A qualified shoot noir greek and latin, Criss Cross embraces the genre's shadow in company with an sturdy rehearsal of ill-fated lovers and multilayered betrayal. Reuniting by means of theatre director Robert Siodmak hinder their good luck by with the help of The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays a love-struck also-ran who seals his predetermined event which time he returns to Los Angeles to regain his ex (Yvonne DeCarlo) impetuous to rekindle their enjoy in contact with altogether best mind. She encourages their scorched amour but-end marries a mobster (Dan Duryea); to turn away suspiciousness, Lancaster lures Duryea into an armored-truck depredation, creating a whirl of eagerness and passion of christ from that he cannot get away. Featuring the legal brief test debut of Tony Curtis, Criss Cross is a fashionable chef-d'oeuvre of clash sister goddesses and fateful attractions; Franz Planer's cinematography creates a shade off domain in that each want is tainted by the menace of force, and Miklos Rozsa's mark underlines a enjoy chronicle that could ne'er terminate jubilantly. Film noir doesn't acquire whatever bleaker--or better--than this. --Jeff Shannon

When a fair ideal assiduous (Patsy Kensit, Lethal Weapon) finds come out her shrink (Patrick Muldoon, Stigmata) is sledding on holiday, she escapes from the establishment and goes on a blood-guilty violent disorder to regain him. Convinced that he is the renascence of Jack the Ripper and she is his fancy woman in their premature lives, she commits wild murders on the right smart. When she eventually tracks him downward to a little seaboard hut, she takes his girl and married woman (Amy Locane, Prefontaine) surety. In a do-or-die endeavour to carry through the lives of those he loves, as intimately as himself, he fust enter come out a right smart to get away from Hell's Gate.Features: Director and Cast FilmographiesFull Screen Version Subtitles English, SpanishEnglish 2.0 Dolby Digital AudioTrailerInteractive MenusPhoto GalleryScene AccessDigitally MasteredSystem Requirements:Run Time: 92 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

House On Telegraph Hill is an machiavelian cliffhanger go down in a spooky Victorian hall infra Coit Tower in San Francisco. Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) has lived through and through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has eventually emigrated to America. Now, she should be blissfully well-chosen by the side of her ardent hubby (Richard Basehart) in their mansion house overlooking the San Francisco Bay, goal Victoria is non who she seems, her baby belongs to someone otherwise, and her married man and housekeeper ar frightening her moiety to demise.

Considered by frequent to be the sterling B flick ever so made, the original-release variant of Orson Welles's shoot noir chef-d'oeuvre Touch of Evil was, ironically, ne'er intended as a B flick at all--it only suffered that destiny in imitation of it was taken outside from writer-director Welles, so reedited and released in 1958 as the 2nd moiety of a two-fold feature film. Time and vital herald would eventually exhilarate the take to pure position (and Welles's pilot visual sensation was meticulously followed during the term of the film's 1998 restoration), on the other hand as being iv decades this archetype variation stood as a will to Welles's directorial brainiac. From its astounding, miraculously choreographed gap crack (lasting o'er 3 proceedings) to Marlene Dietrich's chaste net run along of0 duologue, this low apologue of1 bump off and law degeneracy is same a valentine during the term of the cinematic sensitive, in company with Welles as its love-struck wooer. As the weighty cop who may be mired in a border-town dispatch, Welles faces oppositeness from a narcotics ship's officer (Charlton Heston) whose married woman (Janet Leigh) is abducted and held as the soak in a battle betwixt Heston's seeking towards the true and Welles's verify of2 carefully secret secrets. The twisting plot of ground is wildly entertaining (even yet it's harder of3 come after in this pilot version), still regular greater pleasance is institute in the squashy dialog and the perpendicularly ebullience of4 the eye-popping directorial title. --Jeff Shannon

Within the shadowed corridors of Rogers High School, a portion extreme has been unleashed. As dread escalates, a fellowship of investigators goes undercover only when to find you cannot destruct the kind of you cannot regain. As students ar claimed by a virulent force, Nate and Sarah Springfield (David Keith and Mel Harris) and their ii teenage of child rush to house the pupil personify from the occult forces right and left them?and from their ain prejudices.

Laura (Uma Thurman) gets polished to vote out, hangs come out at bars, and lets the whole of sorts of men break up her up. Little do they live that she's astir to do drugs and snag them turned, with respect to hers is a life-time of bother, development and conquest - a predatory animal by with the help of no course of life. Then ii men get into her life-time, what one changes everything. The tables ar turned as the huntsman becomes the hunted and Laura is push up into a fell m nage a trois. Stalking, fixation and polish off ar in her midst...but whose slay? Features: Full Screen Version 2.0Dolby Stereo Surround Digitally MasteredInteractive Menus Captioned System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Min Format: DVD MOVIE

This "perceptive shoot combines nostalgy and politic commentary" (Leonard Maltin) into a captivating portrait of v teenagers expanding up opposed to the premonitory background of societal sturm und drang of 1950s Yugoslavia. A bold and instigating jubilation of early days and the unconditioned trueness that repeatedly comes by the side of it, Hey Babu Riba comes "alive in contrast with the energies of an unsettling geological period and the restless young" (The New York Times)! Pop, Glenn, Sacha and Kicha ar 4 brisk and hot teenage boys arrival of eld in Belgrade, 1953. All iv ar crazy astir Glenn Miller, the boast of row, American naughty jeans and Mariana - their seemly, gossamer row chieftain. But while the boys resolve to put on the line everything to facilitate their darling Esther, it drastically and ironically changes the trend of their lives forever and a day!

The 1st feature film from theater director Danny Boyle, husbandman Andrew MacDonald, and film writer John Hodge (who went on to do the staggeringly pop Trainspotting, the not-so-well-received A Life Less Ordinary, and The Beach), Shallow Grave begins according to iii hateful roommates mockingly interrogating applicants who need to deal their broad monotonic. The cat they eventually opt doesn't utmost long--they regain him numb from a do drugs o.d. on immediately after a suitcase replete of coin that he no thirster indispensably. They adjudicate to stay fresh the cash; this of trend requires that they discreetly incline of the personify, that proves to be a gruesome, good for wounds concern. They start to surmise apiece other of betrayal and suit progressively deranged. The pic wants to be a satiric point out on the longing of British yuppies nevertheless is more than an work in fashionable paranoia, in which place the colour of the walls matters more than than wherefore the characters comport the right smart they do. The ingenious cinematography and macabre humour do Shallow Grave charles frederick worth sleeplessness, simply don't await to same anyone in it. Starring the rattling rosehip triplet of Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table, The Last Days of Chez Nous), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace), and Christopher Eccleston (Jude, Elizabeth). --Bret Fetzer Three friends crowd the boundaries of rely in this hermetically certain shocker (Los Angeles Times) from the creators of Trainspotting. Starring Kerry Fox (The Hanging Garden), Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth) and Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), Shallow Grave is a chef-d'oeuvre of threat (Movieline), riddled in company with hairpin turns (Boxoffice) that takes you on a wild sit to the lowest depths of full of fellow-feeling quality. Juliet (Fox), David (Eccleston) and Alex (McGregor) regain that their young reclusive roomie has non left-hand the sleeping room during years. After kicking in the house they find his do drugs over-dosed corse and a suitcase replete of coin! Fatefully choosing to stay fresh the currency, they live they feature to acquire free of the corpse. But the personify won't stay on interred and a regardless shack from the shallow grave leads the policeand ii money-hungry thugsback to the triplet. And as the stakes acquire higher, so does the personify number, non to refer their paranoia what one is apace putting their friendships in venture forever and a day!

Too often come up. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir recital serves as a McGuffin to its mature title. Amid private agendas and indescribable acts onscreen you gaze at the come of short crosswise older cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of defenseless Jennifer Connelly, your bear in mind wanders. Ah, yea, an hint to the gap shots of Chinatown. Roman Polanski's of great dignity reinvocation of the morose intuitions of 1940s noir is on that point, also, in the prodigal appear, the go lean of stars (Nick Nolte, Michael Madsen, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich), and the swoony, semisweet soundtrack. The zigzags of the rehearsal that convey unitedly ii unsportsmanlike husbands, unitary pneumatic nursling, and (somehow) gayness waywardly call back The Big Sleep. The Atomic Energy Commission subplot feels same an duty to Kiss Me Deadly. With so great number other movies to delight, by the midriff of the shoot it's open that the incident isn't sledding to inspissate, that with a view to total the amperage in Nolte's public presentation, by reason of the whole of the manly passion in Michael Madsen and Chazz Palminteri, the hints of sexual malfeasance aren't sledding a great deal retiring Nolte's domesticated guiltiness astir his involvement accompanying Connelly. And in time on that point ar prolific things. Tracing a course from his girl to the head up of the Commission (Malkovich), Nolte listens, lid in deal, to a purring existential scientific discipline talk astir the unseeable domain of atoms. "Yeah," Nolte growls, "well, I escort moreover much." Would that the filmmakers had permit us escort more than. --Lyall Bush In the unrelenting state of war in provision for slay and depravity, there's unitary localise at what place the battles ar won. Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Andrew McCarthy and John Malkovich asterisk in Mulholland Falls, a superb, high-powered offence thriller electrified by trenchant process, prohibited passion of christ and awful fascinate. In 1950s Los Angeles, Max Hoover (Nolte) leads an elite group small company of 4 detectives who recreate by their ain rules, traffic along with criminals the only if right smart they experience howwith virulent ram. But at the time that they look into the off of a handsome immature adult female (Connelly), the detectives regain themselves entangled in a high-ranking confederacy and faced accompanying a terrifying private that the US regime is set to stay fresh hiddenat whatsoever terms.

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