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1.
DVD
1997
DVD00198
Ace Ventura, pet detective
Ace Ventura, pet detective
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!.
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DVD
1997
DVD02528
The player
The player
A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
3.
DVD
2003
KLAUS DVD #93
Two weeks notice
Two weeks notice
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.
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DVD
2005
DVD04878
Be cool
Be cool
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.
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DVD
2004
DVD05799
Silver streak
Silver streak
A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.
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DVD
2006
DVD05770
High anxiety
High anxiety
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.
7.
DVD
2003
DVD12931
Monsieur Verdoux : a comedy of murders
Monsieur Verdoux
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."
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DVD
2005
DVD06001
9.
DVD
2005
DVD07183
Shadow of the thin man
Shadow of the thin man
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.
10.
DVD
2006
KLAUS DVD #474
Hoodwinked
Hoodwinked
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.
11.
DVD
2003
KLAUS DVD #519
Todo el poder
Todo el poder
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.
12.
DVD
2007
KLAUS DVD #542
The Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards
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.
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DVD
2008
DVD10690
Uahan segye
Uahan segye
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.
14.
DVD
2009
DVD10725
Pre-Code Hollywood collection
Pre-Code Hollywood collection
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 [...]
15.
DVD
2007
DVD11173
Hijas de su madre : las Buenrostro = The Buenrostro women
Hijas de su madre
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.
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DVD
2005
DVD11337
Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther
Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther
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.
17.
DVD
1998
DVD00851
Get Shorty
Get Shorty
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.
18.
DVD
2009
KLAUS DVD #765
Sunshine cleaning
Sunshine cleaning
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.
19.
DVD
2004
DVD04511
The ladykillers
The ladykillers
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.
20.
DVD
2006
DVD08321
Art school confidential
Art school confidential
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.