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Disc 3 contains the 118-minute Extended Home Video Cut of the film, along with three commentary tracks for that cut (an archival commentary by Frank LaLoggia; a new commentary by Frank LaLoggia moderated by Scott Neumyer; and a new commentary by authors Emma Westwood and Stephen A. Russell), interviews with actresses Karen Powell, Lisa Taylor, Lucy Lee Flippin and Rose Weaver and with editor Steve Mann, the "Welcome to Willowpoint Falls" location featurette, deleted scenes (36 min), and behind-the-scenes footage (16 min). In 1962, nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti is enjoying a homespun childhood in a rustic Western New York town when two bullies lock him in his school cloakroom as a Halloween prank, leaving him trapped overnight. Alone and frightened, he sees the ghost of a little girl and witnesses the specter of her murder by an unseen assailant; later, recovering at home, the girl's ghost appears to him again. With his older brother's help, Frankie investigates her death and discovers her murder was one of several unsolved crimes tied to a local child-killer. As the town's bucolic veneer fades and long-buried secrets and tensions surface, every clue points to a huge mansion inhabited by a reclusive woman known as "The Lady in White." A nostalgia-driven ghost story wrapped in an intricate murder mystery and coming-of-age drama, Frank LaLoggia's Lady in White remains one of the most beautiful and original American horror films of the 1980s.

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Disc 4 contains the 113-minute original Theatrical Cut of the film, along with extended behind-the-scenes footage (73 min), an introduction from the 20th anniversary DVD release, the theatrical trailer, multiple TV spots and radio spots, and a still gallery. In 1962, nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti is enjoying a homespun childhood in a rustic Western New York town when two bullies lock him in his school cloakroom as a Halloween prank, leaving him trapped overnight. Alone and frightened, he sees the ghost of a little girl and witnesses the specter of her murder by an unseen assailant; later, recovering at home, the girl's ghost appears to him again. With his older brother's help, Frankie investigates her death and discovers her murder was one of several unsolved crimes tied to a local child-killer. As the town's bucolic veneer fades and long-buried secrets and tensions surface, every clue points to a huge mansion inhabited by a reclusive woman known as "The Lady in White." A nostalgia-driven ghost story wrapped in an intricate murder mystery and coming-of-age drama, Frank LaLoggia's Lady in White remains one of the most beautiful and original American horror films of the 1980s.

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A spectacular wuxia martial-arts epic of occult secrets and swordplay, told entirely with Taiwanese budaixi glove puppets: the warriors of Wulin, led by white-maned hero Su Huan-Jen, battle to stop Mo Kuei and his spectral assassins, the Unkind, from seizing the all-powerful Sacred Stone. Based on the popular Taiwanese TV series PILI, the film piles up spinning, flying and leaping sword fights, hidden tombs, lakes of fire and the eternal battle between darkness and light — all performed by puppets.

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A Dostoevskian family tragedy told as a gangster drama, James Gray's darkly elegant debut announced a singular voice in contemporary American cinema. Moving through the shadows of New York's underworld, Little Odessa follows Joshua (Tim Roth), a volatile hit man whose latest assignment brings him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up, where his criminal life collides with the grim domestic world of his abusive father (Maximilian Schell), his ailing mother (Vanessa Redgrave), and his loyal teenage brother (Edward Furlong). Channeling the brooding fatalism of classic noir, Gray — who won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion at just twenty-five — composes a haunting reflection on violence that begins at home and ripples ever outward.

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Disc 1 contains the film in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR (the special features are on the accompanying Blu-ray disc in Criterion's 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo). A Dostoevskian family tragedy told as a gangster drama, James Gray's darkly elegant debut announced a singular voice in contemporary American cinema. Moving through the shadows of New York's underworld, Little Odessa follows Joshua (Tim Roth), a volatile hit man whose latest assignment brings him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up, where his criminal life collides with the grim domestic world of his abusive father (Maximilian Schell), his ailing mother (Vanessa Redgrave), and his loyal teenage brother (Edward Furlong). Channeling the brooding fatalism of classic noir, Gray — who won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion at just twenty-five — composes a haunting reflection on violence that begins at home and ripples ever outward.

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American screenwriter Dan Gillis (Jeff Goldblum), living in Paris and reeling from a recent separation, is hired by producer Julien Legrand (Daniel Ceccaldi) to work with ambitious young director Malcolm Greene (Dexter Fletcher). As Dan is drawn into a web of manipulation, incestuous secrets and dangerous deception involving Malcolm's sister Jenny (Liza Walker), his agent Marilyn (Miranda Richardson) and the project's bizarre erotic screenplay, his life unravels. Fernando Trueba's The Mad Monkey (aka Twisted Obsession) is a serpentine psychological neo-noir blending erotic intrigue with hallucinatory dreams and shocking revelations.

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Din Djarin, once a lone bounty hunter, and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.

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Din Djarin, once a lone bounty hunter, and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.

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With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and a Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana. He and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost of serving as the last line of defense in the region's war on violence.

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With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and a Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana. He and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost of serving as the last line of defense in the region's war on violence.

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With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and a Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana. He and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost of serving as the last line of defense in the region's war on violence.

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Laura, a young piano student, miraculously survives a car crash and awakens in a nearby house in the care of a local woman. As she recovers, she integrates herself into the lives of the woman and her estranged family; haunted yet hopeful, they find a strange harmony together — but the ghosts of the past begin to stir.

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A Swedish live-action comedy with dark humor and vulgar dialogue, based in part on its maker's life: Simon leaves comics to begin a career as a stand-up comedian, but after a series of scandals and unexpected events he is forced to return to his background as a comics artist — a world of cartoonists, shady comic book collectors and editors, as well as stand-up comedy.

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Disc 2 contains the feature film on Blu-ray, plus two audio commentaries, the interviews "Head Hunter," "Street Born" and "Stunt Killer," and the trailer. In Boston, a young female teacher's aide is found decapitated in a playground, bearing striking similarities to a murder from the week before. Harvard-educated Lieutenant Judd Austin establishes that the victim had been enrolled in evening classes at Wendell College, a local girls' school, and suspicion falls on anthropology professor Vincent Millett, whose liaisons with his students are well known. But the black motorcycle helmet-wearing, Gurkha blade-wielding killer keeps striking, decapitating young women connected with the school. Ken Hughes' 1981 slasher — his final film, and Rachel Ward's feature debut — was branded a “video nasty” in the UK; Vinegar Syndrome presents it newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD, plus two audio commentaries. In Boston, a young female teacher's aide is found decapitated in a playground, bearing striking similarities to a murder from the week before. Harvard-educated Lieutenant Judd Austin establishes that the victim had been enrolled in evening classes at Wendell College, a local girls' school, and suspicion falls on anthropology professor Vincent Millett, whose liaisons with his students are well known. But the black motorcycle helmet-wearing, Gurkha blade-wielding killer keeps striking, decapitating young women connected with the school. Ken Hughes' 1981 slasher — his final film, and Rachel Ward's feature debut — was branded a “video nasty” in the UK; Vinegar Syndrome presents it newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative.

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Women send their letters, photos and videos to certain newspapers; by visualizing these women's storytelling — the name psychologists give to their fantasies — the film portrays their confessions, secret longings, adventures, recollections, dreams, desires and fantasies, with Tinto Brass himself presiding over the collection.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD, plus a new audio commentary and the trailer. Women send their letters, photos and videos to certain newspapers; by visualizing these women's storytelling — the name psychologists give to their fantasies — the film portrays their confessions, secret longings, adventures, recollections, dreams, desires and fantasies, with Tinto Brass himself presiding over the collection.

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Ben Jordan is released from prison after serving 15 years for killing his pregnant wife. His social worker, Laura Matthews, is undeniably drawn to the intelligent, intense convict — and starts to believe his story that he was framed.

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For 17 years, director Marie Losier has followed the trailblazing, provocative, taboo-shattering career of artist and musician Peaches — from her early life to her ascent as a queer feminist icon, a story that has defied expectations. An intimate portrait of this singular artist, the film captures her thrilling live shows, her artistic process, her close relationships with her family, and her rise to fame.

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When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick's songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves — even if it means risking everything he cares about. John Carney's feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.

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The Owens family is a clan of wily witches, and life among them is never dull — if a broom falls, company is due, and no household gadget can substitute in an exorcism. But the Owens women labor under a centuries-old curse: any man they fall in love with is doomed to an untimely death. Sisters Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman), raised on the witchcraft of their two doting aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest), must each cope with the curse in her own way — one facing a possible love match (Aidan Quinn), the other a zombie (Goran Visnjic) — in Griffin Dunne's adaptation of Alice Hoffman's bestseller.

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In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a pirate radio broadcaster blasts his illegal signal while crossing America toward Hollywood, fighting off mutants and FCC assassins along the way — Road Warrior by way of Smokey and the Bandit. VHShitfest brings this obscure indie epic to Blu-ray for the first time, spotlighting familiar faces including Nathan Zellner, Dean Haglund, Johanna Stein and Dave Kendall, with a Boards of Canada track on the soundtrack.

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Set against the Lebanese Civil War, Jocelyne Saab's first fiction feature follows the unlikely bond that forms between Karim, a painter in his forties, and Samar, a teenager who has grown up in war-torn Beirut.

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Disc 1 contains episodes 1–4: “Persuader”, “Truckin'”, “Number 2 with a Bullet”, and “Dominique”. In Season 3, based on Lee Child's Persuader, Jack Reacher stops a kidnapping attempt on college student Richard Beck in coastal Maine — and is pulled into a covert DEA operation. Working for agent Susan Duffy, Reacher poses as Richard's bodyguard to infiltrate the criminal empire of Zachary Beck, a businessman tied to drug trafficking. The mission turns personal when he learns that Francis Xavier Quinn, a nemesis from his Army days, is connected to Beck's operation: Reacher must rescue a missing DEA agent, Teresa Daniels, and settle his score with Quinn — without blowing his cover. Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley, with Sonya Cassidy as Duffy, Anthony Michael Hall as Beck and Brian Tee among the supporting cast.

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Disc 2 contains episodes 5–8: “Smackdown”, “Smoke on the Water”, “L.A. Story”, and “Unfinished Business”. In Season 3, based on Lee Child's Persuader, Jack Reacher stops a kidnapping attempt on college student Richard Beck in coastal Maine — and is pulled into a covert DEA operation. Working for agent Susan Duffy, Reacher poses as Richard's bodyguard to infiltrate the criminal empire of Zachary Beck, a businessman tied to drug trafficking. The mission turns personal when he learns that Francis Xavier Quinn, a nemesis from his Army days, is connected to Beck's operation: Reacher must rescue a missing DEA agent, Teresa Daniels, and settle his score with Quinn — without blowing his cover. Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley, with Sonya Cassidy as Duffy, Anthony Michael Hall as Beck and Brian Tee among the supporting cast.

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Bret McCormick's super-obscure shot-on-video oddity reaches disc for the first time. The brothers of Delta Epsilon Delta are typical party animals — all except Edgar Allen Lovecraft, who stays locked in his room working on a cure for death. His serum works on the severed head of a recently deceased comedian, but when a mafia hood steals it to revive his murdered girlfriend, her reanimated corpse goes on a killing spree across campus. Produced by David DeCoteau for the early-'90s video-rental market and directed by McCormick under a pseudonym, it's a goofy send-up of Lovecraftian lore.

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Disc 2 contains the feature film on Blu-ray. Val Kilmer stars as Simon Templar — the suave espionage hero known as The Saint — with Elisabeth Shue as his co-star, in an atmospheric blend of bold adventure and grand romance. Armed with an array of sophisticated gadgetry, Templar plunges into a cloak-and-dagger underworld of move and countermove, relying on his knack for producing exactly the right disguise at exactly the right moment — every escape a small miracle, and no one knows miracles better than a saint.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD. Val Kilmer stars as Simon Templar — the suave espionage hero known as The Saint — with Elisabeth Shue as his co-star, in an atmospheric blend of bold adventure and grand romance. Armed with an array of sophisticated gadgetry, Templar plunges into a cloak-and-dagger underworld of move and countermove, relying on his knack for producing exactly the right disguise at exactly the right moment — every escape a small miracle, and no one knows miracles better than a saint.

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A long-overlooked piece of 1970s Australian crime cinema, Scobie Malone is a stylish blend of murder mystery, political intrigue and saucy entanglements. Jack Thompson plays the charming but tough Sydney detective whose latest case leads from poolside patios to the corridors of power: when a woman is found dead at the Sydney Opera House, Malone uncovers a dangerous web of corruption, blackmail and deception. Adapted from Jon Cleary's Helga's Web, it captures the era's freewheeling energy in a sharp police procedural, with Thompson's Malone a captivating mix of ladies' man and relentless investigator.

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Disc 2 contains the feature film on Blu-ray. Where can you run when there's nowhere to hide? Taron Egerton plays Nate, a newly released ex-con marked for death by unrelenting enemies. To keep his estranged 11-year-old daughter Polly (Ana Sophia Heger) alive, Nate teaches her how to fight and survive while a corrupt sheriff — the brutal leader of a criminal gang — hunts them down; in return, Polly teaches him what unconditional love means. A gritty story of loyalty, strength and redemption, adapted from Jordan Harper's novel.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD. Where can you run when there's nowhere to hide? Taron Egerton plays Nate, a newly released ex-con marked for death by unrelenting enemies. To keep his estranged 11-year-old daughter Polly (Ana Sophia Heger) alive, Nate teaches her how to fight and survive while a corrupt sheriff — the brutal leader of a criminal gang — hunts them down; in return, Polly teaches him what unconditional love means. A gritty story of loyalty, strength and redemption, adapted from Jordan Harper's novel.

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Washed-up film director Tin Lik-hang (Louis Koo) is drowning in crises: his mother has just died, his film company is bankrupt and debt-ridden, and his wife wants a divorce. He must also look after his 79-year-old father Yat-hung (Francis Ng), who has dementia — until Yat-hung begins shedding a layer of skin every day, growing ten years younger with each stage, from 60 down to 19. As father and son draw closer in age, they reconnect at the football stadium they once frequented on weekends, and Lik-hang journeys through the six eras of his father's life, finally understanding the man who struggled to give his family a better life — and finding the passion to revive his own career and marriage.

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Shepherd George Hardy loves reading murder mysteries aloud to his flock. When George is found dead, the sheep realize their shepherd was actually murdered — and, putting everything those whodunits taught them to work, they set out to crack the case themselves, venturing beyond their meadow into the complicated world of humans.

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In Japan's Warring States period, Takamaru Momochi, heir to the Iga clan, sails home after ten years in hiding in China, determined to find Shiranui, the ruthless ninja who betrayed and murdered his father. But Shiranui and his thugs now control the country, so Takamaru gathers the scattered remnants of his clan and trains them in the shadowy art of ninjutsu, building a guerrilla resistance that can defeat the corrupt ninja and restore the Iga clan's honor.

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Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit cable station, to fund a television show built on a single recursive premise: every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. The complete self-reflexive series is collected in this set.

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Twelve years after a doomed scientific expedition unearthed something prehistoric beneath the frozen earth, a quiet snowbound town comes under siege by a creature long thought to be pure myth: an ancient shark that hunts from beneath the snow. After a series of brutal attacks, a small group of locals, scientists and hunters band together to confront the impossible predator before it drags more victims into the icy depths. Shot on a microbudget with practical effects and hometown charm, Sam Qualiana's film is an early entry in the modern sharksploitation wave and a scrappy example of grassroots regional filmmaking.

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A gang of smug, hard-partying predators who call themselves “The Wolfpack” spend their nights drugging women and bragging about their conquests — until a masked maniac from their past resurfaces and starts settling the score in the most painful, humiliating way possible, hunting them down one by one in a barrage of depraved, over-the-top carnage. Beneath its in-your-face punk-rock surface, Anthony Catanese's film is a raw piece of microbudget outsider horror about grim morality and poetic justice, channeling the street-level ethos of regional DIY filmmaking.

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Disc 2 contains the feature film on Blu-ray. Recently returned from Vietnam, drifter Cameron (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the law when he stumbles onto the location shoot of a World War I film directed by the megalomaniacal Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole). When Cameron turns out to bear a striking resemblance to the production's lead actor, he hides from his pursuers by signing on as a stunt double, agreeing to perform a series of increasingly dangerous stunts. But on an Eli Cross set nothing is what it first seems: as illusion and make-believe bleed into one another, Cameron finds himself locked in a battle of wits with a possibly insane genius, in danger of becoming unmoored not just from society, but from reality itself.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD. Recently returned from Vietnam, drifter Cameron (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the law when he stumbles onto the location shoot of a World War I film directed by the megalomaniacal Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole). When Cameron turns out to bear a striking resemblance to the production's lead actor, he hides from his pursuers by signing on as a stunt double, agreeing to perform a series of increasingly dangerous stunts. But on an Eli Cross set nothing is what it first seems: as illusion and make-believe bleed into one another, Cameron finds himself locked in a battle of wits with a possibly insane genius, in danger of becoming unmoored not just from society, but from reality itself.

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A campy ode to mid-century teenage turmoil, this AGFA + Something Weird set collects four rumble-ready “youth gone wild” features, all preserved from the Something Weird DigiBeta and S-VHS masters because the original film elements are lost, decayed or inaccessible: LOST, LONELY, AND VICIOUS (1958), a noir-ish slice of Dean-sploitation made in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the wake of James Dean's death; JACKTOWN (1962), a gaudy teen-prison exposé filmed in Michigan and featuring Patty McCormack of THE BAD SEED; THE FLAMING TEEN-AGE (1956), Irvin S. Yeaworth's “true story” of drugs and salvation; and THE NARCOTIC STORY (1958), an outrageous amalgam of classroom scare films and nasty exploitation produced by a company called Police Science.

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An animated oddity from Gerald Potterton, the future director of Heavy Metal: a troupe of monkeys — led by a director modeled on Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider persona — struggles through mishap after mishap while shooting an epic adventure film, in a psychedelic satire of early-'70s Hollywood counterculture. Potterton builds the film-within-the-film out of extended passages from Rolan Bykov's 1967 Soviet fantasy Aybolit-66, re-cut and irreverently re-dubbed to subvert the original. The hybrid puzzled and delighted '70s audiences in equal measure — Mosfilm art director Aleksandr Kuznetsov even won a Canadian Film Award for it — and it remains one of the era's most sought-after animated enigmas.

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Two codependent best friends fall under the spell of an alien narcissist whose touch affects them like heroin — and who may or may not be bent on taking over the world.

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After one of his students dies at a martial arts tournament in Thailand, kung fu master Lau is so dishonoured that he kills himself. His children (Carter Wong and Angela Mao) vow to restore his reputation — and that of Hong Kong kung fu — by travelling to Thailand to fight in the same tournament, knowing that if they fail they could lose everything. Directed by Huang Feng and featuring some of Angela Mao's very best fights, with action arranged by Sammo Hung.

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This disc contains two features — A Thousand Pleasures (1968) and The Ultimate Degenerate (1969) — plus the bonus feature film Take Me Naked. In A Thousand Pleasures, Michael Findlay plays Richard Davis, who — fresh from murdering his wife — is caught disposing of her corpse and abducted to a remote seaside house by a group of man-hating women who force him into slavery and subject him to depravity and torture beyond anything he imagined. In The Ultimate Degenerate, Uta Erickson drifts into rural Vermont looking for sexual kicks and falls under the control of Findlay's ruthless, insatiable sadist, who with his servant Bruno keeps a pack of women at the house acting out ever stranger, more lurid kinks — a sexual trap that seems to offer no release.

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This is the Blu-ray disc of the United 93 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo pack. United 93 tells the story of the passengers and crew of the fourth hijacked plane on September 11, 2001, who prevented the terrorists from carrying out their plan. As military and civilian teams on the ground scrambled to make sense of the unfolding events, forty people who had boarded as strangers found the courage to stand up as one.

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This is the 4K UHD disc of the United 93 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo pack. United 93 tells the story of the passengers and crew of the fourth hijacked plane on September 11, 2001, who prevented the terrorists from carrying out their plan. As military and civilian teams on the ground scrambled to make sense of the unfolding events, forty people who had boarded as strangers found the courage to stand up as one.

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On January 29, 2024, Red Crescent volunteers take an emergency call from a young girl trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

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A group of misfit high school students stumbles on a cursed ancient Aztec Death Whistle and discovers that blowing it — and hearing its terrifying sound — summons their own future deaths to hunt them down.

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A reunion getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest — between celebrated film director Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter) and his longtime friend and former collaborator Albert Gary (Paul Ahmarani) — gradually turns into something more complex and unstable, as escalating multigenerational tensions are stirred by the presence of Albert's teen son's best friend Jeff (Noah Parker) and Albert's self-asserting daughter Aliocha (Aurélia Arandi-Longpré), in Philippe Lesage's coming-of-age drama.

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Mitsuha, a high school girl in a rural Japanese town, and Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, are complete strangers — until they begin waking up in each other's bodies. As the swaps continue at random, the two adjust their lives around each other and set out to uncover the connection behind the phenomenon, and to find each other before it is too late.