World Cinema (Classics) pre 1980
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Commare Secca, La - dvd
Relaesed: 11 October 2006
A prostitute is murdered by night in a Roman park. One by one the police interview the men who were in vicinity at the time-a petty thief, a hen-pecked pimp, a soldier on leave, a waiter and a pair of awkward lads keen to impress their girlfiends....
Contempt (Le Mepris) - dvd
Released: 5 Sept 2007
On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture.
Conversation Piece - dvd
Released: 9 August 2006
A retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent them an apartment on the ...
Cries and Whispers - dvd
It’s the turn of the century and four women are drawn together by impending tragedy. Agnes is terminally ill and confined to bed. Her sisters and servant gather at her bedside but jealousy, resentment and selfishness come before sympathy. Unable t...
Damned, The - dvd
W/S enh / DDmono English and French (doco about Visconti on the set) Available for a limited time only
Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) - dvd
Released: 12 Mar 2008
Carl Theodor Dreyer made this film during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and, similar to the way Arthur Miller demonised the Hayes Code in his play 'The Crucible', DAY OF WRATH uses the larger narrative of witch-hunts to point out the paranoid obs...
Dersu Uzala - dvd
Released: 5 May 2007
A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asiatic hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns at the head of a larger expedition. (imdb)
Academy Award Winner 1975
Detective - dvd
Released: 3 Oct 2007
In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-years-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxer manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it s...
Diaboliques, Les - dvd
Christina and Michel Delasalle are a married couple who run a private boarding school. Delasalle is a tyrant who bullies both his wife and his mistress, Nicole. Having been beaten by Delasalle, Nicole finally persuades Christina that they should m...
Dirty Money (Un Flic) - dvd
Released 3 Sept 2008
Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edou...
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