Kino Classics (Firm)

It is a seemingly invincible monster that is hell-bent on killing everybody on a mission to Mars. This life-devouring alien brushes aside bullets and even nuclear blasts making it one very cold-hearted Cold War-style invader. When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer a grotesque, slithering 'It'...

Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style doesn't impress everyone, especially Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend. Uncle Buck is the last person you'd think of to watch the kids. But with a little luck and a lot of love, he manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming...

The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.

Two men on a park bench discuss the story of Cesare, a sleep-walking circus performer under the control of the murderous Dr. Caligari. But all, of course, is not quite as it seems.

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a shot at stardom, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamour machine . She and her idol Norman marry; but as her star rises, his comes crashing down.

Charles Rankin, responsible for unspeakable brutality in the Holocaust, is now living as a history professor in a small American town, with plans to wed Mary, the daughter of a local judge. When an old comrade escapes prison and comes looking for refuge, Rankin quickly sees that it's a plot to find him and kills the man.

Having defined the espionage genre with Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Fritz Lang returned to the genre with this surprisingly fast-paced and remarkably grim thriller. Rudolf Klein-Rogge starts as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple the diabolical king from his throne. Filled with the sexual intrigue and high-tech gadgetry that continue to define the genre, SPIES (Spione) remains...

For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and who have come to inspire generations of aspiring artists. In this four-film collection, the sibling filmmakers focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves...

The hairdresser's husband: Antoine fulfills his lifelong fantasy of marrying a hairdresser, which he has dreamed of since he was a child. Yvonne's perfume: French expatriate Victor falls in love with Yvonne, an aspiring actress. Half a chance: Alice is released from prison and goes on an adventure with two men, one of whom she believes may be her father. Girl on the bridge: Knife-thrower Gabor saves Adèle from jumping off a bridge and convinces...

FEAR AND DESIRE is the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's PATHS OF GLORY (1957) and FULL METAL JACKET (1987), FEAR AND DESIRE follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented...