirls (1973) DVD5

One of the first of the noble tradition of porno-Westerns, 'Teenage Cowgirls' stars Long John Wodd (that's John Holmes to the rest of us) as the man with no name.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:03:16 | 3.69 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Adult, Western

Director: Ted Denver
Cast: John Holmes (Long John Wodd), Amanda Blake, Sally Withers
Country: USA
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Agent nr 1 / Top Agent / Agent # 1 (1972) DVD5

The adventures of real-life Polish spy and war hero Jerzy Szajnowicz-Iwanow are brought to the big screen in this gripping action drama from renowned screenwriter Aleksander Scibor-Rylski (MAN OF IRON) and acclaimed director Zbigniew Kuzminski (ON THE BANKS OF THE NIEMEN). One of the few films to chronicle the history of Polish soldiers fighting on the frontiers of the war, AGENT #1 offers a little-known chapter of WWII history. The story follows the trail of "Agent #1" in German-occupied Greece during the dark days of WWII.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:36 | 3.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War

Director: Zbigniew Kuzminski
Cast: Karol Strasburger, Monika Solubianka, Adriana Andreeva, Barbara Bargielowska, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski
Country: Poland
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Andres Caicedo: Unos pocos buenos amigos / Andres Caicedo: A Few Good Friends (1986) DVD5

Using as a narrative overview axis the reconstruction of the unfinished film "Angelita and Miguel Angel" (1971) by Andres Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo, friends of the writer and film critic reflects on his life, his work and his suicide.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:21:16 | 4.36 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

Director: Luis Ospina
Country: Colombia
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Dead Reckoning (1947) DVD5

The plot of DEAD RECKONING concerns war veteran Captain Warren Murdock (Bogart), who is returning to the states with Sgt. Johnny Drake (William Prince), a paratrooper whom Murdock has recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor. But Johnny doesn't want the attention, and immediately goes AWOL, jumping off the train when it stops in Philadelphia. Murdock is dumbfounded — why wouldn't Johnny want to get the recognition he's earned? He investigates and finds himself in a web of deceit and murder, at the centre of which is Lizabeth Scott, his buddy's former flame, and the woman for whom he might have committed murder.
Now it's up to Murdock to set the record straight.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:36:24 | 3.58 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Nederlands, Arabic, Czech(Ceske), Dansk, Suomi, Greek, Hindi, Magyar, Norsk, Polish, Portugues, Svenska, Turkish
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
Country: USA
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A Woman Rebels (1936) DVD5

In Victorian England, Katharine Hepburn and her sister (Elizabeth Allan) live with their stern father (Donald Crisp), who tries to make them believe that women are inferior to men and that they should therefore behave accordingly. "It's nonsense!" replies Hepburn, who is promptly sent to her room. As the years pass, Hepburn remains defiant, even after she becomes pregnant out of wedlock thanks to Van Heflin.
Now a single mother, Hepburn becomes a feminist newspaper publisher and writes articles about women in society. Through all the years, Hepburn also refuses to marry the man she loves, Herbert Marshall, because she knows that if the truth about her daughter ever surfaced, it could ruin his career...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:28:14 | 3.95 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan
Country: USA
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Little Vera / Malenkaya Vera / Маленькая Вера (1988) DVD9 RUSCICO

Vera lives in a seaside town. Being kind and sensitive, down-to-earth and passionate, she can't find her way, she doesn't know what to do with her freedom, her youth and her beauty. She no more understands her drinking father and her mother who is just tired of life. The aimless being is suffocating for her; she needs love and happiness, which, East or West, not everyone can get. After meeting Sergei at an underground dance party, Vera's life is turned upside down...

In 1988 the first Soviet erotic film appeared as a symbol of perestroika. The scenes rather moderate for the genre were shocking for the domestic audiences. On the day of premiere the crowd around Moscow Film House was held back by the police. The film enjoyed international commercial success. Natalia Negoda toured half of the world with the film, she co-starred the Oscar Awards ceremony, and was the first Russian actress to appear in Playboy. The slogan "From Russia with Love" became known ever since.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:08:11 | 7.62 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian, Francais
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Vasili Pichul
Cast: Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva
Country: Soviet Union
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