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Disc contains Boy Meets Girl (1984) in 4K UHD. Made when Leos Carax was just twenty-three, his rapturous debut feature returns French cinema to the unfettered experimentation of the New Wave, updated for the punk 1980s. In velvety black and white, it evokes a surreal nocturnal Paris of lost souls and wandering misfits — among them Alex, a disaffected would-be filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille, an aspiring actress nursing her own heartbreak. Brought together by fate, the two share a moment of intense, fleeting connection, as bright-burning and ephemeral as youth itself.

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Disc contains The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) and the special features for the film. With this feverish saga of amour fou, Carax pushed his ambitions to glorious new heights. Michèle, an artist who is losing her sight, meets Alex, a homeless street performer, while sleeping rough on Paris’s centuries-old Pont-Neuf, and the two begin an obsessive affair that soon collides with crushing reality. The product of an infamously lengthy, arduous production, the film is a bracing plunge into life on the city’s turbulent margins — visually arresting and musically intoxicating, never more dazzling than when the lovers water-ski madly across the Seine amid a shower of fireworks.

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Disc contains The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR. With this feverish saga of amour fou, Carax pushed his ambitions to glorious new heights. Michèle, an artist who is losing her sight, meets Alex, a homeless street performer, while sleeping rough on Paris’s centuries-old Pont-Neuf, and the two begin an obsessive affair that soon collides with crushing reality. The product of an infamously lengthy, arduous production, the film is a bracing plunge into life on the city’s turbulent margins — visually arresting and musically intoxicating, never more dazzling than when the lovers water-ski madly across the Seine amid a shower of fireworks.

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The Mauvais Sang Blu-ray contains Mauvais Sang (1986), presented in a new 4K digital restoration, with special features. Leos Carax's second feature folds a neon-noir crime story into a delirious tale of doomed love. As STBO—a sexually transmitted disease contracted by having sex without emotion—spreads, a young ex-con (Denis Lavant) is hired by a veteran criminal (Michel Piccoli) to steal the antidote, and becomes dangerously involved with his new employer's lover (Juliette Binoche). Built with the kinetic energy of a musical, the film erupts in bursts of pure cinematic adrenaline, from a skydive to Lavant's famous nighttime sprint set to David Bowie's “Modern Love.”

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The Mauvais Sang 4K UHD disc contains Mauvais Sang (1986), presented in a new 4K digital restoration. Leos Carax's second feature folds a neon-noir crime story into a delirious tale of doomed love. As STBO—a sexually transmitted disease contracted by having sex without emotion—spreads, a young ex-con (Denis Lavant) is hired by a veteran criminal (Michel Piccoli) to steal the antidote, and becomes dangerously involved with his new employer's lover (Juliette Binoche). Built with the kinetic energy of a musical, the film erupts in bursts of pure cinematic adrenaline, from a skydive to Lavant's famous nighttime sprint set to David Bowie's “Modern Love.”

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Frankie Robertson returns from the grave to wreak havoc on a houseful of unsuspecting partying teenagers. Partially shot by Mark Borchardt (American Movie) and directed by Michael Heagle, this lost 1980s slasher perfectly captures the era and the DIY underground filmmaking ethos, and VHSHITFEST releases it with hours of extras.

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In 1958, producer Frank P. Bibas created this television anthology series for Hal Roach Studios around horror legend Boris Karloff. Predating One Step Beyond, The Twilight Zone, and Thriller, The Veil built each episode around mysterious, unexplainable phenomena — time travel, ESP, reincarnation, astral projection, and the supernatural. Despite the era's appetite for science fiction and horror, its dozen episodes, made with top-tier casts and crews, never aired and vanished for decades. Iconoscope's set is the series' first official Blu-ray release, newly scanned in 4K from archival film elements.

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Andrea, a university student in present-day Madrid, lives a seemingly normal life until her boyfriend is killed in a shocking act of violence, after which a mysterious entity begins following her wherever she turns. Twenty years earlier, Marie, a woman in Buenos Aires, suffered the same fate, and Camila, a documentarian, learns of the threat these women faced but cannot get anyone to believe her. Across time and space, the three unconnected women are bound together by an inescapable terror in Pedro Martín-Calero's feature debut, a film about violence against women and all that feeds into it.

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A group of young women living in a maternity shelter face the challenges and joys of motherhood while trying to break free of their pasts, in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's delicate, hopeful study of women on the brink of new life.

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After his brother disappears while investigating Bigfoot sightings, Mark refuses to accept that the case is closed. His search leads him into the Backrooms, an endless maze where reality bends and a monstrous Bigfoot stalks the corridors. Trapped there alongside another survivor, he has to uncover the truth about the creature and escape the nightmare before he becomes its next victim.

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A succession of guests stay at the same cheap Tokyo apartment at different times, none of them aware of the gruesome creature lying in wait for them inside.

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When his sister is poisoned at a party, hardened Canadian cop Tony Saitta embarks on a violent investigation that spirals into a shocking whirlpool of revenge and betrayal. Built around one of the decade's greatest car chases and an arsenal of plot twists, his hunt for the killer turns into a tough police procedural with a mighty cast.

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After a death row prisoner tells him he might not have turned to crime if he'd had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan — who truly believes there is no such thing as a bad boy — sets out to help troubled boys, growing a small rented house into Boys Town, a self-governing community on 200 acres outside Omaha. His hardest case is Whitey Marsh, a boy headed for a life of crime; when Whitey is implicated in a bank robbery, all of Boys Town is put at risk.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the feature film (brand new HD master – from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative), two new audio commentaries (director Ernest Dickerson with entertainment journalists/authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry; action film historian Mike Leeder), 'A Character That Helps to Tell the Story' interview with actor Xander Berkeley, deleted scenes, and the theatrical trailer. Once inseparable pals, small-time crook Archie Moses and Rock Keats — who is secretly an undercover cop — end up on opposite sides of the law, each feeling betrayed by the other. Ruthless drug kingpin Frank Colton wants them both dead, and a strange twist of fate puts Moses and Keats on the run together, forced to rely on each other if they want to get out alive.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the feature film (brand new HDR/Dolby Vision master – from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative) and two new audio commentaries (director Ernest Dickerson with entertainment journalists/authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry; action film historian Mike Leeder). Once inseparable pals, small-time crook Archie Moses and Rock Keats — who is secretly an undercover cop — end up on opposite sides of the law, each feeling betrayed by the other. Ruthless drug kingpin Frank Colton wants them both dead, and a strange twist of fate puts Moses and Keats on the run together, forced to rely on each other if they want to get out alive.

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Salesgirl Polly Parish finds an abandoned baby and is mistaken for its unwed mother; to keep her job she has to keep up the charade, while her former employer — believing his son Dan is the baby's father — sets out to make an honest woman of her. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, then Hollywood's favorite young married couple, headline this musical remake of the 1939 comedy Bachelor Mother.

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In a near-future world where humans and mermen live side by side, Shanghai shipping engineer Stephen develops the Air Jet, a propeller designed to be harmless to marine life and to promote peace between the two races. When Chao, a mermaid princess, pushes Stephen to marry her, their two worlds collide.

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A small-town college is thrown into chaos when Gracie (Allen) inherits it and becomes its new owner. Finding school dull, she hires vaudeville performers — among them Bob Hope, George Burns, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, and Robert Cummings — to teach the classes. With the campus in an uproar, the only thing left to do is sing and dance, in a musical comedy packed with classic Hollywood talent.

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Tomás Milián and Martin Balsam headline this Italo-crime saga from director Alberto De Martino. When the godson of San Francisco syndicate boss Don Antonio asks permission to leave "the business," the don agrees, but reluctantly — such behavior violates "the code," and it triggers a bloody mob war with underboss Garofalo. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson once again becomes the don's "consigliori," the Counsellor. Featuring Dagmar Lassander and a sumptuous soundtrack by Riz Ortolani.

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Jean (Trintignant), a married father of two bored by his middle-class life and harbouring latent sociopathic urges, witnesses a young woman's suicide at a quarry. Seizing the chance to escape his mundane existence, he deserts his family and begins writing to the press and police claiming that he murdered her, inventing a new identity as a notorious killer. As the authorities close in, the fantasist sinks deeper into narcissistic delusion, until his hunger for fame turns into a horrible, tragic reality.

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A postmasters' convention brings together two lonely people: a single postmistress who never imagined herself in an affair, and a womanizing greeting-card salesman who is unsure whether he wants to go through with his engagement. Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page and Angela Lansbury star in this bittersweet serio-comic romance.

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When police find Simone seated beside her husband's corpse, she is predictably charged with his murder. Court-appointed defence counsel Jean-Pierre Laubray investigates and learns that the dead man had himself killed a barman in a robbery the night before, and had been working as a leg-man on politician Cristiani's election campaign. As Laubray tries to reach Cristiani's daughter Juliette, he discovers that her brother Bruno also died that same night, in a car accident.

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Thirteen-year-old Eden endures abuse and poverty and faces an unplanned pregnancy as her family falls apart and her circumstances spiral out of control. Forced into a decision that will shape the rest of her life, she chooses courage over fear and decides to choose life. What follows is a journey of sacrifice, perseverance and ultimately redemption, as Eden comes to understand the lasting impact of her choice years later.

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After losing her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws at their secluded family home. One by one they are transformed into Deadites, turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell, and she discovers that the vows she took in life live on, even in death — in the franchise's most savage chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem to date.

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After losing her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws at their secluded family home. One by one they are transformed into Deadites, turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell, and she discovers that the vows she took in life live on, even in death — in the franchise's most savage chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem to date.

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Content moderator Margot Romero, still haunted by a viral tragedy, sets out to track down a sadistic filmmaker who is recreating legendary snuff cinema, in an effort to silence the internet's obsession with her own past trauma.

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Small-town hairdresser Gail Daughtry is engaged to her devoted high-school sweetheart, Tom — until a book-signing trip leads Tom to sleep with his 'celebrity pass.' Reeling from the betrayal, Gail impulsively heads to Los Angeles with her friend Otto after a psychic convinces her that the only way to save her marriage is to even the scales with her own celebrity pass: Jon Hamm. Joined by a talent-agency assistant, a paparazzo and actor John Slattery, Gail crosses Tinseltown in search of Hamm, colliding with celebrities and dodging a group of Italian assassins as she draws closer to the elusive star.

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Based on writer/director Hayley Kiyoko's hit single and best-selling novel of the same name, and featuring all-new music from Kiyoko, this heartfelt coming-of-age story follows new-girl-in-town Coley over the course of one sun-drenched summer, as she falls in love for the first time and learns to accept herself along the way.

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A cinematic rhapsody loosely based on the life of composer Johann Strauss, The Great Waltz pairs exquisite craftsmanship with spirited inventiveness in pursuit of the spirit of Strauss's music. On MGM's re-created Viennese backlot settings, Dimitri Tiomkin's arrangements of Strauss melodies — with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II — accompany Joseph Ruttenberg's Oscar-winning cinematography, as Julien Duvivier directs Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus.

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Russian director Stanislav Sokolov's stop-motion feature adapts the writings of Gothic author E.T.A. Hoffmann, interweaving three of his tales — 'The Sandman,' 'The Golden Pot' and 'Little Zaches Called Cinnabar' — with the drudgery of Hoffmann's own job as a government clerk. Made with over 150 stop-motion puppets at the legendary Soyuzmultfilm studio, the film mixes operatic dreams, clockwork automatons, fire salamanders, witchcraft, love and magic.

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A crew of professional shoplifters sets its sights on a cutthroat fashion maven, stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price — a practice they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy.'

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A crew of professional shoplifters sets its sights on a cutthroat fashion maven, stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price — a practice they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy.'

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In modern-day San Francisco, the nearly two-century-old vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells sceptical reporter Daniel Molloy the story of his transformation and his life worse than death. Spanning two hundred years of betrayal, solitude and unquenched thirst, Louis's tale turns on his decision to embrace the dictatorship of blood — and above all on his maker, the seductive aristocrat of death, Lestat de Lioncourt.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the feature film (brand new HD master – from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative), two new audio commentaries (filmmaker Edgar Pablos with film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Berger; film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini), 'Codes to Live By: Walter Hill on Johnny Handsome' (43:36), 'Wordsmith' interview with writer Ken Friedman (12:39), 'Eye of the Beholder' interview with makeup artist Michael Westmore (10:15), 'Action Man' interview with stuntman Allan Graf (11:12), and the theatrical trailer. Petty gangster John Sedley, whose facial deformities earned him the nickname 'Johnny Handsome,' is double-crossed during a robbery: his friend is killed and Johnny goes to prison, where a sympathetic surgeon offers him a new face and a new shot at life. Once outside, Johnny finds staying straight isn't easy — but his new look opens one door: revenge.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the feature film (brand new HDR/Dolby Vision master – from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative) and two new audio commentaries (filmmaker Edgar Pablos with film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Berger; film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini). Petty gangster John Sedley, whose facial deformities earned him the nickname 'Johnny Handsome,' is double-crossed during a robbery: his friend is killed and Johnny goes to prison, where a sympathetic surgeon offers him a new face and a new shot at life. Once outside, Johnny finds staying straight isn't easy — but his new look opens one door: revenge.

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Set in the boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the 11-part 'Boomtown' podcast from Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly, the series tells an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fuelling a boom big enough to reshape the climate, the economy and geopolitics.

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Set in the boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the 11-part 'Boomtown' podcast from Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly, the series tells an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fuelling a boom big enough to reshape the climate, the economy and geopolitics.

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Set in the boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the 11-part 'Boomtown' podcast from Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly, the series tells an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fuelling a boom big enough to reshape the climate, the economy and geopolitics.

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A self-conscious, self-referential comedy in which a who's who of French cinema greats play themselves, meeting in sketches to trade jokes and ironically question their own craft and reputations — among them Jean-Pierre Marielle, driven to existential panic while desperately waiting for a pot of hot water, in a portrait of aging actors whose careers are slowly winding down.

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A shot rings out and the captain falls — and with him dies the knowledge of his unit's mission. A stalwart sergeant takes charge as he and his men try to escape the unseen snipers who felled their captain, holing up at an oasis in a land one Bible-toting soldier believes was once the Garden of Eden. Filmed in the searing Arizona desert, John Ford's tale of men and mortality in World War I Mesopotamia stars Victor McLaglen as the sergeant and Boris Karloff as the religious firebrand whose zeal turns to feverish madness — and the unforgiving terrain is as much an enemy as the snipers it conceals.

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A punk runaway named Danny befriends a sentient, decaying corpse he finds behind a dumpster. Convinced the only way to save humanity is to kill God, the corpse talks Danny into a violent, bizarre road trip across the Midwest through a world of monsters, demons, angels and other supernatural horrors — a darkly comedic journey that pulls Danny ever deeper into the corpse's deadly mission and blurs the line between salvation and destruction.

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Paris, 1959: young Cahiers du cinéma critic Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), the only one of his peers yet to make a feature, sets out to put his revolutionary ideas into practice. With a small crew and two stars — eager unknown Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and wary Hollywood expat Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) — he takes to the streets to shoot Breathless, an adventure in unfettered creativity that would upend the way movies are made. Richard Linklater's love letter from one cinematic maverick to another captures the intoxicating joy of being young, breaking all the rules and making art without boundaries.

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Paris, 1959: young Cahiers du cinéma critic Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), the only one of his peers yet to make a feature, sets out to put his revolutionary ideas into practice. With a small crew and two stars — eager unknown Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and wary Hollywood expat Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) — he takes to the streets to shoot Breathless, an adventure in unfettered creativity that would upend the way movies are made. Richard Linklater's love letter from one cinematic maverick to another captures the intoxicating joy of being young, breaking all the rules and making art without boundaries.

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After years away fighting for the American cause in the Revolutionary War, Jamie and Claire Fraser return home to Fraser's Ridge, where new arrivals and a changed community await them in the eighth and final season.

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After years away fighting for the American cause in the Revolutionary War, Jamie and Claire Fraser return home to Fraser's Ridge, where new arrivals and a changed community await them in the eighth and final season.

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After years away fighting for the American cause in the Revolutionary War, Jamie and Claire Fraser return home to Fraser's Ridge, where new arrivals and a changed community await them in the eighth and final season.

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After years away fighting for the American cause in the Revolutionary War, Jamie and Claire Fraser return to Fraser's Ridge, where new arrivals and changes to their community await them.

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A newlywed couple set out on the honeymoon of a lifetime, only to discover they are the unwitting victims of a cruel and sadistic vacation experience. Now they must fight to survive and escape the horrific nightmare.

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Champion rodeo rider Jeff Larabee (Bing Crosby) is heading back West after performing in New York when he discovers a runaway heiress hiding in his boxcar: Doris Halliday (Frances Farmer), fed up with big-city wolves and hankering for romance with a real-life cowboy. The film is filled with unforgettable songs including 'I'm an Old Cowhand', features a glimpse of the then-unknown Roy Rogers strumming guitar in the band, and marks the screen debut of Martha Raye.

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Hit songwriter Oliver Courtney (Basil Rathbone) is very much in demand, but beneath the gloss of his polished performances lies the truth about his talent: it is the work of ghostwriters. Bob Summers (Bing Crosby) writes the tunes and Cherry Lane (Mary Martin) writes the lyrics, yet neither knows the other exists and both believe they are collaborating with Oliver. When the two happen to meet, they discover they have a lot more in common than they ever imagined.