Sci-Fi

Lars Von Trier shook up the film world when he premiered ANTICHRIST at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman - a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress Charlotte Gainsbourg - retreat to a cabin...

An evocative, haunting story of infidelity and guilt, EMPIRE OF PASSION traces a woman's spiral into emotional disorder after abetting her husbands murder. Together with her lover, she disposes of the body in a well, unwittingly poisoning the very fibers...

For Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart), serving as a fashion gofer for a spoiled Parisian celebrity (Nora von Waldst?tten) was drudgery... but just a day job. She found her side gig as a medium far more rewarding... but her attempts to make contact...

Jigoku DVD

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully...

Director/co-writer Brian de Palma's first foray into Hitchcockian screen suspense finds a reporter (Jennifer Salt) witnessing a brutal murder committed by the separated conjoined twin (Margot Kidder) of a Canadian fashion model (also Kidder), but cannot...

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director Rene Laloux's animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the...

WORLD ON a WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder (THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN). with dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor...

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris...

Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) in possession of a...

Nanny DVD

The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro (CRONOS) is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his...