Der amerikanische Freund / The American Friend (1977) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the work of American painter Derwatt (Nicholas Ray), who has feigned his own death to increase the value of his paintings. While auctioning this work in Berlin, he meets art restorer Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz), who he learns is suffering from an incurable blood disease. When a shady friend (Gerard Blain) requires Ripley to find a "clean" non-professional to do a contract hit in order to pay off a debt, even he is reluctant. But he quickly realizes that the physically vulnerable Jonathan would be perfect for the job, and tries to get him to accept by employing various subterfuges to persuade him that his condition is even worse than it is. For his part, Blain guarantees the restorer that his family will be financially secure for life, and a deal is struck. As usual, nothing works out quite as expected...

Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Country: West Germany, France
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama

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Al otro lado del espejo / The Other Side of the Mirror (1973), Le miroir obscene / The Obscene Mirror (1974) DVD9 + DVD5 Spanish and French versions

Ana Olivera (Emma Cohen) is a singer-songwriter who plays jazz in nightclubs. She lives in Madeira with her father (Howard Vernon), who is secretly obsessed with her. Depressed over her coming marriage to Arturo (Wal "The Horrible Sexy Vampire" Davis), Mr. Olivera commits suicide on his daughter's wedding day. Distraught, she breaks her engagement and throws herself into her work and a series of affairs with an actor (Robert Woods), a theater director (Simon Andreu) and an aging playboy (Philippe Lemaire). Meanwhile, the selfish ghost of her father lives on inside the mirror where she first caught sight of his dead body, compelling the psychotic Ana to murder any man who vies for her heart.

In the French version (1974), Ana's father is replaced with a lesbian sister named Marie (Lina Romay), who also commits suicide upon learning of the wedding. Monique Delauanay and Ramon Ardid co-star in this version, which is basically a softcore sex film.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:31:40 + 01:35:24 | 4.97 Gb + 4.31 Gb
Language: Francais or Espanol
Subtitles: English (both version), Francais (Spanish version only)
Genre: Horror

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A Hatful of Rain (1957) DVD5

A returning soldier who was wounded in action requires extensive painkilling medication while healing and becomes addicted to heroin. He desperately attempts to hide his secret from his wife and his obtusely devoted father, while relying on his brother for financial and emotional support. The film recounts the terrible toll this addiction takes on himself and his family.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:44:08 | 3.89 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa
Country: USA
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Regardless of whether or not we're willing to accept it, we're all getting older by the day. One moment, we're an eighteen-year-old with our entire life ahead of us, and the next, we're a forty-year-old with responsibilities. Getting old is a very serious fear that many people have around the world, as many refuse to accept it, and cling to a youth that has left them. This is one of the many complex issues discussed in Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria.
At the peak of her internationally successful acting career, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked by a highly acclaimed director to accept the part in the very same play that originally made her famous. At the early age of eighteen, she played Sigrid, a destructive youth that takes advantage of an older woman named Helena, which drives her to suicide. Now, she's being asked to play the part of Helena, while tabloid queen Jo-Ann Ellis (Chloe Grace Moritz) plays Sigrid. Retreating to a remote region of the Alps, she begins to rehearse with assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart). Taking upon this role proves to be more destructive than ever imagined.
While Maria is traveling in order to attend a celebration of Wilhelm Melchior (Valery Bukreev), she hears news of his passing. This sends ripples throughout the industry, as he was seen as revolutionary to many. This is a devastating blow for Maria, to have a man who has crafted her career now be gone leads to her having to reevaluate her life.

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Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (1981) 3 x DVD5 Platinum Elite Collection

Meet Annie Sprinkle. She's an incredibly curvaceous red-head, sporting colossal DD breasts and vanilla skin. Annie loves sex. All kinds of sex - rough sex, soft sex, wet sex, smelly sex, any kind of sex with a woman or man(or both at the same time). Annie is an exhibitionist who would also like you to watch her have sex with numerous partners, exploring nearly all avenues of sexual fulfillment including: anal sex, cunnilingus, analingus, golden showers, titty fucking, "Dove"fucking(a nipple is used to rub on a clit) and good ol' fashion fuckin'. Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle: Platinum Edition from Video-X-Pix shows Annie doing all the above.

Made with legendary director Joe Sarno and featuring the legendary Ron Jeremy in one of his earliest roles, Annie presents a personal account of her life introducing vignettes showing off her unbelievable sexual fantasies. Get down and dirty as Annie reveals many of her personal secrets as well as her sexual philosophies and favorite sex acts.

Video•X•Pix is proud to present the full uncut, uncensored version for the first time since it's original cinema release. Digitally remastered from the original negative and with a host of extras, this is the definitive, deluxe package of one of the defining films of the era.

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Una giornata particolare / A Special Day (1977) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

A Special Day is set in the late 1930s during Hitler's visit to Italy to meet with Mussolini and the fascists. All Italian citizens are expected to turn out and greet the visiting dictator as he tours their streets in a grand parade. Left behind in a towering tenement is beleaguered housewife and mother of six, Antonietta (Sophia Loren). An escaping mynah bird leads to a chance encounter with a neighbor across the courtyard, a depressed bachelor named Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni). Unbeknownst to Antonietta, Gabriele is on his own because he is an antifascist who has been fired from his job due to his political beliefs. An intellectual and effete, Gabriele sees little hope in a life under fascist rule.
Perhaps sensing a similar loneliness in the housewife, Gabriele turns up on her doorstep seeking coffee and conversation, and risking scandal from the spying landlord. Over the course of their day together, they get to know one another, crossing a divide that is greater than their courtyard: Antonietta is a true believer in the current regime.

Director: Ettore Scola
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
Country: Italy, Canada
Genre: Drama

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Apocalypse la 1ere Guerre mondiale / Apocalypse: World War I (2014) 3 x DVD9

Could the sacrifice of an entire generation have been avoided? How did such a cruel and far-reaching conflict occur? How did men and women endure this atrocity for four long years?
Produced using over 500 hours of archival footage, much of it previously unseen, and now completely colorised, Apocalypse World War I takes a strategic and global approach to address these fundamental questions, but also, and most importantly, tells the story with a sensitive, intimate approach on a human level.
The story brings you to the heart of battle, from the trenches in the North of France to the lesser-known fronts of Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and Palestine, as well as to the everyday life of civilians behind the lines.
The narration brings to life the memories and the experiences of these men and women, and helps you better understand and feel how yesterday's world was driven to apocalypse.

3 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 295 minutes | 20.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais
Subtitles: Francais
Genre: Documentary

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
Country: France, Canada, USA, Belgium

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Alan Parsons’ Art & Science of Sound Recording (2010) 3 x DVD9

Nearly three years in the making, Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording is a monumental ten-hour video series. Narrated by actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton, it is divided into 24 sections, starting with a brief history of recording.

Parsons' illustrious career - as a recording engineer, producer, composer and artist - acts as both backdrop and inspiration for the series. Parsons worked with The Beatles on the albums Abbey Road and Let It Be, engineered Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and produced a string of multi-platinum hits for The Hollies, Pilot, Ambrosia, Al Stewart and other artists, as well as for The Alan Parsons Project.

This is the most powerful instructional series ever created for music production. The Art & Science of Sound Recording looks at everything from soundproofing to mixing, and from recording guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals, to recording a choir.

3 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 600 minutes | 21.9 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Espanol, Deutsch
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Music

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La corrispondenza / Correspondence (2016) DVD9 and Blu-Ray

Olga Kurylenko and Jeremy Irons play Amy and Ed, an astrophysics student and her brilliant professor. In the opening scene, we see them passionately embraced, smitten, in love and inseparable: the first and last point in the film at which we see them together. Their long distance relationship is kept alive with text messages, emails and video calls, in a frenzied whirlwind of phones ringing and notifications. One day Ed mysteriously disappears, but his affectionate text messages continue to arrive. Why? What should Amy do? Should she reply or not? Thus begins her quest for a truth built on technology and magic.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Olga Kurylenko, Simon Johns
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama, Romance
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) DVD9

The Ringling Bros. circus wants to scale back its touring season but tough circus boss Marc Braden (Charlton Heston) uses intimidation to keep a full schedule, provided the show stays in the black. This means kicking aerial star Holly (Betty Hutton) out of the center ring to make way for the famous headliner The Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde), a womanizer already well acquainted with elephant wrangler Angel (Gloria Grahame). Braden has to contend with this drama while staving off the demands of crooked sideshow gangster Henderson (Lawrence Tierney) and keeping the 'circus army' on the move and ready for the next show. Observing all is Buttons the Clown (James Stewart), who never removes his clown greasepaint and appears to have a guilty secret.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:26:17 | 6.92 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Italiano
Subtitles: English, Dansk, Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Suomi, Svenska
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton
Country: USA
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Das Deckelbad – Die Geschichte der Katharina Walser / The History of Katharina Walser (2015) DVD9

It's the 1930's. The Austrian Katharina Walser comes to Switzerland as a waitress in hopes to start a new life and find true happiness. At first her dreams seem to come true. She falls in love with forester Tres, she moves in with him and they get married. But when her son dies tragically in a lumbering accident, blame and mistrust drives the couple apart. The marriage crumbles, and after causing mayhem in the village Katharina is sent to an insane asylum by the village officials. She is held there for years and is subject to hydrotherapy and electro shock therapy, a lobotomy is supposed to make her immune to feelings. When Katharina Walser is finally released from the institution after 15 years, new misfortune finds her. A Swiss film based on a true story.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:46 | 7.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Kuno Bont
Cast: Simona Specker, Gian Rupf, Hans-Peter Ulli
Country: Switzerland
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Belgica (2016) DVD9

In Belgica, we follow Frank and Jo, two Flemish brothers who are on the path of starting a legendary bar-dancing together. With success comes problems. As Belgica becomes more and more popular and crowded, the brothers need to address how to deal with criminals, and with the authorities, who can no longer turn a blind eye to the club's obvious flaunting of safety, labor and tax laws. But the worst problem is the brothers themselves: while Jo grows to become the businessman such a big venture needs, Frank constantly indulges in sex, drugs and booze, and fails to see they are no longer just a group of friends running a fun bar. Tensions grow until they come to an unavoidable head...
The soundtrack consists of 15 pieces of music by Soulwax, a band formed by two brothers from Ghent, composed specifically for the movie.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:01:47 | 7.35 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Flemish, Francais
Subtitles: English, Nederlands, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Felix van Groeningen
Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter
Country: Belgium, France
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Fatherland (1994) DVD5

Fictional historical account of what might have happened if Adolf Hitler had won the Second World War. Germany has corralled all European countries into a single state called Germania, and continues fighting against the Soviet Union. It is now 1964 and Germany's war crimes against the Jews have so far been kept a secret. Germany believes that an alliance with the United States would finally beat the Soviet war machine. As his 75th birthday approaches, Hitler wants to talk peace with President Joseph Kennedy. An SS homicide detective and an American journalist stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide; evidence that could destroy the peace process with America and evidence that Nazi and SS leaders will stop at nothing to keep hidden.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:43:16 | 3.19 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Nederlands hardcoded
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Christopher Menaul
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan
Country: USA
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Gods of Egypt (2016) DVD9

In an alternate universe/skewed reality where mortal men share the land with 9-foot-tall deities, god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is set to be crowned the new king of Egypt as father Osiris' (Bryan Brown) 1,000-year reign comes to an end. Before Horus can take over, however, Osiris' vindictive, power-hungry brother Set (Gerard Butler) sweeps in to murder his sibling, steal Horus' eyes (a central source of his strength), and usurp the throne. Desperate to save his one true love Zaya (Courtney Eaton) from servitude and return the volatile land to its once-respectable state, lowly human Bek (Brenton Thwaites) sets out to reclaim Horus' eyes (one hidden in a scorpion-guarded, booby-trap-riddled vault, the other in a faraway pyramid) and save the weakened rightful heir from exile. Hoping an empowered Horus will be able to reverse a tragic fate striking closely to Bek, man and god team up to stop Set from destroying all of creation.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 02:08:28 | 7.29 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Espanol
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler
Country: USA
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) is an up-and-coming boxer on his way to winning a championship title. When he ill-advisedly flies a plane to his next bout and crashes mid-journey, courier angel #7013 (played by the delightfully fussy Edward Everett Horton) unseasonably takes Joe up to heaven – only to realize that he wasn't supposed to die for another 50 years! When Joe's earthly body is swiftly cremated, the messenger and his boss, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), take responsibility, scouring the earth in search of another form that Joe's spirit can inhabit. They soon locate a wealthy businessman who is about to be murdered by his wife and secretary – and in the hopes of making everything right and winning the heart of sympathetic victim Bette (Evelyn Keyes), Joe agrees to don the body (like a suit) in what will become an uproarious chain of incorporeal consciousness-hopping chaos...

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:34:22 | 44.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Country: USA
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Refugiado (2014) DVD9

"Refugiado" tells the story of Laura (Julieta Diaz), the mother of a young boy named Matias (Sebastian Molinaro), who's on his way from school one day when he finds her laying beaten up on the kitchen floor. Clearly a victim of regular domestic violence (perpetrated by a husband who appears in the film mostly as an invisible threat), Laura is taken to a shelter for mistreated women, with Matias following her every step. When the woman finally decides to break all ties with her abusive partner, she takes Matias on her journey with him, and the movie becomes a suspenseful story of them fleeing the father, who proves both menacing and duplicitous in his repeated phone calls and relentless pursuit.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:30:33 | 7.64 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Diego Lerman
Cast: Julieta Diaz, Sebastian Molinaro, Marta Lubos
Country: Argentina, Colombia, France, Poland, Germany
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The Addiction (1995) DVD9

When New York philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor) is dragged off the street down a dark alley and bitten by a strange and alluring woman, she begins to turn into a vampire. Being somewhat predisposed to philosophical contemplation, Kathleen considers her rapidly changing perspectives on the nature of evil, addiction and humanity. Soon, her need for blood begins to consume her life and she realises that her very existence may have to be dedicated to finding her next fix...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:18:56 | 6.61 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: Deutsch
Genre: Horror, Drama

Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli
Country: USA
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Pelo malo / Bad Hair (2013) DVD5

Nine year old Junior (Samuel Lange) wants nothing more than to straighten his curls so he can look like a singer in his elementary school picture. Whenever his mother Marta (Samantha Castillo) is away, he sneaks into the bathroom and attempts to "fix" his hair with everything from mayonnaise to oil. Marta, who is dealing with the death of her husband and the complications of having to raise two children on her own, sees Junior's suspicious activities as a sign of his latent homosexuality and tries to show him the right way at all costs.
The more Junior tries to look beautiful and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him. He will find himself cornered, facing a painful decision.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:32:57 | 3.58 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama

Director: Mariana Rondon
Cast: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
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Ich war Jack Mortimer (1935) DVD5

The jealous star conductor Monte Mayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic. And as various circumstances stand in the way of his reporting the crime to the police at once, Sponer is likely to be mistaken for the murderer. And so he decides to take on the identity of the killed man for the time being. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is trying to help him out of the lurch, whereas Sponer makes the acquaintance of the wife of a conductor who is involved in the Mortimer case...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:15:56 | 2.60 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Carl Froelich
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klopfer, Sybille Schmitz
Country: Germany
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Breaker Morant (1980), The Breaker (1974) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

In 1899, British Empire, the most powerful state in the world at time, went to war with Transvaal and Oranje, two independent republics in South Africa, ruled by Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers. The reasons for the war were complicated, but they mostly had to do with rich mineral deposits in those two countries and British plans to strengthen their hegemony over African continent. British have expected the war to be nothing more than colonial police action, but Boers proved to be much tougher opponents than anyone had anticipated.

Breaker Morant chronicles an incident in 1901 when three Australian soldiers fighting on the side of the British in South Africa were court-martialed for executing enemy prisoners. Acting under orders from British high command during a brutal guerrilla war, Harry "Breaker" Morant and his fellow soldiers in the Australian Bushveldt Carbineers exact revenge for the murder and mutilation of one of their officers by the Boers, South African farmers of Dutch descent revolting against the British in the century's first colonial war. Several Boer prisoners and a German missionary the trio believe to be a spy are killed. Because the British are aware Germany is looking for an excuse to enter the war on the side of the Boers (to position themselves favorably for access to South Africa's gold and diamond riches), the command orders the three Australians to be brought to trial as scapegoats, denying the deaths were ever part of an official but covert military policy...

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