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Il Posto
This Italian drama mines the rich possibilities in the life of a recently graduated man who strikes out for Milan to land a job. Starting out on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder as a messenger in an industrial conglomerate, he nevertheless aims for the top. The cast features Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich, Sandro Panseri and Mara Revel.

The Universe: Season 1: Disc 1
This disc includes episodes 1-5.

Our Daily Bread
Bypassing the human factor, Nikolaus Geyrhalter's provocative documentary offers an intensely clinical look at the machinery of industrial food production across Europe. Geyrhalter focuses his lens on high-tech aspects of agriculture, using a rich mix of film techniques to capture machines in action. Humans, animals and crops appear incidentally, with droning conveyor belts, automated crop dusters and other machinery in starring roles.

Dark City Director's Cut
Alex Proyas directs this shadowy sci-fi masterpiece about a man (Rufus Sewell) who awakens to find himself accused of murder in a strange city. Now, he must untangle his jumbled memories while eluding both the police and a woman claiming to be his wife (Jennifer Connelly). This special edition director's cut boasts 11 minutes of new footage, plus commentary from Proyas, screenwriters Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer and film critic Roger Ebert.

Incredible Hulk
Edward Norton stars as Bruce Banner in this version of the classic comic book tale about a doctor who searches for a cure for his exotic condition, which causes him to transform into a huge green monster when under duress. Drawing closer to finding a remedy, Dr. Banner becomes sidetracked as he's pursued first by the military and then by a rival monster known as the Abomination. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as adversary Tony Stark.

The Man Who Fell to Earth
A famed cult classic, David Bowie stars an alien from a dry, dying world who's journeyed to Earth to save his planet. Bowie starts high-tech companies, using the cash to build ships that can transport water to his home planet. Also contains Roeg's director's cut, with never-before-seen footage cut from the 1976 American release.

Hiroshima Mon Amour
In director Alain Resnais's poetic adaptation of Margueurite Duras's acclaimed book, a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) working in Japan meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) with whom she has an affair. Their relationship consists largely of conversations about the bombing at Hiroshima, the horrors that he and his family endured and her perception of the cataclysm back home in occupied France.

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors: Vol. 1: Disc 1
This disc includes the following episodes: "Escape From The Garden," "The Vase of Xiang," "Steel Against Shadow," "Silver Crusaders," "Ghostship," "Flora, Fauna and the Monster Minds," "Fire and Ice," "Space Outlaws" and "Future of the Future."

The Lady from Shanghai
Batten down the hatches -- it's gonna be one bumpy ride when Mike O'Hara (Orson Welles, who also wrote and directed) becomes a crew member on Arthur Bannister's (Everett Sloane) yacht. In nothing flat, sparks fly between O'Hara and Bannister's wife, Rosalie (Rita Hayworth), with murder not far off. The hall of mirrors sequence at the end of the film is classic Welles.

Private Fears in Public Places
Alain Resnais, one of the cinema's living legends, directs this story of intersecting lives amid a curious Paris snowstorm. Based on the popular stage drama by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, the ensemble film revolves around several couples as they cope with their relationships and other entanglements. No stranger to Ayckbourn's work, Resnais crafted his 1993 film Smoking/No Smoking from another group of Ayckbourn plays.

The Amityville Horror
This 1979 chiller is based on the reportedly true story of George Lutz (James Brolin) and his wife, Kathleen (Margot Kidder), who move into their Long Island dream house with their children. But the Lutz's lives turn into a hellish nightmare as the legacy of a murder committed on the premises gradually affects the family. Even the priest they call in, Father Delaney (Rod Steiger), cannot exorcise the demonic presence from the home.

Out of the Past
Jacques Tourneur directs this definitive noir classic (remade in 1984 as Against All Odds with Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward) about a trio to reckon with -- troubled private investigator Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum), drop-dead beauty Kathie (Jane Greer) and moneyed mobster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). Bailey is hired to find Kathie, Sterling's former mistress. When he finds her, the unexpected occurs. …

Morocco
Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich made a big splash in her American film debut by appearing in a tuxedo and kissing a woman in this romantic melodrama directed by Josef von Sternberg. When sultry cabaret entertainer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) falls for a callow Foreign Legionnaire (Gary Cooper), she finds she must choose between love and money. Morocco was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Actress.

Life Is a Bed of Roses
Alain Resnais directs this three-part tribute to French filmmakers Georges Melies, Marcel L'Herbier and Eric Rohmer. First, an architect unveils his designs for a utopian city; in the second part, a group of professors seek creative inspiration from a guru (Vittorio Gassman). Finally, a fantasia of kings and dragons springs from the minds of a group of schoolchildren. Uniting these stories is Resnais's devotion to the power of the imagination.

Re-Cycle
As she struggles to complete her new horror novel, best-selling author Tsui Ting-Yin's (Angelica Lee) gruesome literary creations come to life and ensnare her in their terrifying and all-too-real alternate world. Now, she must escape, but the only means is to confront a painful incident in her past. Directed by Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun, this visually stunning film also stars Siu-Ming Lau.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Based on the novels by Patrick O'Brian, this dramatic thriller pits "Lucky" Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe), captain of the HMS Surprise, and his crew against a privateer equipped with better weapons. This Oscar-winning adventure co-stars Paul Bettany (as ship doctor Stephen Maturin), Billy Boyd and James D'Arcy, and as the two vessels command the high seas during the Napoleonic Wars, the maritime chase continues to claim victims.

Little Big Man
A droll but critical parable about the bloody consequences of American expansionism in the Old West. Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), a 121-year-old Indian living in a rest home, recounts the amazing tale of being the Battle of Little Bighorn's sole white survivor. Reared by the Cheyenne from the age of 10 only to be snatched by whites at age 15, Crabb spends his life journeying between the two cultures in an effort to find his place in the world.

Fear in the Night
A film noir-ish shocker in which Kelley dreams he murders someone and wakes up to find it may not have been a dream. Based on the story Nightmare by Cornell Woorlich and refilmed under that title in 1956, this is worth it for the clever plot twists alone.

Carnival of Souls
While on her way to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City, Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) is haunted by a bizarre apparition. It compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion, beginning an eerie and macabre chain of events. Herk Harvey's macabre masterpiece, while made on a modest budget, has gained a cult following on late-night television.

Shane
Amid stunning vistas, this Oscar-winning Western from director George Stevens follows reformed gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd), whose determination to avoid a fight is tested when greedy cattle barons threaten the community of homesteaders he's joined. Jack Palance plays Shane's unabashedly evil nemesis, and the film's enigmatic ending -- after Shane realizes he's become a disruptive force in the family that's taken him in -- is a cinema classic.

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery (Ten Little Indians) delivers a stimulating dose of suspense in director René Clair's film adaptation. A mysterious, unknown host invites 10 strangers to a remote island mansion, where the guests discover there's a killer among them. The cast, headed by Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston, begins to shrink one by one, keeping the audience guessing until the credits roll.

Deanna Durbin: Lady on a Train
Avid mystery fan Nicki Collins (Deanna Durbin), who's traveling from San Francisco to New York to visit her aunt Martha during the holidays, is shocked when she looks out the window of her train car and witnesses an old man being murdered with a crowbar. With the timely help of mystery author Wayne Morgan (David Bruce), Nicki solves the crime -- and, as a bonus, falls in love.

Bad Day at Black Rock
When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) steps off the train at the backwater hamlet of Black Rock, he inadvertently opens a Pandora's box of fear and suspicion. He's there to deliver a military award for heroism to a man whose son died earning the medal in World War II. But the town harbors an ugly secret -- and will go to any lengths to keep it in director John Sturges's taut drama. Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin co-star.

Shadow of a Doubt
Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed this tale about Charlie (Teresa Wright), a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle (Joseph Cotton) is a serial killer. The arrival of detectives and a murder-infatuated neighbor (Hume Cronyn) only increase Charlie's paranoia. Tension builds as she draws closer to the truth, and in classic Hitchcock style, the film culminates in a nail-biting scene aboard a speeding train.

Act of Violence / Mystery Street
Suspense and intrigue abound in this noir-tinged double bill. A World War II veteran (Van Heflin) who betrayed his men sees his past come back to haunt him when a former comrade (Robert Ryan) -- hell-bent on evening the score -- stalks him in Act of Violence. Then, in Mystery Street, when a pregnant working girl's skeleton turns up on a Cape Cod beach, the police call in a forensics expert to establish her identity and help nail her killer.

Fat Girl
Twelve-year-old Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) has struggled with her weight all her life, always overshadowed by her older, thinner sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida). When their family vacations at the beach one summer, Anaïs continues to loathe herself and is forced to make up fake suitors to keep herself going. Meanwhile, Elena gets involved with a much older man who's eager to take her virginity. Note: Contains sexually graphic content.

The Promise
With the gods in her favor, a beautiful girl (Cecilia Cheung) becomes the most powerful royal concubine in the king's palace. But after years of being pampered, she grows spoiled and ungrateful, and a goddess decides to punish her. Burdened with a curse that says she will never find true love until time flows in reverse and the dead come back to life, she's destined to be alone -- until a selfless slave (Dong-Kun Jang) comes into her life.

Bangkok Dangerous
Kong, a professional killer, has been mute since childhood. Ultimately, the chance for his transformation (and redemption) arrives in the form of shop assistant Fon. Suddenly stricken with remorse and guilt for his past actions, he fights back against those who would force him to remain a killing machine.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Producer, director and activist Robert Greenwald takes aim at the corporate giant that's come to symbolize big business in America: Wal-Mart. Blasting the box-store Goliath for allegedly paying substandard wages, skimping on employee health benefits and eviscerating communities, this hard-hitting, emotional documentary profiles the struggle of everyday folks from around the country who've committed themselves to fighting the mega-retailer.

Chinese Box
Amid the final, frenzied days before the British handover of Hong Kong to communist China, circumstances keep a foreign photojournalist (Jeremy Irons) apart from the woman he loves (Gong Li). As the deadline approaches for the transfer of power, he must take action, or risk losing what he holds dearest. Capturing the end of an era, director Wayne Wang's haunting romantic drama co-stars Maggie Cheung.

Bullet Ballet
After his girlfriend commits suicide with a .38 used only by cops, Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) flings himself into an investigation he conducts personally to find out how she got her hands on the weapon in the first place, and whether she truly did turn it on herself. Goda also wants to acquire a gun of his own, a goal that becomes an obsession; when he finally achieves it, all hell breaks loose in this riveting thriller directed by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Office Tigers
Documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin examines an American-owned company that trains young Indian professionals the rules of Western business in this fascinating look into outsourcing and the contemporary blending of cultures. Headquartered in conservative Chennai, India, Office Tigers serves clients including the world's top investment banks. Mermin looks into the lives of the workers and the changes being wrought by their new opportunities.

Killer of Sheep
Shot in 1977 on a $10,000 budget while its director, Charles Burnett, was in film school, this landmark urban drama sketches a vivid portrait of African-American life in the '70s. Depicting the Los Angeles ghetto of Watts through the eyes of a slaughterhouse worker (Henry G. Sanders), the movie's episodic vignettes and evocative soundtrack paint a picture of economic exclusion and muted hopes dusted with moments of transcendent joy.

Paradise Villa
In this South Korean horror movie, Sumusal -- a teenager who spends all his time playing an online virtual reality game -- gets his wires crossed when he unknowingly crosses from the simulated world into real life. Finding himself at an eerie apartment complex called Paradise Villa, he thinks he's found his enemies' lair, so he starts killing them off. Who are the villa's residents, and where will the brutality lead?

Trudell: Independent Lens
Filmmaker Heather Rae paints an unforgettable portrait of Native American poet and activist John Trudell, a man known as much for his spoken-word performances as he is for his politics. The documentary includes commentary from Robert Redford, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and Wilma Mankiller, the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
This thoughtful documentary takes a look at the life and successful career of celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini (1920-1993). Commentary from actors who worked with the late director, scenes from his films and an interview with Fellini himself conducted by director Damian Pettigrew enhance this inspiring narrative.

Cleo from 5 to 7
A woman delves into the inner depths of her soul and resurfaces transformed in this 1962 film by French director Agnes Varda. Young singer Cleo (Corrine Marchand) strolls along the bustling Paris streets, pondering the meaning of life and her own existence as she awaits the results of her cancer biopsy. Cleo's observations offer a close look at Paris's rich street life, and desperation turns into hope when Cleo encounters a young soldier.

Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
With a cast made up of some of rock's sexiest musicians, director Jean-Luc Goddard's film is chaos and brilliance all at once, merging footage of the Rolling Stones practicing and Godard riffing on everything from pornography to modern-day celebrity. Watch a genius expound on the smallest and biggest mysteries of life as the penultimate rock band breaks down and then reconstructs its song "Sympathy for the Devil."

Wagner: The Complete Epic: Disc 1
This disc includes Part 1-3.

Wagner: The Complete Epic: Disc 2
This disc includes Part 4-6.

Wagner: The Complete Epic: Disc 3
This disc includes Part 7-8.

Wagner: The Complete Epic: Disc 4
This disc includes Part 9-10.

The Euroshock Collection: Psychomania
"Psychomania" is a pre-punk, British horror cult classic featuring trashy violence, suburban witchcraft and some amazing motorcycle stunt sequences. Led by Tom (Nicky Henson), The Living Dead motorcycle gang wreaks havoc in their small English town. But Tom wants more: Namely, to kill himself and return from the dead, with the help of a frog-worshipping cult and his seance-conducting mother (Beryl Reid). He's in for quite a ride!

Sword of the Beast
After killing a clan minister in a plot to bring about reform, the dishonored samurai Gennosuke flees to the wild, where he lives in seclusion from the angry former comrades who pursue him. But when he discovers a settlement of thugs who are illegally mining the shogun's stocks of gold, it could be his chance for redemption. Now, teaming with a fellow master swordsman, Gennosuke attempts to restore the honor that eludes him.

The Power of Kangwon Province
Attempting to distance herself from a painful breakup with her married professor, Jisook (Yun-hong Oh) joins two of her girlfriends (Sunyoung Im and Hyunyoung Park) for a holiday in South Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon (Jong-hak Baek), plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again. Yoosuk Kim and Jaehyun Chun co-star.

The Sword of Doom
One of the most thrilling and disturbing samurai epics, The Sword of Doom delivers unparalleled action and outstanding performances from two of Japan's greatest actors, Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune. Nakadai dominates the screen as Ryunosuke Tatsue, a man for whom killing is a pleasure. Brought up by a father to whom the sword was the way of life, the sword is now the only family he recognizes. Pitted against him is Taranosuke..

Election
With the Wo Shing Society, Hong Kong's oldest triad, on the verge of electing a new chairman, the stage is set for an all-out battle between the two leading contenders, the highly respected Lok (Simon Yam) and the hotheaded loose cannon known as Big D (Tony Leung Ka Fai). When Big D suspects that he'll be passed over for the position, he threatens to start his own triad and launch a war against the Wo Shing Society.

Kill!
Director Kihachi Okamoto's inky action-comedy (based on the same novel as Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro, Kill!) pokes fun at samurai flicks and Italian giallos. When two swordsmen roll into a new town -- one a former farmer and the other a retired samurai warrior -- they intend to lead normal lives. But the troubles of a band of rebels fighting the vile local clan leader convince the pair to pick up their weapons again.

North by Northwest
What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced you were a spy? This classic from master director Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone else and is forced to go on the lam (helped along by Eva Marie Saint). Hitchcock's sure-handed comic drama pits Grant against a crop duster and lands him in a fight for his life on Mount Rushmore. That's a cliffhanger if ever there was one!

Lake of Fire
Using footage of procedures, exploring the murders of doctors and interviewing individuals who represent the gamut of opinion, director Tony Kaye examines the loaded issue of abortion in America in this evenhanded black-and-white documentary. Cultural critic Noam Chomsky, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and others lend their voices to the ongoing discussion in this blend of personal stories, political realities and philosophical debate.

The Shooting Party
A weekend sojourn at a country estate seems, on the surface, to conform to all the social niceties that marked England in1913, but as the assorted nobility settle in, deep cracks in the social structure begin to appear. James Mason stars as the host, Sir Randolph Nettleby, whose carefully organized hunting party is marked by adultery, a surprising conflict with animal-rights advocates and a shocking breach of the gentleman's code.

A Streetcar Named Desire
Marlon Brando spellbinds as the brutish Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's classic rumination on carnal attraction and faded gentility. After losing the family plantation to creditors, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans hoping to find comfort with her sister (Kim Hunter), Stanley's wife. But Blanche gets more than she bargained for. Oscars went to Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden for their monumental performances.

On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy (Oscar-winner Marlon Brando) is a washed-up boxer turned longshoreman who finds he has one fight left in him when he dares to take on corrupt union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). A landmark "issue" picture, On the Waterfront is distinguished by great performances and excellent use of New York locations. It's also the winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Elia Kazan).

Offside
In director Jafar Panahi's offbeat Iranian tale, several girls find themselves arrested after posing as boys to sneak into a soccer stadium to see a key international qualifying match. It's illegal for Iranian women to attend sports events, so the gate-crashers end up in a holding pen waiting for authorities. But a sympathetic guard watching through a peephole describes the action for the girls, who are eager to know what's happening in the game.

The Last Detail
In this classic 1970s road movie, Officers Buddusky (Jack Nicholson and Mulhall (Otis Young) must escort a young sailor (Randy Quaid) to a New England military prison, where the 18-year-old is about to serve eight years for a trivial offense. Determined to cram all the living they can into one lost weekend, the boys booze, brawl and fornicate their way to their ultimate destination. Both Nicholson and Quaid deliver Oscar-nominated performances.

One Missed Call
Possessed cell phones predict their owners' untimely deaths in Takashi Miike's high-tech horror tale. One by one, Yumi's (Kou Shibasaki) friends receive chilling calls on their cell phones from themselves, placed a few days in the future. They listen in horror to their own bizarre deaths, which eventually occur. As Yumi frantically tries to solve the mystery, she uncovers a shocking link between herself and the murders.

The Public Enemy
Crime doesn't pay, as James Cagney learns (too late!) in this vintage Warner Brothers gangster movie that's become a much-imitated classic of the genre. Cagney plays hot-headed Tom Powers, who's on the fast track running illegal hooch during Prohibition. Directed by William Wellman, the film is famous for its scene where a ticked-off Cagney smashes his breakfast grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face. Also stars Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell.

Weekend
A venal Parisian couple (Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne) sets off on a sojourn to the country only to find themselves caught in the traffic jam from hell. But things go from bad to worse as they get carjacked by a man professing to be God and are later abducted by a band of anarchists. Director Jean-Luc Godard's scathing critique of the bourgeoisie is a darkly amusing allegorical tale teeming with taboos, including parricide and cannibalism.

Fish and Elephant
Both Ling (Tou Shi), who runs a tiny clothing shop in the local market, and Qun (Yi Pan), who takes care of elephants at the zoo, have bottomed out when it comes to true love. But a surprising thing happens when they meet: They fall head over heels for each other. Their lesbian relationship is bliss, at least for a while … until Ling's former girlfriend comes to call and Qun's mother pays a surprise visit.

Murmur of the Heart
Louis Malle's gentle coming-of-age comedy was nominated for an Oscar and for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1950s France, 15-year-old Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is dying to lose his virginity, but he's watched closely by his tight family circle and suffocated by domestic problems, including his mother's marital discontent. When an illness sends him to a spa, he finally finds an opportunity for sex -- with a very unexpected partner.

Point Blank
Lee Marvin delivers a potent performance as a gangster named Walker, whose faithless wife (Sharon Acker) and double-dealing partner in crime (John Vernon) shoot Walker and leave him to die on Alcatraz Island after a major heist. But he turns up two years later hell-bent on payback in this taut, neo-noir thriller from director John Boorman. The fine supporting cast includes Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn and Lloyd Bochner.

The Ten Commandments
Using California's dunes as a proxy for Egyptian sands, acclaimed director Cecil B. DeMille launched his first film production of The Ten Commandments, casting Theodore Roberts as Moses and Charles de Rochefort as the powerful pharaoh Rameses. Though epic in scale, only half this silent movie focuses on the well-known biblical tale; the second part, set in the 1920s, uses the commandments saga as a preface for a morality yarn about two brothers.

The Blue Angel: Disc 2
This disc includes the English version of the film.

The Phantom of Liberty
Lacking linear narration and a traditional plot, surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel's scathing send-up of bourgeois convention is presented as a series of loosely linked episodes. In this comedy of the absurd, poker-playing monks use religious medals as chips; police search for a "missing" child who's right at hand; and at an elegant dinner party, guests are seated on toilets and occasionally excuse themselves to retire and eat in private stalls.

Okinawa Rendez-vous
When Jenny (Faye Wong) steals a bag of cash from her crime boss boyfriend, she sets off a series of events she never could have anticipated. She meets up with an odd-couple pair of would-be criminals: a thief and a cop (Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Ka Fai) who have teamed up to plan a major bank heist on the island of Okinawa. Things get complicated when both men fall for her -- and love turns more dangerous than crime.

Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is an Italian call girl who's hoping to get out of her current vocation in order to spend more time with her son and create a better life for herself. Things don't go as planned, though, as her pimp and previous customers keep resurfacing, making it nearly impossible for her to leave the past behind. She goes back to hooking, until she learns that her son (Ettore Garofalo) has been arrested for robbery.

Blood Alley
Swaggering seaman Tom Wilder (John Wayne) comes to the rescue of Chinese villagers seeking to escape the yoke of communism. Persuaded by a missionary's daughter (Lauren Bacall) to undertake the task, the Duke reluctantly agrees to transport the group -- on an old paddle steamer -- through the hazardous Formosa Straits to safe harbor in Hong Kong. On a journey marked by peril, the determined band must outwit the fierce forces of the Red Menace.

Ulee's Gold
Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson (Peter Fonda) is a Florida beekeeper trying to keep his family afloat despite numerous misfortunes: a wife who's recently passed away, a son (Tom Wood) who's in prison and a daughter-in-law (Christine Dunford) who's left town -- and left her two adolescent daughters in Ulee's charge. Fonda earned Academy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance in this lushly photographed drama directed by Victor Nunez.

The Bad and the Beautiful
Charismatic but ruthless film producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) needs a blockbuster after producing three consecutive flops and falling out of favor with the studio. To help him make a comeback, he appeals to three Hollywood heavyweights -- a director (Barry Sullivan), an actress (Lana Turner) and a writer (Dick Powell) -- who owe their success to Shields. Unfortunately, they all hate his guts and have vowed never to work for him again. …

Duel in the Sun
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones), a sultry half-breed who oozes sex, is taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), whose husband (Lionel Barrymore) is a rich Texas cattle baron. The quintessential home-wrecker, Pearl is attracted to the two McCanles sons -- wild he-man Lewt (Gregory Peck) and educated, methodical Jesse (Joseph Cotten). The scene is set for a battle royal that pits brother against brother.

Rana's Wedding
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad finds love among the brutalities of war in this heart-tugging drama about one woman's (Clara Khoury) quest to be reunited with her beloved. In less than a day, she must wend her way through war-torn neighborhoods, sinister soldiers, desperate residents and lost citizens so she can finally rest in her boyfriend's arms. Extras include theatrical trailers and biographies.

Man Push Cart
Standing on a corner in midtown Manhattan every day, a Pakistani immigrant named Ahmad sells his coffee and bagels to the fast-paced New Yorkers from a cart -- all the while harboring secrets from a tragic past. After becoming friends with local newsstand worker Noemi and a wealthy man named Mohammad, Ahmad's inner demons begin to surface in this poignant examination of personal identity in the big city from director Ramin Bahrani.

My Architect: A Son's Journey
Documentarian Nathaniel Kahn examines the life and career of his father, Philadelphia architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), whose work included the Salk Institute and the Parliament and Capitol Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The elder Kahn died of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom in 1974, unidentified and broke despite having been one of the century's most influential architects.

Rivers and Tides
This amazing documentary from Thomas Riedelsheimer won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival. The film follows renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates with ice, driftwood, bracken, leaves, stone, dirt and snow in open fields, beaches, rivers, creeks and forests. With each new creation, he carefully studies the energetic flow and transitory nature of his work.

The Flowers of St. Francis
Directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Federico Fellini, this biopic chronicles the life story of St. Francis of Assisi, the "People's Saint." Through a series of vignettes, the film follows St. Francis as he searches for spiritual enlightenment and forges his own path while doing God's work. Rossellini employed the monks from the Nocere Inferiore monastery to play the roles of the saint and his disciples. Aldo Fabrizi stars.

Wagner: Siegfried: Disc 2
This disc includes Act 3 and bonus trailers.

Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
Criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) carries out an elaborate caper while being pursued by the dogged Inspector von Wenck (Bernhard Goetzke) in this masterpiece from famed film pioneer Fritz Lang. The audacious Mabuse cons a wealthy playboy at cards, orchestrates a daring train robbery, kidnaps a countess and manipulates the stock market, as Wenck tries to figure out how the strands of the intricate plot fit together.

Yakuza Demon
Takashi Miike's dark thriller examines the plight of two brothers, Seiji and Yoshifumi (Riki Takeuchi and Tetsuro Tamba), both of whom work for Mr. Muto, a top-ranked mobster in the Yakuza. Having bonded with their boss, the two are hesitant to support his plans to lead a dangerous project that he was only supposed to finance. So, the brothers concoct a plan that appears to be the ultimate betrayal -- but that's meant to save their boss's life.

General Idi Amin Dada
Director Barbet Schroeder, with the full cooperation of the infamous dictator Idi Amin, delivers a fascinating documentary on the former Ugandan leader. He talks about his outreach to Arab nations, his goal of eradicating Israel, his views on economic policy and his views of other world leaders. We also see him running a cabinet meeting, visiting a village and supervising a war-game simulation of an invasion of Israel.

Idiot: Vol. 1: Disc 1
This disc includes episodes 1-3.

The Terrorist
This Indian espionage drama attempts to get into the mind of the suicide bomber, which puts it a few years ahead of its time. Mali, a Sri Lankan woman sworn to avenge the killing of her brother by government forces, is recruited for a suicide-assassination mission. As the fatal hour draws near, however, she begins to have second thoughts and questions her motives -- as well as those of her commanders.

Stranger than Paradise
Willie (John Lurie) isn't exactly thrilled when Eva (Eszter Balint), his cousin from Hungary, comes to stay with him in New York. Eva eventually earns his begrudging respect, and months later Willie and a friend (Richard Edson) convince Eva to accompany them on a trip to Miami. Shot in black and white, this well-received independent film won awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Cannes Film Festival.

Legend: The Director's Cut
Jack (Tom Cruise) lives peacefully with the animals and goblins in a mythical forest, until fate leads him to battle a host of terrors to rescue a captive unicorn. If he loses, the world plunges into an eternal ice age. Meanwhile, he must save his true love -- the beautiful princess Lili (Mia Sara) -- from the clutches of the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) in this epic fantasy adventure.

Flanders
A circle of small-town youths in France come of age in this drama from acclaimed writer-director Bruno Dumont. At its core is the relationship between teen tramp Barbe (Adélaïde Leroux) and farmhand Demester (Samuel Boidin) -- who sleeps with Barbe but shows no feelings for her. Both of their lives will change, however, as Demester is sent off to war, where his hellish experiences are rivaled only by Barbe's own terrible turn of events at home.

Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules (Reg Park) must battle a monster made of stone, retrieve a golden apple from the tree of Hesperides and brave the horrors of Hades to rescue his beloved from the clutches of the evil Lyco (Christopher Lee). Oracles, witches and vampires abound in this delirious 1960s blend of sword-and-sandal adventure, horror and psychedelia from Italian filmmakers Mario Bava and Franco Prosperi.

Amar Akbar Anthony
Abandoned in a park by their father, Amar (Vinod Khanna), Akbar (Rishi Kapoor) and Anthony (Amitabh Bachchan) grow up independently and have no knowledge of one another. They're reunited as adults when, by coincidence, they all give blood at the same hospital. The three brothers soon band together to seek vengeance on the man (Jeevan) ultimately responsible for their childhood separation in this comic caper.

Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
The Japanese Yakuza have stepped up their reign of terror, amping up the brutality of their crimes. After they drug and assault a young woman, she winds up killing herself in front of her doctor (Kazuo Komizo), who decides to seek revenge in her patient's name by taking on the mob herself. The punishment she metes out is worse than anything concocted by the criminals, who are rendered helpless by her endless quest for justice.

3 Women
Robert Altman succeeds with another ensemble oeuvre in this contemplative film, which won cast member Shelley Duvall a Best Actress award at Cannes in 1977. The story follows seemingly meek Pinky (Sissy Spacek), who gets a job at a nursing home and befriends the loquacious Millie (Duvall). Their unusual friendship turns strangely eerie when they decide to be roommates and begin to change in surprising and unexpected ways.

Painted Skin
You Feng (Joey Wong) -- a beautiful spirit trapped between heaven and hell -- disguises herself as a painted concubine to escape the torment of the Demon King. While she roams the mortal world, the king wreaks havoc on earth. Her only hopes for freedom come from a learned scholar (Adam Cheng) and a benevolent monk (Sammo Hung). Together, the trio takes on the ultimate evil in this haunting horror fantasy from King Hu.

Jigoku
Legendary actor Shigeru Amachi stars in director Nobuo Nakagawa's horror masterpiece, a film that explores the definition of hell as it was envisioned in ancient Japan. When a young theology student leaves the scene of a hit-and-run accident, he's immediately enveloped by a crippling sense of guilt and a belief that he's responsible for his lover's death. On top of it all, he's now being stalked by a doppelganger who knows his darkest secrets.

Jack the Giant Killer
Kerwin Mathews stars as Jack, a courageous hero who rescues a princess (Judi Meredith) from the evil clutches of the wizard Pendragon (Torin Thatcher) in this Nathan Juran-directed film that melds live action with Fantascope special-effects photography. Pendragon wants to be king of Cornwall and decides the only way is to force the present ruler's daughter to marry him, but his plans are foiled when Jack slays Pendragon's henchman.

Fata Morgana
In this documentary by acclaimed director Werner Herzog, the Sahara Desert is the backdrop for this meditative, mostly silent film. The powerful images are accompanied by a reading of the Popul Vuh, a Mayan creation myth, and the songs of Leonard Cohen. Herzog, who also made the films Aguirre, The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, captures mirages on the desert landscape, which is at times polluted with the machinery modern nations have left behind.

Magic
Acclaimed director Richard Attenborough helms this unconventional horror-thriller that reveals Anthony Hopkins's penchant for creepiness years before his Oscar-winning turn as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. After bombing in his first solo performance, a magician's assistant (Hopkins) holes up with a ventriloquist's dummy named Fats and eventually hones his act into something spectacular. But when Fats starts talking back, his master's at his mercy.

Le Samourai
A little bit gangster film, a little bit samurai flick, this 1960s French masterpiece from Jean-Pierre Melville introduces the memorable anti-hero Jef Costello (Alain Delon), a contract killer with the instincts of a Japanese warrior and the features of Adonis. After offing a nightclub owner, Costello has two big problems: his double-crossing employer, who now wants him dead, and the dogged police investigator who's determined to rein him in.

Venus
This romantic dark comedy stars Peter O'Toole as veteran actor Maurice, whose quiet golden years turn topsy-turvy when he falls for a very young and brash nude model. Director Roger Michell's poignant May-December romance is an uplifting tale of love, lust and the endless pursuit of vitality and youth by a man whose life is drawing to a close. Film legend O'Toole infuses his aging character with his own timeless exuberance and charisma, earning him an Oscar nod.

Drop Dead Sexy
Frank (Jason Lee) and Eddie (Crispin Glover), two dim-witted petty crooks in a small-time Texas town, jump at the chance when local gangster Spider (Pruitt Taylor Vince) offers them fast cash for delivering stolen cigarettes to Mexico. But when the job goes bad, they find themselves deeply in debt to Spider. Their lives at stake, the pair devises an elaborate scheme involving a corpse and blackmail to raise the money and save their own skins.

In July
Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu) is a shy, lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells him he will soon fall in love with a woman wearing a similar symbol … secretly hoping that she herself will be that woman.

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
When his drug-addicted girlfriend commits suicide, Riki-Oh offs her dealer and finds himself locked up in a prison where the accused have no rights and very little hope. The other inmates torture Riki-Oh with a stunning variety of implements (which include pretty much anything at hand), but he fights back as if his life depended on it -- which it does!

Charade
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn have chemistry to burn in this suave comedy with an evocative Henry Mancini score. Grant may or may not be a flimflam man who aids the recently widowed Hepburn in her mission to recover a fortune hidden by her late husband. But three sinister crooks -- who'll stop at nothing -- also covet the loot.

April Fool's Day
A group of college friends gather together at rich heiress Muffy's (Deborah Foreman) island mansion to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret, but as the secrets are revealed, those people end up dead. Or maybe they're not really dead; they could be part of a very cruel April Fool's joke. The hostess supposedly knows what's going on, but maybe she's not the one orchestrating the deaths. ...

Kicking and Screaming
Declining to accompany his girlfriend (Olivia d'Abo) to Prague, Grover (Josh Hamilton) chooses instead to move in with other new college grads who can't quite break the gravitational pull of campus. Reluctant to step into adulthood yet, afraid they'll end up like bartender and professional student Chet (Eric Stoltz), the friends wrestle with leaving the past behind. Writer-director Noah Baumbach delivers a funny, honest look at postcollege angst.

American Mystery! Coyote Waits
According to old Navajo lore, "Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry." Produced by Robert Redford, this thriller with a slightly supernatural bent stars Wes Studi and Adam Beach as tribal cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, who try to uncover the truth about the death of a fellow detective, Delbert Nez, whom they believe may have been killed by someone other than the obvious. Could it be the mysterious Coyote?

Citizen Ruth
In this satirical look at the abortion issue, Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern), an unfit mother of four, discovers while in jail that she's pregnant again. The judge charges her with endangering the fetus, but tells her in confidence that he'll reduce the charges if she has an abortion. When word of this gets out, Ruth gets caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers who want to use Ruth to get their messages across.

Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
Despite political turmoil and cultural isolation -- and sometimes even because of them -- Iran has served as fertile ground for filmmakers for more than seven decades, as witnessed by this tribute to Persian cinema from Nader Takmil Homayoun. From escapism to social realism, the new wave of the 1970s and the more poetic films of recent years, this homage traces the history of Iranian filmmaking through a fascinating array of clips and interviews.

Thieves Like Us
A trio of criminals (Keith Carradine, Bert Remsen and John Schuck) go on a bank-robbing spree through the Depression-era Deep South, terrorizing the population and managing to stay just one step ahead of the law. Along the way, each robber also finds love in director Robert Altman's period crime drama. This remarkable and understated 1970s film also stars Shelley Duvall, Tom Skerritt and Louise Fletcher.

Blood and Black Lace
Mario Bava directs this influential Italian giallo about a killer who lives in the shadows and stalks models, a film that inspired slasher flicks of the 1980s with its innovative camera tricks and an impressive roster of dead bodies. The only clue to the murderer's identity is a diary kept by of one of his fashion victims. But he's determined to keep anyone from actually reading it. Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok and Thomas Reiner co-star.

Hour of the Wolf
Troubled artist Johan (Max von Sydow) is haunted by past memories … and those demons are contagious, as Johan's wife, Alma (Liv Ullmann), learns when she begins to experience the same delusions. A local aristocrat (Erland Josephson) and his supernatural clan could be behind the nightmares in this brooding, surreal Gothic tale from Swedish master Ingmar Bergman.

Days of Glory
Rachid Bouchareb's powerful pedagogical film chronicles the journey of four North African soldiers who join the French army to help liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II. Re-creating a chapter largely erased from the pages of history, the film -- which got an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film and won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for its ensemble cast -- pays overdue tribute to the heroism of these forgotten troops.

Blackmail Is My Life
Shun (Hiroki Matsukata) is a seemingly successful up-and-comer who has made his way thus far by blackmailing everyone in sight. Thinking he's untouchable, Shun continues his pattern, but is quickly put in his place when he unwittingly tries to blackmail his next victim -- who happens to be a brutal thug.

Beneath Still Waters
After an otherworldly force starts consuming a small town and its residents, authorities build a dam and submerge the village forever. But 40 years later, when the history of the area has become a vague memory, the malevolent being rises again -- causing terror for the inhabitants of a neighboring town. Set in Spain, this hair-raising supernatural thriller is directed by Brian Yuzna, who produced the 1985 cult hit Re-Animator.

LolliLove
A pretentious, well-heeled couple (played by James Gunn and Jenna Fischer, who also directed) is bound and determined to make a difference in the lives of the homeless, but not by giving them scads of money or by treating them to a hot meal. Instead, the twosome hands out lollipops with an uplifting slogan on the wrappers. Oh yeah, that'll do the trick. Linda Cardellini co-stars in this hilarious mockumentary.

Buckminister Fuller: The Lost Interviews: Disc 1
This disc includes the beginning of the program.

Anatomy of Hell
French director Catherine Breillat explores female sexuality and men's darkest fears about women's sexual power in this startlingly explicit and clinical film. The story centers on a woman (Amira Casar) who pays a gay man (Rocco Siffredi) to accompany her home and watch her most private activities for four days. He accepts her solicitation and is initially turned off, but eventually the two develop an intimate relationship. Not for children.

The Aura
Part character study, part crime drama, The Aura follows reclusive and fastidious taxidermist Espinosa as he moves from dreaming about pulling off the perfect crime to actually planning and executing a real heist. Filmmaker Fabian Bielinsky (Nine Queens) lovingly nurtures Espinosa (Ricardo Darin), creating a complex character whose eerie frozen moments of epileptic seizure (hence the film's title) make for hypnotic viewing.

Black Sunday
America's Super Bowl comes under terrorist fire in this John Frankenheimer thriller. A band of renegade Arabs calling themselves Black September and led by a man named Fasil (Bekim Fehmiu) hatch a plot involving a Goodyear blimp manned by Vietnam vet Michael Lander (Bruce Dern). Right before they can execute their scheme, Mossad agent David Kabakov (Robert Shaw) discovers the plan and teams up with the FBI to stop them.

Bruce Lee: Fists of Fury / Chinese Connection
In Fists of Fury, Bruce Lee plays a Chinese country boy who' sent to Thailand to live with relatives. Although he's promised his mother he won't fight, his promise is challenged when his cousins are killed in a drug scheme. Lee's kung fu fighting continues in Chinese Connection, where he plays a martial artist who returns to Shanghai to avenge his master instructor's death. Both films exemplify the early work of kung fu master Lee.

Le Petit Lieutenant
Rookie detective Antoine Derouère (Jalil Lespert) accepts a position with Paris's elite homicide division, where his first days as a new lieutenant are routine. But when the body of a drifter is found on the banks of the Seine, the entire squad is thrown into turmoil. Led by a recovering alcoholic unit commander (Nathalie Baye), Antoine and the seasoned investigative team unravel a case of shocking violence that will change their lives forever.

Seven Swords
It's the early 17th century, and the Manchurian emperor of the new Ching Dynasty imposes a brutal ban on the practice of martial arts to establish national order. But seven master swordsmen are forced to break the law when called upon to save a village tormented by a corrupt imperial enforcer (Honglei Sun). Famed action star Donnie Yen stars in this heroic tale of combat, love and treachery from acclaimed director Hark Tsui.

Blood Soaked Cinema: Bite Night: Broken Skull / Mansion of Madness
Evil will triumph unless dark secrets are revealed in this hair-raising double feature. In Broken Skull, a construction worker digs up an old skull cursed with bad mojo. When the man goes on a murder spree, it's up to his daughter to uncover the truth. John Arreola stars. Based on an Edgar Allen Poe tale, Mansion of Madness follows a newspaper reporter who uncovers the terrifying truth about the director of an insane asylum. Claudio Brook stars.

We're Going to Eat You
In this campy slasher flick, Agent 999 (Norman Chu) is on assignment in a rural village when he happens upon a tribe of cannibals and must use his mastery of kung fu to fend off the hungry hordes of flesh- eating peasants. Dark comedy and plenty of gore ensue when the special agent and a motley crew of heroes, including 999's former ruthless foe, make it their mission to take down the cursed village's chief.

The Spirit of the Beehive
In this mesmerizing allegorical tale set in post-Civil War Spain, precocious young Ana (Ana Torrent) becomes obsessed with finding the spirit of Frankenstein's monster after watching director James Whale's 1931 classic. When she happens upon a wounded military deserter, Ana believes that she's evoked the cinematic creature. Helmed by Victor Erice, the film also stars Fernando Fernan Gomez and Teresa Gimpera as Ana's disengaged parents.

Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy: Disc 2: Orpheus
This disc includes the film Orpheus. Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais star in this ephemeral vision based on the Greek myth of Orpheus. Extras include Cocteau's fascinating essays on the film.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment, exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence, and reveals the association's efforts to control culture. Interviewees include John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Maria Bello, Atom Egoyan, Kevin Smith and more.

Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy: Disc 3: Testament of Orpheus
This disc includes the film Testament of Orpheus. Jean Cocteau's last film is just as dreamy and brilliant as the ones that came before. Testament of Orpheus has him interacting with gypsies and dead poets, and features cameos by Yul Brynner, Pablo Picasso and more. This disc also features a 16mm film by Cocteau, Villa Santo Sospir, along with the director's thoughts on the movie.

The Child
Winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or Award, this tale centers on 20-year-old Bruno (Jeremie Renier) and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Sonia (Deborah Francois). Bruno spends his days stealing and drug dealing, and when Sonia gives birth to their son, Bruno shows no interest in cleaning up his act and becoming a good father. The only thing dysfunctional Bruno sees in his baby is a new way to make money, and he makes a decision that he soon regrets.

The Warrior
Shot on location in the deserts of Rajasthan and the Himalayas, Asif Kapadia's award-winning drama centers on Lafcadia (Irfan Khan), the local despot's ruthless head warrior. Just as he's about to kill a young girl, Lafcadia experiences a mystical moment of enlightenment. He renounces his ties to the warlord (Anupam Shyam), who sends his army of brutes after the deserter. Tragedy ensues, and Lafcadia embarks on a personal journey of redemption.

Guitar Wolf: Red Idol
Strap in for more than an hour of full-throttle punk courtesy of Japan's rowdy rockers Guitar Wolf. Packed with interviews, backstage clips, live sets and promotional music videos, this compilation is a must-see. In live performances, the band rips through "Jet Generation," "All Through the Night Buttobase" and "Refrigerator Zero," while videos include "Murder by Rock," "Summertime Blues," "God Speed You" and "UFO Romantics."

John Waters: This Filthy World
Philosopher of filth and reigning king of bad taste, John Waters presents an outstanding live one-man show that celebrates his origins of trash with his signature brand of irreverent humor. Filmed live in New York, this devilishly delectable monologue focuses on Waters's early introductions to the grotesque that influenced the groundbreaking filmmaker and author, continually magnifying his twisted contributions of creativity.

Coca-Cola: The History of an American Icon
With its curvaceous, red-branded bottle and rich, dark liquid, Coca-Cola transformed itself from a run-of-the-mill beverage to a cultural icon. This fascinating documentary examines how John Pemberton's sweet concoction became firmly entrenched into the American zeitgeist, and what it's come to symbolize not only in this country but also the world over. Includes original commercials, pictures and more.

Caged Heat
In a women's prison, a new inmate (Erica Gavin) falls in with a tough band of sex-starved chicks (Roberta Collins, Ella Reid and Rainbeux Smith) who shower together, fight and perform satirical skits. When they incur the wrath of the prison's sadistic, wheelchair-bound warden (Barbara Steele), the girls are tortured with electroshock therapy. Now, the only thing they want is revenge. Oscar winner Jonathan Demme directs this stylish and sexy romp.

Distant
Mahmut (Muzzafer Özdemir), a divorced, hermit-like photographer, lets his dopey cousin Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) live with him for a while in Istanbul while Yusuf looks for a job so he can support his family in their native Turkish village. The distance -- and silence -- between the two lonely, depressed men soon grows to intolerance, on Mahmut's part, of the chaos Yusuf has brought into his life. Nuri Bilge Ceylan directs this intimate drama.

Tsotsi
This Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language film shows that no soul is too far gone from being reformed. After shooting a woman and driving off in her car, Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), a ruthless thug, is surprised to discover he isn't alone, kept company by a crying infant in the backseat. He grudgingly takes the child home, and through his efforts to care for the tyke, Tsotsi slowly rediscovers his compassion, self-respect and capacity to love.

Our Daily Bread & Other Films of the Great Depression
Depression-era films of the 1930s mirrored the new social consciousness that was helping to pull the United States out of economic ruin and despair. This collection of rarely seen short films and full-length features includes California Election News #1, The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River and the agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, financed partially by director King Vidor -- and support from a sympathetic Charlie Chaplin.

Merry Christmas
Inspired by a true story, this heartwarming tale unfolds on Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of World War I. As the French, Scottish and German soldiers prepare to open their presents, a momentous event occurs that changes the destinies of four people: an Anglican priest, a French lieutenant, a world-class tenor and his soprano lover. Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon and Daniel Bruhl star.

Deathsport
It's the year 3000, and the Great Neutron Wars have reduced the Earth to a landscape of desert wastelands and isolated city-states. When the evil Lord Zirpola (David McLean) kidnaps Kaz Oshay (David Carradine) and forces him to play his twisted gladiatorial game Deathsport, Oshay must use all of his fighting skills to survive the contest and stop the wicked Zirpola. This sci-fi thriller from Allan Arkush also features B movie vixen Claudia Jennings.

Switchblade Sisters
Director Jack Hill's kinetic, 1975 cult classic tells a lurid tale about girls, guns and gang wars. The addition of a cool blonde newcomer (Joanne Nail) to the Dagger Debs -- a female gang led by Lace (Robbie Lee) -- sets off an internal power struggle. With a conspirator in their midst, two bluecoats just waiting to bust them and a rival, male-gang leader (Chase Newhart) who wants the Dagger Debs dead, can the ladies survive?

House of the Dead 2: All Guts, No Glory
In House of the Dead, a group of teenagers sought safety in a house on an island that had been taken over by flesh-eating zombies. In this spine-tingling sequel, a squadron of soldiers and a team of government agents travel to a college campus to try and find the original undead ghoul that started it all. Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Victoria Pratt and rapper Sticky Fingaz co-star in this Sci-Fi Channel movie based on a popular video game.

The Maid
Charged with living on her own for the first time in her life, Rosa Dimaano (Alessandra de Rossi) takes a job as a maid in Singapore, where she works for the family of a mentally challenged boy. But little does she know that her arrival coincides with the eve of the seventh lunar month -- long believed to herald the opening of the fiery gates of hell. Filmmaker Kelvin Tong directs this record-breaking blockbuster Filipino thriller.

Electric Shadows
Set in modern-day Beijing and 1970s Ningxia, director Xiao Jiang's debut feature explores the power of movies in launching dreams and creating memories. After a bicycle collision leaves Mao Dabing (Xia Yu) with a lump on his head, he promises Ling Ling (Qi Zhongyang), the girl he hit, that he'll care for her fish while she's recuperating. When he stumbles across her diary, he learns the truth about her past -- which rekindles his love of cinema.

The Day After Trinity
Nominated for an Oscar, this riveting documentary centers on physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb's chief architect -- who later opposed nuclear proliferation. Via interviews and footage from the 1945 tests conducted in New Mexico, the film chronicles the bomb's development and events surrounding the Manhattan Project. Also included is footage of the aftereffects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings that ushered in the nuclear age.

Evil
Adapted from a best-selling novel, this Swedish drama follows rebellious teenager Erik (Andreas Wilson) as he's expelled from high school for fighting and sent to the prestigious Stjärsnberg Academy. Having endured many beatings from his father, Erik is dismayed to face a similar threat from the academy's senior students, who bully the younger ones mercilessly. But this time, Erik is determined not to crack and lash out in violence.

The Big White
Financially strapped travel agent Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) is kicking himself for forgetting to cash in his missing brother's insurance policy, but his sprits soar when he finds a spare frozen body. The only problem is, two hit men (W. Earl Brown and Tim Blake Nelson) are desperately looking for it -- and a savvy insurance investigator (Giovanni Ribisi) smells something fishy. Holly Hunter, Alison Lohman and Woody Harrelson co-star.

Masters of Horror: Dario Argento: Jenifer
Detective Frank Spivey (Steven Weber) rescues a disfigured young woman from a depraved murderer and finds himself strangely attracted to her. Jenifer (Carrie Anne Fleming) clearly has mental issues, but when the curvaceous orphan seduces Spivey, he seems more than willing to overlook her problems -- until her fleshly appetites take a disturbing turn. Legendary master of horror Dario Argento (Suspiria) directs.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Private contractors are getting rich while everybody else is suffering: This is the point director Robert Greenwald makes -- passionately -- in this 2006 documentary. Using whistleblower testimony, firsthand accounts, financial records and classified documents, Greenwald levels charges of greed, corruption and incompetence against private contractors and shows the subsequent devastating effect on Americans and Iraqis.

Ghost in a Teeny Bikini
Sticking to his practice of helming bikini-centric films, director Fred Olen Ray (using the pseudonym Nicholas Medina) rolls out a campy horror comedy featuring a ghost that will leave you speechless. When buxom actress Muffin Baker attends the reading of her uncle's will, she inherits the wealth of his assets, inciting the family lawyer and his daughter to plot against her. Luckily, help is on the way in the form of a scantily clad female ghost.

Virgin Witch
With dreams of becoming fashion models, Christine (Ann Michelle) and her sister Betty (Vicki Michelle) sign with an agency and agree to accompany the owner (Patricia Haines) to a photo shoot at a faraway castle. But this is no ordinary modeling job, as the real reason they've been invited is to serve as virgins in an induction ceremony for a coven of witches. It's a titillating twist that Christine is all too willing to accept.

Aristide and the Endless Revolution
In this powerful documentary, filmmaker Nicolas Rossier trains his probing lens on the events that led to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster in 2004. Putting matters in context, the film delves into the country's troubled history and the role played by outside interests -- including the United States -- in deposing the controversial political figure. Aristide weighs in via interviews, as do a number of his defenders and detractors.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Charles Bronson reprises his role as vigilante Paul Kersey, who's now back in Los Angeles to take on another scourge: the dealers who serve up the poison most commonly known as crack. When the daughter of the woman he loves dies after getting a fix, Kersey decides it's time to sweep the streets of criminals.

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
In the remote mountains of Tibet, a team of volunteer rangers struggles against all odds to save the endangered Tibetan antelope. This remarkable true story pits the determined mountain patrol against a band of ruthless poachers who move like spirits across the massive Kekexili wildlife reserve. And if do-gooders stand in the way of their hunt for the elusive antelope, these gun-toting outlaws won't hesitate to shoot patrolmen.

A Real Young Girl
During a summer vacation in the French countryside, bored teen Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra) lusts after a young stud (Hiram Keller) working in her father's sawmill, and so begins her steamy sexual awakening. Alice's rampant experimentation and wild fantasies unleash a storm of emotions, captured vividly by first-time writer-director Catherine Breillat, who adapted the script from her own 1974 novel, Le Soupirail.

Intimate Strangers
Seeking psychiatric help, Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) mistakes the office of her doctor for that of tax attorney William (Fabrice Luchini). Before William can clear up the mistake, Anna's confided in him -- greatly! -- about her personal life. Mutually committed to continuing the charade now that they've shared secrets, Anna and William carry on with their "therapy" sessions. Patrice Leconte (The Man on the Train, The Widow of Saint-Pierre) directs.

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
This in-depth interview with Noam Chomsky, intercut with clips from his 2001-02 U.S. lecture tour, finds the outspoken intellectual blasting U.S. foreign policy decisions related to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Chomsky, a respected linguist who gained a wider reputation as a left-wing political analyst and best-selling writer, criticizes how the Bush administration and previous administrations have exercised U.S. power in the world arena.

Ridicule
Nominated for a 1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Ridicule stars Charles Berling as Marquis de Malavoy, a nobleman in Versailles during the reign of Louis XVI. His village has been invaded by mosquitoes, and he's begging for the king's help. But his plans are diverted when he's locked in a love triangle between a scheming countess and her sweet daughter. To survive Versailles and solve his problem, he must rely on his wit and smarts.

The Education of Shelby Knox
In this documentary from Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt -- which uses footage shot over a three-year period -- the action unfolds almost effortlessly, revealing a stunning transformation. Small-town Texas teenager Shelby Knox becomes an advocate for sex education (and the local media's so-called "Sex Ed Girl") when she tries to improve the county's sky-high teen pregnancy rate by challenging her high school's policy of teaching abstinence.

The Intruder
When doctors inform an ailing man (Michel Subor) that he'll need a heart transplant to survive, he embarks on an emotional journey to find an organ donor in the long-lost Tahitian son (Gregoire Colin) he abandoned long ago. Katerina Golubeva, Bambou, Florence Loiret-Caille, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas and Dong-ho Kim co-star in writer-director Claire Denis's enigmatic drama based on the novel by Jean-Luc Nancy.

On Guard
Legardere (Daniel Auteuil), a prodigious French swordsman, is framed for the murder of a friend and fellow fencing student, the Duke de Nevers. Behind the Duke's killing is his villainous cousin (Fabrice Luchini), who has designs on the Duke's infant child, Aurore (or, more specifically, her royal title). Legardere snatches the child and raises her to become as proficient a swordsman as her late father. Marie Gillain plays the grown-up Aurore.

The Girl in the Cafe
A May-December romance blooms -- not without roadblocks -- in this Emmy winner for Best Made-for-TV Movie. Not long after meeting Gina (Kelly Macdonald in an Emmy-winning role) in a café, lonely civil servant Lawrence (Bill Nighy) asks her to accompany him to the G8 Summit in Iceland. The shy outsiders hit it off, but their attraction to each other is tested when Gina's personal convictions contradict Lawrence's professional duties.

I'm Not Scared
Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano), a 10-year-old boy growing up in a southern Italian village, discovers another youngster, Filippo (Mattia Di Pierro), chained up inside a small hole dug in the yard of an abandoned house. Michele soon learns from watching the news that the boy has been kidnapped … and things take an even darker turn when he realizes his own parents may be involved. Aitana Sanchez-Gijon co-stars. Gabriele Salvatores directs.

In the Realms of the Unreal
By day, Henry Darger was a reclusive janitor who had few -- if any -- friends. But at night, he became a literary artist with a unique vision. Darger's 15,000-page novel is a wonderland of imagination as it details the exploits of seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against child-enslaving men. Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning and Larry Pine and the work of talented animators, this film tells the story of Darger's hidden world.

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
This postmodern mockumentary chronicles a valiant yet hapless attempt to make a film adaptation of the autobiographical The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen, a complex 18th century tale by English writer Laurence Sterne. Alternating scenes from the novel with escapades from the movie set, director Michael Winterbottom craftily blends fiction and reality, past and present, serving up a deliciously twisted ode to filmmaking.

Spirited Killer
Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa and his mentor, Panna Rittikrai, star in this jungle adventure about a party of travelers under siege in the forests of Thailand. When a heavily armed, forest-dwelling madman attacks a group of adventurers hiking through his turf, it's up to one man (Jaa) to stop him. Luckily for the travelers, that man is an expert in Muay Thai -- the brutal form of boxing once used to entertain Thai kings.

Lisa & the Devil
While on vacation in Spain, an American tourist (Elke Sommer) is drawn into a terrifying world of mystery, madness and murder in this surreal spine chiller directed by Italian horror maestro Mario Bava. A blind countess (Alida Valli), her imbalanced son (Alessio Orano) and a creepy bald butler (Telly Savalas) who carries around a mannequin all come into play in this fantastically bizarre tale liberally spiced with gruesome, gothic deaths.

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
An ex-fighter who's turned his back on the violent life and dedicated it to peace and prayers by becoming a Buddhist monk has to step into his old shoes again when a deadly massacre at GoJoe Bridge claims the lives of many victims. Hesitant but committed to seeking justice, Benkel teams up with a sword thief, Testukichi, who's as far removed from spirituality as can be. But to GoJoe Bridge they go, putting their own lives on the line.

Moog
Inventor of the synthesizer, Robert Moog revolutionized modern music and culture. In addition to tracing the roots of electronic instruments, this film, through interviews, photos and archival footage, offers an up-close look at the maverick responsible for integrating technology and art. A philosophical eccentric complete with wild hair and intense gaze, Moog shares his sometimes mystical views on creativity, interactivity, music and machines.

Transamerica
Bree (Felicity Huffman) gets the shock of her life when a week before her final sex change surgery she discovers a son she didn't know she had. After bailing him out of jail the two set out on a cross-country journey riddled with road bumps. Huffman won numerous awards (and an Oscar nomination) for her role as a man longing to be a woman. Elizabeth Pena, Burt Young, Kevin Zegers and Graham Greene co-star.

The Chumscrubber
Director Arie Posin transforms his short story into a frightfully honest portrait of suburban dysfunction in this film about Dean (Jamie Bell), a young boy who finds his friend hanging from the rafters during a neighborhood party. Figuring that no one else would care, he doesn't report his discovery to the adults, and instead embarks on a journey of harrowing isolation and loneliness. Glenn Close, Rita Wilson and Carrie-Anne Moss costar.

Jezebel
In the antebellum South, headstrong coquette Julie Marsden (Bette Davis, who won the Best Actress Oscar) loves to kindle competition among men. Her machinations cost Julie her fiance; (Henry Fonda), though, after she makes a public display of herself. She vows to win back her man, but her scheming goes awry, resulting in another suitor's demise. Will the self-absorbed Julie rise to the occasion when the chance for atonement arises?

Bad News Bears
A grizzled little league coach tries to lead a ragtag team of outcasts and delinquents to victory in this remake of the 1970s classic. With little hope that his new team will ever be any good, grouchy Coach Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) manages to find each kid's special talent. Amanda, Kelly, Toby, Tanner, Engelberg, Lupus and the rest of the team eventually win a place in Buttermaker's heart. Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden costar.

Renegade Gun
Wanted by the Texas Rangers for an impressive gold heist, outlaw Dan Hogan (Klaus Kinski) and his ruthless gang take off for Mexico in this violent Western. On the journey, they run into the enigmatic John Webb (Paul Sullivan), who offers to guide them for half the treasure. But tensions rise as Hogan spirals into paranoid madness and violence erupts between the thieves. And the worst may be yet to come, as Webb's true intentions remain unclear.

Demonia
None of the archaeologists in Lucio Fulci's horror classic expected to stumble onto a 16th century convent when they were out on a dig in Sicily. But they have, and now Liza (Meg Register) is plagued by nightmares of the convent's dark past, rife with sorcery and murder. Soon, Liza is overwhelmed by the images and pushed to the edge of her sanity. Are the things she's seeing a figment of her imagination … or a sign of things to come?

Torremolinos 73
Selling encyclopedias is a tough gig for Alfredo. But there may be light at the end of the tunnel when he and his wife, Carmen, are approached by his publisher to star in a series of erotic films (thinly veiled as instructional videos about reproduction). The films are a hit in Scandinavia, and Carmen becomes a porn star. But now, she wants out … and wants to have a baby with Alfredo! Stars Javier Camara and Candela Peña. Pablo Berger directs.

The Chess Players
Helmed by renowned director Satyajit Ray, this genial allegorical tale set in 1856 colonial India is peppered with deft comical touches. Remarkably oblivious and indifferent to the political tumult that surrounds them as a result of British expansionism, chess-obsessed noblemen Mirza Sajjad Ali (Sanjeev Kumar) and Mir Roshan Ali (Saeed Jaffrey) engage in their passion day and night. The sterling cast includes Richard Attenborough and Amjad Khan.

Munich
In this thriller based on actual events, Palestinian terrorists hold hostage and ultimately kill a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. In the tragic aftermath of the infamous murders, a Mossad agent (Eric Bana) tracks down the assassins. Ciaran Hinds and Geoffrey Rush co-star in this film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner (award-winning playwright of "Angels in America").

Hellraiser VII: Deader
Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer), a hard-nosed journalist working for a London newspaper, is sent to Romania to research a mysterious suicide cult with the ability to bring people back to life. Before long, Amy finds herself pulled into the secret society and realizes there's no way out unless she joins them for their next event. Will she be able to free herself in time, or is she doomed to become an unwilling member of their cult?

Breakfast on Pluto
Cillian Murphy heads a solid cast in director Neil Jordan's spirited romp based on Patrick McCabe's roisterous novel. Born the love child of a priest (Liam Neeson) in a conservative Irish hamlet, transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy) leaves small-town life behind and heads to swinging 1970s London to find the mother who abandoned him. Along the way, Patrick -- who's a trouble magnet -- unwittingly takes up with an Irish Republican Army gunrunner.

The Squid and the Whale
Jeff Daniels makes for a haunting Brooklyn professor who's well past his prime, and Laura Linney is his writer wife on the brink of stardom in Noah Baumbach's honest look at the disintegration of a marriage. With their lives headed for distinctly opposite directions, the two can't help but be acrimonious about their impending separation. Unfortunately, their two children are stuck in the middle of the emotional warfare.

Zu Warriors
On the highest peak in the Zu mountain range, a group of immortal godlike warriors called the Omei lives in peace. That all changes when an evil immortal threatens to take over the towering pinnacles -- and the world. Led by warriors Sifu (Sammo Hung), King Sky (Ekin Cheng), Red (Louis Koo) and Enigma (Cecilia Cheung), the Omei must rise up in an epic battle to save their beloved home and protect humanity.

Le Cercle Rouge
French director Jean-Pierre Melville's hugely influential film remains a cornerstone of the crime genre. Recently released from prison, thief Corey (Alain Delon) finds himself caught up in a dangerous triangle with a mysterious man (Gian Maria Volonte) and an ex-cop with some pressing issues of his own (Yves Montand). This bona fide classic is considered the epitome of cool.

Love in a Cold Climate
Two young women search for love in this adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novels. Spanning the years 1929-40, the tale recounts the adventures of Linda (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh) and Polly (Megan Dodds) as they look for potential mates. Linda goes to Europe and experiences one heartache after another until she has a fateful encounter, while Polly's choice of a suitor shocks her disapproving parents, who decide to take matters into their own hands.

Howl's Moving Castle
In this engaging anime based on a children's fantasy novel, 18-year-old Sophie works in her late father's hat shop in a humdrum town. But things get interesting when she's transformed into an elderly woman by the evil Witch of the Waste (voiced by Lauren Bacall). Determined to reverse the spell, Sophie seeks the help of the wizard Howl, who has an amazing moving castle that's fueled by a fire demon named Calcifer. Hayao Miyazaki directs.

The Church
A priest (Hugh Quarshie) and a young girl (Asia Argento) are all that stand between the world and a torrent of satanic forces in this creepy tale from Italian horror maven Michele Soavi. In the 13th century, the crusading Knights Templar slaughtered a village of suspected devil worshippers and erected a grandiose cathedral atop the corpses. But the opening of a sealed crypt 700 years later unleashes their unholy spirits inside the church.

Claire Dolan
Irish immigrant Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge) tries to leave her job as a New York City call girl and start a new life in this poignant tale of love and loss. Self-composed Claire works to repay a debt to her pimp, Roland Cain (Colm Meaney), but she undergoes an emotional crisis when her mother dies. She flees the city, eventually falling for cab driver Elton (Vincent D'Onofrio). But the past catches up to Claire when Cain tracks her down. …

The White Dragon
Gorgeous student Phoenix (Cecilia Cheung) sets her sights on Prince Tian Yang (Andy On) in Wilson Ip's action-packed romantic comedy. The prince can't resist Phoenix's charms and asks her out, but she proves to be fickle. After assuming the identity of masked super-warrior White Dragon, Phoenix battles a sword-swinging blind assassin (Francis Ng), and the two fall in love. But the heartbroken prince devises a sinister plan to break them apart.

Forgotten Silver
In this insidiously funny yet utterly believable mockumentary, acclaimed director Peter Jackson uncovers the life and films of Colin McKenzie, New Zealand's forgotten film pioneer and inventor extraordinaire. With glee, Jackson reveals how the young genius McKenzie invented a glut of important cinematic techniques. Also revealed is McKenzie's Biblical epic Salome, for which he re-created ancient Jerusalem in the New Zealand jungle.

Hawkwind: Love in Space
Hawkwind are a psychedelic rock phenomenon, now several decades into their career, the band shows no signs of calling it a day just yet! This concert recording sees the band captured live on their "Alien 4 Tour' in 1995, performing a variety of old and new material. Perhaps best known for their hit single "Silver Machine" (a track that featured original band member Lemmy, before he formed Motorhead), and a whole lot more are all featured.

In the Bedroom
Set in a tranquil town on the Maine coast, In the Bedroom tells the story of a couple (Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson) whose teenage son (Nick Stahl) is involved in a love affair with a single mother (Marisa Tomei). When the relationship comes to a sudden and tragic end, the boy's parents must face their worst nightmare and embark on a dark, dangerous psychological journey. Spacek and Wilkinson turn in stunning performances.

21 Grams
The complex interconnected story of how the lives of a former drug addict and single mother, Christine (Naomi Watts), a terminally ill mathematics professor, Paul (Sean Penn), and a spiritual ex-convict, Jack (Benicio Del Toro), intersect after a car accident. Clea Duvall co-stars in this gritty drama that's ultimately about hope and redemption.

Space Daze
An opportunistic tabloid TV journalist