Udju Azul di Yonta / The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992) DVD5

Life in post-independent Guinea Bissau is affectionately and tellingly captured in this ravishingly beautiful and insightful feature from Flora Gomes, who brings a vibrant sense of people, place, politics and atmosphere to the screen.

Udju Azul di Yonta tells the story of three people, each of whom is so much in love with their dreams that they mis the real opportunities which life offers. Vicente, a hero of the revolution, now a businessman, is so despondent over the failure of his political ideas that he fails to notice the flirtations of Yonta, the beautiful, young daughter of two former comrades. Yonta represents the younger generation who have grown up since independence and replaced revolutionary rhetoric with an unabashed enthusiasm for Western consumer culture. She, in turn, is oblivious to the attentions of Ze, a poor student from the country, who sends her absurdly romantic poems (actually written for a Swedish girl) praising her improbably "blue eyes".

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:32:45 | 3.47 Gb + 3% rec
Language: portuguese-criolo
Subtitles: English (hardcoded)
Genre: Drama

Director: Flora Gomes
Cast: Maysa Marta, Antonio Simao Mendes, Jorge Quintino Biague, Marcelo Cabral, Jacquelina Camara, Rui Manuel da Costa, Pedro Dias,
Country: Guinea-Bissau, France, Portugal
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Foto Haber / Haber’s Photo Shop (1963) DVD5

Gabor Csiky is released from prison after five years. Once out of prison he follows a tip-off from a fellow inmate and presents himself to the photographer Haber, whose shop Foto Haber, a flourishing photographic company, is only a front, in reality it is one of the most important branches of a spy ring. Csiky quickly gains Haber's trust and is deployed in the mission R-100, the most dangerous to date, the aim of which is to get hold of an invention vital to the national economy. The mission is a success, but Csiky fatally shoots a policeman. During the hand-over of microfilms a mix-up happens and the organisation becomes nervous: is there a mole in Foto Haber?

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:37:45 | 4.10 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hungarian
Subtitles: English (hardcoded)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Zoltan Varkonyi
Cast: Eva Ruttkai, Zoltan Latinovits, Miklos Szakats, Zsuzsa Lehoczky, Laszlo Csakanyi, Attila Nagy, Zoltan Varkonyi, Maria Sulyok, Antal Pager
Country: Hungary
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Dead Heat (1988) DVD5

Detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are baffled by a spate of armed robberies – in each case, it requires massive firepower to bring the hoods down and in each case the hoods have been reported as dead at the morgue prior to their crime spree. Mortis and Bigelow uncover the existence of a crime syndicate that has invented a resurrection machine. Mortis is then killed. Bigelow decides to place Mortis's body in the machine and revives him – Bigelow now has twelve hours before his body starts to decompose in which to solve his own murder.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:23:39 | 4.35 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Mark Goldblatt
Cast: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price, Keye Luke, Robert Picardo
Country: USA
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Hideout in the Sun (1960) 2 x DVD5 Deluxe Edition

Psycho bank robber Duke and his brother Steve make off with a bundle of money following a daring midday heist. The plan to cool their heels in Cuba takes a shocking and unexpected turn... right to a nudist camp in sunny Miami with a kidnapped ultra-vixen named Dorothy in tow. Duke plans an ocean getaway but needs Steve to drop his drawers in order to avoid suspicion from the seriously naked inhabitants and to keep an eye on the hot dame, who might expose them. Amidst the sights of pleasure-soaked women basking in the sun, frolicking in the pool, and playing volleyball, Steve and Dorothy fall for one another... but not before Duke makes up his mind to silence the lovebirds and hit the high seas with the loot.

2 x DVD5 | NTSC | 01:09:45 | 3.91 Gb + 3.75 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Crime, Drama

Directors: Larry Wolk, Doris Wishman
Cast: Greg Conrad, Dolores Carlos, Earl Bauer, Carol Little, Ann Richards
Country: USA
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Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills (2012) DVD9

Written and directed by Cristian Mungiu, Beyond the Hills is loosely based on a true story and stars Cristina Flutur as Alina, a young woman who grew up in a Romanian orphanage with her best friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan). The film begins some years later, with Alina returning to Romania and visiting Voichita, hoping to persuade her to come and live with her in Germany.
However, Alina discovers that Voichita has found God and is unwilling to leave the orthodox monastery that has become her home. Frustrated and upset, Alina decides to stay in the monastery in order to be with Voichita, but her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:25:49 | 7.83 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Romanian, Russian
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Drama

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
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Michael (2011) DVD9

A hard-working employee in an insurance firm, Michael leads an ordinary life, with an average car, a nice house and a nice normal girlfriend who lives abroad. Except she doesn't exist, and neither does his ordinary life. Instead, Michael has a ten-year-old boy named Wolfgang locked in his basement.
Michael is the chilling and ambitious debut feature from filmmaker Markus Schleinzer. With a story ripped straight from the headlines, the film follows five months in the life of a paedophile and his prisoner, exploring the unsettling normalcy of a man who is secretly a monster.

Meticulously made, with sharp thriller jolts, the film goes to pains to demonstrate the oddly "normal", almost parental, aspects of the man's relationship to the boy: They watch TV together, do jigsaw puzzles and even have an occasional outing.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:28 | 6.30 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 2 ch), Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Markus Schleinzer
Cast: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss, Victor Tremmel
Country: Austria
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Italiani brava gente / Attack And Retreat / Они шли на Восток (1964) DVD9

This film starring Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy is an explosive chronicle of the Italian-Russian front during WW2. The story follows an Italian squad through their battle for Stalingrad, terrible defeat, and retreat through the disastrous winter that follows, revealing the face of war that we so seldom wish to remember—inescapably cruel physical conditions, a merciless enemy, and relentless fear.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:21:36 | 6.77 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama, War

Director: Giuseppe De Santis, Dmitriy Vasilev
Actors: Tatiana Samoilova, Andrea Kekki, Raffaele Pisu, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Arthur Kennedy, Andrea Checchi, Riccardo Cucciolla, Grigoriy Mikhailov
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