"The Science of Sleep" ("La Science des rêves") (2006) Stéphane (played by Gael García Bernal) is a young man who has traveled to live with his mother (played by Miou-Miou) in France after the death of his father in Mexico. He is very creative and imaginative through arts and crafts, though he has a hard grasp on separating his dreams and reality, with his insecurity and anxiety being more prevalent in his awakened state. He falls in love with his neighbor Stéphanie (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg), who shares a similar creative mindset, but she is more on the side of reality and logic, never being able to complete her own creations. Will he be able to win her over, or will he only push her away further with his anxiety in the way? Filmmaker Michel Gondry made a name for himself in the world of music videos since the 1990s, with his works having intricate handmade qualities and the innovative visual techniques. From building sets from cardboard cutouts and using t...

With gold discovered in the Black Hills and a railroad carving its way across the country, there are only a handful of tribes who still resist the U.S. government's attempts to round them up into reservations. His father Matotaupa (The Thing in the Castle's Adolf Peter Hoffmann) having given himself over to the gamblng and "firewater" through the influence of "white brother" civilian scout for the U.S. Army Fred "Red Fox" Clark (Ikarie XB 1's Jirí Vrstála), Tokei-Ihto (Signals: A Space Adventure's Gojko Mitic) believes that the only way to keep their lands and their ways is to join Sitting Bull and Tashunka-Witka (Trail of the Falcon's Sepp Klose) who are making their wa...

When aid for Chinese overseas in Thailand is stolen, Zeng Long "The Dragon" (One Armed Swordsman's Jimmy Wang Yu) tracks down a gang (lead by Man from Deep River's Pipop Pupinyo) and retrieves the cash but is badly-injured. He first seeks shelter at a martial arts school but incurs more injuries when he must defend the teacher and pupils from the gang pursuing him. Hiding in the river, Zeng Long loses consciousness and washes up near the duck farm of young Xiao Yang (Games Gamblers Play's Samuel Hui) and is found by his dog Lanni. His best friend Ah-Khun (The Fate of Lee Khan's Erh Chun) identifies the man by his exposed back tatto...

Depressed since the suicide of her mother (It's Alive's Sharon Farrell), high school student Alex (Crash and Burn's Megan Ward) reluctantly accompanies her school friends - including boyfriend Greg (Days of Our Lives' Bryan Dattilo), nerdy Nick (A Christmas Story's Peter Billingsley), bully-magnet Stilts (Ticks' Seth Green), perv Benz (Brandon Rane), and snarky Laurie (...

"The Devils" (1971) Filmmaker Ken Russell was no stranger to controversy by the time he directed "The Devils", but this was the film that caused the most problems, being censored in various forms and banned in a number of countries. The film was initially announced and funded by United Artists, but after the executives read the script and saw the explicit natures that was to be depicted, they decided to pull the plug. Warner Bros. Pictures agreed to continue the production and have it distributed, but they felt they demanded cuts to the film before it could be released to the public. Various cuts were made by Warner Bros. for the film to receive an "X" certificate in the UK by the BBFC. Some nudity and graphic violence were removed as well as half of the orgy sequence dubbed "The Rape of Christ" in which the crazed nuns pull down a statue of Jesus and have their way with it in an orgy. Another short sequence of Sister Jeanne handling the charred femur of Grandier was also removed. The X certificate UK theatrical version ran 111 minutes. For the United States, Warner Bros. trimmed it even further for an R-rating...

British Secret Service agent Denis Nayland Smith (The Black Castle's Richard Greene) and his partner Dr. Petrie (Secrets of a Windmill Girl's Howard Marion Crawford) must cut short their fishing trip in the countryside when the Home Office summons them after receiving radio transmitted threats from Fu Manchu (Horror of Dracula's Christopher Lee) and his daughter Lin Tang (Rentadick's Tsai Chin) giving them two weeks to submit to his demands. Although he does not make clear the "biblical" nature of his threat, Nayland Smith and Petrie find curious the newspaper story of a cruise ship that crashed into an iceberg in the middle of the Caribbean. Surmisin...

"Human Traffic" (1999) Jip (played by John Simm), Koop (played by Shaun Parkes), Moff (played by Danny Dyer), Nina (played by Nicola Reynolds) and Lulu (played by Lorraine Pilkington) are five friends in their early twenties who are ready to take control of the weekend in Cardiff through pub hopping, going to raves, as well as partaking in various substances along the way. The weekend is their escape from their normal everyday existence. Jip works at the bottom of the ladder at a retail store, and is also worried about his trouble with intimacy as he is going through sexual anxiety. There is his concern with his inadequacy, but also the issue of his single mother continuing to work as a prostitute to make ends meet. Koop may have a fun job working at a record store where he uses his music knowledge and wit to entice customers and listeners, he is also dealing with having a father in a mental institution. Moff is a Londo...

After the events of The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, megalomaniacal criminal mastermind Fu Manchu (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism's Christopher Lee) has made his new lair in a lost Incan city in the Andes where he has discovered the key to this particular tribe's secret of a poison that can be carried in the bloodstreams of women and is only fatal to men. He abducts ten beautiful women with the help of his loyal daughter Lin Tang (The Virgin Soldiers' Tsai Chin) and his dacoits in order to infect them with the poison and send them out to assassinate various important men who have crossed him, starting with British Secret Service agent Denis Nayland Smith (Sword of Sherwood Forest's Richard Greene) who i...

Ever since the death of her gangster father, Kit-Ying (Possessed II's Pauline Wong) has worked as a manager at Macao's Lisboa Casino. One night, she has a run-in with a quintet of gangsters lead by Brother Biu (A Moment of Romance's Hon Yee-Sang). When she refuses to back down and kowtow to their boorish behavior, they stalk her after work and gang rape her in a graveyard. Ying tries to move on with her life but experiences pain and bleeding which a doctor (The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter's King Lee King-Chu) diagnoses as a severe sexually-transmitted disease which will "rot" her womb and kill her if untreated; whereupon Ying is encouraged by her blind sister (Wild Search's ...

After the events of The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, megalomaniacal criminal mastermind Fu Manchu (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism's Christopher Lee) has made his new lair in a lost Incan city in the Andes where he has discovered the key to this particular tribe's secret of a poison that can be carried in the bloodstreams of women and is only fatal to men. He abducts ten beautiful women with the help of his loyal daughter Lin Tang (The Virgin Soldiers' Tsai Chin) and his dacoits in order to infect them with the poison and send them out to assassinate various important men who have crossed him, starting with British Secret Service agent Denis Nayland Smith (Sword of Sherwood Forest's Richard Greene) who i...

On the eve of her wedding to a minister, Catholic priest's daughter Mina (Female Coed: Sexy Dynamite's Mari Tanaka) sneaks away to a love hotel intending to cut things off with her lover Ozaki (Bodyguard Kiba's Kinji Takinami); however, they instead decide to continue seeing each other after the nuptials. Celebrating in the car afterward and distracted by a tape Ozaki has made of their lovemaking, Mina accidentally runs down Ryô (Violent Cop's Ken Yoshizawa). They speed off and only then does Mina feel remorse. When she wants to go back and drive the victim to the hospital, Ozaki cuts ties with her, going from "I love you" to "We had some fun." Mina drags Ryô into her back seat, not realizing that he is "playing dead" and has second thoughts and instead drives him to a secluded beach. Rowing him into the...

Vittorio and Sara Corsini (And the Ship Sails On's Paolo Paolini and Damned in Venice's Bettine Milne) live in a remote villa in the Italian countryside in peaceful solitude. Vittorio fills his days with his clocks and watches which he has been collecting for seventy years while Sara does her gardening. They regularly take time out to tend to the rotting corpses of their nephew (Paolo Bernardi) and his wife (Francesca DeRose) who they murdered when they realized the younger couple was less interested in being a happy family than in their money. Housekeeper Maria (The Sect's Carla Cassola) discovers their secret and decides to beat a hasty retreat only to end up with...

"TwentyFourSeven" (1997) Darcy (played by Bob Hoskins) is a middle-aged man who decides to revive a local boxing gym with the main purpose of giving some hope and positive energy to the teenage boys in the area. As many of them have gone into gang violence and drugs as their daily routine, he tries to enlist the young men into joining him on the journey. He is set to teach them discipline and respect while being able to use physical strength, but there are still obstacles to overcome such as drug addiction, bullying, and trauma from broken homes. "TwentyFourSeven" was the feature film debut of director Shane Meadows, following years of shot on video shorts and the acclaimed hour long television drama "Small Time" in 1996. This was the first time he would be shooting on 35mm film, and it would be on black and white stock, which was a rarity at that time, bearing striking visual similarities to one of the greatest boxing films of all time, ...

"Women in Love" (1969) British author D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love" - two books that follow sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen - two upper class sisters from the Midlands who mostly go against the norm of society, represented through expressionistic art, relationships with men, conflict of class, and freedom of expression. "The Rainbow" was published in 1915 and caused controversy in its native country challenging obscenity laws for its sexual content to the point that it was banned for 11 years. It was however available for purchase in America. With the controversy ensued the publishers were weary of releasing the sequel, but it was finally printed in America in 1920 and in Britain in 1921. Reception was also controversial for its frank sexuality portrayed which was not a surprise, and reactions from critics and the public were extremely negative - linked to pornography and trash. It was only after his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 that contemporary writers including ...

When her French husband Pierre has not returned for four days after a fight, Kyoko (Wolf Guy's Kumi Taguchi) takes the advice of her old girlfriend Eiko (The Horrors of Malformed Men's Mitsuko Aoi) to fly back to Tokyo to give her some time and space to think about whether her marriage is worth saving. Upon arrival, Kyoko is reluctant to resume the more intimate side of her relationship with Eiko but finds distraction in a hotel bellboy (Street of Joy's Kunio Shimizu) when no one picks up the phone at home. Eiko introduces her to Maki (Gamera vs. Gyaos' Fujio Murakami), a professor at the women's university who has developed new laws of sexuality in w...

A new all-natural sweet treat known as "The Stuff" has managed to get passed through the FDA and sweep the country seemingly overnight, with the mysterious company buying out the "Chocolate Chip Charlie" empire and on their way to driving out other ice cream and frozen yogurt companies out of business. Unable to analyze the ingredients, rival executive Evans (The Big Heat's Alexander Scourby) hires disgraced FBI agent turned industrial spy David "Mo" Rutherford (Pale Rider's Michael Moriarty) to carry out his own investigation and sabotage of the company. When looking into the FDA, he discovers that everyone who approved it have resigned and taken long vacations with the exception of Vickers (Moonstruck's Danny Aiello) who seems to have been bought off with a lifetime supply of "The Stuff" and is...

"Years before Nordic Noir took the TV world by storm with such hits as The Killing and The Bridge, writer-director Ole Bornedal had already put the genre on the map with Nightwatch, an unforgettably nail-biting thriller and the breakout film of both Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) and Kim Bodnia (Pusher)." Nightwatch: Facing imminent graduation from law school, twenty-four year old Martin (Domino's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his buddy Jens (Pusher's Kim Bodnia) are starting to get cold feet about going into the real world despite being in relatively committed relationships with, respectively, acting student Kalinka (Fortitude's Sofie Gråbøl) and vicar Lotte (...

"Years before Nordic Noir took the TV world by storm with such hits as The Killing and The Bridge, writer-director Ole Bornedal had already put the genre on the map with Nightwatch, an unforgettably nail-biting thriller and the breakout film of both Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) and Kim Bodnia (Pusher)." Nightwatch: Facing imminent graduation from law school, twenty-four year old Martin (Domino's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his buddy Jens (Pusher's Kim Bodnia) are starting to get cold feet about going into the real world despite being in relatively committed relationships with, respectively, acting student Kalinka (Fortitude's Sofie Gråbøl) and vicar Lotte (...

Orphaned prostitute's son Max (Martin Hreben) has tired of being mistreated by the traveling circus that took him in and escapes as the troupe passes through "vampire country" where he meets water spirit Alojz (Alphaville's Eddie Constantine) who trades fresh-caught fish in the village for booze. When they overhear blacksmith/amateur inventor Humschmied (Uprising's Andrej Hryc) telling the villagers that Dr. Henry Frankenstein (The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday's Bolek Polívka) is following in his ancestor's footsteps and creating a monster, Alojz and Max race to the castle ahead of the torch-bearing mob to warn the castle's inhabitants including Count Dracula (...

Architect Joe Wong (Hard Boiled's Chow Yun-Fat) is in Tibet with his ballet teacher girlfriend Ida (The Bride with White Hair's Yammie Lam Kit-Ying) looking for inspiration for an account. He starts to realize that he is being followed by a woman named Sheila (Rouge's Emily Chu Bo-Yee) everywhere he goes. While he falls off of an elephant and breaks his leg, Joe is rushed back to Hong Kong where the doctor tells Ida that there is something "problematic" about his blood; and yet, Joe's leg miraculously heals when Sheila stows away on a plane and appears at his bedside. Hiding Sheila from immigration (and Ida), Joe discover that not only does she have magical powers but so does he and Sheila reveals that he is the chosen leader of their Tibetan tribe who are being terrorized by "The Tyrant" (...

"Wake in Fright" (1971) John Grant (played by Gary Bond) is a schoolteacher assigned to a tiny schoolhouse in Tiboonda, a village in the middle of nowhere in Australia. With the school season ending for the Christmas holidays, he is ready to travel to Sydney by plane, but that means having to catch the train to nearest airport located in the mining town of Bundanyabba, or the ‘Yabba as the locals refer to it. While he is only scheduled to stay one night before leaving, he gets caught up in a night of drinking and gambling with the locals, eventually losing all of his money in the process. His stay in town is extended in which the locals are friendly to help him out, but John’s time in the town becomes a living hell for him with seemingly no way of escaping… Adapted from writer Kenneth Cook’s debut novel of the same name from 1961, “Wake in Fright” has all the elements of a psychological suspense film. One man’s madness and descent, an escape at reach but ever so far away. But it is quite different from other horror films of the same premise of be...

"The Waves of Madness" (2024) The Elder of the Seas is a lavish cruise ship sailing across the ocean with hundreds of passengers. But the ship mysteriously veered off course and a distress call was sent. Rogue Agent Legrasse (played by Jason Trost) is sent on a mission not to look for survivors, but to grab intel from the ship and deliver it to his employers. Though he is notified that there may be others looking for the same target. He is the first to find and board the ship, which is mysteriously deserted. He first encounters a young woman named Francis (played by Tallay Wickham) who asks if she could follow him and be protected, as something sinister is lurking on the ship. She is also willing to help him with directions aboard. There are other survivors encountered, but along the way there are militia forces boarding the ship, as well as the mysterious entity that is devouring everyone on board… The main draw for audiences to "The Waves of Madness" is its uniqueness as being supposedly the first side-scrolling feature film, with the entire story being p...

"No other filmmaker better embodied the spirit of the gay liberation movement than Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (Passing Strangers, Forbidden Letters). A true pioneer of queer cinema, his films fearlessly blurred the boundaries between the artistic, the erotic, and the cinematic--especially with his final two adult films, the critically-acclaimed Daddy Dearest and Juice. Altered Innocence and the Bressan Project are proud to present these two classics of gay erotica, newly restored in 2K from their original film elements and with a host of new bonus features." The titular Juice is a bestselling gay magazine – with apparently a staff of two and one photographer – but photography Jim Bennett (The Best Little Warehouse in L.A.'s Michael Christopher) has been getting a bit too artsy for the tastes of his editor (Eric Ryan of the legendary "big budget" ...

"No other filmmaker better embodied the spirit of the gay liberation movement than Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (Passing Strangers, Forbidden Letters). A true pioneer of queer cinema, his films fearlessly blurred the boundaries between the artistic, the erotic, and the cinematic--especially with his final two adult films, the critically-acclaimed Daddy Dearest and Juice. Altered Innocence and the Bressan Project are proud to present these two classics of gay erotica, newly restored in 2K from their original film elements and with a host of new bonus features." The titular Juice is a bestselling gay magazine – with apparently a staff of two and one photographer – but photography Jim Bennett (The Best Little Warehouse in L.A.'s Michael Christopher) has been getting a bit too artsy for the tastes of his editor (Eric Ryan of the legendary "big budget" ...

In sexually-liberated seventies France, Gerard Casanova (Sexual Chronicles of a French Family's Yan Brian) prefers the women to come to him for seduction, so he is no gigolo but a self-proclaimed "call boy" (travel costs extra). He has some regulars like the dominatrix Baroness Desieux (Dear Inspector's Jacqueline Doyen) and her masochistic butler (Cop or Hood's Philippe Castelli), Olga who only makes love in the dark and whose face he has never seen, fun-loving Tina (Phantom of Liberty's Jenny Astruc), and widow Alice (Naked Sex's ...

"Storm Warning" (2007) Rob (played by Robert Taylor) decides to take his wife Pia (played by Nadia Farès) on a short trip by motorboat for fishing and sailing. But during their trip through the mangroves, a storm comes in and they are forced to disembark on a nearby island. They find an old decrepit house and decide to enter to take shelter and find a phone for help. They are confronted by brothers Brett (played by Mathew Wilkinson) and Jimmy (played by David Lyons) who are concerned about the couple breaking into their home. The brothers are less than respectful toward the stranded couple as they taunt and harass them constantly, but there is a much bigger issue at home. They do not want their father Poppy (played by John Brumpton) getting involved, as he is not going to tolerate the intrusion and the mess that was caused… Director Jamie Blanks studied film and wo...

"One of the Shaw Brothers Studio’s most prolific directors, Chang Cheh – or the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” – is the filmmaker behind Five Deadly Venoms, Chinatown Kid and Boxer Rebellion. Collected here are two films by this maestro of martial arts cinema that showcase his considerable talents at both ends of his career: The Magnificent Trio, produced when wuxia films ruled the Hong Kong box office in the mid-1960s, and Magnificent Wanderers, made at the height of the kung fu craze at the end of the 1970s." The Magnificent Trio: Having left the border war against the Xings lead by his uncle, Lu Fang (Master of the Flying Guillotine's Jimmy Wang Yu) stumbles upon a trio of men abducting a young woman. Lu springs to her rescue until the elder man Gao Bao-shi (Five Fingers of Death's ...

"One of the Shaw Brothers Studio’s most prolific directors, Chang Cheh – or the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” – is the filmmaker behind Five Deadly Venoms, Chinatown Kid and Boxer Rebellion. Collected here are two films by this maestro of martial arts cinema that showcase his considerable talents at both ends of his career: The Magnificent Trio, produced when wuxia films ruled the Hong Kong box office in the mid-1960s, and Magnificent Wanderers, made at the height of the kung fu craze at the end of the 1970s." The Magnificent Trio: Having left the border war against the Xings lead by his uncle, Lu Fang (Master of the Flying Guillotine's Jimmy Wang Yu) stumbles upon a trio of men abducting a young woman. Lu springs to her rescue until the elder man Gao Bao-shi (Five Fingers of Death's ...

Wong Kar-Wai’s "Chungking Express" is a film of aching transience and restless yearning, one that captures urban alienation and romantic longing through a lens that is as impressionistic as it is emotionally sincere. Released in 1994, during the uncertain pre-handover years in Hong Kong, the film became an emblem of both its time and its director’s unique cinematic language—fragmented, deeply stylized, and hauntingly human. Divided into two loosely connected stories, "Chungking Express" eschews traditional narrative structure in favor of mood, texture, and rhythm. The first half follows a lovelorn cop, He Zhiwu, Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who obsessively consumes canned pineapples with expiration dates that coincide with his emotional deadlines. He crosses paths with a mysterious drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin, in a noir-soaked trench coat and blonde wig), whose stoic detachment mirrors his own emotional vacancy. The second half shifts focus to Cop 663 (Tony Leung), who is quietly unraveling after a breakup, and the quirky snack b...

"A devilishly erotic adult double-feature that contains enough smut to send unclean souls straight to hell!" Young reporter Janice Lightning (Blood Shack's Carolyn Brandt) accompanies sexorcist/demonologist Professor Ernest Von Kleinsmidt (Psyched by the 4D Witch's Kelly Guthrie) on an expedition to The Marsh outside the city where once dwelled a coven of sex-crazed Satan worshippers. They discover a parchment which Ernest takes home to translate. Reciting the words aloud, he unknowingly wakes hooded cultist Volta (Wayne Williams) who offers the gift of true pleasure to Janice's hooker roommate Diana (Lilly Lamarr), taking sexual possession of her in order to deliver souls to the devil from her clients (along with pimp Richard Zufger). Wh...

Peter Yates (Summer Holiday, Murphy’s War) directs Albert Finney (Charlie Bubbles), Tom Courtenay (Otley), and Edward Fox (Force 10 from Navarone) in The Dresser, a heart-rending yet darkly humorous tale of life in the theatre. During the Second World War, a group of actors take Shakespeare across the industrial north, led by an ageing and imperious actor known only as ‘Sir’ (Finney), against a background of air-raid sirens and exploding bombs. With his mental and physical condition deteriorating, selfless dresser Norman (Courtenay) struggles to ensure that the show – Sir’s 227th performance as King Lear – goes on. Based on the experiences of screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), assistant to legendary Shakespearean actor Sir Donald Wolfit (90° in the Shade), The Dresser is a moving exploration of loyalty and unrequited love....

Robert Shaw (Young Winston) and Sarah Miles (Blowup) star in The Hireling, a devastating exploration of emotional repression, trauma, and class relations from director Alan Bridges (The Shooting Party). In the years following the First World War, the widowed Lady Franklin (Miles) establishes an unlikely friendship with her working-class driver, Ledbetter (Shaw), a traumatised former sergeant major. But, as Lady Franklin develops a relationship with a scheming former officer (Peter Egan, Ever Decreasing Circles), Ledbetter’s precarious mental state rapidly deteriorates. Adapted from the novel by L. P. Hartley (The Go-Between) by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz (The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll), The Hireling was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival....

Massimo Dallamano's razor-sharp thriller WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? masterfully fuses the stylized violence of giallo with the gritty realism of poliziotteschi in a thematic follow-up to his acclaimed ‘What Have You Done to Solange?’. Transforming genre conventions into vehicles for societal commentary, this newly restored film dares to expose the organized grooming and exploitation of young women – and the institutional corruption behind it. When a teenage girl's body is discovered hanging in an attic, it is District Attorney Vittoria Stori who leads the investigation. Toppling genre and period conventions, it is the captivatingly beautiful Giovanna Ralli who portrays the DA with striking gravitas, bringing both steely determination and sensitivity to the ground-breaking role of a woman heading a team of hardened police detectives. As her team- including the famed Mario Adorf (The Tin Drum, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) - uncovers a web of high-level depravity and secrecy, a mysterious black-clad motorcyclist armed with a butcher’s cleaver begins eliminating witnesses and detectives alike. With their lives at stake, the officers race to uncover the truth before becoming the killer’s next victims. ...

Jack Nicholson (The Passenger) and Art Garfunkel (Bad Timing) star alongside Candice Bergen (Starting Over) and Ann-Margret (R.P.M.) in Carnal Knowledge, one of American cinema’s most daring and provocative films, masterfully directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate). During their time in college, roommates Sandy (Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Nicholson) reveal their innermost feelings about girls and sex to one another, each taking his own approach to getting what he wants. As they grow older and establish new relationships, they continue to share their fantasies and frustrations about the opposite sex, each responding differently to the mixture of desire, distain and disinterest they experience. Note-perfect dialogue from the pen of the great Jules Feiffer (Little Murders) and exquisite photography by legendary Italian cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (Fellini Satyricon) combine with universally outstanding performances – including from supporting players Rita Moreno (The Night of the Following Day) and Carol Kane (The Last Detail) – to create an unflinching and uncompromising classic of the New Hollywood era....

Mark Burns (Death in Venice) and Beatrice Edney (Highlander) star in A Day at the Beach, a downbeat tale of alcoholism written by Roman Polanski (Chinatown), produced by regular Polanski collaborator Gene Gutowski (Cul-de-Sac, The Pianist), and shot by celebrated cinematographer Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion, Star Wars). When Bernie (Burns) takes a little girl, Winnie (Edney) – who may or may not be his niece or perhaps daughter – for a trip to a decrepit Danish seaside town on a day of heavy rain, he sets about cajoling the locals in a desperate quest for alcohol, leaving his young charge to fend for herself. The sole feature-film credit for director Simon Hesera, A Day at the Beach received scant distribution at the time of its production, but – after having been lost for decades – it was eventually revived and re-released to critical acclaim, with audiences particularly interested to discover the charismatic cameo appearances by British comedy legends Peter Sellers (The Blockhouse, Hoffman) and Graham Stark (The Wrong Box)....

Mark Burns (Death in Venice) and Beatrice Edney (Highlander) star in A Day at the Beach, a downbeat tale of alcoholism written by Roman Polanski (Chinatown), produced by regular Polanski collaborator Gene Gutowski (Cul-de-Sac, The Pianist), and shot by celebrated cinematographer Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion, Star Wars). When Bernie (Burns) takes a little girl, Winnie (Edney) – who may or may not be his niece or perhaps daughter – for a trip to a decrepit Danish seaside town on a day of heavy rain, he sets about cajoling the locals in a desperate quest for alcohol, leaving his young charge to fend for herself. The sole feature-film credit for director Simon Hesera, A Day at the Beach received scant distribution at the time of its production, but – after having been lost for decades – it was eventually revived and re-released to critical acclaim, with audiences particularly interested to discover the charismatic cameo appearances by British comedy legends Peter Sellers (The Blockhouse, Hoffman) and Graham Stark (The Wrong Box)....

See David Howard Thornton transform from the Art the Clown to the tiny terror of New York in this horror that’ll make you shiver the next time you hear a squeak in the night. A group of New Yorkers are on a late-night ferry ride that turns deadly when a mischievous mouse begins a rampage, targeting unsuspecting passengers. The unlikely crew must band together to thwart the murderous menace before their relaxing commute turns into a nightmare....

From cult maestro Umberto Lenzi — the notorious architect of Italian shock cinema behind depravity classics like ‘Cannibal Ferox’ and ‘Almost Human’ - comes the long-neglected, provocative home-invasion thriller OASIS OF FEAR, where Lenzi expertly balances explicit shocks with genuine suspense. Cool, calculated, and chic. "A steamy, boundary-pushing story!" reveals Ornella Muti, the ever-mesmerising Italian screen icon (Princess Aura in Flash Gordon) in a revelatory new interview exclusive to this release. "Lenzi captures how rapidly society was changing, the freedom and the danger that came with it." Sizzling with magnetic performances, OASIS OF FEAR stars the luminous young Muti and dashing cult favourite Ray Lovelock as free-spirited hippies funding their Italian adventure by selling provocative photos of themselves. When the police shut down their operation, they seek refuge in a secluded villa owned by Barbara (Irene Papas, ‘Zorba the Greek’), a wealthy widow whose sophisticated charm hides sinister intentions. What begins as a flirtatious ménage-à-trois spirals into a claustrophobic psychological power game — where tensions, hidden motives, and shifting loyalties lead to blackmail, threats, and ultima...

Renowned as the “Godfather of Gore” for legendary cult supernatural horror films like “The Beyond” , Lucio Fulci delivers the suspense of noir with the punch of a horror film in his unapologetically brutal crime masterpiece, CONTRABAND - creating a raw, uncompromisingly visceral vision of organised crime with horror-style set-pieces - including one of the most notorious scenes in Italian crime cinema, the "melting face" sequence. Fulci lays bare the raw - and completely unromanticised - brutality of the Camorra in one of his most hard-hitting and unrelenting films, merging crime thriller with Horror’s shocking aesthetics. “It got so real that the local underworld got involved in the actual making of the film”, explains star Fabio Testi in an exclusive interview for this release. CONTRABAND stars the ever-charismatic tough-guy Fabio Testi (‘Revolver’) who delivers a powerful, career-defining performance as Luca - a tough-as-nails cigarette smuggler whose world explodes when his brother is murdered and his wife abducted. This ignites a ferocious mob war, with a ruthless new order attempting to replace the old criminal order with deadly narcotics. What follows isn’t just revenge - it’s a one-man war agains...

Having built his reputation with a quartet of eccentric erotic vampire tales, Jean Rollin surprised audiences with The Iron Rose (Le Rose de fer), an atmospheric detour into the realms of the fantastique. When a couple – played by Françoise Pascal (Burke and Hare) and Hugues Quester (Je t’aime moi non plus) – stumble across an old cemetery, they begin to explore its gravestones and crypts. But, as night falls, they find that they are unable to leave ... Restored in 4K from the original negative, The Iron Rose also features Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (Lips of Blood) and Mireille Dargent (Requiem for a Vampire), and is considered by many to be one of its director’s crowning achievements. This new edition also includes a new 4K restoration of Rollin’s early short film The Yellow Loves, an evocation of the poetry of Tristan Corbière, whose work was also the inspiration for The Iron Rose....

Having built his reputation with a quartet of eccentric erotic vampire tales, Jean Rollin surprised audiences with The Iron Rose (Le Rose de fer), an atmospheric detour into the realms of the fantastique. When a couple – played by Françoise Pascal (Burke and Hare) and Hugues Quester (Je t’aime moi non plus) – stumble across an old cemetery, they begin to explore its gravestones and crypts. But, as night falls, they find that they are unable to leave... Restored in 4K from the original negative, The Iron Rose also features Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (Lips of Blood) and Mireille Dargent (Requiem for a Vampire), and is considered by many to be one of its director’s crowning achievements. This new edition also includes a new 4K restoration of Rollin’s early short film The Yellow Loves, an evocation of the poetry of Tristan Corbière, whose work was also the inspiration for The Iron Rose....

Joëlle Cœur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) star in Girls Without Shame (Jeunes filles impudiques), Jean Rollin’s first foray into the world of erotic cinema, made under the pseudonym ‘Michel Gentil’. Two curious young women, Monica (Cœur) and Jackie (Arancio), find an abandoned old house whilst out hiking. Retiring to bed, they soon find that the house is a hangout for a criminal gang who suspect them of stealing their loot... Restored in 4K from the original negative, Girls Without Shame (aka Schoolgirl Hitchhikers) features a score by regular Rollin composer Pierre Raph (Requiem for a Vampire) and supporting turns by Willy Braque (Lips of Blood) and Rollin himself, and sees the director successfully transfer his trademark images and themes to a new genre. This edition also includes a new restoration of Hubert Lacoudre’s rare 1972 short film Sexana, an erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland, also starring Cœur....

Joëlle Cœur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) star in Girls Without Shame (Jeunes filles impudiques), Jean Rollin’s first foray into the world of erotic cinema, made under the pseudonym ‘Michel Gentil’. Two curious young women, Monica (Cœur) and Jackie (Arancio), find an abandoned old house whilst out hiking. Retiring to bed, they soon find that the house is a hangout for a criminal gang who suspect them of stealing their loot... Restored in 4K from the original negative, Girls Without Shame (aka Schoolgirl Hitchhikers) features a score by regular Rollin composer Pierre Raph (Requiem for a Vampire) and supporting turns by Willy Braque (Lips of Blood) and Rollin himself, and sees the director successfully transfer his trademark images and themes to a new genre. This edition also includes a new restoration of Hubert Lacoudre’s rare 1972 short film Sexana, an erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland, also starring Cœur....

Dario Argentodescribes FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET as a deeply personal exploration of his inner turmoil: “I decided to let loose, go crazy, and unleash all my creativity and personal nightmares. Psychoanalysis plays a major role in the film because it’s partly autobiographical – rather Freudian, in fact.” Both Argento and lead actor Michael Brandon, in exclusive interviews for this edition, reveal how the director found his alter ego in Brandon, channelling his own paranoia to create an unsettling psychological thriller. The result is a shocking, knife-edge whodunit with a stunning twist. Introspection becomes art in Argento’s hands, making FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET essential viewing for anyone seeking a glimpse into the director’s psyche. It concludes Argento’s iconic ‘Animal’ trilogy, paving the way for ‘Suspiria’ and his later expressionistic masterpieces that earned him the title ‘Master of Horror.’ Celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) is thrust into a nightmare. Framed for a brutal stabbing, he soon finds himself ensnared in a web of senseless murders. The only clue to the deranged killer lies in a cryptic image captured on a victim’s retina. Roberto’s desperate searc...

Dario Argentodescribes FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET as a deeply personal exploration of his inner turmoil: “I decided to let loose, go crazy, and unleash all my creativity and personal nightmares. Psychoanalysis plays a major role in the film because it’s partly autobiographical – rather Freudian, in fact.” Both Argento and lead actor Michael Brandon, in exclusive interviews for this edition, reveal how the director found his alter ego in Brandon, channelling his own paranoia to create an unsettling psychological thriller. The result is a shocking, knife-edge whodunit with a stunning twist. Introspection becomes art in Argento’s hands, making FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET essential viewing for anyone seeking a glimpse into the director’s psyche. It concludes Argento’s iconic ‘Animal’ trilogy, paving the way for ‘Suspiria’ and his later expressionistic masterpieces that earned him the title ‘Master of Horror.’ Celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) is thrust into a nightmare. Framed for a brutal stabbing, he soon finds himself ensnared in a web of senseless murders. The only clue to the deranged killer lies in a cryptic image captured on a victim’s retina. Roberto’s desperate searc...

Gregory Peck (MacArthur), Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia), and Anthony Quinn (R.P.M.) lead the cast of Behold a Pale Horse, a powerful drama from director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal). Twenty years after the Spanish Civil War, Republican guerilla Manuel (Peck) lives in exile in France. Francoist Captain Viñolas (Quinn) is tasked with capturing him, and senses an opportunity when Manuel’s mother (Mildred Dunnock) falls ill, but hasn’t counted on the involvement of priest Father Francisco (Sharif), who tries to protect Manuel and guide him away from his path to violence. Adapted by J P Miller (Days of Wine and Roses) from a novel by Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes), Behold a Pale Horse is a riveting tale of morality, betrayal, and resistance....

From director Vincent Sherman (Affair in Trinidad) comes the classic drama Harriet Craig, starring Joan Crawford (Strait-Jacket) and Wendell Corey (Rear Window). Manipulative and possessive Harriet (Crawford) controls every aspect of the lives of her husband Walter (Corey) and cousin Clare (K T Stevens, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), and schemes to destroy their chances of happiness. However, when they become aware of her treachery, her world begins to fall apart... Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig’s Wife by George Kelly (The Show-Off), Harriet Craig boasts one of Joan Crawford’s most devastating performances....

Prepare to step in and out of time with three friends as they discover they have the power to travel back and forth through the fabric of time with a sneeze. However, the lives they hoped to have in the future are not as promising as they had anticipated and with that, they need to take on the responsibility of taking over the world....

Chantal Contouri (Snapshot), David Hemmings (Harlequin), and Henry Silva (The Tall T) star in Thirst, a shocking fusion of horror and science fiction from legendary Australian producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick). A sinister organisation known as the Brotherhood kidnaps Kate (Contouri), believing her to be the descendant of Countess Báthory, the Hungarian noblewoman who reputedly had vampiric tendencies. A battle of wills ensues as the Brotherhood tries to force the horrified Kate to join their blood-drinking sacrificial cult. Only Dr Fraser (Hemmings) is willing to help her ... ...

Chantal Contouri (Snapshot), David Hemmings (Harlequin), and Henry Silva (The Tall T) star in Thirst, a shocking fusion of horror and science fiction from legendary Australian producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick). A sinister organisation known as the Brotherhood kidnaps Kate (Contouri), believing her to be the descendant of Countess Báthory, the Hungarian noblewoman who reputedly had vampiric tendencies. A battle of wills ensues as the Brotherhood tries to force the horrified Kate to join their blood-drinking sacrificial cult. Only Dr Fraser (Hemmings) is willing to help her... ...

Robert Powell (The Survivor), David Hemmings (Fragment of Fear), Carmen Duncan (Turkey Shoot), and Broderick Crawford (The Mob) star in Harlequin, a mysterious and fantastical thriller from director Simon Wincer (Snapshot) and writer Everett De Roche (Roadgames). When eccentric faith healer Gregory Wolfe (Powell) apparently cures the terminally ill son of Senator Nick Rast (Hemmings), Rast’s wife (Duncan) places her faith in Wolfe’s powers. But when Wolfe begins meddling in sensitive government business, political fixer Doc Wheelan (Crawford) decides to make the problem go away... Inspired by Rasputin’s influence over the Russian court, Harlequin (released in the US as Dark Forces) is a classic Australian chiller from producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick)....

Robert Powell (The Survivor), David Hemmings (Fragment of Fear), Carmen Duncan (Turkey Shoot), and Broderick Crawford (The Mob) star in Harlequin, a mysterious and fantastical thriller from director Simon Wincer (Snapshot) and writer Everett De Roche (Roadgames). When eccentric faith healer Gregory Wolfe (Powell) apparently cures the terminally ill son of Senator Nick Rast (Hemmings), Rast’s wife (Duncan) places her faith in Wolfe’s powers. But when Wolfe begins meddling in sensitive government business, political fixer Doc Wheelan (Crawford) decides to make the problem go away... Inspired by Rasputin’s influence over the Russian court, Harlequin (released in the US as Dark Forces) is a classic Australian chiller from producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick)....

Oscar® winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent - and uncovers truths of his own - forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. ...

Henry Hathaway (Go West Young Man) directs John Wayne (Jet Pilot), Betty Field (7 Women), Harry Carey (You and Me), and Beulah Bondi (Remember the Night) in the classic 1941 melodrama The Shepherd of the Hills. When Daniel Howitt (Carey), a kindly stranger, arrives in a remote Ozark community riven by hatred, he befriends young Sammy (Field) and raises the ire of her fiancé, Matt (Wayne), a bitter moonshiner who has sworn to kill his own father. Based on the best-selling novel by Harold Bell Wright, and boasting ravishing cinematography by Charles Lang (The Long Gray Line) and W Howard Greene (The Magnificent Seven), Hathaway’s version of The Shepherd of the Hills was the third of no fewer than four big-screen adaptations, and was Wayne’s first film in Technicolor....

Humphrey Bogart (The Harder They Fall), Bruce Bennett (Undertow) and J Carrol Naish (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer) star in Sahara, a thrilling tale of World War II heroism from director Zoltán Korda (A Woman’s Vengeance). Separated from his unit following the fall of Tobruk, Master Sergeant Joe Gunn (Bogart) and his crew flee in a tank across the Sahara, picking up a variety of stragglers and prisoners along the way. With their survival entirely dependent on the water from a depleted well, the group must defend it against a whole German battalion. Produced by Harry Joe Brown (Buchanan Rides Alone) and shot under harsh conditions in the unforgiving landscape of the Colorado Desert, the production of Sahara utilised an entire US Army division as extras, adding to the film’s gritty sense of realism....

Cornel Wilde (Shockproof), Victoria Shaw (The Crimson Kimono), and Mickey Shaughnessy (Jailhouse Rock) star in Edge of Eternity, a riveting murder mystery from director Don Siegel (Madigan, Charley Varrick). When a series of killings plagues an Arizona ghost town on the edge of the Grand Canyon, Deputy Sherrif Martin (Wilde) forms an unlikely partnership with playgirl Janice (Shaw) to investigate. Made on location, and shot in CinemaScope by the great Burnett Guffey (The Sniper, The Reckless Moment), Edge of Eternity is one of Don Siegel's most arresting and thrilling crime films....

Jean Rollin continues his unique exploration of the vampire genre with Requiem for a Vampire (Requiem pour un vampire), featuring a cast of Rollin regulars including Marie-Pierre Castel (The Shiver of the Vampires), Mireille Dargent (Lips of Blood), and Louise Dhour (The Escapees). When Marie (Castel) and Michelle (Dargent), two enigmatic women travelling through the countryside in clown costumes, stumble across a mysterious château, they uncover a sadistic vampire sect, the leader of which offers them eternal life to continue his bloodline. Also released as Virgins and Vampires and Caged Vampires, Rollin's pulp-inspired fourth feature boasts an abundance of surreal and erotic imagery, and is accompanied by an eccentric free-rock score by composer Pierre Raph (The Iron Rose, The Demoniacs). ...

Jean Rollin continues his unique exploration of the vampire genre with Requiem for a Vampire (Requiem pour un vampire), featuring a cast of Rollin regulars including Marie-Pierre Castel (The Shiver of the Vampires), Mireille Dargent (Lips of Blood), and Louise Dhour (The Escapees). When Marie (Castel) and Michelle (Dargent), two enigmatic women travelling through the countryside in clown costumes, stumble across a mysterious château, they uncover a sadistic vampire sect, the leader of which offers them eternal life to continue his bloodline. Also released as Virgins and Vampires and Caged Vampires, Rollin's pulp-inspired fourth feature boasts an abundance of surreal and erotic imagery, and is accompanied by an eccentric free-rock score by composer Pierre Raph (The Iron Rose, The Demoniacs). ...

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were two of American cinema’s best-loved comic actors, and this box set collects three of their classic collaborations. In Stir Crazy, Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) are sentenced to 125 years for a bank robbery they didn’t commit and must rely on each other to survive in a maximum-security prison. In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, blind Wally (Pryor) and deaf Dave (Wilder) team up to foil a murderous gang of thieves. Finally, in Another You, compulsive liar George (Wilder) is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, to the delight of conman Eddie (Pryor). This essential three-disc collection features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, interviews, and critical appreciations, as well as a 100-page book containing new and archival writings. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units....

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were two of American cinema’s best-loved comic actors, and this box set collects three of their classic collaborations. In Stir Crazy, Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) are sentenced to 125 years for a bank robbery they didn’t commit and must rely on each other to survive in a maximum-security prison. In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, blind Wally (Pryor) and deaf Dave (Wilder) team up to foil a murderous gang of thieves. Finally, in Another You, compulsive liar George (Wilder) is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, to the delight of conman Eddie (Pryor). This essential three-disc collection features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, interviews, and critical appreciations, as well as a 100-page book containing new and archival writings. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units....

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were two of American cinema’s best-loved comic actors, and this box set collects three of their classic collaborations. In Stir Crazy, Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) are sentenced to 125 years for a bank robbery they didn’t commit and must rely on each other to survive in a maximum-security prison. In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, blind Wally (Pryor) and deaf Dave (Wilder) team up to foil a murderous gang of thieves. Finally, in Another You, compulsive liar George (Wilder) is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, to the delight of conman Eddie (Pryor). This essential three-disc collection features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, interviews, and critical appreciations, as well as a 100-page book containing new and archival writings. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....