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1) Biloxi blues
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"Matthew Broderick stars as a naïve army recruit looking for action - though not the battle kind - in Neil Simon's hilarious comedy about boot camp during WWII. The year is 1945 and Eugene Morris Jerome (Broderick) finds himself far from the comforts of his Brooklyn home after being sent to basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi. Expecting the army to be dolls, doughnuts and USO dances, he instead encounters a tough drill sergeant (Christopher Walken)...
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English
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A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For Ishamael Chambers, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
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English
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Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
4) Trespass
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Shout select volume 24
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English
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Two firemen find a map that leads to stolen gold in an abandoned factory. The factory is in the turf of a local gang and the firemen witness a shooting. The gang spots them and they argue about how to get rid of the trespassers.
5) Downfall
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Deutsch
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Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Gertraud (Traudl) Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Führer and his closest advisors.
6) Get Shorty
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English
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Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town.
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English
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A small American army intelligence squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight each other.
8) Suburbia
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
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English
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Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with 'The Rejected' (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a new family. But their new family will be tested when they become the target of 'Citizens Against Crime', a group of unhappy suburbanites.
9) Platoon
Series
Shout select volume 137
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English
Description
A neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one who believes nearby villagers are harboring Viet Cong soldiers, and one who has a more sympathetic view of the locals.
10) Midnight run
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
11) Night hawks
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Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Collector's edition.
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1 Blu-ray (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Series
Shout select volume 26
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (511 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The born losers: A biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran and half-Native American Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers single-handedly. He rescues young Vicky Barrington from their clutches, but then has to contend with not only the thugs, but also the ineffectual and racist local lawmen, who have it out for Billy.
Billy...
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When an author's research for his latest novel turns him into a paranoid wreck, he has to confront his worst fears when a film executive wants to make his novel into a movie.
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Shout select volume 15
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD combo pack.
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1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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:...
16) The Moderns
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life of a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920's Paris.
17) Streets of fire
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amid a brooding rock & roll landscape, the Bombers motorcycle gang, led by the vicious Raven Shaddock, kidnap diva Ellen Aim. Her hope for rescue lies with unlikely heroes: Tom Cody and his sidekick, the two-fisted beer guzzling McCoy.
18) The blue dahlia
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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A WWII veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.
Series
Shout select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95, 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...
20) The tiger hunter
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Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sami Malik travels to 1970s Chicago, hoping to impress his true love back home in India and build a legacy like his legendary tiger hunter father, but when his plans fall through, Sami turns to his new friends in Chicago to help him fulfill his dreams of true love.
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