Comedies

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams-which, in MYSTERY TRAIN, is Memphis. Made with it's director's customary precision and wit, MYSTERY TRAIN is a triptych of...

Rarely do landmark works of cinema seem so... wrong. Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the new American underground of the early sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and...

Dazed & Confused DVD

A shocking, surreal and poignant drama about a trio of lower-class British youths who rebel against their boarding school in a metaphorical statement about English class distinctions. Director Lindsay Anderson Star Malcolm McDowell, Christine Noonan,...

Three mismatched convicts plot to escape from a Southern jail cell. Starring Ellen Barkin, John Lurie, Nicoletta Braschi and Tom Waits. Includes: 2-Disc Set - Audio commentary by director Jim Jarmusch; Interviews; Music videos; Press conference footage;...

This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as...

Baron Ferdinando Cefalu longs to marry his nubile cousin Angela, but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia. His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he will devise a scenario wherein he can catch his spouse in the arms of...

Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision (with in this visually witty and warm portrait of three young misfits. BOTTLE ROCK is a charming, hilarious, affectionate look at the folly of of dreamers, shot...

Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This sexy, sharp-witted story of two romantically involved thieves trying to bilk a widow out of her fortune remains one of the greatest screen comedies of all time. 1932/b&w/83...

Peter O'Toole gives a tour de force performance as Jack, a man "cured" of believing he's God, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate. Based on Peter Barnes' irreverent play, this darkly comic indictment of Britain's class system peers behind the closed...

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO brings to a close American cinema raconteur extraordinaire Whit Stillman's unofficial trilogy about the neuroses of the young and upscale. Following Metropolitan and Barcelona, this is a clever and sparkling return to the nighttime...

When a young woman on a train meets a charming old lady who promptly disappears, the other passengers deny having seen her, leading the young woman to suspect conspiracy. Hitchcock's final low-budget U.K. production before leaving for Hollywood stands as...