Desert Hearts (Blu-Ray)

The Third Man has been beautifully restored in 4K for the first time, showcasing the genius of this celebrated British noir, voted the ‘The greatest British film of all time’ by a British Film Institute poll. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton, Citizen Kane ), a naïve writer of pulp westerns, arrives in Vienna to meet his […]

Under andra världskriget var amerikanen Robert och italienaren Antonio bästa vänner. Fyrtio år senare återvänder den nu sönderstressade och pillerknaprande Robert till Neapel i affärer och råkar av en slump stöta ihop med sin charmige, livsälskande vän. Åter dras de nu grånande herrarna till varandra och Antonio får sin vän att pausa ekorrhjulet en stund […]

Borg är en film om hur legender formades ur rivalitet, vänskap och glamour i en tid då allt var möjligt. En berättelse om en svensk ikons stora genombrott som skildrar åren då Björn Borg gjorde resan från Södertälje till världseliten, om hans största kamp som utkämpades 1980 i mötet med den amerikanska supertalangen John McEnroe […]

Michael Haneke is one of contemporary cinema’s most provocative and challenging directors. Like his previous features Amour, The White Ribbon and Hidden, Happy End is an incisive and bitingly satirical exploration of middle class life, and the Laurents are a very Haneke clan. The ageing patriarch (played with gusto by Amour’s Jean-Louis Trintignant) is keen […]

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it […]

Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in […]

The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile […]

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s intense drama about racial tensions starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier… A pivotal early film in the wave of racially progressive dramas of the 1950s and 60s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s No Way Out is an electrifying film-noir about a doctor whose ethics are put to the test when he comes into conflict […]