|
1/3 (One Third)
Based upon Dante's Inferno, 1/3 is a timeless fable of redemption, a gritty, streetwise contemporary thriller, and a poetic meditation on urban alienation. |
Learn More
|
|
As Tears Go By
WKW's impressive first feature ably converts the director's now celebrated
visual style into an incendiary "Heroic Bloodshed" street opera á la John Woo. |
Learn More
|
|
Asian Action Extreme
Four Asian Action Films at an EXTREME low price! 4 DVD Set. |
Learn More
|
|
The Asphyx
Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, THE ASPHYX has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens) captures what appears to be the image of the Asphyx—the ancient Greek spirit of the dead. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Black Sunday
In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, BLACK SUNDAY stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch — but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later. |
Learn More
|
|
The Blood Beast Terror
This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Burke & Hare
A colorful, early ’70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels, and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Celluloid Salesman
NEW! This fourth collection of classroom shorts from the A/V Geeks Film Library reveals how sly marketers used 16mm films to shape new generations of loyal
consumers. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Cinema of Jean Rollin (10 Blu-ray Bundle)
Revered by enthusiasts of fantasy and horror films, but largely overlooked by the critical mainstream, French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) is finally being given the recognition he deserves. |
Learn More
|
|
The Cinema of Jean Rollin (10 DVD Bundle)
Revered by enthusiasts of fantasy and horror films, but largely overlooked by the critical mainstream, French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) is finally being given the recognition he deserves. |
Learn More
|
|
Classic Educational Shorts Bundle
All six volumes of campy classroom classics as a one-click purchase! Includes HOW TO BE A MAN, HOW TO BE A WOMAN, SAFE...NOT SORRY, THE CELLULOID SALESMAN, RULES FOR SCHOOL, and TROUBLED TEENS. |
Learn More
|
|
Cops vs. Thugs
In his 1975 masterpiece COPS VS. THUGS, director Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) paints a dynamic portrait of flourishing corruption and unchecked greed using gritty 70s cop movie elan and true crime expose' detail. Brimming with irresistibly brutal vitality, COPS VS. THUGS demonstrates why Fukasaku counts filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino and Takeshi Miike as devoted acolytes. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Days of Being Wild
In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar-Wai follows its half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimacy. With Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) and Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE). |
Learn More
|
|
Dementia (plus Daughter of Horror)
An entirely unique and utterly bizarre rediscovery, John J. Parker's DEMENTIA is a 1950s-style foray into the mind of psycho-sexual madness. Set entirely in a nocturnal twilight zone that blends dream imagery with the cinematic stylings of film noir, the film follows the tormented existence of a young woman haunted by the horrors of her youth, which transformed her into a stiletto-wielding, man-hating beatnik. |
Learn More
|
|
The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Démoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Derek Jarman Collection
A 4-DVD Box set of films by and about Derek Jarman. Includes the acclaimed 2008 documentary by Isaac Julien presented at SUNDANCE and BERLIN FILM FESTIVALS. Contains DEREK, SEBASTIANE, THE TEMPEST, and WAR REQUIEM. |
Learn More
|
|
Dog Days (R Rated)
In the sweltering heat of suburban Vienna, six characters ranging from an erratic hitchhiker to a fading beauty queen play out a sweaty pageant of sadism and sexual deviance. With an assured knack for capturing the verisimilitude of domestic terror, documentarian Seidl has made a fiction feature debut whose slowly burning fever cannot fail to register. |
Learn More
|
|
Dog Days (unrated)
In the sweltering heat of suburban Vienna, six characters ranging from an erratic hitchhiker to a fading beauty queen play out a sweaty pageant of sadism and sexual deviance. With an assured knack for capturing the verisimilitude of domestic terror, documentarian Seidl has made a fiction feature debut whose slowly burning fever cannot fail to register. |
Learn More
|
|
Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Exorcism
Made during the height of the demon possession film craze, EXORCISM stars the incomparable Lina Romay as a performance artist who stages faux satanic rituals for the gratification of the Parisian elite. When a defrocked priest with a penchant for S&M witnesses one of Anna's erotic spectacles and mistakes it for an actual black mass, the moral crusader launches a one-man Inquisition upon the sexually liberated women of Paris. |
Learn More
|
|
Fantomas
Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fantômas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve and journalist Jerôme Fandor. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Fascination
The masterpiece of renowned French filmmaker Jean Rollin, FASCINATION follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding the occupants at gunpoint. When night falls, he discovers that these two maids are in fact the gatekeepers to a ring of bloodthirsty women. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Female Vampire
Lina Romay (filmmaker Jess Franco's wife) stars as the mysterious Countess Irina Karlstein, a beautiful vampiress who feeds on victims at their moments of sexual climax. Because she destroys those whose essence she consumes, Irina is doomed to a life of solitude, wandering through the Western Coast of Europe in a dreamlike state. |
Learn More
|
|
The Films of Michael Haneke
A Seven DVD Box containing all of Kino's Haneke Releases! "Unquestionably in the same class as Antonioni, Fassbinder, or Godard. His films are classics: They are perfect and they are profound" - The Guardian UK. |
Learn More
|
|
Funny Games
The summer home of a vacationing couple and their son is infiltrated by a seemingly urbane pair of men -- who proceed to hold the family hostage and initiate a series of violent and diabolically sadistic "games." In his characteristic style, director Haneke leaves most of the bloodshed to the viewer's imagination, making this film a more harrowing experience than any splatter film. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Ganja & Hess
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film GANJA & HESS is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. |
Learn More
|
|
The Girl on a Motorcycle
A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samouraï) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road. |
Learn More
|
|
Happy Together
Newly remasted from a High-Definition master, Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together is a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching story of love on the brink of dissolution. |
Learn More
|
|
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia). |
Learn More
|
|
Hell's Highway (plus Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Options to Live)
This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985) is director Wes Craven's notorious and bloody sequel to his 1977 horror classic. Two survivors from the original, Bobby (Robert Houston) and Rachel (who changed her name from Ruby, played by Janus Blythe), now own a dirt-bike team, whose first race will be held in the same desert from which they escaped death eight years before. |
Learn More
|
|
How to be a Woman
As the daughters of the baby-boom reached adolescence, American schools struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development. This fascinating collection contains films on wide-ranging
topics as such as the reproductive system, cooking skills, self-defense, and how to appear more pleasing to others. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Iron Rose
Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin’s most unconventional films, THE IRON ROSE vividly depicts the young couple’s steady descent into madness. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue
Based on Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue, Chris Boger’s visually sumptuous film is a dark tale of sexual depravity and Sadean excess. |
Learn More
|
|
Killer's Moon
An important film in the evolution of “video nasties” (especially violent films that brought about stricter censorship in the UK in the early 1980s), KILLER’S MOON sets a quartet of drug-addled psychopaths against a group of vacationing schoolgirls. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Lips of Blood
In the most personal of Jean Rollin's moody, erotic horror films, a man tries to solve the riddle of a vague childhood memory, which leads him in pursuit of a beautiful vampire, and the revelation of a horrible family curse. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Lisa and the Devil & The House of Exorcism
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, LISA AND THE DEVIL is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. It was later re-edited and re-released as THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM to capitalize on the popularity of demon possession films. |
Learn More
|
|
Mr. Hush
How does a man react when he loses everything he loves? MR. HUSH has an answer: with brutal, terrifying violence. A frightening throwback to the slasher films of the 1980s,
this is a classic horror flick that is hard to shake. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Nude Vampire
A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, THE NUDE VAMPIRE follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lured into a secret cult that is conducting experiments on a mute vampire woman being held in captivity. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Old Dark House
In this artful mixture of chills and ghoulish gallows humor (starring Boris Karloff), a group of weary travelers find themselves trapped in a windswept Welsh manor with the psychotic Femm family. U.S. 1932. 71 min. B&W. |
Learn More
|
|
The Piano Teacher (Unrated Director's Cut)
Winner of three major awards at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, THE PIANO TEACHER features a tour-de-force performance by Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed music professor who becomes obsessed with one of her young students. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Psychopathia Sexualis (R-Rated)
Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Director Approved R-Rated Version. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Psychopathia Sexualis (Unrated Director's Cut)
A dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Rape of the Vampire
A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Safe...Not Sorry
|
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Sebastiane
Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores. |
Learn More
|
|
The Shiver of the Vampires
When a honeymooning couple visit the crumbling estate of the bride’s ancestors, they discover her closet is filled with more than skeletons: a sinister lesbian vampire, a pair of nubile handmaidens, and two vampire hunters who have been recruited into the ranks of the undead. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
Tales From The Gimli Hospital
Set during a smallpox epidemic at the turn of the century, this Guy Maddin fantasy is one of the tue cult hits of the 80s. Also included: the early Maddin short The Dead Father. |
Learn More
|
|
The Tempest
Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood high camp and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of the classics while its lush sense of decor and color is worthy of Minnelli. |
Learn More
|
|
Variety
The sexually charged tale of a woman's journey of self-discovery, VARIETY is a fascinating film that challenges familiar stereotypes surrounding feminism and pornography. Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at an adult movie theater near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of this milieu, Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Controversial and highly personal, VARIETY deals honestly with a female sexual point-of-view, and in doing so announces itself as the major film of a director who embodies the essence of independent cinema. |
Learn More
|
|
Virgin Witch
Capitalizing on the pop cultural fascination with the occult, while taking advantage of the era's relaxed censorship, VIRGIN WITCH was one of the more notorious British horror films of the early seventies. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
|
The Wong Kar-Wai Collection
An unprecedented box set collecting five feature films from acclaimed writer/director Wong Kar-Wai. Includes CHUNGKING EXPRESS (box set only), recently named as one of TIME Magazine's "All-time Top 100 Movies." |
Learn More
|
|
Yakuza Graveyard
YAKUZA GRAVEYARD is a gritty, brutally violent action film, a mature, poetic achievement in personal filmmaking, and a trenchant x-ray of xenophobic post-war Japanese society. |
Watch Trailer
Learn More
|
