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Green Fish

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Released from his mandatory military service, Makdong (Han Suk-gyu) returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment on a train, his life takes an unexpected turn when she unwittingly lures him into the criminal underworld. Finding himself in a dangerous love triangle with the local crime boss, Makdong must face the dire consequences of his choices. Winner of the Best Film and Best New Director awards from the Korean Film Critics Association, Lee Chang-dong's "Green Fish" is a “wrenching, tonally nuanced first film” (Senses of Cinema) that combines “strong narrative drive, powerful visuals and a mind-blowing central performance” (Eastern Kicks).

Le Gang

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In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small-time crooks unite to form a gang lead by the charismatic Alain Delon. After several bold robberies, they come to be known as "the front-wheel drive gang." The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?

3 Men to Kill

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In this gritty, violent, and suspenseful thriller, Alain Delon plays Gerfaut who comes to the aid of a man laying wounded in the road, not knowing that the man has taken two bullets to the belly. Soon he becomes the target for the killers who see him as a dangerous witness. But Gerfaut has been around the block a couple of times and he won't be so easily eliminated.

House on Haunted Hill

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William Castle's gimmick-laden horror thriller is a fairground fun house come to life. Vincent Price stars as a suave eccentric millionaire married to a beautiful and greedy gold digger. Together they are hosting a party in a sinister haunted house. Five guests are invited to spend the night and each will get $10,000—but only if they survive until morning. The doors are locked at midnight. Will they make it out alive? This horror classic is presented here beautifully restored in its original black and white format!

Up the Junction

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Suzy Kendall is Polly, an upper-class Chelsea girl who decides to relieve her boredom by slumming in a working-class section of London called Battersea. She gets a job in a candy factory and becomes friends with co-workers Rube (Adrienne Posta) and Sylvie (Maureen Lipman), two sisters. Polly takes up with Peter (Dennis Waterman), who dreams of leaving Battersea and becoming rich.

A Christmas Wish (In Color)

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A Christmas Wish is a heartwarming holiday classic about a family (led by Jimmy Durante) that is down on its luck at Christmas time. Shortly before Christmas, they move into an apartment where Rupert the Squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. The film is enlivened with the warmth of an unforgettable love story between Terry Moore (Mighty Joe Young) and Tom Drake (Meet Me in St. Louis). Rupert the Squirrel (created using George Pal's Academy Award-winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike, and Jimmy Durante shines when he sings Jingle Bells and other classic carols in the evocative voice that made him a recording legend!

Farewell My Concubine

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The famous Peking Opera artist Shang Changrong and the famous Shanghai opera "Yi Mei school" featuring Shi Yihong starring. Is China's first three-dimensional technology to shoot the production of Beijing Opera film.

Highway Patrolman

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From the director of Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell and Walker comes “Maverick Director Alex Cox’s Finest Film to Date” (Los Angeles Times). Against his father’s wishes, Pedro (Roberto Sosa, Man on Fire), a naïve kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women—and his father’s ghost. The wonderful cast includes Bruno Bichir (Sicario: Day of the Soldado), Vanessa Bauche (Amores Perros), Ernesto Gómez Cruz (The Crime of Padre Amaro), Mike Moroff (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (Once Upon a Time in Mexico).

Poetry

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Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain. Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's "Poetry" is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times).

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a hilarious cult classic featuring Jack Nicholson (Batman, Chinatown, The Shining) in one of his earliest roles. Things are not looking so good for Mr. Mushnick and his quaint flower shop in Skid Row, as he & his misfit employees sell only a few carnations a day. After Seymour messes up yet another order, Mr. Mushnick has had enough. In order to save his job, Seymour brings in a unique plant that he has created and raised himself. Reluctantly, Mr. Mushnick agrees to give Seymour one week to get the plant looking healthy in order to attract new customers to see his exotic new creation. When Seymour realizes that not only can the plant talk, but also that it craves human blood, things quickly spin out of control. Watch as the chaos unfolds in this original cult classic from legendary filmmaker Roger Corman.

The Best of Laurel and Hardy (In Color & Restored)

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The best moments from the most comical duo in film history: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy! This compilation features some of the funniest scenes from the comedies that made this pair into household names. See Stan and Ollie sing “Good Ole’ Summertime” in the freezing winter weather, watch them bumble their way through a hostile jail takeover, and be witness as hijinks ensue when Stan and Ollie’s twin brothers, Bert and Alf, unknowingly come to town. Legend Films is proud to present these classic moments in comedy, now restored and presented in color for the very first time!

Mindfield

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Hard-boiled police detective Kellen O'Reilly is hard at work organizing a police strike, but keeps getting distracted by vague flashbacks of a mysterious Dr Satorious. At one union meeting he finds himself in a heated debate with Sarah, a civil rights lawyer who is currently trying a case against Dr Satorious. Sarah believes Satorious is using a combination of LSD and electroshock therapy to program people to kill, and then wipe their memories clean. Searching into Satorious' lab, O'Reilly discovers a computer file which lists assassins, including Lee Harvey Oswald. The detective confronts Satorious with this evidence, but is caught off guard when an assistant shows up. They strap the detective into an electroshock machine in an attempt to erase the incriminating data from his memory.

Dressed to Kill (1946)

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Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) hunt for three auctioned music boxes containing directions to the whereabouts of valuable engraving plates stolen from the Bank of England.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

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Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) is reunited with his childhood friend Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) and her husband Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

Hester Street

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In 1890s N.Y.C., a Jewish immigrant (Steven Keats) has assimilated seamlessly into the American community... until his wife from back home (Carol Kane) arrives on his doorstep. A new restoration of this beloved indie classic about what it is to become an American from director Joan Micklin Silver. Starring Carol Kane in her Academy Award nominated role.

Summer and Smoke

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From the towering genius of Tennessee Williams comes a story of passions lost and found. Academy Award winner Geraldine Page stars as the spinster Alma. Laurence Harvey is Doctor John Buchanan, the handsome young man Alma has loved since childhood. But when a sultry vamp appears (Rita Moreno), the doctor falls hard, descending into a seamy nightlife and leaving Alma's dreams behind like forgotten embers. Set against a steamy southern backdrop and the sweeping grandeur of Elmer Bernstein's Oscar-nominated score, Summer and Smoke crackles with first-rate performances and the stirring power of Tennessee William's words.

Danger: Diabolik

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The suave, psychedelic-era thief called Diabolik can't get enough of life's good - or glittery - things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal from under the noses of snooty government officials and priceless jewels to lift from the boudoirs of the superrich. The elusive scoundrel finds plenty of ways to live up to his name in this tongue-in-cheek, live-action caper inspired by Europe's popular Diabolik comics. He clambers up walls, zaps a press conference with Exhilaration Gas, smacks a confession out of a crimelord while freefalling with him from an airplane, and pulls off the heist of a twenty-ton gold ingot. Impossible? No, diabolical - Danger: Diabolik, to be exact!

Whisky Galore!

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It is 1943 and the tiny remote Hebrideanisland of Todday is plunged into the depths of despair. Everyone is affected. Spirits are at zero - for Todday is without whisky. Then a ship founders on the rocks, and the islanders guide the crew to safety. The ship's captain and mate reveal that they had on board a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky bound for America. Held up for a day because it is the Sabbath, the islanders eventually succeed in removing a considerable amount of the cargo and the dawn breaks with a rosy glow on a brighter, happier island. But the whisky does not last forever... Inspired by a true story

I Love You, I Don't (Je T'aime Moi Non Plus)

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Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing the title with Gainsbourg and Birkin’s sexually-explicit 1969 hit pop song, Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus is an equally provocative depiction of sexual gratification told through an unlikely couple.

City That Never Sleeps

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Martin Scorsese Presents REPUBLIC REDISCOVERED—over 20 rarely seen films from the storied Republic Pictures library, restored and remastered by Paramount and personally curated by Martin Scorsese. In City That Never Sleeps a decorated Chicago police officer is gripped by an ethical crisis when he considers leaving his wife and job, and accepting a bribe from a corrupt attorney. Documentary-like naturalism quickly gives way to nightmarish stylization under the direction of John H. Auer.

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