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Drawn from Emmanuelle Arsan's bestselling memoir, the film follows a diplomat's wife who unlocks her deepest carnal desires in the bedrooms and back rooms of Bangkok.

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The selfish Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his devious advisor and her hulking henchman. Stripped of the throne he once took for granted, he must form an unlikely alliance with a good-hearted peasant to win it back.

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Gabriel, a well-meaning but rather inept angel, meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist.

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Gabriel, a well-meaning but rather inept angel, meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist.

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After their plane suffers a complete mechanical failure and crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra. Battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, the survivors are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves.

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This documentary chronicles the chaos and turbulence that plagued the marathon production of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, from disastrous inclement weather to actors' health crises and local political upheaval. Filmed by Eleanor Coppola, it features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew, along with secretly taped conversations with the tormented Coppola as he grappled with every imaginable obstacle.

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In the Scottish Hebrides, headstrong, upwardly mobile Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is on her way to marry a wealthy industrialist when a raging storm strands her on an island off the Scottish coast, where she falls for a dashing naval officer (Roger Livesey). Shot in ethereal black and white in a folkloric world where legends and curses still hold sway, this beloved romance from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a stirring expression of the eternal conflict between the head and the heart.

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In Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s, as Brazil's military dictatorship tightens its grip, Rubens and Eunice Paiva live with their five children in a rented house by the beach, its doors constantly open to friends. The affection and humor the family shares are their own quiet forms of resistance to the oppression hanging over the country — until one day a violent and arbitrary act changes their lives forever.

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Disc 2 contains Jarhead on Blu-ray, along with the set's two audio commentaries (the set's remaining special features are on the 4K UHD disc, Disc 1). During the Gulf War, third-generation Marine Anthony Swofford — "Swoff" — endures a jarring boot camp and then ships out to the Middle East carrying a sniper rifle and a hundred-pound pack. In the desert there is no shelter from the brutal heat and no visible enemy, only the constant possibility of one beyond the next ridge. Swoff and his fellow Marines get through it on humor and loyalty to each other, fighting in a country they don't comprehend, against an opponent they can't see, for reasons they don't entirely grasp.

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Disc 1 contains Jarhead in 4K Ultra HD, along with all of the set's special features: the featurettes 'Swoff's Fantasies', 'News Interviews in Full', 'Jarhead Diaries', 'Background' and 'Semper Fi: Life After the Corps', deleted scenes, and two audio commentaries (the set's Blu-ray copy is Disc 2, which carries the film and the commentaries only). During the Gulf War, third-generation Marine Anthony Swofford — "Swoff" — endures a jarring boot camp and then ships out to the Middle East carrying a sniper rifle and a hundred-pound pack. In the desert there is no shelter from the brutal heat and no visible enemy, only the constant possibility of one beyond the next ridge. Swoff and his fellow Marines get through it on humor and loyalty to each other, fighting in a country they don't comprehend, against an opponent they can't see, for reasons they don't entirely grasp.

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Almost a year after a job went wrong, a hitman signs on for a new contract lured by a large payout for three killings. What begins as a straightforward assignment slowly comes apart in ways he never anticipated.

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Adapted from Gypsy Rose Lee's best-selling novel "The G-String Murders," director William A. Wellman's film stars Barbara Stanwyck as Dixie Daisy, the sharp-tongued star stripper at S.B. Foss's Old Opera House. Dixie spends her days fending off fellow performer Biff Brannigan — until a colleague is discovered strangled with her own g-string. When a second performer is murdered and suspicion lands on Dixie herself, she teams up with the comic to hunt the real killer, narrowing the suspects and laying a trap in classic whodunit fashion.

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Disc 1 contains Minority Report in 4K Ultra HD (the set's second disc is a Blu-ray bonus disc of special features, which is listed separately). In a future where a specialized police unit can arrest killers before their crimes happen, one of the unit's own officers finds himself accused of a murder he has not yet committed.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the featurettes 'The Future According to Steven Spielberg', 'Inside the World of Precrime', 'Phillip K. Dick, Steven Spielberg, and Minority Report', 'Minority Report: Future Realized', 'Minority Report: Props of the Future', 'Highlights from Minority Report: From the Set', 'Minority Report: Commercials of the Future', 'From Story to Screen', 'Deconstructing Minority Report', 'The Stunts of Minority Report', 'ILM and Minority Report' and 'Final Report', plus previz sequences, production concepts, storyboard sequences, and trailers.

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Jack Black stars as Ignacio, a put-upon cook at a Mexican monastery that can scarcely afford to feed the orphans in its care. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he starts moonlighting as the luchador "Nacho Libre," hoping the prize money will help the monastery — and that the beautiful nun Sister Encarnacion will notice him.

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Kim Dokja (Ahn Hyo-seop) is an unremarkable twenty-something who happens to be the sole reader of an obscure web novel, "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse." The day he finishes its final chapter, the novel's apocalyptic world becomes real, and its all-powerful hero Yu Junghyeok (Lee Min-ho) appears in front of him. As the one person who knows what it takes to survive this world, Kim joins forces with his companions to rescue Yu Junghyeok and fight to save the world by writing a new ending of his own.

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Kim Dokja (Ahn Hyo-seop) is an unremarkable twenty-something who happens to be the sole reader of an obscure web novel, "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse." The day he finishes its final chapter, the novel's apocalyptic world becomes real, and its all-powerful hero Yu Junghyeok (Lee Min-ho) appears in front of him. As the one person who knows what it takes to survive this world, Kim joins forces with his companions to rescue Yu Junghyeok and fight to save the world by writing a new ending of his own.

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A musician and her husband relocate to an isolated house in Wales, where the music they create stirs up ancient local folk magic — and draws a nameless child to their door who is determined to work his way into their lives.

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Mira Nair's debut narrative feature paints a vivid, kaleidoscopic picture of street life in Bombay. Cast out by his family, young Krishna (Shafiq Syed) makes his way to the city, where amid crushing poverty he finds love, friendship, and loss. Working with a cast drawn largely from children she encountered on the streets, Nair draws out strikingly natural performances and shapes them into an intimate drama that moves between heartbreak and affirmation — a tribute to childhood, full of the city's color and chaos, and deeply compassionate toward those living at society's edges.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film in 4K Ultra HD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with both audio commentaries (director Mira Nair; director of photography Sandi Sissel). The set's Blu-ray (Disc 2) contains the film and the remaining special features. Mira Nair's debut narrative feature paints a vivid, kaleidoscopic picture of street life in Bombay. Cast out by his family, young Krishna (Shafiq Syed) makes his way to the city, where amid crushing poverty he finds love, friendship, and loss. Working with a cast drawn largely from children she encountered on the streets, Nair draws out strikingly natural performances and shapes them into an intimate drama that moves between heartbreak and affirmation — a tribute to childhood, full of the city's color and chaos, and deeply compassionate toward those living at society's edges.

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At the outset of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Army captain Mike McComb is guarding the army payroll when his small squad is attacked by skirmishers. Rather than let the money fall into Confederate hands, he burns it — and is court-martialed in disgrace for the decision. Finished with duty and honor, McComb resolves to live by his own appetites from then on.

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Director Antoine Fuqua and writer Kurt Sutter tell the story of Billy 'The Great' Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), the reigning light heavyweight boxing champion, who seems to have it all: a glittering career, a loving wife (Rachel McAdams), a young daughter (Oona Laurence), and a lavish life. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson) abandons him, Billy hits rock bottom and turns to Tick Willis (Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers at a run-down gym. Riding on Tick's guidance and grit, Billy steps into one last epic fight — battling for redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.

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After dreaming of her dead twin sister, Gong Do-hee (Yoon Jeong-hee), a thriving corporate tycoon, drives to the seaside — but the trip turns nightmarish when she is kidnapped and made to live with a rough island fisherman who insists she is his runaway wife. Carrying a pointed message about political oppression that slipped past the era's strict censors, Kim Soo-yong's daring modernist film ranks among the boldest Korean works of the 1970s, the darkest decade in the country's cinema.

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The Strangers return, more brutal and relentless than before. When they learn that Maya (Madelaine Petsch), one of their victims, is still alive, they come back to finish what they started. With nowhere to run and no one she can trust, Maya has to survive another horrifying chapter of terror as the Strangers — driven by a senseless, unceasing purpose — hunt her down, more than willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.

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In season three, Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier press on with their effort to get back home to the people they love. The road instead carries them farther off course, across foreign lands whose conditions keep shifting, where they see firsthand the many different ways the walker apocalypse has marked the world.

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In season three, Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier press on with their effort to get back home to the people they love. The road instead carries them farther off course, across foreign lands whose conditions keep shifting, where they see firsthand the many different ways the walker apocalypse has marked the world.

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Disc 5 contains Ambitious Kung Fu Girl (1981), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Spoiled merchant's daughter Sze-Sze Tien (Michelle Yim) has been trained in martial arts and dreams of a partner like the celebrated hero Ke Chin (Chen Kuan-Tai) — not Fan Yang (Yuen Tak), the dull son of her father's associate to whom she has been betrothed. She runs away to find her dream man with Yang chasing after her, and some rude surprises await in Lu Chin-Ku's action comedy.

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Disc 7 contains Cat vs. Rat (1982), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, 'Feline Face-Off: Interview with Film Historian Frank Djeng', an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Alexander Fu Sheng and Adam Cheng play rival students of the same kung fu master, locked in a long-running feud — the Rat against the Cat — over whose kung fu is stronger. When the Cat wins appointment as the emperor's guardian, the jealous Rat schemes to bring his rival down.

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Billed as Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this zany, gonzo, blood-soaked musical follows lovers torn apart by a chainsaw-wielding killer. Over a decade in the making, the colorful murder-fest is part gory horror movie and part ridiculous musical.

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Disc 3 contains The Duel of the Century (1981), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Master swordsmen Shimen Chui-Shiue (Yueh Hua) and Ye Gu-Cheng (Jason Pai Piao) were once friends, so the martial world is stunned when they announce a public duel to the death. As excitement and wagering spread, investigator Lu Xiaofeng (Tony Liu) sets out to learn what truly lies behind the contest in Chor Yuen's mystery-laced swordplay tale.

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Disc 4 contains The Emperor and His Brother (1981), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Rebels chafing under Qing emperor Chien Lung (Jason Pai Piao) enlist noble warrior Chen Chia-Lo (Ti Lung) to free two political prisoners. Carrying out the mission, Chen uncovers secrets that could shake the empire to its foundations in Chor Yuen's lavish, intricate adaptation of the Jin Yong novel, co-starring Lo Lieh and Wen Hsueh-Erh.

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Disc 9 contains The Enchantress (1983), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, an archival interview with martial arts film distributor Terry Levene, an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Young swordsman Feng Xiwu (Max Mok) wanders into a region plagued by disappearances and death and quickly falls for the lovely Shuling (Yung Jing-Jing). Meeting her mother (Ngai Chau-Wah) goes badly — she is a bloodthirsty ghost bent on making the world pay for her murder — in Chor Yuen's otherworldly fantasy, co-starring Lo Lieh, Tony Liu and Yueh Hua.

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Disc 1 contains Enter the Ninja (1981) in 4K Ultra HD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR (the combo's Blu-ray is Disc 2). U.S. Army veteran Cole (Franco Nero) is one of the few Westerners to truly master the stealth fighting art of ninjutsu. He puts those deadly skills to work when he travels to the Philippines to help an old friend (Alex Courtney) whose farm has been targeted in an oil grab — but the villains counter by bringing in a ninja master (Sho Kosugi) of their own.

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Disc 8 contains Ghosts Galore (1983), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, 'The Spirit of Shaw: Interview with Actor Chu Ko', 'Ghostly Greatness: Interview with Author Daniel O'Brien', an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Two vagabond martial artists (Chin Siu-Ho, Chin Kar-Lok) boast that they can rid a village of the Japanese ghosts an evil wizard has unleashed on it. Hopelessly out of their depth, the pair must turn to a genuine master (Lo Lieh) for help in Hsu Hsia's supernatural action-comedy, co-starring Hwang Jang-Lee.

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Disc 1 contains His Girl Friday (1940) in 4K Ultra HD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR. (The three-disc set's two Blu-rays, carrying the film and the 1931 The Front Page, are Discs 2 and 3.) Among the fastest, funniest and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema's powerful women. She is matched only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (Cary Grant), who dangles the chance to scoop her fellow writers with the story of an impending execution to keep her from boarding the train to Albany and a new life as a housewife. Adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's hit play The Front Page, Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of making star reporter Hildy a woman, producing an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting and ebullient remarriage comedy.

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Long ranked among the finest gialli ever made, Pupi Avati's The House with Laughing Windows (1976) takes the genre in a quieter, more artful and unsettling direction than its lurid Technicolor excesses suggest. Art restorer Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) travels to a remote Italian village to restore a fresco depicting Saint Sebastian's agonizing martyrdom. The painter, the locals whisper, was a 'death artist' so obsessed with mortality that he tortured his models to capture their final moments. When people in the village begin turning up dead, Stefano is forced to consider that the mad artist may have returned to resume his brutal career — and that the restorer himself is the primary target. It builds to an ending few viewers ever forget.

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Disc 2 contains The Killer (1989) on Blu-ray with three audio commentaries: a new commentary by director John Woo and film journalist Drew Taylor, a new commentary by critic and author David West, and the archival commentary by John Woo and producer Terence Chang, recorded by the Criterion Collection. Hong Kong assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) accidentally blinds nightclub singer Jennie during a job. Determined to pay for the operation that could restore her sight, he agrees to one final assignment — only to be double-crossed and hunted by the men who hired him, while a dogged, unconventional police inspector (Danny Lee) closes in from the other side.

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Disc 1 contains The Killer (1989) in 4K Ultra HD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with three audio commentaries: a new commentary by director John Woo and film journalist Drew Taylor, a new commentary by critic and author David West, and the archival commentary by John Woo and producer Terence Chang, recorded by the Criterion Collection. Hong Kong assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) accidentally blinds nightclub singer Jennie during a job. Determined to pay for the operation that could restore her sight, he agrees to one final assignment — only to be double-crossed and hunted by the men who hired him, while a dogged, unconventional police inspector (Danny Lee) closes in from the other side.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed, a feature-length documentary on the cinema of Hong Kong's iconic director John Woo; A Bullet Ballet, an interview with John Woo; My Kind of Hero, an interview with producer Terence Chang; Editing The Killer, an interview with editor David Wu; Hong Kong Confidential: Inside The Killer, an appreciation with author Grady Hendrix; deleted and extended scenes; trailers; and an image gallery.

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Set against the real Salem witch trials, the film follows Barbara Clarke (Claudette Colbert), a free-spirited young woman whose liberal ways and romance with an adventurer (Fred MacMurray) scandalize her Puritan town — until the witchcraft hysteria turns on her and she must fight to prove her innocence in one of the darkest episodes in American history.

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Chronically underemployed artist Jonathan Switcher pours his heart into a female mannequin so perfect he falls in love with his own creation. When the mannequin ends up in the window of a big department store where Jonathan has landed a stock-boy job, she comes to life as Emmy, a woman from ancient Egypt — though she can only move and speak when the two of them are alone.

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Robert Townsend wrote, directed, produced and stars in this urban fable as Jefferson Reed, a timid substitute teacher in an inner-city neighborhood terrorized by the Golden Lords, a gang of leather-jacketed thugs the locals feel powerless against. Struck by a meteor, Jefferson discovers he can fly, has superhuman strength, and can absorb a book's contents in thirty seconds — and the normally fearful teacher becomes a reluctant superhero, which puts him squarely in the Golden Lords' sights.

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Disc 10 contains New Tales of the Flying Fox (1984), Lau Sze-Yu's wuxia adaptation of Jin Yong's novel The Young Flying Fox, starring Felix Wong, Alex Man, Bryan Leung and Kara Hui — one of the twelve films in Shout! Factory's Shaw Brothers Classics: Volume Eight. Swordsmen Hu Yidao and Miao Renfeng agree to duel to settle their rivalry, but Hu is killed by a secretly poisoned blade — a treachery engineered by the villain Tian Guinong. Hu's infant son Hu Fei is rescued and raised by the servant Ping Asi, and grows up determined to avenge his father. Lau Sze-Yu's Shaw Brothers wuxia adaptation of Jin Yong's The Young Flying Fox stars Felix Wong as Hu Fei, with Alex Man, Bryan Leung and Kara Hui.

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Disc 2 contains Ninja III: The Domination (1984) on Blu-ray — the Blu-ray disc of Kino Lorber's 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray combo (the 4K UHD is Disc 1). Aerobics instructor and telephone linewoman Christie Ryder (Lucinda Dickey) is possessed by the spirit of a dying ninja assassin, who begins using her body to hunt down and murder, one by one, the police officers who killed him. As the killings escalate, a Japanese exorcist confirms the possession — and the only one who can destroy the spirit is another ninja, Goro Yamada (Sho Kosugi).

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Disc 1 contains Ninja III: The Domination (1984) in 4K Ultra HD — the 4K UHD disc of Kino Lorber's 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray combo (the Blu-ray copy is Disc 2), with an audio commentary by director Sam Firstenberg and stunt coordinator Steve Lambert, isolated score selections with audio interviews, and the theatrical trailer. Aerobics instructor and telephone linewoman Christie Ryder (Lucinda Dickey) is possessed by the spirit of a dying ninja assassin, who begins using her body to hunt down and murder, one by one, the police officers who killed him. As the killings escalate, a Japanese exorcist confirms the possession — and the only one who can destroy the spirit is another ninja, Goro Yamada (Sho Kosugi).

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Disc 2 contains Paul (2011) — the theatrical cut on Blu-ray, in a new HD master from a 4K scan of the original camera negative — with an audio commentary by director Greg Mottola, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Hader and producer Nira Park, the documentary 'Between the Lightning Strikes: The Making of Paul', and the featurettes 'The Evolution of Paul', 'Simon's Silly Face' and 'Who the Hell is Adam Shadowchild?'. For sixty years, a wisecracking alien named Paul has been held at a top-secret military base. When he finally escapes, he hitches a ride in a rented RV with two British sci-fi fans, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings, who are touring UFO country. With federal agents and the zealous father of a young woman they accidentally kidnap on their tail, the pair improvise a plan to get Paul back to his mother ship.

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Disc 3 contains the unrated cut of Paul (2011) on Blu-ray, with a behind-the-scenes featurette, bloopers, three theatrical trailers, and US and UK TV spots. For sixty years, a wisecracking alien named Paul has been held at a top-secret military base. When he finally escapes, he hitches a ride in a rented RV with two British sci-fi fans, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings, who are touring UFO country. With federal agents and the zealous father of a young woman they accidentally kidnap on their tail, the pair improvise a plan to get Paul back to his mother ship.

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Disc 1 contains Paul (2011) — the theatrical cut — in 4K Ultra HD, from a new HDR/Dolby Vision master made from a 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by director Greg Mottola), with an audio commentary by Greg Mottola, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Hader and producer Nira Park. For sixty years, a wisecracking alien named Paul has been held at a top-secret military base. When he finally escapes, he hitches a ride in a rented RV with two British sci-fi fans, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings, who are touring UFO country. With federal agents and the zealous father of a young woman they accidentally kidnap on their tail, the pair improvise a plan to get Paul back to his mother ship.

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Disc 2 contains Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman (1982), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. Master thief Chu Liuxiang makes a failed attempt on the Eighth Prince's life and, hunted by the prince's men, takes refuge in the sinister Phantoms' Mountain Manor, a haven for criminals and evildoers. But the assassination attempt was staged by Chu and the prince together — a ruse to get Chu inside the manor so he can destroy its residents from within.

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Disc 11 contains Return of the Bastard Swordsman (1984), presented with newly translated optional English subtitles, audio commentaries with Hong Kong film critic James Mudge of easternKicks and film historian Brian Bankston, an image gallery, and the Celestial trailer. The Wudang clan is threatened once more: the ruthless Dugu Wu Di is preparing to attack the Wudang temple, while a band of Japanese martial artists lurks in the background waiting for its moment — and Yun Fei Yang must master the Silkworm Style to defend his school.