Typhoon (Collector’s Edition)(2 Disc)
Hailing from South Korea, director Kyung-Taek Kwak (FRIEND) brings some explosive subject matter to the silver screen with TYPHOON. Kwak follows in the tradition of directors such as John Woo (HARD BOILED) and Takashi Miike (DEAD OR ALIVE), molding a fast-paced action thriller that manages to divide its time between visceral set pieces and intriguing plot developments. Sin (Jang Dong-Gun) is from North Korea and still feels the effects of his parents’ slaying at the hands of brutal South Korean…
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Fail-Safe
Following closely on the heels of Stanley Kubrik’s DR. STRANGELOVE (all too closely for Kubrick and company, who quickly filed a lawsuit alleging plagiarism), Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE employs a similarly stylized and heightened dramatic structure in its nerve-crushing moral tale. Taking place over the course of a single day, the film follows government and army officials in Nebraska, New York City, and Washington, D.C., as they go about their day supervising, examining, and speculating on the fr…
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Breakaway
Espionage intrigue ensues when a cold war secret is whisked back to England by Johnny Matlock….
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The Contract
Only one man stands between a deadly assassin and a mark, a father protecting his child. Ray Keene (John Cusak) and his son embark upon a hiking holiday in order to reconnect after the death of his ex-wife. However, the pair are soon embroiled in a plot involving mercenaries, in this edge-of-the-seat, cat and mouse thriller….
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Gone
While on his way to meet his girlfriend Sophie (Amelia Warner, AEON FLUX), English backpacker Alex (Shaun Evans, THE BOYS FROM COUNTY CLARE) meets a friendly and enigmatic American drifter called Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz, EUROTRIP) in Sydney. After a night of heavy drinking, Taylor offers Alex a ride to Byron, where he meets up with Sophie. The couple decide to take Taylor up on his offer of a drive through the Outback. As the journey goes on, Alex becomes more and more suspicious of Taylor and…
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Don’t Say A Word/High Crimes (2 Disc)
DON’T SAY A WORD When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager (Brittany Murphy) with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The Conrads are the prototypical happy family: Nathan, a successful doctor (Michael Douglas); his loving wife, Aggie (Famke Janssen), who is bedridden with a broken leg suffered in a skiing accident; and eight-year-old Jes…
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Romanzo Criminale
A master criminal has his sights on conquering Rome?s underworld in this exciting gangland saga, spanning more than 25 years of criminal activity in Italy. ROMANZO CRIMINALE follows Libano from hoodlum to kingpin, tracking his rise to power, and the struggles that arise within his gang of ruthless cohorts. However, this isn?t just another variation of the classic gangster film formula, as it becomes evident the gangs activities are intrinsically linked to the darker episodes of the country?s his…
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Suspicion
Joan Fontaine’s fabulous performance as a woman who grows to fear the man she loves anchors this compelling story in which Alfred Hitchcock shows his love for playing with the audience’s expectations. Perfectly cast is the dashing Cary Grant, whose lovable and charming persona is on full display while being completely transformed through Hitchcock’s eerie camera work and visual innuendo to the point that the simplest gesture takes on a new and malevolent aspect. SUSPICION lives up to its title’s…
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Charade
Regina Lambert, a Frenchwoman who finds her husband dead and is then pursued by four men, is helped by a handsome young stranger. Regina learns that her late husband was planning to divorce her and that he had with him a large sum of stolen money. Now numerous people are following her every move convinced she knows where the money is….
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Killers Collection - Summer Of Sam/The Boston Strangler/Kalifornia (3 Disc)
Contains the serial killer films SUMMER OF SAM, THE BOSTON STRANGLER, and KALIFORNIA. SUMMER OF SAM focuses on an Italian-American community in the Bronx, specifically Dionna and Vinny, a couple whose marriage is threatened by Vinny’s obsession with other women. After Vinny returns home one night to find a killer has murdered two local women, he promises to mend his cheating ways. As the media reports the murders and a blackout threatens to unleash anarchy on the city, its inhabitants begin to l…
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Premonition
Sandra Bullock (CRASH, MISS CONGENIALITY) stars as a housewife troubled by a tragic premonition in Mennan Yapo?s thriller. Linda Hanson?s life revolves around her beloved daughters (Shyann McClure and Courtney Taylor Burness) and her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon, CHARMED). The familiar, picture-perfect terrain of her existence is abruptly shattered when she is informed that Jim has died in a gruesome car accident, and Linda spends the rest of the day in shock. When she awakes the next morning to…
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The Number 23
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) has found a book he doesn’t dare put down. By reading a mysterious novel, ‘The Number 23′, given to him as a birthday gift by his wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), Walter twists his once placid existence into an inferno of psychological torture that could possibly lead him to his death and the deaths of his loved ones. All because of a number: The Number 23. The novel is a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter’s life in dark and u…
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Rope
Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director’s preference for letting the audience know more than the characters onscreen. The film opens as two young men (Farley Granger and John Dall) strangle a friend just to prove they’re intellectually capable of commi…
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Play Misty For Me
A nail-biting thriller about a California disc jockey, whose girlfriend finds it a terrifying experience when he is plagued by the unwanted, amorous advances of a beautiful, love-crazed, knife-wielding psychopath….
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Guns And Talks
South Korean writer-director Jin Jang fashions a Tarantino-esque gangster flick that humanizes its criminal protagonists with a postmodern blend of action, comedy, and romance. One of South Korea’s top-grossing films, Jang’s aptly titled GUNS & TALKS centers on a quartet of loquacious, pretty-boy hit-men–level-headed leader, Sang-yeon (Hyeon-jun Shin); his inexperienced younger brother, Ha-yeon (Bin Won); gun-happy sniper, Jae-yeong (Jae-yeong Jeong); and demolitions expert, Jung-woo (Ha-kyun S…
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The Fruit Machine
This thriller sets off from the heart of Liverpool when two young boys, Michael and Eddie, witness a gangland murder at the Fruit Machine Club, run by Annabelle (Robbie Coltrane). Fearing for their lives at the hand of the hired killer they head for Brighton. But as Michael continues to hustle for a living, Eddie dreams on. Both of them are left totally unprepared for the violent arrival of the ominous killer and his effect on their lives….
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Absolute Zero - An Inconvenient Reality
With a second ice age looming, scientist Dr. David Kotzmon must devise a plan to protect the Earth and all its living creatures. With their home base of Miami stuck in the eye of a storm that could be covering entire continents for all they know, the team must find a way to escape before it’s too late, all while cut off from communication with other parts of the world….
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L’Amore Molesto
A psychological thriller in which a young woman braves mysterious threats to investigate her mother’s bizarre death….
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Five Minutes To Live
Country star Johnny Cash stars in this tale of a kidnapper who takes a housewife hostage and demands a ransom from her wealthy husband. Also known as DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC, which is what the film was originally billed as in 1965….
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Zero
Tarantinoesque thriller ZERO features three intersecting storylines that take place over the course of a single day. In the first, a down-on-his-luck undertaker appears to have dug himself into an early grave when he gambles everything away at a casino and cannot afford to repay his debts. Meanwhile, a sexually-frustrated soldier goes AWOL from the army, hoping to find his girlfriend and satisfy his libidinous urges. The third storyline involves a gang of carjackers whose insatiable drug-lust is…
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