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DVD
1997
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DVD00198

Ace Ventura, pet detective

Ace Ventura, pet detectiveLoading Ace Ventura, pet detective is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino, and whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man ... or beast!.
Director
Tom Shadyac
Release Date
1994
Run Time
87 min.
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DVD
1997
DVD02528

The player

The playerLoading A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
Director
Robert Altman
Release Date
1992
Run Time
124 min.
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DVD
2003
KLAUS DVD #93

Two weeks notice

Two weeks noticeLoading Lucy Kelson, Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help. Now, after five years of calling the shots-on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements, Lucy Kelson is calling it quits.
Director
Marc Lawrence
Release Date
2002
Run Time
101 min.
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DVD
2005
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DVD04878

Be cool

Be coolLoading Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian mafia and a suburbian rap-mogul producer & his thugs. When it turns out that the widow had been the laundress for Aerosmith, she makes contact with Steven Tyler and gets their protege a duet with Tyler at an Aerosmith concert.
Director
F. Gary Gray
Release Date
2005
Run Time
120 min.
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DVD
2004
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DVD05799

Silver streak

Silver streakLoading A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.
Director
Arthur Miller; Arthur Hiller
Release Date
1976
Run Time
113 min.
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DVD
2006
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DVD05770

High anxiety

High anxietyLoading In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
Director
Mel Brooks
Release Date
1977
Run Time
94 min.
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DVD
2003
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DVD12931

Monsieur Verdoux : a comedy of murders

Monsieur VerdouxLoading In this dark comedy first released during WWII, Henri Vedoux, played by Charlie Chaplin, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows. On another level the film is an indictment of war in which mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison."
Director
Charles Chaplin
Release Date
1947
Run Time
119 min.
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DVD
2005
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DVD06001

Legalese

LegaleseLoading Accused of murder, a beautiful actress seeks the counsel of a celebrity attorney. Knowing that trials are won on television, he hires an inexperienced lawyer to serve as his front and capture the hearts of America.
Director
Glenn Jordan
Release Date
1998
Run Time
92 min.
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DVD
2005
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DVD07183

Shadow of the thin man

Shadow of the thin manLoading A jockey who threw a race is murdered in the locker room. Nick & Nora Charles are off to the races on another case of murder, mirth and perfect martinis.
Director
Maj. W.S. Van Dyke II
Release Date
1941
Run Time
97 min.
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DVD
2006
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KLAUS DVD #474

Hoodwinked

HoodwinkedLoading Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Director
Cory Edwards; Todd Edwards; Tony Leech
Release Date
2005
Run Time
81 min.
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DVD
2003
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KLAUS DVD #519

Todo el poder

Todo el poderLoading A comedy-thriller about crime in Mexico City and its effects on the city's inhabitants. A filmmaker finds himself the victim of crime and violence as frequently as three times a day.
Director
Fernando Sariñana
Release Date
1999
Run Time
102 min.
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DVD
2007
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KLAUS DVD #542

The Darwin Awards

The Darwin AwardsLoading Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
Director
Finn Taylor
Release Date
2007
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DVD
2008
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DVD10690

Uahan segye

Uahan segyeLoading In-gu is a ruthless gangster for his living and the sweetest husband and dad at home. His goal in life is to build a house in the country and live a quiet life with his family. But there are problems that are preventing him from living his dream. His daughter is embarrassed by her dad's job and avoids him as much as possible and his wife nags him constantly to get a stable job. Nevertheless, he tries even harder to keep his syndicate together, thinking that the only way to be a good dad is to work hard and make money. Unfortunately family matters begin to get in the way of business and he must deal with an ambitious underling who wants to take over.
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한재림; 정영주; 송강호; 박지영; 오달수; 루씨필름; 카라멜엔터테인먼트 (Firm); 영화진흥위원회 (Korea)
Director
Han Chae-rim; Chae-rim Han
Release Date
2007
Run Time
112 min.
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14.
DVD
2009
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DVD10725

Pre-Code Hollywood collection

Pre-Code Hollywood collectionLoading In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free reign to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex., Murder at the Vanities: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware. She wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. They find the body of a murdered women. Bill suspects Eric of the crime. Rita Ross, a second fe [...]
Release Date
2009
Run Time
168 min.
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DVD
2007
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DVD11173

Hijas de su madre : las Buenrostro = The Buenrostro women

Hijas de su madreLoading Las mujeres de una próspera familia ocultan secretos insospechados que van desde los enredos amorosos hasta el asesinato por peidad o por codicia. La historia de estas excéntricas mujeres combina el amor, los brebajes, el humor negro y la muerte. Mas vale una buena muerte que una mala vida., The Buenrostros are an important and prosperous family, but it's the women who rule the roost. Between their love triangles and secret snuff business, these ladies cook up a comedy where passion, humor, and death are the most important ingredients.
Director
Busi Cortes
Release Date
2005
Run Time
109 min.
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DVD
2005
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DVD11337

Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink PantherLoading Jacques Gambrelli, a hopelessly inept French policeman, turns out to be the illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau. Gambrelli becomes involved with the investigation of a kidnapping involving the beautiful Princess Yasmin.
Director
Blake Edwards
Release Date
1993
Run Time
93 min.
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DVD
1998
DVD00851

Get Shorty

Get ShortyLoading Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
Director
Barry Sonnenfeld
Release Date
1995
Run Time
105 min.
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18.
DVD
2009
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KLAUS DVD #765

Sunshine cleaning

Sunshine cleaningLoading Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job as a bio-hazard crime-scene cleaner to help pay for a private education. She brings Norah on to help in her steadily growing business. As the sisters work to clean up the messes left behind by the chaotic lives of others, they must learn to reconcile their own differences and overcome a troubled past if they hope to prosper in their newfound venture.
Director
Christine Jeffs
Release Date
2008
Run Time
91 min.
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DVD
2004
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DVD04511

The ladykillers

The ladykillersLoading Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and Dorr decides the best solution is to silence her permanently.
Director
Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Release Date
2004
Run Time
104 min.
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DVD
2006
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DVD08321

Art school confidential

Art school confidentialLoading Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome want to tear his own eyes out.
Director
Terry Zwigoff
Release Date
2006
Run Time
102 min.
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