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The 3D Nudie-Cuties Collection

3D Movies · Cult · Comedy

Nudie-Cuties were popular in grindhouse theaters in the early 1960’s but they were eventually replaced with more explicit fare. 3-D was a natural for this genre with such titillating promises as “A girl in your lap” and “They dance right off the screen into your arms.&rd…

Action U.S.A.

Action · Indie

Turns out a Texas stuntman-turned-filmmaker unleashed the most explosive, death-defying, bullet-riddled, grenade-launching, flame-broiled, anti-human megattack in independent film history back in 1989, and no one knew… UNTIL NOW.

The Beloved Rogue

History · Drama · Silent

A rich historical romance starring John Barrymore as poet Frances Villon who battles against nasty King Louis the XI in 17th Century France. 

Bird of Paradise

Action & Adventure · Romance

From legendary Oscar®-winning director King Vidor (The Crowd, Duel in the Sun) comes an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia. With Joel McCrea at his most dashing and Delores del Rio at her alluring height, BIRD OF PARADISE is a movie of wild eroticism and thrilling adventure, and no…

The Business of Fancydancing

Drama

Since their high school graduation, former Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour (Evan Adams, Smoke Signals) and Aristotle (Gene Tagaban) have taken different paths. Both ventured off to college in Seattle, but while Seymour embraced the opportunities of the white world, Aristotle returned home e…

Daytime Revolution

Music Documentaries · Music · Documentary

Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five …

The Death Kiss

Horror

Bela Lugosi stars as the head of a struggling studio, who tries to contain a scandal after an actor is killed during the making of a film. While the police investigate the deepening mysteries within the studio, a quick-witted screen- writer (DavidManners) decides to solve the crime himself, in order…

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Documentary · Comedy

Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Documentary · Film Documentaries

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish li…

G-MAN

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)

Cult · Documentary · Film Documentaries

This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.

The Iceman Cometh

Theatre · Drama

Considered the definitive film version of one of Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes.

John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon

Animation · Short Films · Family

Showcasing his wide-ranging talent and emotional resonance, MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT TOON features animated shorts from across John Canemaker's storied career.

Lenny Bruce: Performance Film

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Let There Be Light

Documentary · War

Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality.

Letters to Dad

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the …

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke

Experimental · Drama · Documentary

This three-disc set collects the vast array of Shirley Clarke's astonishing short, dance, and avant-garde films along with her Oscar®-winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Documentary

In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Animation · Biography · Documentary

John Canemaker’s Academy Award®-winning animated documentary enlists actors Eli Wallach (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and John Turturro (Barton Fink) to explore a difficult father/son relationship.

Night of the Juggler (4KUHD)

4K UHD DISC · Thriller · Drama

A twisted psychotic kidnaps a teenaged girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. Her determined father, a hard-hitting ex-cop, doggedly pursues them through New York’s seamy streets and the grimy subterranean corridors beneath the city itself.

Northern Lights

Drama

Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers' political struggle against the bankers and railroad magnates pushing them into bankrupcy.

On Broadway

Performing Arts · Documentary · Performance

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! It takes us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton, and is packed with interviews and performances by legendary stars like Helen Mirren, Chr…

On the Yard

Thriller

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Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Theatre

The American Film Theatre's Philadelphia, Here I Come! presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar" O'Donnell on the eve of his emigration to America.

Playing Frisbee in North Korea

Documentary

Calling North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, fat can get you killed in North Korea. Any other complaints about daily life there gets North Koreans incarcerated in brutal work camps. What harm could come from playing Frisbee? A look at the daily life and humanity of the North Korean people.

The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming

Comedy · War

When sightseeing Soviet commander (Alan Arkin, The In-Laws) runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew's attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Arkin leads and all-star cast that includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith and Jonathan Win…

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Drama · Native and Indigenous Americans · Western

Songs My Brothers Taught Me is set in the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; most of the key players are young Lakota Native Americans.

The Offenders

Set in a New York wasteland where some have accumulated great wealth and others live in desperate poverty having to turn to crime to survive. A “savage satire” full of violence and nihilism, this low budget Super 8 film embodies the period’s do-it-yourself ethos, as well as, the fu…

The Trap Door

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, The Trap Door follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and maul…

The Wanderers

Drama · Based on Literature · Comedy

Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price (The Night Of), Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change.  New 2K restoration!

Winter Soldier

History · Documentary · War

Winter Soldier is a documentary chronicle of an extraordinary investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971, when vets from all branches of the US military came from across the country to speak out about the atrocities they had committed and witnessed while stationed in …