Near Dark
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Horror
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Roger Aaron Brown, Jenette Goldstein, Troy Evans, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Tim Thomerson, Robert Winley
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Lone Wolf McQuade
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Steve Carver
Starring: David Carradine, Daniel Frishman, Barbara Carrera, R.G. Armstrong, William Sanderson, Chuck Norris, John Anderson
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.
Miami Connection
Year: 1986
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Director: Woo-sang Park, Y.K. Kim
Starring: Maurice Smith, Y.K. Kim, Vincent Hirsch, Joseph Diamond, Angelo Janotti, Kathy Collier, William Eagle
Available Quality: Hi Def
A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.
Kindering
Genres: Short
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: Hi Def
Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a picket fence, a Big Wheels trike. The grass is green and lush. A soundtrack mixes a chorus, swelling strings, and a child vocalizing. The effect is to idealize the images.
Kiki's Delivery Service
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year: 1989
Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Minami Takayama, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Rei Sakuma, Chika Sakamoto, Kôichi Yamadera, Takaya Hashi, Kappei Yamaguchi
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod
This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now thirteen years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home.
Lambada
Genres: Drama
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Joel Silberg
Starring: Gina Ravera, Melora Hardin, Dennis Burkley, Basil Hoffman, Ricky Paull Goldin, Rita Bland, J. Eddie Peck
Available Quality: Hi Def
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.
Videodrome
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Year: 1983
Country: Canada
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Deborah Harry, Jack Creley, Leslie Carlson, James Woods, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Lynne Gorman
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.
House of the Long Shadows
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1983
Country: UK
Director: Pete Walker
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, John Carradine, Peter Cushing, Julie Peasgood, Norman Rossington, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
High Road to China
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 1983
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Starring: Tom Selleck, Robert Morley, Brian Blessed, Wilford Brimley, Michael Sheard, Jack Weston, Cassandra Gava
Available Quality: Hi Def
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Howard the Duck
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Willard Huyck
Starring: Lea Thompson, Paul Guilfoyle, Ed Gale, Jeffrey Jones, Jordan Prentice, Tim Robbins, Chip Zien
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The story begins of a sarcastic humanoid duck the size of a man by the name of Howard from outer space is pulled from his home world to Earth through a laser beam and somehow winds up in Cleavland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlords at all costs.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: John McNaughton
Starring: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Mary Demas, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden, Denise Sullivan
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door" and the serial killer. Low budget movie, with some graphic murder scenes.
I... Dreaming
Genres: Short
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Bearthm Brakhage, Neowyn Brakhage, Rarc Brakhage
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow as we watch a solitary man in shadows in an unadorned house: he stretches out, he picks his feet, he walks across a room, he rocks in a chair. Occasionally he watches two young children at play; the film sometimes speeds up. Handwritten words, like "dark void" and "waiting longing," cross the screen. Film and phrases often come in short bursts. Outdoor it looks gray and cold.
Hannah and Her Sisters
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: J.T. Walsh, Michael Caine, John Turturro, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Barbara Hershey, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hipocondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Tha...
Glaze of Cathexis
Genres: Short
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
Duplicity III
Genres: Short
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: Hi Def
Stan Brakhage was always acutely aware of time in his work, even if only to disrupt it through layering and superimposition, the tools by which Brakhage frequently undercut the passage of time. Time works strangely in Brakhage's work: his editing is often fast, even frantic, and an image can last barely a second or two before being replaced with another, so the films seem to move very quickly, propelled forward by the perception of great speed. And yet time is also stretched and warped in his work, elongated through repetition so that a single moment can recur as Brakhage loops back to it again and again, returning obsessively to the same ima...
Deathtrap
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Tony DiBenedetto, Henry Jones, Irene Worth, Joe Silver
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney's review and advice. The play, "Deathtrap," is a five character, two act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as Sidney says, "A gifted director couldn't even hurt it." Using his penchant for plot, and out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with Myra, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme: They'll lure the would-be playwright to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as Sidney's ow...
Fright Night
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Tom Holland
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Art Evans, Pamela Brown, Nick Savage, Stephen Geoffreys
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charlie's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money...
Fletch
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: George Wyner, Tony Longo, M. Emmet Walsh, Bill Henderson, Geena Davis, Joe Don Baker, Ralph Seymour
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that...
From Beyond
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Dale Wyatt, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Andy Miller, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment.
Flight of the Navigator
Genres: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Year: 1986
Country: USA, Norway
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Cliff De Young, Paul Reubens, Howard Hesseman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler, Veronica Cartwright, Joey Cramer
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A 12 year old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, David hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time David 'comes back', a flying saucer is found, entangled in electricity cables.