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DVD
2012
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DVD16144 BLU

The gold rush

The gold rushLoading Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
Director
Charles Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin
Release Date
1925
Run Time
72 min.
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2.
DVD
2010
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DVD Modern

Modern times

Modern timesLoading When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
Director
Charlie Chaplin; Carter DeHaven; Carter De Haven; Alistair Cooke; Octavio Cortázar; Philippe Truffault
Release Date
1936
Run Time
87 min.
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DVD
2011
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DVD Great

The great dictator

The great dictatorLoading In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
Director
Charles Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin; Meredith Willson; J. Russell Spencer
Release Date
1940
Run Time
125 min.
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Laserdisc
1989
LD0426 -2

Some like it hot

Some like it hotLoading Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians. Commentary, theatrical trailer and interview with Jack Lemmon.
Director
Billy Wilder
Release Date
1959
Run Time
121 min.
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Laserdisc
1990
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LD0460

Le Roi de coeur

Le Roi de coeurLoading A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
Director
Philippe De Broca
Release Date
1966
Run Time
102 min.
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Laserdisc
1990
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LD0627

Parade

ParadeLoading 'Parade' is J. Tati's final work. Among the many acts are a number of many most famous music-hall pantomimes. Non-French speaking viewers have no reason to lament the absence of English subtitles for the actresses and actors performances.
Director
Jacques Tati
Release Date
1973
Run Time
88 min.
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Laserdisc
1991
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LD0642

Shampoo

ShampooLoading George, a Beverly Hills hairstylist, sleeps with most of his clients ... as well as any other woman he encounters. Shampoo is the story of confused, insecure, and insignificant people who grope for happiness by sleeping around and who cover up their unhappiness by being unfaithful.
Director
Hal Ashby
Release Date
1975
Run Time
110 min.
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Laserdisc
1991
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LD0725

Lady for a day

Lady for a dayLoading A tale of a slick gambler who helps Apple Annie, a street vendor, fulfill a dream.
Director
Frank Capra
Release Date
1933
Run Time
95 min.
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Laserdisc
1992
LD0768 -2

The Fisher king

The Fisher kingLoading A dee-jay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
Director
Terry Gilliam
Release Date
1991
Run Time
137 min.
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Laserdisc
1993
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LD1016 -2

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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Laserdisc
1993
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LD1229

Green for danger

Green for dangerLoading In this comedy mystery, a mad killer dispatches patients on the operating table in a remote provincial English hospital during World War II.
Director
Sidney Gilliat
Release Date
1947
Run Time
91 min.
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Laserdisc
1993
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LD1366

Evergreen

EvergreenLoading A British music hall star retires from the stage to live in South Africa. When her daughter returns to England to start her own show business career, she resembles her mother to such a remarkable degree that it's assumed she's really her mother who has found the fountain of youth.
Director
Victor Saville
Release Date
1934
Run Time
90 min.
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Laserdisc
1993
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LD1427

Polyester

PolyesterLoading Comic melodrama about a typical American housewife (Divine) whose life is going to pot.
Director
John Waters
Release Date
1981
Run Time
83 min.
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Laserdisc
1994
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LD2688 -2

I know where I'm going!

I know where I'm going!Loading Romantic comedy about a rich girl on her way to marry a rich old man because she believes that money brings happiness until she meets a Scottish naval officer.
Director
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
Release Date
1947
Run Time
167 min.
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Laserdisc
1994
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LD2702 -2

This is Spinal Tap

This is Spinal TapLoading Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America.
Director
Rob Reiner
Release Date
1983
Run Time
82 min.
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Laserdisc
1997
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LD3663 -2

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of BrianLoading The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Director
Terry Jones
Release Date
1979
Run Time
94 min.
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Laserdisc
1997
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LD3669 -2

Chasing Amy

Chasing AmyLoading The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists; Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Director
Kevin Smith
Release Date
1997
Run Time
113 min.
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18.
DVD
2005
DVD08725

Kenka erejii : Fighting elegy

Kenka erejiiLoading High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
Director
Seijun Suzuki
Release Date
1966
Run Time
86 min.
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19.
DVD
2004
DVD08684

The Golden coach : Le carrosse d'or

The Golden coachLoading An eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy in Central America who receives a golden coach and gives it to the star of a touring commedia dell'arte company.
Director
Jean Renoir
Release Date
1952
Run Time
103 min.
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20.
DVD
2001
DVD02301

My man Godfrey

My man GodfreyLoading A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler.
Director
Gregory La Cava
Release Date
1936
Run Time
93 min.
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