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Video: Widescreen In a young Republic of China, where greedy warlords fuel a period of war and strife, Hou Jie (Andy Lau) arrogantly shows no mercy to his enemies seeking refuge with the benign and compassionate Shaolin monks. After unscrupulously killing a wounded enemy, Hou Jie pays a terrible...

Video: Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Region: Free When a video-game company creates an immersive gaming environment where players wage war against gigantic sand-dwelling monsters, three gorgeous gals armed to the teeth (Meisa Kuroki, Hinako Saeki and Rinko Kikuchi) accept the challenge a...

Video: Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 When a video-game company creates an immersive gaming environment where players wage war against gigantic sand-dwelling monsters, three gorgeous gals armed to the teeth (Meisa Kuroki, Hinako Saeki and Rinko Kikuchi) accept the challenge and jump into t...

From the infamous Joe D'Amato - director of such EuroSleaze classics as Emanuelle In Bangkok and Papaya: Love Goddess Of The Cannibals - comes perhaps his most sumptuous skin saga of all! Legendary sex goddess Laura Gemser (Black Emanuelle) stars as an African princess brought home as a slave by a 1...

In the 1960s, Japanese filmmakers responded to a stale studio system by looking for new ways to tell stories; Shohei Imamura was one of the leading figures of this new wave. With the three films in this set - Pigs And Battleships, The Insect Woman, and Intentions Of Murder - Imamura truly emerged as...

Lena (Lindberg) is a young teen in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic party-goer Helge, Lena's life turns upside-down when Helge takes some nude photographs of her. These photos can destroy her life and Lena must do anything ...

The title of Russian director Alexey Balabanov's twelfth film is a military term for the coffins transporting dead soldiers back home during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The effects of that decade-long conflict provide a unifying theme for this highly controversial film that recalls the wor...

Cannes Film Festival award winner, and best film and director award winner of the Japanese Association of Film Professionals, Aoyama remains one of the most powerful talents to emerge in the East over the past ten years. The 3 Faces Of Shinji Aoyama gives a welcome overview of the range of this adve...

Ace action director Dante Lam (Beast Cops, Option Zero, Hit Team) is in top form once again with this raw, nail bitingly intense action thriller, and with award-worthy emotional performances by Nicholas Tse (Invisible Target and Dragon Tiger GATE) and Nick Cheung (Connected, Johnnie To's Exiled and ...

Video: Widescreen Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has a...

Miris (Rettore) is a funny, overweight girl living in a little Italian town and working for a radio station. She doesn't care of her physical appearance until she falls victim to a bad prank made by Mirko, the most popular guy of the town, with whom Miris' sister is in love. Miris is so frustrated t...

"A lovely, pure film…ia classic." -The New York Times Acclaimed Oscar® - nominated director Francois Truffaut (Small Change, Day For Night) has created an "absorbing" (Leonard Maltin) film about the true-life tale of a young boy found living alone in the woods of France in the 1700s. Using actual...

An avid computer gamer who can't grasp what it means to live in the real world finds his plans of seeking vengeance on his true-life tormentors complicated by the appearance of a beautiful girl in first-time feature filmmaker Nic Balthazar's topical psychological thriller. Ben (Greg Timmermans) is a...

A maverick army diver rediscovers his true calling after being demoted by his superiors and forced to join the Air Forces 40th Search and Rescue squadron in this Danish disaster drama from director Hans Herbots (Falling). Iron-lunged diver Rick Symons doesn't like authority figures, and treats his o...

A desperate criminal's delusions send him on a deadly chase in this Dutch thriller. Johan (Theo Maassen) is serving time for murder and sexual assault, but is convinced that he would go free if his mother would appeal to the parole board on his behalf. However, another hearing comes and goes without...

Based on the best selling comic book series. After witnessing a family member thrown of a balcony by her fiancee on her wedding day and the violent stabbing of her aunt, a young woman comes to realize she may be next in line. She desperately tries to find out why those around her turn on her and why...

The Escapees is one of Rollin's most obscure and rare films, having only ever been released on video in Canada and Turkey in miniscule numbers. The film is, at times, brilliant and, at others, maddeningly frustrating, as Rollin's story of two wayward girls on the run from an institution wanders from...

The First Hmong movie to be filmed in China, The Legendary Script is a tale of mortal combat that takes place in China over 1000 years ago.The story was inspired by historical conflicts between the numerous ethnic groups in China, particularly the Hmong and Han. At a time when fighting superiority d...

Three young Cantonese men (Chi Feng, Yen Hung, and Chen Ming) swim from mainland China across the Hou Hai Bay to Hong Kong in an attempt to gain freedom in a city still ruled by Britain. Rather than reaching a better life, the three are held captive by slave dealers, and their miserable fate unfolds...

When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. At the center of the storm is a broodingly si...