Genres: Music
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: IMVD Blueline
Starring: Ronnie James Dio
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ronnie James Dio, one of heavy metal's all-time greatest singers died less than a year after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was 67. With his powerful signature vocals and doom-laden lyrics, Ronnie James Dio fronted several iconic bands during his career: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and, of course, Dio. Possessed with one of the most recognizable voices in rock music, Dio's onstage theatrics, medieval themes and cool stage presence helped win the adulation of generations of metal fans and musicians. This unauthorized DVD contains interviews, perfomances and stories about Ronnie J.Dio.
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Lloyd Richards
Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Courtney B. Vance, Lou Myers, Tim Hartman, Zelda Harris, Tommy Hollis
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: John Carr, Phillip Marshak
Starring: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas, Melanie Montilla, Chantel Morogeus, Byron Yordan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie.
Genres: Music
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Principal Paul A. Currie has had over 20 years experience in the music industry, from song writing to performing and teaching. Paul shares a passion for music which is unsurpassed when it comes to the nurturing and development of young emerging talent. He conducts songwriting and performance lessons to a range of students from the ages of 12 to 33 students who want to be Rock Stars.
Year: 1963
Country: USA
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Ursula Andress, Elvis Presley, Paul Lukas, Marco López, Larry Domasin, Alejandro Rey, Robert Carricart
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico. He is angry at Mike for taking some of his hours, and stealing his woman.
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Sam Grossman
Starring: Danny DeVito, Connie Hoffman, Donald Elson, Deborah White, Bill Adler, Jim Kester, Steve Oliver
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Bobby is a shy Los Angeles teenager who buys a sleek chevy van for himself to impress, pick up, and seduce various teenage girls to spruce up his dull life while trying to get money by drag racing other vans to finance operating it.
Genres: History, Documentary, Biography
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Starring: Sean Penn, Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, Arthur Gorson, Christopher Hitchens, Jac Holzman, Michael Ochs
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s. In this biographical documentary, veteran director Kenneth Bowser shows how Phil's music and his fascinating life story and eventual decline into depression and suicide were intertwined with the history-making events that defined a generation. Even as his contemporaries moved into folk-rock and pop music, Phil followed his own vision, challenging himself and his listeners. Not one to pull punches, Ochs never achieved the commercial success he desperately desired. But hi...
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1996
Country: USA, France
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Jane Adams, Dermot Mulroney, Miranda Richardson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brooke Smith, Tim Snay
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local politician in an attempt to blackmail him into using his connections to free Johnny. Despite this being election time, he risks exposure by putting the political machine into action to free Johnny and thereby save his wife. Mrs. Stilton, meanwhile, has befriended Blondie and is impressed by her love and devotion to Johnny, especially in contrast to her...
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Allison Anders
Starring: Illeana Douglas, Christina Pickles, John Turturro, Richard Schiff, Tegan West, Diane Robin, Jill Sobule
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph in realizing her dream to record her own hit album.
Year: 2000
Country: UK, France
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Nicola Blackwell, Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood, Mike Elliot, Stuart Wells
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: John Landis
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?
Year: 2002
Country: Canada
Director: Michael Dowse
Starring: David Lawrence, Paul Spence, Gordon Skilling, Andrew Sparacino, Tracey Lawrence, S.C. Lim, Sage Lawrence
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 1990
Country: UK
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Arturo Venegas, Alan Rickman, David Ryall, Juliet Stevenson, Bill Paterson, Michael Maloney, Deborah Findlay
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Once upon a time there were two people in love, their names were Nina and Jamie. They were even happy enough to be able to live happily ever after, (not often the case) and then Jamie died. Nina is left with a house full of rats and handymen, a job teaching foreigners English and an ache that fills the night sky.
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Jane Lynch, Jeff Garlin, Emma Stone, Howard Hesseman, Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he's always thought he deserved, and taking the young ba...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
Year: 1942
Country: USA
Director: William Morgan
Starring: Pierre Watkin, Jean Porter, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, William Haade, Edith Fellows, Sarah Padden
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Michael Schultz
Starring: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Ernie Reyes Jr., Mike Starr, Jim Moody, Taimak, Christopher Murney, Julius Carry
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Steve Kloves
Starring: Xander Berkeley, Ken Lerner, Dakin Matthews, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Albert Hall
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond, a former 'escort' who needs some refinement, but the act begins to take off again. While the act is now successful, both Frank and Jack have problems with their life on the road. Susie becomes the agent that makes them re-evaluate where they are going, and how honest they have been with each other.
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Director: Gordon Parks
Starring: Paul Benjamin, Roger E. Mosley, Albert Hall, Art Evans, John Henry Faulk, Alan Manson, Madge Sinclair
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Genres: Documentary, Music
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: John Scheinfeld
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Eric Idle, Ray Cooper, Terry Gilliam, Micky Dolenz, Mark Hudson, Gerry Beckley
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The documentary explores the enigmatic life and music of Harry Nilsson in an attempt to answer the question, "Who is Harry Nilsson?" The film includes new and archive audio and film including interviews with Robin Williams, Yoko Ono, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Ray Cooper, the Smothers Brothers, and Micky Dolenz. "Who is Harry Nilsson?" uses promotional films, music videos, and home movies; segments from the unreleased documentary made during the recording of Son of Schmilsson (Did Somebody Drop His Mouse?); and excerpts from Nilsson's rare TV appearances in his BBC specials, the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", "Playboy After Dark", and in...
Genres: Documentary, Music
Year: 1960
Country: USA
Director: Aram Avakian, Bert Stern
Starring: Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Chuck Berry, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Giuffre, Henry Grimes, Sonny Stitt
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.