The Death Collector / Family Enforcer (1976) DVD5

When streetwise hood Jerry Bolanti (Cortese) returns to his native New Jersey he becomes a collector for the mob. He quickly rises, rung by rung, up the ladder of the underworld, but makes a lot of enemies on the way. As his inability to play by the rules gets him deeper into trouble, it seems time is running out for the hot-headed gangster...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:29:24 | 3.97 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Ralph De Vito
Cast: Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci
Country: USA
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The Keeper (1976) DVD5

Set in 1947, Christopher Lee plays the (it appears!) sole employee and director of 'The Underwood Asylum', a place where the rich citizens of the community send their insane relatives. All of the internees are the sole surviving heirs to vast fortunes: over a hundred of their next-of-kin have died — the victims of suicides, murders or accidents. The police, led by the goonish Inspector Clarke, have the place under surveillance but are still without any leads.
A private investigator learns that The Keeper is using hypnosis to brainwash the patients and turn them into killers...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:27:59 | 4.10 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: T.Y. Drake
Cast: Christopher Lee, Tell Schreiber, Sally Gray
Country: Canada
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Parinawa la ghobar / Crossing the Dust (2006) DVD5

A gripping road movie set in Iraq during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurdish soldiers, Asad and Rashid, who celebrate with their comrades the downfall of Saddam on 9th April 2003 before being ordered to take food supplies to another remote part of the country, are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding. Crossing the Dust is an absorbing portrait of the societal strains that began to emerge in the aftermath of the quest to topple Saddam Hussein.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:12:48 | 3.96 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Kurdish
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Cast: Adil Abdolrahman, Ayam Akram, Hossein Hasan
Country: France, Iraq
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The Formula (1980) DVD9

In 1945, during the last days of the war, German General Helmut Kladen (Richard Lynch) is sent to Switzerland without an escort with a truck full of secret files containing information on the German discovery of a formula for the manufacture of synthetic fuel. The General is captured in a snowy field by the Americans and the major in charge, Tom Neeley (Robin Clarke), strikes a deal with the General in his cynical belief that in the future big corporations will use these secret documents as part of their commerce. The film suddenly moves forward 35 years later and ex-police chief of the LAPD, Tom Neeley, is executed gangland style in his luxury Beverly Hills mansion, making it look as if he's a cocaine dealer. This brings his friend, the world-weary divorced Lt. Barney Caine (George C. Scott), of the LAPD, to head the investigation. Barney treks to Berlin and soon discovers a link between oil magnate Adam Steiffel (Marlon Brando) to manipulate worldwide fuel prices and the mysterious murders of several people...

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:57:02 | 6.05 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol, Portugues
Genre: Crime, Thriller

Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
Country: USA, West Germany
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Spiegelgrund (2001) DVD5

An admirable film with the courage to flow against the stream is a new Austrian documentary, Spiegelgrund, directed by two young filmmakers: Angelika Schuster and Tristan Sindelgruber. Completed in 1999, the film takes up a theme of burning significance in modern Austria, the case of Dr. Heinrich Gross, who, in a 1981 trial, was proven to be involved "in the killing of several hundred mentally deformed children" under Nazi rule in Vienna. His signature was found on more than 200 documents, declaring a child "unfit to live". Despite the court decision, Gross was able to continue his work as a doctor without consequences.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:11:11 | 3.31 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais
Genre: Documentary

Director: Angelika Schuster, Tristan Sindelgruber
Cast: Alois Kaufmann, Hermine Kaufmann, Antje Kosemund
Country: Austria
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La redevance du fantome (1965) DVD5

Cambridge 1850. Divinities student Fanning (Stephane Fey) spends the time he isn't studying (which seems to be most of the time) with long walks across the countryside. On one of these walks, the young man comes upon a seemingly uninhabited, locked house that develops a strange power over him. Even though Fanning does not believe in ghosts or hauntings, he is convinced something supernatural is surrounding the house, an opinion that only rises in intensity once he realizes how little the people in the area like to talk about it.
Fanning becomes so fascinated by the place that he begins to visit it regularly to stare at it. One evening, the student observes an old gentleman (Francois Vibert) nearing the house, bowing to it, and stepping inside...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:29:33 | 3.51 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Fantasy

Director: Robert Enrico
Cast: Stephane Fey, Francois Vibert, Marie Laforet
Country: France
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The Sixth / Shestoy / Шестой (1981) DVD9 RUSCICO

The film is set in 1923 and the Russian Civil War has come to an end, although the situation is still dangerous in some regions. An elusive band of White guards is hiding in the mountains, raiding Soviet institutions and making short work of the representatives of local government. Five chiefs have already been killed by the "whites" and the intimidated townsfolk believe the sixth one is also doomed. The protagonist is the sixth militia chief, but he is shrewder than his predecessors.
Recognizing the superior firepower of his well-armed and zealous enemies, he attempts to mobilise the people in the towns and help them regain faith and hope. He learns that there is a leak in his organisation and that someone is informing the band of all planned operations. He decides to use this very leak against the bandits.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:19:29 | 5.40 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian, English, Francais
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Action, Ostern

Director: Samvel Gasparov
Cast: Sergey Nikonenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Vladimir Grammatikov, Mikhail Pugovkin
Country: Soviet Union
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Wild in the Country (1961) DVD5

Glenn Tyler (Presley), a surly delinquent from the Shenandoah Valley, is arrested for fighting and put in the custody of his Uncle Rolfe (William Mims). Under the conditions of his parole he is required to have weekly sessions with Irene Sperry (Hope Lange), a psychiatric counselor who discovers Glenn has a talent for writing. Despite Glenn's initial hostility, he comes to trust Irene who encourages him to seek a college scholarship to develop his creative gifts. His love life, however, threatens to undermine his ambitions as he breaks off from his steady girlfriend Betty Lee (Millie Perkins) and begins an affair with Noreen (Tuesday Weld), the local bad girl. Events take a darker turn when Glenn gets into a fight with Cliff Macy (Gary Lockwood) over vicious rumors about Betty Lee and himself and accidentally kills Cliff. Accused of manslaughter, Glenn looks destined for prison until justice is served in an unexpected last minute turn of events.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:54:19 | 4.14 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Musical

Director: Philip Dunne
Cast: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld
Country: USA
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Volveras / You’ll Be Back (2002) DVD5

"Volveras" tells the story of two brothers, Ignacio and Carlos, who had lost contact with each other for some six long years and suddenly meet by chance on a Catalonian night. Carlos is in serious trouble: he's a gambler that owes lots of money and his former girlfriend has just kicked him out. Ignacio truly wants to help Carlos, but it so happens that in five days he's due in Los Angeles to finish his University studies.
During these five days Ignacio enters into Carlos's world, a world without limits, full of risks and challenges. These meetings end up changing Ignacio's personal and family life and putting them in danger, but when he tries to free himself from his brother's influence he finds it is not so easy to backtrack.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:38:18 | 4.20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol, Catalan
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Antonio Chavarrias
Cast: Tristan Ulloa, Unax Ugalde, Elizabeth Cervantes
Country: Spain, Mexico
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Quadrophenia (1979) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

In the early 1960s, there were two cultures competing for the hearts and minds of London's youths. The first were the Mods. They were stylish, wearing well-kept suits, and listened to soul and R&B tracks. They also did a lot of speed and rode around on scooters. Their mortal enemies were the Rockers, who were rude, crude, drove motorbikes, and listened to American rock 'n' roll. Clashes between the two groups were frequent and often violent. Declaring allegiance to one group meant the near-constant threat of retribution from the other.

Loosely based on the 1973 double album of the same title by The Who, Quadrophenia is a gritty, dour slice of kitchen-sink alienation set against the early-'60s conflict between rival teenage gangs in England. The protagonist is Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a rather unremarkable young man who attempts to find an outlet for his working-class teenage rage by identifying with the Mods, a British youth subculture associated with Italianate fashion, R&B, and motor-scooters. As the film's title—which is simultaneously a riff on the idea of split personalities (incorrectly attributed to schizophrenia) and four-track sound recording—suggests, Jimmy is internally divided among multiple selves, constantly torn in different directions and therefore incapable of deciding what he wants in life. For him there is no peace, only constant stimulation and turmoil, which he enhances with a steady diet of amphetamine pills and conflict with Rockers, the Mods' leather jacket-clad, motorcycle-riding opponents.

Jimmy spends much of his time with his Mod friends Chalky (Philip Davis), Dave (Mark Wingett), and Spider (Gary Shail). He has a day job, working in the mailroom at an advertising firm, but he resents his lowly station in life, which is reinforced by his own lack of ambition and interpersonal confusion. He is attracted to and semi-involved with Steph (Leslie Ash), a pretty local girl who moves in and out of his various circles. One day in a bathhouse he runs into Kevin (Ray Winstone), an old friend who has left the army and is now running with the Rockers, thus complicating the comfortably simplistic us-versus-them mentality that helps Jimmy make sense of his world. At home, he is in constant conflict with his parents (Kate Williams and Michael Elphick), who don't understand him and his apparent aimlessness. Thus, everything in Jimmy's life contributes directly to his alienation, fueling his sense of social and personal estrangement even as he reaches desperately for some kind of connection, which he imagines might be found in Ace Face (Sting), the unofficial leader of the Mods in whom he sees an ideal self.
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The Guard / Karaul / Караул (1990) DVD5

This is a very bleak look into the life of soldiers that work on a Soviet prison train. Most stories about prison brutality are set among the prisoners. This unusual feature follows the initiation period of a new guard who has come onto a train taking prisoners to forced labor camps. Each day, the train travels farther from "civilization," and each day, the brutal treatment the guards mete out to the prisoners and the rough games they play on each other grow in ferocity and barbarity. The new guard somehow bears the progressive dehumanization of himself and his fellow guards, until something happens and he loses all control...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:36:46 | 4.01 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Aleksey Buldakov, Sergey Kupriyanov, Aleksey Poluyan
Country: Soviet Union
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The Interview (1998) DVD5

Eddie Fleming sits relaxing in a chair in his unassuming home when, suddenly, his life is turned upside down. Suddenly, police break down his door, throw him to the floor and accuse him of crimes they refuse to name. Frightened and confused, he is dragged away to be interviewed. In a dark, featureless room, Detective Sergeant Steele - a man of uncompromising authority and ruthless determination - controls Eddie's interrogation with an iron fist and the passion that comes from many years on the job, too many criminals, too many lies. Steele is going to get his man, and he's convinced that Eddie is exactly who he's looking for. The truth must come out, regardless of the methods - and regardless of whether or not Eddie is telling the truth.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:40:03 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian
Subtitles: none
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama

Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery
Country: Australia
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The Films of Su Friedrich Collection (1978 – 2005) 6 x DVD5

Su Friedrich is an American avant-garde filmmaker. Her films have won many awards, including the Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival and Outstanding Documentary at Outfest. Friedrich is the recipient of the Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Arts and has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as numerous grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Independent Television Service, and the Jerome Foundation.

Her films and videos are widely screened in the United States, Canada and Europe and have been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Stadtkino in Vienna, the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, the National Film Theater in London, and many others.

Friedrich's work is part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Library of Australia. Friedrich is the writer, cinematographer, director and editor of all her films, with the exception of Hide and seek, which was co-written by Cathy Quinlan and shot by Jim Denault.

Digitally re-mastered from the original 16mm negatives, this collection of 14 films is essential for every library, media center, as well as women and cinema studies programs.

Since the 1970's, Friedrich's skillful mix of experimental narrative and documentary forms, filled with provocative feminist and lesbian themes, has made her a groundbreaking member of the avant-garde film community and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. This collection of DVDs includes the filmmaker's classic works such as SINK OR SWIM, HIDE AND SEEK, THE TIES THAT BIND, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T, and THE ODDS OF RECOVERY, as well as EIGHT BONUS FILMS.

Special features: Digitally Remastered from the original 16mm negatives, 8 Bonus Films, Multiple Languages (on selected titles), Scene Selections, Filmography, and Production Credits.

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Les chants de Mandrin / Mandrin’s Songs / Smugglers’ Songs (2011) DVD9

A Gallic Robin Hood, Louis Mandrin was a folk-hero outlaw in 18th-century France. After his brother's hanging, Mandrin began military-style operations, trafficking contraband from outside France's borders, thus thwarting and enraging the state's vicious, widely despised tax collectors. Mandrin was eventually executed in 1755, an event described at the start of Ameur-Zaimeche's film.
The highwayman himself never appears here. Instead we follow his organization's surviving members as they stage "one last campaign" in his memory.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:58 | 5.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Cast: Jacques Nolot, Christian Milia-Darmezin, Kenji Levan
Country: France
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The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) DVD5

Sunblock can't save you from the solar-powered monster in this sci-fi cult item. Dr. Gilbert McKenna (Robert Clarke) is a research scientist who is exposed to dangerously radioactive materials during a visit to an atomic power plant. The radiation causes McKenna to mutate into a strange and murderous half-man, half-reptile when he comes into contact with the rays of the sun. The isotopes also have another effect on him; he begins to forget about his loyal girlfriend Ann Russell (Patricia Manning) and starts taking up with blonde bombshell Trudy Osborne (Nan Peterson), who brings out the beast in him as surely as the sun...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:14:38 | 3.82 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Clarke, Tom Boutross
Cast: Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
Country: USA
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