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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of Derek Jarman's most personal and innovative films, The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80s Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies, creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film with a much praised soundtrack. A powerful and haunting work from one of Britain's most creative film makers.
2) Mad Max
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge.
3) Last words
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What if the last five people on earth in 2085 found joy and delight? A story of astonishing human tenderness and creativity in the face of ecological catastrophe.
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future ravaged by overpopulation, a lone survivor mercilessly protects his remote sliver of property from intruders. When a mother and daughter in search of food and shelter show up at his doorstep, he's suspicious, but allows them in. Soon an uneasy alliance, borne of necessity, forms between the trio. But distrust and paranoia threaten to give way to violence at any moment.
5) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (148 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 min. of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Series
Shout select volume 15
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD combo pack.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
7) Atlantis
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
9) 1984
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Planet of the apes: An astronaut crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Beneath the Planet of the apes: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
Escape from the Planet of the apes: The...
11) Archive
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. When his wife is tragically killed in a car accident, he becomes obsessed with the impossible: bringing her back to life. Her memories have been preserved thanks to the Archive, but only for so long. In a race against time, George must defy scientific and ethical boundaries to save the one he loves most.
12) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
15) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Language
English
Formats
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
16) Here alone
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman struggles to survive alone in the woods after a mysterious epidemic decimates society. Bleak, gritty, and teeming with fear, this tells a story of survival and emotional redemption set in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
18) Molly
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tale of one young woman's determined struggle to survive in an inhospitable world. In a barren landscape ravished by war, Molly, a super-powered young woman, roams the violent post-apocalyptic landscape, armed only with a bow and arrow, to confront the dangers around her. When a sadistic ringmaster who run an underground fight club hears of her supernatural abilities he sends his sociopathic marauders to capture her and make her a star attraction...
19) Gold
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Super-8 DIY filmmaking at its most audacious, Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche. In this cardboard-and-plastic dystopia, Spy is a comic book artist whose printing presses are burned down by Volley, a sexed-up pyromaniac. Wounded in her quest for revenge, Spy is sheltered by Nun, an amoral alien in a red plastic suit with a predilection for reptiles...who also happens to...
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