In 1980 impoverished working-class child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva was chosen from 1300 other boys to play the lead role in Hector Babenco's Pixote a film that showed the plight of Rio De Janerio's street urchins forced into criminal lives. The film earned great acclaim and Ramos da Silva received fame and fortune. Unfortunately fate and the rigidity of Brazil's social system had other more tragic plans...
Carlos Alvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production first staged at London's Royal Opera House.
Naschy as the Amorous Dracula sets out seduce his one great love with the help of his trio of sexy Vampiric Mistresses. This one is chock full of Naschy Eroticism and Gore.
Seven years after the world's most devastating tsunami in Thailand six strangers find themselves trapped at a beach side resort on the brink of an oncoming hurricane. Each of their hearts are broken as they silently cry out on the most desperate night of their lives. As the storm rages on and the six strangers fall deeper into the heart of darkness another guest arrives at the hotel. He says he is Jesus Christ and he comes to bring them all a message of hope in order to rescue them from the darkest corners of their own hearts. However the decision to surrender and receive the freedom He offers is a choice each of them must take.
A young thief with a history of grand theft auto becomes an informant and helps police bring down a criminal enterprise involved in the smuggling of hundreds of exotic super cars.
With Dagon, director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon returns once more to author HP Lovecraft, this time for an adaptation of the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with the setting switched from the coast of New England to the creepy Spanish fishing village of Inboca. After a sudden storm and a yacht-wreck, a bespectacled and bewildered Paul Marsh (Ezra Gooden) finds himself stranded in the literally fishy town, which has thrown over Catholicism to devote itself to the worship of the Philistine sea-god Dagon. His influence means that the inhabitants are transforming into pop-eyed, tentacled and gilled creatures. Though Gooden perhaps strikes too strident a note to convince as an everyday guy, director Gordon orchestrates the rising terrors well. These range from a supremely damp and uncomfortable hotel room through an impressive flashback about the rise of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to some sinister business with a mad-eyed mermaid (Macarena Gomez), human sacrifice and nasty surprises all round. Unfortunately, Gordon still can't quite distinguish between acceptably gruesome and downright nasty, especially when it comes to disposing of secondary female characters. On the plus side, Dagon boasts an excellent score, which even tries to set to music some of Lovecraft's invented language ("Ia Ia Cthulhu fh'tagn"). --Kim Newman
It's 1973 Franco's on his way out and Spain is changing with the times. Alberto Lopez is a failing door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman on the brink of financial disaster until he and his lovely wife Carmen are offered a unique and lucrative opportunity to make their own amateur Super 8 'erotic' movies as part of a phoney ""Scandinavian World Encyclopaedia of Reproduction"". Little do they realize that this will unspool Alberto's passion for Bergmanesque filmmaking launch Carmen as
Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni (a showstopping Royalty Hightower) is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni spends less and less time boxing with her older brother, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and masters drills from a distance, and even pierces her own ears in an effort to fit in. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire for acceptance becomes more complicated. Gorgeously shot and with a mesmerizing score, THE FITS is a transformative experience and a marvellous portrait of adolescence.
When it comes to matters of the heart, keeping her man happy and committed is all in a day's work for Shante Smith.
Filmed at Heaven in 1983 contains concert footage and video clips of 'Sweet Dreams' 'Love Is A Stranger' and 'Who's That Girl?'.
Two men steal a doll from a paranormal museum in order to put their footage online but end up in a crazy game as the doll becomes a gateway to hell .
Be careful what you wish for... Wishing Stairs is the third part of the Ghost School trilogy which includes Whispering Corridors and Memento Mori. There's a legend which claims that if you count aloud 28 steps to the school dormitory a 29th stair appears and a spirit will grant you a wish. That can bring good fortune if you are honourable. Yet in this school full of rivalry and jealousy those moods are often viciou
The flow of time is in disarray now that Chrovos has been freed from prison, and the Reds and Blues are unwittingly trapped, reliving their memories.Fortunately, there's still one person in the universe who can do something about it: Donut. Thanks to his quick thinking, Donut manages to trap Chrovos in a temporary cell, but it won't hold for long. Chrovos' lackey, Genkins, travels through time with the Reds and Blues and changes the events of their history, creating cracks in an increasingly fragile timeline. If Donut can't find a way to release his friends, Chrovos wil truly be free, and life as they know it will be rewritten.
From the director of smash hit thriller The Resident and Finland's Official Academy Award submission for 2013, Purge tells the epic, breath-taking story of two women thrown together by fate and by history. Escaping a ruthless gang of criminals in present day Estonia, Zara is taken in by her great aunt Aliide, a mysterious woman whom she has only ever known from a faded photograph of her mother s. But Zara soon discovers the incredible journey and immense ordeal suffered by Aliide decades ago ...
A group of friends, led by the gorgeous Angela, investigate the existence of the paranormal by venturing to a dangerous and deserted old mining town. Here a sadistic paranormal power is unleashed and a portal to the afterlife is opened... Who will start believing and who will survive! Shot in full anamorphic 3D. From the producers of The Orphanage and Julia's Eyes.
Of all operas, perhaps the one that least needs ingenious extramusical assistance is 'Tristan, this aurally erotic work that speaks so vividly to the listener`s inner eye. Wagner`s score is simply more illustrative and sensuously pictorial than any series of stage pictures could be. With Ren� Kollo and Gwyneth Jones in the title roles, this DVD represents a historical milestone and document of highest value in the reception of Richard Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.
Following his arrest a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his travelling companions his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Confessions Of A Serial Killer is based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
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