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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains Boyz n the Hood (1991) in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, presented from the 4K digital restoration supervised and approved by John Singleton, with audio commentary by Singleton. The set's other discs, including the special-features Blu-ray, are listed separately. Three Black teenagers growing up in South Central Los Angeles — the precocious Tre, the streetwise Doughboy and the athletically gifted Ricky — navigate friendship, first love, their families' hopes and dreams, and the realities of gang violence in a society where the odds are stacked against them.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains Poetic Justice (1993), presented from the new 4K digital restoration, with an audio commentary by John Singleton. The set's other film discs are listed separately. Justice, a sensitive South Central hairdresser and poet still mourning her murdered boyfriend, reluctantly joins a road trip to Oakland in a mail truck with her friend Iesha and two postal workers, Chicago and the charismatic Lucky — and she and Lucky fall for each other along the way, in a romance threaded with the poetry of Maya Angelou.

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Disc 2 (4K UHD) contains Poetic Justice (1993) in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, presented from the new 4K digital restoration, with an audio commentary by John Singleton. The set's other discs, including the special-features Blu-ray, are listed separately. Justice, a sensitive South Central hairdresser and poet still mourning her murdered boyfriend, reluctantly joins a road trip to Oakland in a mail truck with her friend Iesha and two postal workers, Chicago and the charismatic Lucky — and she and Lucky fall for each other along the way, in a romance threaded with the poetry of Maya Angelou.

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This rental is for the special features disc (Disc 4, Blu-ray) of Criterion's John Singleton's Hood Trilogy 4K UHD set — it contains the set's video supplements and does not include the feature films, which are listed separately. The disc contains: a new conversation between filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Regina King; a new documentary on Singleton's filmmaking process featuring publicist Cassandra Butcher, casting director Kimberly Hardin, and collaborator Paul Hall; new audio interviews with actors Taraji P. Henson and Tyrese Gibson; archival interviews with cast and crew; a press conference from 1991; deleted scenes, audition footage, music videos, and trailers, organized in per-film menus (including the documentaries The Enduring Significance of “Boyz n the Hood” and Friendly Fire: Making an Urban Legend).

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Beautiful young Ju Dou is married off to Yang Jinshan, the egregiously cruel and impotent owner of a dye mill in the Chinese countryside of the early twentieth century. When Jinshan's nephew Tianqing arrives on the scene, the two fall for each other with lustful abandon, and Ju Dou soon bears a son — whom the clandestine couple convinces the despotic husband is his own long-awaited heir. But the myriad complications of the affair lead to a visceral and psychological melee between the lovers and their ruler, with explosively dramatic turns, in the film that put Zhang Yimou and Gong Li on the international cinema map.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film on Blu-ray, with The Ruby Trail interview with assistant director Edoardo Margheriti, the Italian credit sequence and the trailer. The set's 4K UHD disc is listed separately. A cynical safari guide, Captain Yankee, who leads gullible millionaires on bogus treasure hunts in Malaysia, is blackmailed by a crafty U.S. government operative into finding the mythic Ruby of Gloom. To snatch the jewel from maniacal pirates they must battle death cults, double-crosses, unstable volcanoes and exploding refineries, in the final film of Antonio Margheriti's Indiana Jonesploitation trilogy.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD with HDR10, plus the trailer. The set's Blu-ray disc, which carries the film and the special features, is listed separately. A cynical safari guide, Captain Yankee, who leads gullible millionaires on bogus treasure hunts in Malaysia, is blackmailed by a crafty U.S. government operative into finding the mythic Ruby of Gloom. To snatch the jewel from maniacal pirates they must battle death cults, double-crosses, unstable volcanoes and exploding refineries, in the final film of Antonio Margheriti's Indiana Jonesploitation trilogy.

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In 1191, during the Third Crusade, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard, a Scottish knight serving King Richard the Lionheart, courts the king's cousin Lady Edith Plantagenet while Richard's camp faces the Saracen sultan Saladin's army, an assassination plot against the king, and the intrigues surrounding the crusaders' quest, in Warner Bros.' first CinemaScope production, adapted from Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman.

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After the death of her child, Lilly runs away to hide in a lonely corner of her small town, living alone as she struggles to cope with the traumatic memories of her own upbringing. Ten years after her daughter's death, the fabric of Lilly's world is tearing apart: the ghosts of her past are waking up, and tonight she must face the depths of her manic madness and a haunting she won't soon forget.

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Jean Rollin's gory classic is a dark and disturbing fantastique fairy tale: a toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who awakens with an insatiable thirst for blood, and only her childhood friend can reach the woman she once was.

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Disc 1 contains Love Letter (1953) and The Moon Has Risen (1955). Love Letter: released a year after the American occupation of Japan ended, Tanaka's directorial debut follows Reikichi, a repatriated veteran who searches for his lost love while translating romantic letters from Japanese women to American GIs — an incisive portrait of soldiers struggling to adapt to a changed society and of the moral condemnation aimed at the women who became involved with the enemy. The Moon Has Risen: for her second film Tanaka directed a script by her mentor Yasujiro Ozu, a lively and elegant comedy about a widower who lives with his three daughters, whose spirited youngest sister's matchmaking schemes force the family to confront, with amusing bewilderment, Japanese society's rapidly evolving mores.

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Sixteen-year-old Maria is taken by force into the dreaded Serra D'Aires convent, a sect secretly run by diabolical Satanists; her confessor, in collusion with the Mother Superior, subjects her almost immediately to unspeakable tortures, forcing her into sex with men, women, and even the Devil himself. Gaslit into believing this supernatural debauchery is all a dream, she writes a letter to God begging for salvation — but the powers that be have other hideous plans in store for her, in Jess Franco and Erwin C. Dietrich's notorious nunsploitation classic, on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, totally uncut.

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In 1910s France, pacifist but poor journalist Paul Verin, wishing to better support his loving wife Adele, turns to ghost-writing editorials for ambitious Paris publisher Henri Dumont. When munitions makers sway Dumont toward hawkishness, Verin stops going along — and pays a price as his foes connive to have him deployed to the World War I front lines, setting up a special payback for Dumont on his homecoming.

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In a remote, lonely town, Fosco, a farmer living alone, becomes enthralled by an online romance, only to discover the dark, sinister side of his digital obsession — a chilling sci-fi horror story about isolation, technology, and the dangers lurking beneath virtual connections.

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Blu-ray disc of Vinegar Syndrome's 2-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray set (the 4K UHD disc is listed separately). The set's special features include a commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth, interviews with actor Pier Maria Cecchini, composer Luigi Ceccarelli, soundman Davide Magara and assistant director Michele De Angelis, and an interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani. Concerned that their latest production isn't scary enough for modern audiences, the makers of a trashy horror movie titled Dirty Blood call in a spirit medium to hold a seance for the cast and crew — but the medium inadvertently summons the spirit of Jack the Ripper, and as filming presses on, members of the production start turning up brutally murdered. One of the films made under the “Lucio Fulci presents” banner, directed by Burial Ground's Andrea Bianchi.

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4K UHD disc of Vinegar Syndrome's 2-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray set (the Blu-ray disc is listed separately). The UHD is presented in Dolby Vision HDR, newly scanned and restored in 4K from the 16mm original camera negative; the set's special features include a commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth and interviews with Pier Maria Cecchini, Luigi Ceccarelli, Davide Magara, Michele De Angelis and Eugenio Ercolani. Concerned that their latest production isn't scary enough for modern audiences, the makers of a trashy horror movie titled Dirty Blood call in a spirit medium to hold a seance for the cast and crew — but the medium inadvertently summons the spirit of Jack the Ripper, and as filming presses on, members of the production start turning up brutally murdered. One of the films made under the “Lucio Fulci presents” banner, directed by Burial Ground's Andrea Bianchi.

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Contains Louisiana (1947) and Song of the Range (1944) on one Blu-ray disc. Louisiana (1947) tells the semi-autobiographical story of the state's governor Jimmie Davis, a well-liked political leader who had also made his name as a country music singer and composer, having written the famous song “You Are My Sunshine.” In Song of the Range (1944), Jimmy Wakely and his saddle pals take on a gang of outlaws and save the day, with plenty of charming musical interludes along the way.

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Pastor Jim Moore agrees to study nudism so he can argue against his hosts' nudist relatives, but his research leads him to embrace the nudist lifestyle, forever changing his life and beliefs — the true story of a minister who takes the Bible's words about creation and innocence literally.

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Exhumed and revived after a century in a Mexico City tomb, vampire Angelique finds herself overwhelmed by a strange new world and unable to understand her desire for blood. A sympathetic doctor thinks she is merely delusional, but her undead ex Vlad has tracked her down and is ready to pick up where they left off.

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13-year-old Uwe lives with his mother and abusive alcoholic father in a Hamburg housing project. When he discovers that the Asian classmate he has been bullying has built a raft from scrap wood, the two devise a plan to run away together and sail to the North Sea — Hark Bohm's landmark story of juvenile delinquency and outsider friendship.

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College freshman Alex Dall joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

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Blu-ray disc (BD-50) of Vinegar Syndrome's 2-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray set (the 4K UHD disc is listed separately). The set's special features include a commentary track with Heidi Honeycutt, interviews with Cindy Sherman and Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn and cinematographer Russell Lee Fine, a featurette with author Dahlia Schweitzer, behind-the-scenes footage and a still gallery. Dorine, a timid and put-upon proofreader long employed by a fashion magazine, is told that budget cuts will force her to work from home, away from the office life she loves. After she unintentionally electrocutes a coworker, she discovers a tidy new method of fighting her boredom and loneliness: murder — secretly stockpiling her victims' bodies in her suburban basement while she dispatches an ever-increasing number of fellow employees. The only feature film directed by photographer Cindy Sherman.

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4K UHD disc (BD-66) of Vinegar Syndrome's 2-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray set (the Blu-ray disc is listed separately). The UHD is presented in Dolby Vision and HDR10, newly scanned and restored in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative; the set's special features include a commentary track with Heidi Honeycutt, interviews with Cindy Sherman and Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Russell Lee Fine, a Dahlia Schweitzer featurette, behind-the-scenes footage and a still gallery. Dorine, a timid and put-upon proofreader long employed by a fashion magazine, is told that budget cuts will force her to work from home, away from the office life she loves. After she unintentionally electrocutes a coworker, she discovers a tidy new method of fighting her boredom and loneliness: murder — secretly stockpiling her victims' bodies in her suburban basement while she dispatches an ever-increasing number of fellow employees. The only feature film directed by photographer Cindy Sherman.

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In a near-future Japan, the government introduces Plan 75, a program encouraging citizens aged 75 and over to voluntarily end their own lives to ease the social and economic burdens of a rapidly aging population. A 78-year-old woman who has lost her hotel job and her means of independence weighs signing up; a young Plan 75 salesman who believes in the program serves as its human face; and a Filipino care worker takes a job with the program to send money home to her ailing daughter. Their lives intersect as each confronts the callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable — and what it truly means to live.

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Judy Benjamin, a pampered Jewish-American princess, is devastated when her husband dies on their wedding night. While grieving, she is talked into enlisting by a duplicitous Women's Army Corps recruiter who makes army life sound like a vacation. Captain Lewis quickly shatters that illusion, but as Judy endures basic training alongside the other grunts she becomes a capable soldier and discovers a sense of self-esteem.

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Following a near-death car accident, four friends traveling to a Halloween wedding venture to a secluded farm to seek help. Little do they know, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them.

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Pretty, privileged, hard-partying teenager Angela is unhappy that her doctor father is contemplating marriage to the lovely but staid and mentally fragile Irene. Rather than sulk in her room, she plots a campaign to destroy her prospective stepmother — aided by her sleazy boyfriend Sandro, she digs into Irene's past and schemes to ruin the relationship, by seduction if that's what it takes.

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Sergeant Todd 3465 is a veteran of a line of soldiers raised from birth to become ruthless, remorseless killing machines. When Colonel Mekum introduces a new line of stronger, genetically engineered fighters, Todd is judged obsolete and dumped on the waste-disposal planet Arcadia 234. Taken in by humble colonists, he reconnects with his lost humanity — but when Mekum unleashes his new elite squad on the planet, led by the fearsome Caine 607, Todd must reawaken the warrior within to protect his newfound community.

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After making a misjudged advance towards her mother's boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne. Entranced by the beauty of the wintry landscapes, she begins to create a new life for herself: she takes a job at a petrol station and finds lodging with Irene. When she falls for Joe, the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies resurface, and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down.

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Harry Sanborn, a perennial playboy, develops chest pains during a romantic weekend with his latest girlfriend, Marin, at her mother's beach house. He ends up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica Barry, a successful divorced New York playwright — and develops romantic heart pangs for her. But some habits die hard: when Harry hesitates, his charming doctor steps in and begins pursuing Erica himself, and Harry, who has always had the world on a string, finds his life unraveling.

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In hopes of wooing a beautiful girl, Tristan promises to bring her a falling star — but discovers the star is actually a celestial beauty named Yvaine. When the witch Lamia attempts to steal Yvaine's youth, Tristan must protect her at all costs on the adventure of his life, in a magical fairytale of scheming princes, wicked witches, flying pirates and celestial love.

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In 1985, movie-obsessed entrepreneur Richard Horian — who had made his fortune inventing a vinyl record cleaner sold at K-Mart — wrote, produced, directed, edited, scored and starred in this vanity project, playing a counselor to troubled high school students played by Eric Douglas, Marlon Jackson and Susan Scott, with Oscar nominee Ronee Blakley. Retitled Student Confidential after being shot as The Counselor, it was released by Troma Entertainment in 1987 to scathing reviews; nearly four decades later it returns in a two-disc edition presenting the Theatrical and Director's Cuts scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives, with over five hours of special features.

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Novelist Larry Donner's life turns miserable when his ex-wife steals his book and gets rich publishing it under her name. Owen Lift, one of Larry's writing students, offers a deal inspired by Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train: he will kill Larry's ex-wife if Larry will knock off Owen's overbearing, abusive mother. Owen holds up his end by pushing the ex-wife off a cruise ship — leaving Larry to fulfill his half of the bargain.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision and HDR10, from Kino Lorber's new 4K restoration of the original camera negative. The set's Blu-ray disc is listed separately. Larry Donner, an author and writing teacher, is miserable after his ex-wife steals his novel and becomes rich and famous publishing it under her own name. Owen Lift, one of his students, offers a swap: he will kill Larry's ex-wife if Larry kills Owen's horrible mother in return. Larry assumes it is a joke — until his ex-wife turns up missing.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains Tiger on the Beat on Blu-ray from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with film historian Frank Djeng, an interview with stunt man and actor Billy Lui, and an interview with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks. The set's other discs are listed separately. A seasoned Hong Kong cop and his hot-headed rookie partner are a mismatched pair in this action-comedy in the style of Lethal Weapon; the wacky twosome go up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains Tiger on the Beat in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles and an audio commentary with film historian Frank Djeng. The set's other discs are listed separately. A seasoned Hong Kong cop and his hot-headed rookie partner are a mismatched pair in this action-comedy in the style of Lethal Weapon; the wacky twosome go up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

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Disc 4 (Blu-ray) contains Tiger on the Beat II on Blu-ray from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with film historian Frank Djeng, an interview with martial arts director Ridley Tsui, and an interview with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks. The set's other discs are listed separately. Captain Lam, a Hong Kong police officer approaching 40, wants to achieve something memorable before his retirement; in this in-name-only sequel he is teamed with a bumbling rookie and a young thief who witnesses a murder tied to a criminal syndicate.

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Disc 3 (4K UHD) contains Tiger on the Beat II in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles and an audio commentary with film historian Frank Djeng. The set's other discs are listed separately. Captain Lam, a Hong Kong police officer approaching 40, wants to achieve something memorable before his retirement; in this in-name-only sequel he is teamed with a bumbling rookie and a young thief who witnesses a murder tied to a criminal syndicate.

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When Yeung To, the financial director of a charity organisation, dies mysteriously, a barrister who was close to him teams up with a police officer to investigate. Uncovering layers of deceit and a money-laundering conspiracy, the lawyer must decide who he can trust while trying to protect himself from being engulfed by the same secrets and lies that brought down his friend.

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This disc contains Wildwood, NJ (1994), preserved from the original DigiBeta tape master, plus two additional films — Girls at the Carnival (1998), a found VHS tape filmed in Ohio, and Mall City (1983), Hugh Kinniburgh's document of 1980s mall culture — with a commentary by co-director Ruth Leitman and a commentary on Girls at the Carnival. Shot on Super 8 film by an all-women crew, this documentary shines a light on the lives of women from Wildwood, New Jersey — the last great American carnival town. From go-go dancers to girls who work as vampires in the boardwalk haunted house, it moves beyond big hair and press-on nails to look into the souls of women raised on the boardwalk's rides, neon lights, and beaches.

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It looks like another dull night shift for security guards Naomi and Travis at their remote Kansas self-storage center — but the business was built on a decommissioned government facility, and the parasitic space fungus frozen there for decades is starting to thaw. Alerted bioterrorism expert Quinn may be their — and our — only chance for survival.

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It looks like another dull night shift for security guards Naomi and Travis at their remote Kansas self-storage center — but the business was built on a decommissioned government facility, and the parasitic space fungus frozen there for decades is starting to thaw. Alerted bioterrorism expert Quinn (Liam Neeson) may be their — and our — only chance for survival.

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In a continuation of the story begun in 28 Years Later, Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship whose consequences could change the world, while Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he cannot escape. In the world of the Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

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In a continuation of the story begun in 28 Years Later, Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship whose consequences could change the world, while Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he cannot escape. In the world of the Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

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In the late 1980s, closeted college basketball player Christy Salters takes up boxing, and her raw potential catches the eye of older trainer Jim Martin. The film chronicles the decades that follow — her rise to become one of the sport's great competitors, and her endurance of Martin's manipulation, which extends to marriage, exploitation and violence — in a biopic anchored by Sydney Sweeney's central performance.

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Seasoned police captain Bonavia orders the release of a criminally insane inmate-then watches him set out to assassinate a local construction magnate. In Palermo, Sicily, seasoned police captain Bonavia (Martin Balsam, 12 Angry Men) orders the release of a criminally insane inmate - then watches him set out to assassinate a local construction magnate. When the plan backfires, Bonavia faces the scrutiny of young and idealistic district attorney Traini (Franco Nero, Django, The Day of the Owl). Neat conceptions of justice, corruption and madness shatter in this hard-hitting investigative thriller from Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl, How to Kill a Judge). Balsam and Nero's face-off is complemented by a striking supporting cast and an innovative jazz, pop, and electric guitar score by Riz Ortolani (Cannibal Holocaust). Bonus Materials 2K restoration presented with Italian and English audio options Uncompressed mono PCM audio Cast & Crew Actors: Martin Balsam Franco Nero Marilu Tolo Claudio Gora Michele Gammino Director: Damiano Damiani

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In Palermo, Sicily, seasoned police captain Bonavia orders the release of a criminally insane inmate, then watches as the man sets out to assassinate a local construction magnate. When the plan backfires, Bonavia falls under the scrutiny of Traini, a young and idealistic district attorney. As the investigation deepens, easy notions of justice, corruption and madness fall apart in Damiano Damiani's hard-hitting thriller, driven by the face-off between Martin Balsam and Franco Nero and Riz Ortolani's jazz, pop and electric-guitar score.

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Grace and her partner Jackson leave the city behind for an old house deep in the country, hoping to build a life together. After the birth of their baby, the isolation of their new home and the strain of caring for an infant begin to close in on Grace, and her grip on reality loosens into a volatile psychological spiral. Anchored by a ferocious performance from Jennifer Lawrence, Lynne Ramsay's film is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the feature film, presented in 2160p in its original 1.37:1 aspect ratio. The retail combo pack also includes the film on Blu-ray. Grace and her partner Jackson leave the city behind for an old house deep in the country, hoping to build a life together. After the birth of their baby, the isolation of their new home and the strain of caring for an infant begin to close in on Grace, and her grip on reality loosens into a volatile psychological spiral. Anchored by a ferocious performance from Jennifer Lawrence, Lynne Ramsay's film is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

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Blind musician Wong Kar Mun has her eyesight restored by a cornea transplant and is at first astonished by the beauty of the world around her. Her wonder turns to fear when her new sight is plagued by harrowing, uncanny visions. She confides in her psychiatrist, Dr Wah, who at first believes her body is simply adjusting to the corneas — but his skepticism shatters when they realize her visions are not hallucinations at all, but grim portents of death. The Pang brothers' film balances otherworldly scares with psychological terror, carried by Angelica Lee's award-winning performance.