Two-disc set includes: Bim (1951)The first family-friendly offering from "The Red Balloon" filmmaker Albert Lamorisse concerns the impoverished Tunisian boy Abdullah and his love for his donkey Bim.... more
Alain Delon, Mathalie Delon, Francois Perier. Despite deep misgivings, a calm, cool and collected hit man pulls off a perfect hit, only to be pressured by a relentless police officer and the mob boss... more
Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret), all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father (SUMMER HOURS' Jeremie Renier).... more
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismdki (THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL), fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (LA VIE DE BOHHME'S Andri... more
Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career-isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past- the tenth film by Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL) was a... more
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Ingmar Bergman's fascinating story of a medieval knight who enters into a chess game with Death. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. In Swedish with English subtitles.... more
The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
Stephane Audran, Jean-Phillipe Lafont. A delicious Isak Dinesen tale about two pious Danish sisters who take a mysterious Parisian woman into their home to be a maid. Winner of the Best Foreign Film... more
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (8 1/2's... more
In post-WWII Italy, an orphanage-reared man (Francesco Golisano) is gifted with a magic dove by the ghost of the kindly woman (Emma Gramatica) who took him in as an abandoned infant. The divine gift... more
Stunning, brilliant science fiction from director Andrei Tarkovsky ("Solaris") about a journey taken by a scientist (Nikolai Grinko) and a writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) to a dangerous forbidden zone... more
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Two lonely residents of an apartment building in Italy form a friendship on the day Hitler arrives to meet Mussollini. Includes digital transfer, 2014 short film... more
One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the... more
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet. This erotic screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's bestseller The Talented Mr. Ripley, retells the tale of Tom Ripley, hired by a wealthy industrialist to retrieve and... more
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) represents an astonishing confluence of talent an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players,... more
Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni. Dimwitted would-be robbers try to burglarize a store in this satirical comedy. This incredible new digital transfer features enhanced image quality and... more
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal. Surrealistic director Luis Buñuel's unusual story of St. Simon, who spends 30 years in the desert seeking enlightenment and is finally transported by the devil to... more
Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse. Uniquely told with music and no dialogue, this renowned children's film tells the story of a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which seems to... more
This Yasujiro Ozu double feature presents the sensitive original silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura. 1934/b&w/89 min.) followed by the celebrated remake Floating... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet's masterful Palme d'Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and... more
Three-disc set includes: Emitaï (1971)During World War II, Vichy France wasn't shy about conscripting soldiers from it's colonies, or levying oppressive taxes upon them. As the residents of a Jola... more
Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more