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Criss Cross
Working man Steve (Burt Lancaster) makes an honest living as an armored truck driver. His only downfall? His lingering feelings for his ex-wife, Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), a greedy woman who recently married a dangerous mob boss (Dan Duryea). When the two ex-lovers reunite and her husband catches them, they manage to convince him they were plotting to rob the truck. Now, Steve is now forced to go through with the crime … or face death.

Seance on a Wet Afternoon
A compelling drama with an unexpected twist. Myra Savage, an unstable psychic in London, is desperate to achieve recognition and wealth. She and her weak-willed husband devise a plan to kidnap the young child of a wealthy couple, collect the ransom money and then gain publicity by helping the couple locate the child using Myra's psychic abilities. The plan falls apart … but not in typical Hollywood fashion.

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.

Hard Eight
Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson's first film charts the relationship between world-weary card shark Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall) and reckless youth John (John C. Reilly). After showing him how to exploit casinos' perks, Sydney takes John under his wing. Years later, the surrogate father and son are successful gamblers -- until John falls for a hooker (Gwyneth Paltrow) and gets mixed up with a shady stranger (Samuel L. Jackson).

Titus
Anthony Hopkins is a victorious Roman general who returns from battling the Goths with their queen (Jessica Lange) as his prisoner. But kidnapping is anathema to the Goths, and a devastating cycle of revenge is triggered. Director Julie Taymor takes Shakespeare's bloody classic Titus Andronicus and puts it through a phantasmagoric time machine. Highly stylized and thought-provoking, Titus received an Oscar for its brilliant costume design.

The Cooler
Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is the unluckiest man in Las Vegas. Looking to knock out their highest rollers, one of the last mob-run casinos in town uses Bernie as a "cooler" to defuse lucky streaks. The scheme goes along just fine until Bernie falls in love with a cocktail waitress (Maria Bello) who becomes his "lady luck," much to the chagrin of the casino's crooked director (Alec Baldwin).

Whale Rider
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. A Maori tribe must contend with the distinctly non-traditional concept of having a female leader when young Pai's (Keisha Castle-Hughes) twin brother -- the intended heir to the throne -- dies during childbirth. Now, she must struggle to prove herself. Stars Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis and Grant Roa. Written and directed by Niki Caro.

In the Mood for Love
In director Kar Wai Wong's delicately mannered tale of platonic romance set in 1962 Hong Kong, neighboring married apartment-dwellers Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung, a Cannes Film Festival best actor winner for his role) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) discover that their often-absent spouses are having an affair. The two spend much of their free time together and find they have much in common, but vow never to behave like their unfaithful mates.

2046
In this loose sequel to Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung Chiu-wai returns as struggling writer Chow Mo-wan, but now he's a boozing womanizer who writes soft porn. Through time travel and parallel worlds, this lushly photographed romantic drama explores Mo-wan's relationships with various women, including the one he truly loves, Su Lizhen (Gong Li). 2046 premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Femme Fatale
Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), a master of manipulation and guile, takes part in one last jewel theft and then abruptly leaves behind her life of crime. Reinvented in the guise of a respectable married woman, Laure soon captures the attention of Nicolas (Antonio Banderas), a soulful ex-paparazzo who's mesmerized by the elusive and enthralling adventuress -- and who shatters her carefully crafted world with one shutter click of his camera.

Bubba Ho-Tep
Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) is an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home; seems he switched identities with an impersonator years before his "death" and then missed his chance to switch back. The King teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks he's John F. Kennedy, and the two old codgers prepare to battle an evil Egyptian entity that's chosen their long-term care facility as its happy hunting grounds.

A History of Violence
Operating a diner in a small-town community, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife (Maria Bello) are the picture of normalcy. But when Tom prevents a robbery and enjoys hero status in the local media, he attracts the wrong kind of attention from mobsters (Ed Harris and William Hurt) who think he's someone else. David Cronenberg (The Fly) directs this taut suspense-thriller based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke.

Miracle
Relive the miracle on ice all over again as coach Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) takes a ragtag band of college hockey players and molds them into an unstoppable juggernaut (Team USA) that did the impossible -- beat the Soviet Union and won Olympic gold at Lake Placid. Do you believe in miracles? You will after you watch this inspiring movie.

Silver City
Down-home Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) can't put a coherent sentence together, but he's running for governor anyway, as a candidate for those looking for an approachable leader. But his campaign hits a snag when he hooks onto a corpse in the middle of a fishing photo op. Journalist Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss) smells a stink -- and a story -- so he hires a gumshoe (Danny Huston) to find out who the corpse is and its connection to the politico.

Citizen Kane
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane (in essence, a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst), who rises from poverty to become one of America's most influential men. A complex and technically stunning film, Citizen Kane is considered one of the best movies ever made.

Cool Hand Luke
What we have here is a failure to communicate! Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) is a man who likes to do things his own way. That leads to a world of hurt when he winds up in a hellish Southern prison camp -- and on the wrong side of a sadistic warden (Strother Martin). George Kennedy won an Oscar as a fellow prisoner who tries to break Luke and then comes to revere him. The stellar cast includes Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Joe Don Baker.

Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder's noir classic about Hollywood decadence remains as razor-sharp as ever. Norma (Gloria Swanson), a faded silent film star plotting her return, employs Joe (William Holden), a struggling screenwriter, to help edit a script that she has penned. As the work progresses, Norma draws closer to Joe, engulfing him in her fiery throes, but Joe wants out.

Captain Blood
Action star Errol Flynn shot to stardom in this swashbuckling adventure about Peter Blood (Flynn), who's forced to work as a slave on Col. Bishop's (Lionel Atwill) Jamaican plantation. Blood joins up with marauding Spanish pirates, saves Bishop's gorgeous niece (Olivia de Havilland) from a French pirate (Basil Rathbone) and is eventually made governor of Jamaica. Extras include the featurette "Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born" and more.

The Scarlet Pimpernel
To look at foppish British dandy Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard), one would never assume that he's the Scarlet Pimpernel, an infamously debonair hero determined to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotines of the French Revolution. The dashing Pimpernel must protect his secret identity while staying one step ahead of the ever-pursuant Chauvelin (Raymond Massey) in this swashbuckling adventure based on the classic novel by Baroness Orczy.

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.

It Happened One Night
Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy. Along the way she meets crusty newspaperman Peter Warne (Clark Gable), who's just been sacked and -- unbeknownst to Ellie -- plans to sell her story to get his job back. But a string of zany misadventures leads them to realize they're madly -- if reluctantly -- in love. It Happened One Night swept every major Academy Award.

Sweet Smell of Success
Walter Winchell-style columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) uses his power to steamroll both friends and enemies. Fawning press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), desperate to promote his client in Hunsecker's column, pesters Hunsecker until he's finally drawn into the columnist's devious plan to ruin a jazz guitarist who's angered Hunsecker by daring to date his sister. No one is left unscathed in this sinister tale of greed and corruption.

Identity
Ten complete strangers are stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm and soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer might be. This spine-tingling thriller stars John Cusack, Jake Busey, Rebecca DeMornay, Clea DuVall and Ray Liotta.

The Boondock Saints
Twin brothers Conner (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus), feeling that their God-given mission is to cleanse the Earth of all human evil, set out to rid Boston of crime. But instead of joining the police force, these Irish Americans decide to kick criminal butt their own way -- à la Charles Bronson. Willem Dafoe is the openly gay FBI special agent assigned to investigate.

The Red Shoes
Fledgling ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) gains fame after being cast as a lead dancer in "The Red Shoes," a popular ballet. But when she falls in love with the brilliant young composer (Marius Goring), ballet company owner Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) becomes enraged and plots his revenge. This colorful and tragic melodrama chalked up Academy Awards for Best Score and Best Art Direction.

Bob Le Flambeur
In Jean-Pierre Melville's intelligent drama, Bob (Roger Duchesne) is a compulsive gambler with a deep well of compassion. He's a father figure to street kids Paulo (Daniel Cauchy) and Anne (Isabelle Corey), and he cares for them as if they were his own. When he runs out of money, the three hatch a plan to rob a Deauville casino. Can they pull off the ultimate heist, or has Bob run out of luck?

Film Noir Collection: Detour
Classic film noir rules when down-in-the-dumps musician Al Roberts (Tom Neal) decides to hitchhike cross-country to be with his chanteuse girlfriend. He accepts a lift from high-roller Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald), who promptly suffers a fatal coronary. Afraid the cops will finger him as a killer, Al ditches the body and assumes Haskell's identity. But Al's trip quickly goes downhill when he picks up a scheming hitchhiker (Ann Savage).

The Laughing Policeman
A serial killer pursues innocent bus riders in the city of San Francisco, and his spree culminates in the brazen murder of an entire busload of people. The horrific incident gets the attention of Detective Jake Martin (Walter Matthau), who's deeply affected by the senseless murders, as his partner was one of those killed. With a new partner (Bruce Dern) by his side, Jake digs deep into the darkest areas of the city to obtain justice.

Dial M for Murder
Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of double-cross and intrigue stars Ray Milland as former tennis champ Tony Wendice, who concocts a plan to kill his rich and philandering wife, Margot Mary (Grace Kelly), who's embroiled in a heated affair with a writer, Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings). When Tony's plans go awry, he improvises with a second act of deceit, but the entire bloody affair turns out to be far messier than he expected.

The Long Good Friday
Bob Hoskins made his mark with a vivid portrayal of a London mob boss sweating the big deal designed to make him rich and legit. Suddenly, everything crumbles thanks to an elusive, bloody enemy. A tough crime saga, The Long Good Friday paints a bleak portrait of a man caught up in forces beyond his control. Hoskins amazes as the thug who would be king.

Brick
This unconventional film noir -- set in the halls of a modern-day high school -- marks a promising debut for writer-director Rian Johnson. Teenage loner Brendan Fry is forced to navigate his school's social network when a secret crush turns up dead and the murderer is anyone's guess. Through intense interactions with thespians, band geeks and druggies (including a grown-up Lucas Haas), Brendan works to crack the cliques -- and the case.

The Matador
The life of Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear), a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian (Pierce Brosnan), who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well, once he gets acclimated to it.

The World's Fastest Indian
Based on a true story, this drama follows 67-year-old grandfather and New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) as he flies across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats and blazes into the record books at 183.586 mph on his customized Indian Scout motorcycle. Set in 1967, this film is the second pairing for Hopkins and writer-director Roger Donaldson (Cocktail, Thirteen Days), who also worked together on The Bounty (1984).

The Transporter
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is now a courier in the underworld, and his policy of not asking questions has earned him a reputation -- and money. But when Martin discovers that his cargo is alive, he opens the package to reveal the bound and gagged Lai (Shu Qi), setting in motion a dangerous chain of events that involves Lai's father, a French detective and others in director Corey Yuen's high-action crime drama.

The Transporter 2
In this action-packed sequel, former Special Forces officer Frank Martin (Jason Statham) comes out of retirement to track down kidnappers who are part of a larger plot. Now a chauffer to a wealthy family, Martin has bonded with his employer's son, Jack -- so when Jack is abducted, Martin springs into action to save him. It doesn't take long for Martin to realize he'll need to use all his skills to stop the villains from carrying out a sinister master plan.

Gentleman's Agreement
Enterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a new angle, Green poses as a Jew and soon endures the full spectrum of bigotry -- from being denied a job and use of public facilities to his son suffering a beating. Little by little, the journalist comes to understand the cruel effects of prejudice.

Gothika
A criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) awakens to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution where she works; she's being accused of murdering her husband (Charles S. Dutton), but has no memory of committing the murder. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

The Illusionist
Set in early 1900s Vienna, Neil Burger's romantic thriller centers on illusionist extraordinaire Eisenheim (Edward Norton), who falls for an aristocrat (Jessica Biel) well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), the master magician employs his powers to win her love. His daring scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti).

Electra Glide in Blue
John "Big John" Wintergreen (played by Robert Blake) is an Arizona motorcycle cop who's short in stature, but long on smarts. John desperately wants to work in the police force's homicide unit, and finally gets the opportunity when a recluse is mysteriously killed. But John must first come to terms with his own delusions about himself and those close to him before he can track down the perpetrators of this gruesome crime.

The Lost Patrol
Set in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I, John Ford's remake tells the struggles of a British cavalry sergeant (Victor McLaglen) and his troops. After the unit's commander -- the only one who knew their destination -- is killed by Arabs, the sergeant must take the helm and lead the men north in search of their brigade. Enduring the unforgiving desert conditions, the troops can only wait as Arab snipers eliminate their ranks, one by one.

Ma Vie En Rose
Seven-year-old Ludovic (Georges Du Fresne) is convinced he's a girl trapped in a boy's body in this whimsical Belgian film. His expressions of sexual identity, which include wearing dresses and starring in a classroom performance of "Snow White," put a strain on his family and elicit teasing and intolerance from his schoolmates and neighbors. Ma Vie En Rose was an international film festival smash and received a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
After serving as an Army captain in World War II, Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) returns home a changed man. But 10 years later, with her eyes on a nicer house and a better life, his wife (Jennifer Jones) is still longing for the go-getter she once knew. To make her happy, Tom takes a high-paying PR job with a Madison Avenue company. But his memories of the past -- and his discomfort with the present -- make it difficult to embrace the future.

Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa's heroic tale of honor and duty begins with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped child. Impressed by his bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their village from encroaching bandits. Kambei agrees and assembles a group of six other samurai, and together they build a militia with the villagers while the bandits loom nearby. Soon the raids begin, culminating in a bloody battle.

Rififi
Jules Dassin won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this French noir caper (with English subtitles) in which jewel thieves pull off an elaborate store heist. Recently released from prison, Tony le Stephanois (Jean Servais) gathers criminals Jo, Mario and Cesar for one last heist. But when Tony refuses to give part of the loot to rival gangster Pierre, Pierre retaliates by kidnapping Jo's son.

Breaker Morant: Masterworks Edition
Three Australian soldiers (Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown and Lewis Fitz-Gerald) find themselves court-martialed for murder in 1901, at the end of South Africa's bloody Boer War. With just one day to prepare a defense, attorney major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) must retrace his clients' steps -- and prove they acted under orders. Based on a play by Kenneth Ross, the film won 10 Australian Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

The Wild Bunch: Special Edition
Faced with the prospect of retirement, a group of aging desperadoes -- led by the venerable Pike Bishop (William Holden) -- agrees to pull off one last job. But when a kink in their plans forces them south of the border, hooking up with an evil Mexican general (Emilio Fernández) is the only way they'll get their loot. The special edition of Sam Peckinpah's Western classic includes never-before-seen outtakes and a trio of exclusive documentaries.

Sullivan's Travels
Joel McCrea plays a Hollywood director, tired of churning out comedies, decides to write a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, he hits the road as a hobo. On his journey he finds the lovely Veronica Lake and more trouble than he ever dreamed of.

High and Low
Known for his historical epics, director Akira Kurosawa was also a fan of American film noir and detective novels -- which explains why he based High and Low (also known as Heaven and Hell) on an Ed McBain story. Toshirô Mifune plays a wealthy corporate boss who must choose between saving his company and paying the ransom for his chauffeur's kidnapped child. Kurosawa uses his brilliant visual style to reinforce the film's sociological themes.

The Night of the Hunter
Bogus "preacher" Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns that cellmate Ben Harper (Peter Graves) has stashed a passel of stolen loot on his property. After the demented Powell is released, he charms Ben's widow (Shelley Winters) into getting hitched, and in time, only Ben's kids stand between Powell and the money. As he stalks them relentlessly, they seek refuge with the indomitable Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish), setting the stage for an inexorable battle of wills.

Trouble in Paradise
When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), the cunning pair of jewel thieves embark on a scam to rob lovely Parisian widow and perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mariette, the larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful but vastly different women.

The Day of the Jackal
In this political thriller, a French paramilitary group, disgusted with President Charles De Gaulle's (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) decision to free French Algeria, plan De Gaulle's assassination. To carry out their task, the group hires a British hit man known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox). The plan is discovered by French police, and soon investigator Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) is hot on the trail of "The Jackal." Who will strike first?

Serenity
Picking up where his cult show "Firefly" left off, writer-director Joss Whedon's tale of galactic unrest follows Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), captain of the transport ship Serenity, and his scrappy but loyal crew. When the ship picks up two new passengers -- fugitives from the powerful coalition ruling the universe -- "Mal" and his mates find themselves at the center of a cosmic conflict, pursued by military forces and space-roaming savages.

The Last Wave
When a young aborigine is murdered, a Sydney lawyer defends the accused men to save them from tribal retribution. But once the attorney begins investigating the case, he starts having disturbing dreams and strange encounters.

The Old Dark House
The director (James Whale) and star (Boris Karloff) of 1931's Frankenstein reunite for this classic creepy-family black comedy. When stranded motorists arrive at a misty Welsh mansion, they find a family of fanatics, lunatics and a 102-year-old patriarch (played by a woman). Whale, Karloff and Ernest Thesiger would return in 1935 with Bride of Frankenstein; Gloria Stuart would scream again in Whale's The Invisible Man.

The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave) is an emotionally remote public school teacher who never fulfilled his early promise. And the thing is, it's his very last day on the job. While his wife carries on an affair and Andrew suffers the indignities of his headmaster (Wilfrid Hyde-White), it seems he's due for some measure of respect ... from somewhere. This Criterion disc is the 1951 version of Terence Rattigan's play. Anthony Asquith directs.

Across the Pacific
Fresh from the success of The Maltese Falcon, John Huston and Humphrey Bogart reunited for this espionage drama set on a Japanese steamer. When ex-Army officer Rick Leland (Bogart) boards the boat, the audience soon learns that few of the passengers are whom they claim to be -- not the small-town girl (Mary Astor) en route to Los Angeles, not the Japanese-American (Victor Sen Yung) visiting the old country and perhaps not even Leland himself.

The Adventures of Don Juan
Famed swashbuckler Don Juan (Errol Flynn) spends all of his time pursuing young ladies and dueling with their jealous husbands. To keep him under control, Spain's Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors) appoints him head of the royal fencing academy. When the devious Duke de Lorca (Robert Douglas) plots to overthrow the queen, Don Juan and his students come to her rescue in this 17th-century adventure, which won an Oscar for Costume Design.

Ray Davies: Return to Waterloo / Kinks: Come Dancing
Ray Davies of the Kinks -- one of rock's best storytellers -- makes his filmmaking debut with Return to Waterloo, a unique synthesis of music, video and cinema. Davies's haunting songs, unavailable on any Kinks album, take a middle-aged commuter (Ken Colley) on a suspenseful journey through his imagination as he confronts reality and fantasy, love and violence. Features eight Kinks music videos.

White Zombie
Made in just 11 days back in 1932, with a $50,000 budget and sets left standing from Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein, this film remains a horror classic. Keeping dialogue to a minimum, cameraman Arthur Martinelli cuts loose on this odd fairy tale about a newlywed couple menaced by zombies. Avoiding the stagy static feel that pervades many other early talkies, White Zombie shows its story, rather than tells it.

The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin plays dual roles in this prescient twist on the immortal prince-and-the-pauper tale: look-alikes Adenoid Hynkel -- Tomania's anti-Semitic ruler -- and an amnesiac Jewish barber. After 20 years in a hospital, the barber goes home, oblivious to the plight of Tomania's Jews. Soon Hynkel cracks down on them … but a case of mistaken identity gives the unassuming barber a chance to make an impassioned speech for a return to democracy.

Valdez Is Coming
Tight-lipped Mexican lawman Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is a deputy sheriff in an American frontier town overrun by racism. When a ruthless gang slays an innocent victim and wrongs Valdez one time too many, he takes up arms and goes after the gang's leader. "Tell him Valdez is coming," he growls. Widely considered an "anti-Western," the film was adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel and shot on location in Spain.

The Seven-Ups
Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) has made a name for himself in the New York City Police Department by heading up a task force that goes after crooks whose crimes demand a minimum sentence of seven years. But when he learns that one of his best informants (Tony Lo Bianco) is betraying him by kidnapping the bad guys and holding them for ransom, Buddy rounds up his men (including Victor Arnold and Jerry Leon) to make the double-crosser pay.

Bill Hicks: Sane Man
Just before his death in 1994, pitch-dark comedian Bill Hicks was celebrating a turning point in his career, due mostly to his newfound sobriety. Filmed in 1989, this rare onstage performance captures Hicks spouting off on a variety of topics. Sober? Yes, but not without that trademark edge. Extras include previously unseen footage from Hicks's "outlaw" years in Houston, plus a bit featuring the comic in a full-blown Elvis suit.

Army of Shadows
Director Jean-Pierre Melville's experiences as a member of the French Resistance during World War II inform this movie about a civil engineer who becomes one of the chiefs of the underground movement. Hailed by many as a masterpiece for its dark and uncompromising vision, the film (which is based on a Joseph Kessel novel of the same name) co-stars Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

The Good German
U.S. Army correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) gets caught in a web of intrigue involving ex-flame Lena (Cate Blanchett) in Steven Soderbergh's drama set in post-World War II Berlin. Lena's missing husband is hunted by U.S. and Russian military, and in desperation, she looks to Jake for a way out. Tension mounts as Jake discovers Lena's been keeping secrets and the black market dealings of his shady driver (Tobey Maguire) come into play.

Hard Boiled
In a ruthless world of gun smugglers and mobsters, Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) is a die-hard cop who'll stop at nothing to see justice done. Determined to avenge his partner's murder, Tequila joins forces with a rebel cop (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew. Soon, the body count increases tenfold as the duo race to stop the mobsters from blowing up a hospital full of hostages. John Woo directs this high-voltage actioner.

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman flagship director Richard Donner presents this special cut of the 1980 sequel starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, who's locked in a battle to save Earth from three evil outcasts of planet Krypton. Donner shot footage for Superman II concurrently with the first blockbuster, but director Richard Lester ultimately completed the project. This reedited version features Donner's original vision, including restored deleted scenes.

Blow Up
Legendary director Michelangelo Antonioni scores again with this tense mystery (his first English-speaking film) set in London among the city's hipster crowd. A popular fashion photographer (David Hemmings) inadvertently shoots evidence of a murder. As he processes the negative in order to unravel the mystery, he must also deal with a dangerous woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who knows more than she admits.

The Endurance
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on the Expedition with 27 men aboard, aiming to cross Antarctica. But when the vessel became stranded in frigid, deep waters, the crew began a battle of the human spirit, testing the limits of endurance as they strove to overcome the debilitating setback. Miraculously, they succeeded, even capturing the experience in pictures and on film. The Endurance celebrates the survivors of this wayward adventure.

12 Angry Men
A guilty verdict means death -- but the jury's not about to let that spoil their day. Twelve men must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his father. Only one (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time to coolly deliberate the case. Sidney Lumet (Network) made his directorial debut in this fiery drama that illuminates all the petty impediments on the path to justice.

High Sierra
Humphrey Bogart stars as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in this 1941 classic. Pardoned after a lengthy stint in prison, Roy looks forward to savoring his newfound freedom. No such luck! It seems his release was brokered by a crime lord who wants to recruit him for a heist. Plus, Roy and his partners in the caper, who were all handpicked for him, are angling for one woman's affections: a dancer played by the ravishing Ida Lupino.

Battle of Britain
A star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 air battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and outgunned, Britain's R.A.F. used determination and guile to fend off a ferocious Nazi Luftwaffe attack in the early days of World War II. If England had lost control of its airspace, the Germans may well have invaded the British Isles and won the war. The cast includes Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth More and Trevor Howard.

Princess Mononoke
This anime epic from director Hayao Miyazaki made critic Roger Ebert's list of 1999's 10 best films. Infected with an incurable disease, Prince Ashitaka (voiced by Yoji Matsuda) travels to the Far East in search of a cure and finds himself caught in a battle between the forest's animals and a mining town. Princess Mononoke (Yuriko Ashida), a human raised by wolves, leads the animals, but higher powers intent on killing may prevail.

Cache
Winner of the Cannes Best Director Award, Michael Haneke's psychological thriller centers on wealthy French couple Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), who begin receiving threatening videotapes and phone calls. Eventually, Georges realizes who the perpetrator is but refuses to tell Anne, causing a rift. Flashbacks of George's childhood reveal the mystery, a story that illuminates France's damaged relations with Algeria.

Conquest of Space
Special effects guru George Pal fashions a surreal 1950s world in which the race to outer space moves at breakneck speed, leading scientists such as Samuel Merritt (Walter Brooke) and his crew to live in a space vessel located between Earth and Mars where they can create a robot that can land on the Red Planet. Their mission is hampered, however, by competing forces who want to thwart their attempt so they can lay claim to success themselves.

The Professionals
A largely forgotten action-adventure gem, The Professionals teams Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster with more star wattage than most Westerns have ever marshaled. Hired to retrieve kidnapped Claudia Cardinale from bandito Jack Palance, these pros shoot, rope and ride all over northern Mexico. Gorgeous cinematography from Conrad L. Hall (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) makes The Professionals ideal summertime entertainment.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Writer-director Sam Peckinpah brings us the story of a wealthy Mexican businessman who places a million-dollar bounty on a man who broke his daughter's heart. Two men (Robert Webber and Academy Award winner Gig Young) decide to go after the money, so they hire a local barkeep (Warren Oates) to do the killing for them. In the process, they end up leaving a trail of death and destruction throughout the vast Mexican countryside.

Four Rooms
One mad New Year's Eve, an overwhelmed bellboy (Tim Roth) copes with witches and diabolical children, gets caught in the middle of a sour relationship and settles a bloody bet for members of a superstar's entourage. Featuring four stories by a quartet of hot directors (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino), Four Rooms is a comedy like no other.

Swingers
In director Doug Liman's career-making look at twenty-something guys, struggling comedian Mike (Jon Favreau) despairs over his love life, so his four pals, fellow Hollywood hopefuls, pump up his nightlife. Buddy (Vince Vaughn), offering dubious lessons on "babes," even whisks Mike to Vegas. Although their attempts at living la vida loca seldom work out as fantasized, Mike meets one woman (Heather Graham) who might finally break his funk.

Zodiac
In the 1960s and '70s, a cryptic killer clad in an executioner's hood stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues about his crimes in the newspaper. In director David Fincher's chilling recount of the murders, Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal -- flanked by an impressive ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. and Chloe Sevigny -- stars as reporter Robert Graysmith, the man who went on to write the best-selling true crime book Zodiac.

Diva
Action, arias and assassins all collide in Diva, a romantic thriller directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. When 18-year-old Jules secretly tapes the concert of a superstar diva who refuses to be recorded, he accidentally winds up with another tape that identifies a top mobster involved in an international sex and drug ring. Suddenly, Jules is being chased through the streets of Paris by blackmailers, hit men and the police!

The Lives of Others
Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police as a high-profile couple is bugged. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family and even those doing the watching find their lives changed too.

The 400 Blows
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, The 400 Blows, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as 13-year-old Antoine Doinel, who runs away from school and his difficult family -- but finds it even tougher living on the streets of Paris and must resort to committing petty crimes.

Support Your Local Gunfighter
Lothario James Garner is on the run from woman trouble, but he needs traveling money. So, he stops in town just long enough to fob off drifter Jack Elam as a famous gunfighter. The plan: Cash in, pay some debts and blow town before the real deal shows up. The "supporting" cast includes Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan and Joan Blondell.

The Set-Up
Robert Wise directs film noir icons Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter in this gripping thriller set in boxing's palooka world. The film tells the story of a down-on-his luck fighter who thinks he's only one bout away from the big payoff. Little does the poor pug know! Special bonus features include audio commentary from Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese.

Stalag 17
For the Allied prisoners of Stalag 17, every escape attempt ends the same way -- in disaster. The cynical Sgt. Sefton (William Holden, in his Oscar-winning role) thinks they're all fools for trying … but soon his hectoring starts to raise suspicions that there's a German spy in the prison camp -- and that spy is him! Director Billy Wilder effortlessly mixes broad comedy and high-tension drama in this World War II classic.

Stalker
This science fiction milestone from director Andrei Tarkovsky takes you into the Zone, a mysterious, guarded realm containing a mystical room in which occupants' secret dreams come true. Stalker, a man able to lead others to this holy grail, escorts a writer and a scientist through this foreboding territory and confronts several unexpected challenges along the way. Based on the Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic.

Ride the High Country
Out of work and in need of cash, two former lawmen (Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott) agree to accompany a shipment of gold from the Sierras to a faraway town. But while one of the friends wants to take the money and run, the other intends to finish the assignment, resulting in some serious on-the-job friction. In addition to capturing Scott's final film role, this classic Western drama also helped cement director Sam Peckinpah's fledgling career.

Everest: Beyond the Limit: Disc 1
This disc includes the following episodes: "Summit Dreams" and "The Gatekeeper."

Everest: Beyond the Limit: Disc 2
This disc includes the following episodes: "To the Summit" and "Into the Death Zone."

Everest: Beyond the Limit: Disc 3
This disc includes the following episodes: "Mutiny on the Mountain" and "The Final Cost."

Bunny Lake Is Missing
Director Otto Preminger's dark film portrays the horror that befalls Ann (Carol Lynley), a single mom recently transplanted to London who shows up one day at her daughter's nursery school to find she's completely disappeared. Nobody seems to know the girl's whereabouts, nor that she even exists, which leads the police (with Sir Laurence Olivier in the role of chief) to believe Ann is delusional. Can she convince everyone that she's not insane?

Kill Me Again
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer at her vampiest is Fay Forrester, who tries to break free from her mob connections by faking her own death. Her pawn in this plan is private eye Jack Andrews (then-husband Val Kilmer), who has little idea how he's about to get "played." The Nevada desert is the setting for this steamy film noir that marks the feature debut of director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction).

The Tenant
Trelkovsky, (Roman Polanski, who also directed), a timid file clerk, moves into a rundown apartment with a history: The prior occupant jumped to her death from the dismal room's window. In the psychotic environment of a dark Parisian building that's filled with odd characters, Trelkovsky feels himself overcome by a kind of madness. His slow mental deterioration compels him to contemplate emulating the woman's final, tragic hours.

The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey -- his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making film history with 1933's King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this Richard Connell short story.

City Lights
City Lights was Charlie Chaplin's last silent film and is widely considered one of his best. Chaplin, once again playing the character known as the Little Tramp, makes the acquaintance of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill), who, because she can't see him, believes the shabby tramp is a millionaire. The tramp attempts to raise enough money for the blind girl to have an eye operation, knowing she may eventually discover his true identity.

A Face in the Crowd
Elia Kazan's masterpiece proves that celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, he gets a taste of the good life. But his hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with famous people such as Burl Ives and Bennett Cerf (who play themselves), turns desperate, and he loses sight of who he is and what he's truly about.

Night and the City
Shot in London, Jules Dassin's film noir centers on grifter Harry (Richard Widmark), who schemes to take over wrestling promoter Kristo's (Herbert Lom) racket. Harry pits Kristo's father, Gregorius, against his own son and convinces nightclub owner Phil (Francis L. Sullivan) to invest in his scheme. But his plan falls apart when Gregorius is killed and Phil learns that his wife (Googie Withers) is leaving him for Harry. Gene Tierney also stars.

The Leopard (Original Italian Version)
In this war drama set in 1880s Sicily, Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) attempts to hold onto the glory he once knew, while his nephew, Tancredi Falconeri (Alain Delon), has joined opposition forces and is being heralded as a war hero. As Falconeri begins to fall for Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the daughter of the town's new mayor, Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa), Salina must learn to accept his changing political status.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
To celebrate Valentine's Day, teachers at an austere Australian boarding school take a group of students on an outing to the mysterious Hanging Rock. Soon after the party starts, the headmistress and three girls go exploring and mysteriously disappear. One week later, a sole survivor returns to school -- with hardly any memory of the incident. Peter Weir's haunting tragedy alludes to several explanations but offers no clear-cut answers

The Straight Story
When Iowa farmer Alvin Straight's brother, Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton), falls ill, Alvin pledges to go to Lyle's side despite being unable to drive and unwilling to accept help. With a tent to sleep under, a riding lawnmower for transportation and unshakable determination, Alvin (Oscar nominee Richard Farnsworth) sets out to cover the 300 miles to his brother's house in a weeks-long journey of healing and remembrance.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones stars in and directs this dark comedy set on the Texas-Mexico border. After accidentally killing a man, heartless border patrol officer Mike (Barry Pepper) quickly buries the body in an unmarked grave. But ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Jones) learns of his friend's death, kidnaps Mike and drags him on a harrowing journey to Mexico to bury the man in his hometown. Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam co-star.

Ikiru
When a stoic government official (Takashi Shimura, with a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actor) in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he realizes he has squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on. He resolves to use his remaining time to usher an insignificant but popular civic project, a children's playground, through the bureaucracy he knows so well. The acclaimed Akira Kurosawa directs.

Run Lola Run
A thrilling post-MTV roller-coaster ride, Run Lola Run is the internationally acclaimed sensation about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente): She's just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who has lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in 20 minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences!

Walkabout
Horrific circumstances strand an urban brother and sister (Lucien John and Jenny Agutter) in the Australian outback, where they're found by an aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) who helps the pair return to their city. As the group wanders the unpredictable land, the siblings survive danger and fear with the help of their new friend. The bond between the three grows, but when they reach civilization, the aboriginal boy finds he's unwelcome.

The Ox-Bow Incident
Director William Wellman's Western digs into the mob-led lynching of three innocent men. The film centers on cowboys Carter (Henry Fonda) and Croft (Harry Morgan), who reluctantly join a hunt for murderous cattle rustlers. Led by ex-soldier Tetley (Frank Conroy), the posse captures three transients (Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Francis Ford). When Tetley calls for their execution without proof of their guilt, Carter faces a moral dilemma.

The Man Who Laughs
In this classic horror film based on a novel by Victor Hugo, Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), the son of an aristocrat, is kidnapped for political reasons and then disfigured by a gypsy surgeon, who leaves the boy's face paralyzed in a contorted smile. He finds refuge in a traveling theatre troupe, but his lineage is eventually discovered, and he soon finds himself being pulled back into the social and political world he was taken from as a boy.

Gettysburg
The fiercest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a stunning production that painstakingly re-creates the events of three fateful days in July 1863. Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen and Richard Jordan play key roles in this magnificent epic (based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels), which was filmed at actual battle locations and rigorously authenticated -- right down to the boots.

Mon Oncle Antoine
The holiday season in a small Quebec village provides the basis for this bittersweet slice-of-life comedy, written and directed by Claude Jutra.

Roy Rogers Collection: My Pal Trigger / In Old Caliente
My Pal Trigger (Rogers's favorite among all his films) tells the story of how Roy came to own his most famous companion -- the gentle horse Trigger. In Old Caliente, Roy's a trusted hand at a sprawling ranchero. But it turns out the crooked foreman is in league with robbers intent on hijacking a gold shipment, and when he tries to pin the crime on Roy, our favorite cowboy sets out to clear his name and bring the real culprits to justice.

All About My Mother
An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, writer-director Pedro Almodovar's compassionate tribute to women examines the life of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), who leaves Madrid for Barcelona shortly after she witnesses her son's accidental death. She reunites with an old friend (Antonia San Juan), a pre-op transsexual prostitute, who introduces her to Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a pregnant nun. Their fast friendship binds them through many struggles.

Gettysburg
The fiercest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a stunning production that painstakingly re-creates the events of three fateful days in July 1863. Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen and Richard Jordan play key roles in this magnificent epic (based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels), which was filmed at actual battle locations and rigorously authenticated -- right down to the boots.