Inc Kino Lorber

Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, Suchsland illustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 thesis that the rise of Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema, while situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time. Looking at films like "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler," "Metropolis," "The Golem," and many others, Suchsland tracks the concept of the charismatic villain bewitching the people.

Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein, a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico. This tracks the nocturnal adventures and ill fated encounter between two desperate old prostitutes and twin mini luchadores.

12-year old Sam and his family and best friend Felix face Sam's leukemia and his uncertain future by learning about the disease as well as making lists of what Sam wishes to do someday.

The suffocating repressiveness of the Victorian era is superbly realized by director Bruce Beresford in The Getting of Wisdom. Thirteen-year-old Laura, an incorrigible free spirit from the Australian outback, is enrolled in a prestigious girl's boarding school. The indoctrination process is a rough one, and Laura very nearly loses her individuality and sense of self-worth. When she does mature, however, it is on her terms, and not the school's.

The wealthy, white, well-intentioned, family of one of her schoolmates takes in an eight-year-old black child, named Victoria, for a night. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family's youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again.

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in!

"A pitch-black comedy with style to burn, A Hard Day depicts a day-in- the-life of a cop that goes from bad to worse to cursed. Driving back from his mother's funeral, homicide detective Gun-soo runs over a man in a dark rural street. In a moment of desperation, he dumps the body in a coffin alongside his mother. The disappearance of his accident victim is investigated by a colleague, and, making matters worse, a witness steps forward, a detective...

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

A group of convicts escape friom the big house, killing a guard, kidnapping the warden, and forcing a reluctant inmate to accompany them. However, when a car crash kills everyone except for Tully and Gavin, the wicked warden steals $100,000 of the escapees' loat, then accuses the innocent inmate of the guard's murder in order to cover up his own crime.

An illuminating and provocative drama. Sultry siren Eartha Kitt is vibrantly sexy as a lascivious lady of the night, and cool cat Sammy Davis Jr. displays tremendous appeal and power in this torrid tale of love and greed. When wild child Anna Lucasta is thrown out of the house by her self-righteous father, she falls into the life of prostitution, and the arms of streetwise sailor Danny Johnson. But after Anna shocks them all by finally finding true...