Underworld (1927) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Bull Weed (George Bancroft, Each Dawn I Die) is a hard-boiled kingpin who rules the Chicago streets with an iron fist and a golden heart. He'll do everything in the world for his girl Feathers (Evelyn Brent, Slightly Scarlet) and his friend Rolls Royce (Clive Brook, Scandal Sheet). Don't cross them, or you'll feel his wrath. When Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler, Hard Rock Harrigan)hits on Feathers, Weed guns him down in front of a party of gangsters. He must go into hiding or risk his life, and only the devotion of Feathers and Rolls Royce can redeem him.

From boxed set "3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg".

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:21:23 | 6.81 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Silent, with musical score
Subtitles: English intertitles
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Cast: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon, Jerry Mandy
Country: USA
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The Damned Don’t Cry (1950) DVD9

Ethel Whitehead (Joan Crawford) is a weary housewife living at the edge of the Texas oil fields. When her young son is killed in a bicycle accident, she leaves her abusive laborer husband Roy (Richard Egan) for the big city. She takes a job at a cigar stand in the city, but soon becomes a model for a clothing sales firm. Sleazy good-time girl Sandra (Jacqueline deWit) shows her how to make extra cash entertaining clients after hours, and Ethel becomes a hard-talking tough girl. In cahoots with bookkeeper friend Martin Blackford (Kent Smith), Ethel works her way into the entourage of George Castleman (David Brian), a mobster who enjoys an elegant lifestyle. With the help of socialite Patricia Longworth (Selena Royle), Castleman grooms Ethel in the arts of cultured living. After making her his mistress, he tries to use her to trap his arch-rival Nick Prenta (Steve Cochran). There's only one problem ... Ethel likes Nick, too.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:45:34 | 5.17 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Director: Vincent Sherman
Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle
Country: USA
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Shock Corridor (1963) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Johnny Barrett is a journalist determined to win the Pulitzer Prize at any price. He attempts to feign mental illness in order to become an inmate at a psychiatric hospital and investigate an unsolved murder case. His girlfriend, a professional stripper, poses as his sister and fabricates accusations of him sexually accosting her in order to have him committed. Inside the hospital, he attempts to interview three possible witnesses during their rare moments of lucidity: a veteran who was brainwashed during the Korean War and branded as a Communist upon returning home; an African-American who couldn't bear the strain of being a symbol for integration; and a nuclear physicist who retreats into the world of childhood rather than participate in the greater madness of the arms race. However, as the investigation unfolds Barrett finds himself losing his grip on his own sanity. Can he solve the murder before it's too late?

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:41:25 | 7.53 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery

Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Larry Tucker, Paul Dubov
Country: USA
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The Communist / Kommunist / Коммунист (1957) DVD5

In 1919 workers arrive by train in the middle of the Taiga in order to construct a town. They fell trees and unload bricks from the train for that purpose. The newly arrived hero Vasilij is made chief of the depot, meets hostility and has to put down corruption. Vasilij shares a cabin with other workers and a couple who sleep in a corner of the room behind a curtain. He falls in love with the woman and secretly meets her and makes her pregnant. Counter-revolutionaries try to prevent the building of the town, but Vasilij persists in felling more trees and by his example gets the other workers to join him. His relationship with the woman is discovered and the woman is beaten, bound and imprisoned. Vasilij rescues her, she flees to a beautiful modern clinic and gives birth. The counter-revolutionaries set the town on fire and kill Vasilij who meats a very heroic death in the mud. At his funeral the village kommissar holds a speech. The woman's husband tries to win her back, but she re fuses.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:45:03 | 4.28 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Yuli Raizman
Cast: Yevgeni Urbansky, Sofya Pavlova, Yevgeni Shutov, Boris Smirnov, Sergey Yakovlev, Valentin Zubkov
Country: Soviet Union
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La terre outragee / Land of Oblivion (2011) DVD9

On 26 april 1986, a beautiful spring day, Anya and Piotr are celebrating their marriage at Pripiat, a few kilometres from Chernobyl. Little Valery and his father Alexei, a physicist at the power station in Chernobyl, plant an apple tree. Nikolai, the forest warden, makes his rounds in the surrounding forests. Then the alarm goes off at the nuclear power station and Piotr is drafted in to help put out the fire. He never returns. As a cloud of radioactive waste seeps from the stricken power station, poisoning the surrounding landscape, the local inhabitants are brutally evacuated. Alexei, forced to keep silent by the authorities, prefers to disappear.
Ten years later, Pripiat is a ghost town, a hideous modern Pompeii which is visited only by tourists with a taste for the bizarre. Anya now works here as a tourist guide, whilst Valery continues to look for his father and Nikolai strives to cultivate his poisoned garden...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:43:52 | 6.91 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Ukrainian/Russian/Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Michale Boganim
Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Andrzej Chyra, Ilya Iosifov, Sergei Strelnikov, Vyacheslav Slanko
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
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Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi / Erotic Nights of the Living Dead / Sexy Nights of the Living Dead (1980) DVD9

John Wilson (Mark Shannon) a conceited hotel developer trying to find a boat to take him to Cat Island. The very name brings about superstition, as it is rumor to be cursed. Luckily enough John comes across a stocky boat captain named Larry (played by writer George Eastman of Bronx Warriors fame) who agrees to take him to Cat Island if he finances the trip.
Once the group arrives at the island they meet opposition from an elderly man and an exotic ghostly apparition (Laura Gemser) who warns of great danger. Unbeknownst of the resurrected zombies the group goes about their business planning to erect a luxury resort before they find themselves at the wake of an island infested with hungry corpses. Will they survive?

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:51:39 | 7.61 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror, Adult

Director: Joe D'Amato
Cast: Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Dirce Funari, Mark Shannon
Country: Italy
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Gardens of Stone (1987) DVD5

Set in the late '60s in Washington, "Gardens" is about the Vietnam War at home, specifically Fort Myer, where the 3d U.S. Infantry (the Old Guard) buries the incoming dead daily at Arlington Cemetery.
We are introduced to Jackie Willow (nicknamed Dildo) as he follows in his father's footsteps by being a soldier. Posted to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, he is keen to get on the frontline of the fighting in Vietnam. James Caan plays crusty lieutenant Clell Hazzard who has already served two tours in Vietnam and does everything he can to talk Dildo out it. Along the way, we meet Clell's best friend James Earl Jones and Anjelica Huston as Clell's love interest. And Mary Stuart Masterson as Dildo's girlfriend.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:47:16 | 4.23 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Nederlands, Hindi, Portugues
Genre: Drama, War, Romance

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne
Country: USA
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