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Innocents

Lou de Laage · Music Box Films
Format: DVD

Leaves us with a fresh understanding of our capacity to respond to suffering with good or evil, and to find new definitions of grace and vocation. --Justin Chang, Variety

A story of survival and rebuilding from ruins. Theirs is a history worth remembering. --Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

· Universal

The Man Who Invented Christmas tells of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) , Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pittigrew Lives for a Day) , the film shows how Charles...

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American Experience: The President's Collection 2017

Susan Bellows · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

Ten 20th century biographies offer an intimate and compelling look at the men who have defined and re-defined the modern presidency, and who led the country through some of the most turbulent and consequential moments in our history. These presidential biographies have captivated viewers,...
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The Work

Jairus McLeary · Passion River Films
Format: DVD video

This documentary chronicles an intense, four-day group-therapy session involving both convicts at California's Folsom State Prison and volunteers from the outside who are looking to confront their own emotional and psychological issues. Directed by Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous....
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McQueen

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Ride

Jeremy Ungar

A struggling actor by day, James (Jessie T. Usher, Independence Day: Resurgence) pays his bills by driving people around Los Angeles for a ride sharing service. His night starts out like any other, but he can't believe his luck when he picks up the beautiful Jessica (Bella Thorne,...

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Death by Hanging

Nagisa OÌ?shima · The Criterion Collection
Format: DVD video

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment...
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Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War

Joe Russo, Anthony Russo · Marvel
Format: DVD

An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, MARVEL STUDIOS' THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR brings to the screen the ultimate showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt...
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The Silence of the Lambs The Criterion Collection

Jonathan Demme · Criterion Collection
Format: DVD

In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal...
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A Master Builder

Wallace Shawn · Criterion Collection (Direct)
Format: DVD

Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment Vanya on 42nd Street, Wallace Shawn and André Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic big-screen version of a classic play, this time Henrik Ibsen’s Bygmester Solness (Master Builder Solness). Brought pristinely...
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Who We Are Now

Matthew Newton · FilmRise
Format: DVD

Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts)...
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Fellini Satyricon

Martin Potter · Criterion Collection (Direct)
Format: DVD

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence,...
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Spanish Princess, The

Harriet Walter · Starz / Anchor Bay
Format: DVD

Return to the Tudor court for a look at the vivid world of 16th century England and its newest royal force - Catherine of Aragon.
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Studio 54

Ian Schrager, Jack Dushey Steve Rubell · Zeitgeist Films
Format: DVD

For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, tolerance, glitz and glamour, Studio 54 was very hard to gain entrance to and impossible to ignore, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily. Steve Rubell...
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NOVA: Operation Lighthouse Rescue DVD

. · PBS
Format: DVD video

On the picturesque bluffs of Martha's Vineyard, disaster looms. The historic Gay Head Lighthouse, weighing more than 400 tons and soaring 175 feet above the sea, is precipitously close to toppling into the ocean. As a team of engineers attempts to move the iconic red brick structure inland...
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