Take a '50s Hollywood sci-fi plot, mix in pointed commentary on feminism and '80s politics in Poland, and you get this tale about two scientists whose suspended-animation experiment is halted by... more
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret. A French theater company hiding a Jewish theater manager under the Nazi occupation of Paris decides to continue putting on shows against all odds and... more
Mondo Macabro presents DEATH SQUAD - One of the sleaziest and most violent crime films ever made in France. |One of the sleaziest and most violent crime films ever made in France, DEATH SQUAD gained... more
Mondo Macabro presents SPECIAL SILENCERS - A legendary Indonesian cult film with jaw dropping real-time action and stunt work. |SPECIAL SILENCERS is a legendary entry into the Indonesian "cult film"... more
In 1930s Hong Kong, the hopeless affair between courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui)and playboy heir Chan (Leslie Cheung) culminated in a suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost appears before... more
The first film made outside his native Russia by director Andrei Tarkovsky is a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a Russian poet and musicologist who travels to a spa village in Italy's Tuscany region... more
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu. A petty criminal takes the place of a dying warlord in 16th-century Japan to fool those that plan to assassinate the ruler and inspire his followers... more
One of Jean Rollins least-seen and most underrated works, The Night of the Hunted (La Nuit des traques) finds the director moving away from his trademark tales of vampirism to explore a nightmarish,... more
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of... more
One of the most acclaimed films in recent history, on DVD for the first time! Renowned director Krzysztof Kieslowski created this 10-part epic, with each tale inspired by one of the Ten Commandments.... more
On an abandoned tanker In the Persian Gulf city of Abadan, 11-year-old orphan Amiro (Madjid Niroumand) got by on his wits, bottle-picking and shining shoes for change when not in playful competition... more
Warning: not for the faint of heart! MEN BEHIND THE SUN exposes the stomach-churning horrors of Unit 731, Japan's most secret, nightmarish military prison during World War II. In this infamous epoch,... more
Presented together in one dynamite package comes The Long Arm of the Law and The Long Arm of the Law Part 2. Directed by Johnny Mak (To be Number One) and his brother, Michael Mak (Sex and Zen,... more
This foreboding and unforgettable tale of life on the brink of a potential nuclear disaster was the final work of director Andrei Tarkovsky and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. As... more
When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Beatrice Dalle in a magnetic breakout performance) in a sunbaked French beach town, it's the beginning of... more
Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida Garcia Morales, which deepens the... more
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (THE BURMESE HARP, FIRES ON THE PLAIN). Revolving around... more
When a crotchety Izu oldster (Hideji Otaki) abruptly dies, his daughter (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law (Tsutomu Yamazaki)-both TV actors-drop everything to ensure he receives a proper Buddhist... more
Situated in an Amsterdam brothel, two whores rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers, a serial killer, kidnaps a housewife. This portrait of sexual power is the second film... more
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already... more
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth*Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must... more