Acclaimed musical drama from Mexico follows the touching and exotic story of Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a cabaret dancer who discovers an abandoned infant in a trash can. Deciding to raise the child as... more
Unseen by the West for nearly 30 years, this unusual Cuban/Soviet co-production was meant to help train Cuban filmmakers and build support for Castro's regime. Four dramatic vignettes depict, in a... more
Features: Standard Edition, Widescreen, Mono Sound, Subtitled
THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY(US STANDARD EDITION):Director: Fernando de Fuentes |Cast: Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martnez, Victorio Blanco |Made in the wake of La Lloronas... more
Gothic horror and lucha libre collide in The Panther Women (Las mujeres panteras), starring a host of Mexico's top female stars. The Panther Women are a witch cult who resurrect their leader by... more
Features: Widescreen, Anamorphic, Digital Theater System
Paul Naschy returns as Count Waldemar Daninsky, marked with the sign of the wolf and desperate for a cure. Dr. Henry Jekyll (Jack Taylor), a descendant of the infamous doc, offers Waldemar one, but... more
This smash road comedy from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is that rare movie to combine raunchy subject matter and emotional warmth. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna shot to international... more
Embark on a harrowing journey with a young journalist as she delves into the sinister realm of 'snuff films'. What starts as an investigation turns into a nightmare of survival, as she becomes the... more
Features: Widescreen, Digital Theater System, Dolby
SYNOPSIS:The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging... more
In the heart of Bogota's Rue Morgue, renowned death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka captures the life's work of embalmer Froilan Orozco. Orozco, with decades of handling the deceased, from murder... more
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THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN (US STANDARD EDITION):The atmospheric Mexican chiller The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldicin de la Llorona) fuses the tropes of Gothic horror cinema with Mexican... more
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THE BRAINIAC (US STANDARD EDITION):One of the most notorious films to emerge from Mexico's horror film boom, The Brainiac (El barn del terror), is a terrifying tale of vengeance across the centuries.... more
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BLACK PIT OF DR M (US STANDARD EDITION):From the vaults of Alameda Films comes the bone-chilling Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba). |Doctor Mazali (Rafael Bertrand) makes a pact with his... more
Two-disc set includes: Rapiña (1975)A lifetime's poverty and struggle had finally worn on mountain-village woodcutter Porfirio (Ignacio López Tarso), and he saw an out after witnessing a plane crash.... more
Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere. When the high-society guests at a posh dinner party find themselves mysteriously unable to leave, they're slowly consumed by boredom, hunger and madness. This... 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
Julio Medem's erotically charged drama centers on Lucía (Paz Vega), a Madrid waitress who, after her novelist boyfriend Lorenzo is killed in an accident, seeks solace on an isolated Mediterranean... more
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THE WITCHS MIRROR (US STANDARD EDITION):The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja) is a beautiful, atmospheric, and uniquely Mexican take on the Gothic horror film. |When Elena (Dina de Marco) is... more
Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena. Erotic black comedy/melodrama of two families from different classes who interfere in the marriage plans of their daughter and son.... more
This film by Tomas Gutierrez Alea is the most widely renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual... more
Found guilty for committing unspeakable atrocities against the Mayan people, a former Guatemalan dictator (Julio Diaz) manages to avoid imprisonment, much to the horror of the citizenry. He may yet... more
In ALAMBRISTA!, a farm worker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an... more
Beginning in the 60s, and lasting through the end of Franco's iron-fisted rule, genre filmmakers working in Spain began using the horror genre to astutely comment on issues of class, religion,... more
One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema for the audaciousness of it's attack on the Catholic Church, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life massacre that occurred in... more
Wanting prestige besides portfolio, an aging billionaire (José Luis Gómez) sought to finance an awards-bait feature film-helmed by acclaimed director Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz) and teaming legendary... more