NEW ADDITIONS AS OF AUGUST 1, 2021
AMAZONS (1986, USA, 83 min.) - Longest version
Director: Alejandro Sessa. Stars: Mindi Miller, PenelopeReed and Joseph Whipp.
Language: English with scenes in German. Subtitles: English on German scenes.
An evil king made a deal with the devil and received a deadly power that will defeat anyone standing in his way. It's up to a fearless warrior to find a magical sword, which's the only weapon that could stop him.
Extras:
English Trailer
Dutch Trailer $25
Image Gallery
THE ANTICHRIST (1974, Italy, 111 min.)
Director: Alberto De Martino. Stars: Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen. Extras: Trailer.
A paralyzed young woman becomes possessed by the Devil when a hypnosis session - intended to heal her disability - accidentally awakens memories of her past life as a witch.
Extras:
Trailer $25
BLACK EMANUELLE (1975, Italy, 96 min)
Director: Bitto Albertini. Stars: Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert and Angelo Infanti.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts.
Extras:
Trailer
Image Gallery $30
CD Soundtrack
BUDDHA (1961, Japan, 156 min.)
Director: Kenji Misumi.Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Charito Solis and Shintarô Katsu.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English.
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly.
$25
GHOST SHIP OF THE BLIND DEAD (1974, Spain, 90 min.)
Director: Amando De Ossorio. Stars: Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor and Bárbara
Rey.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none. Extras. The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.
Extras:
Trailers
Photo Gallery
Easter Egg (well hidden) $25
EMANUELLE IN BANGKOK (1976, Italy, 94 min)
Director: Joe D’Amato. Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti and Ely Galleani.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own. Original title "Emanuelle Nera Orient Reportage" and "Black Emanuelle Goes East".
Extras:
Trailer
Image Gallery
Soundtrack CD $30
THE IMPERIAL TRAGEDY - RASPUTIN (1938, France, 110 min., B&W)
Director: Marcel L'Herbier. Stars: Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal and Pierre Richard-Willm.
Language: French. Subtitles: English.
The story of the Russian monk Rasputin and the influence he had on the court of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II.
$25
BLACK SABBATH (1963, Italy, 97 min.)
Director: Mario Bava. Stars: Boris Karloff, Michèle Mercier and Lidia Alfonsi.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras.
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner. Original Italian version of this Bava classic with original Roberto Nicolosi music score and the original order of the stories.
Extras:
Mark Damon interview
Twice the Fear: featurette examining both versions of the film
Original Italian trailer
U.S. trailer $25
KING KONG ESCAPES (1967, Japan/USA, 104 min.)
Director: Ishiro Honda. Stars: Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama and Linda Miller.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Dr. Huu decides to capture the real King Kong when it becomes clear that his mechanical copy is not capable of digging for the precious mineral he needs, but the giant gorilla escapes and heads to Tokyo to battle it’s mechanical counterpart and stop the evil Dr. Huu.
BD Contents:
Original Japanese Version with English Subtitles (104 min)
Original Japanese Trailer
Interview with star Linda Miller (English)
DVD Contents:
Original Japanese Version with English Subtitles (104 min)
Original Japanese Trailer $30
GOR/OUTLAW OF GOR (1987,1988, USA, 96 min. & 85 min.)
Director: Fritz Kiersch. Stars: Oliver Reed, Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti and Jack Palance.
Language: English. Subtitles: None. Widescreen. Bonus: OUTLAW OF GOR
Gor - the twin planet of the earth hidden behind the sun - is a world in which only one law rules: that of the strongest! Gor is an untamed world, inhabited by wild peoples and fought over by foreign powers. That is where the college professor, Professor Tarl Carbot (Urbano Barberini) involuntarily ends up when the specialist in "unexplored dimensions" is transported through a magical ring through time and space into the barbaric world of Gor. Only the pretty Amazon Talena (Rebecca Ferratti) is at his side here. Because now they have to bring the magic ring to safety from the sadistic and despotic king of Gor (Oliver Reed), who also wants to enslave the earth.
Bonus:
OUTLAW OF GOR (the sequel in 720p and widescreen)
IMAGE GALLERY
$25
ROMULUS AND REMUS (1961, Italy, 108 min.)
Director: Sergio Corbucci. Stars: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott and Virna Lisi.
Language: Optional English or Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.
Extras:
Image Gallery
Interview with stuntman GIOVANNI CIANFRIGLIA
Optional English dubbed or Italian language with English subtitles
$25
GORATH (1962, Japan, 88 min.)
Director: Ishiro Honda. Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa and Akira Kubo.
Language: Japanese with English subtitles. Widescreen.
Language: English dubbed version. Full screen.
In the year 1980, Japan's famed rocket-ship, the JX-1 Hawk is launched from the Mt Fuji Interstellar Exploration Agency site into space There, it discovers that a small, runaway planet, named "Gorath" heading straight towards earth. Scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
BD Extras:
German Trailer
English Trailer
Image Gallery
DVD Extras:
Japanese Trailer
U.S. Trailer
Stills Gallery
U.S. English Dubbed Version (4:3, 86 min.) $30
THE SECRET OF THE INCAS (1954, USA, 101 min.)
Director: Jerry Hopper. Stars: Charlton Heston, Robert Young and Nicole Maurey.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
American adventurer Harry Steele (Heston) earns a living as a seedy tourist guide in Peru but plans to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, a gold Inca treasure. He possesses an ancient carved stone which gives its location but has no means to travel to its hiding place – Machu Picchu.
$25
EL ENIGMA DEL ATAUD (1967, Spain/Germany, 91 min., B&W)
Director: Santos Alcocer. Stars: Howard Vernon, Danielle Godet and María Saavedra.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Faced with the death of a wealthy uncle, his nephews, the only heirs, come to what was once his relative's house to attend the reading of the will. One of the heirs hatches a conspiracy with the help of a woman to harm others, and a murder prompts the intervention of a detective.
$20
DAS SATANS NACKTE SKLAVIN (1959, W. Germany, 95 min., B&W)
Director: Victor Trivas. Stars: Horst Frank, Karin Kernke and Helmut Schmid.
Language: German. Subtitles: English. Fullscreen. Extras: Trailer, Vintage Strip Tease.
The young doctor Ood managed to keep alive the head of his teacher, the famous surgeon Abel, which was removed at the time of the scientist's death. Now, on his advice, Ood is able to perform incredible operations. His most daring experiment is to implant the splendid head of a deformed nun on the perfect body of a dancer. AKA: "Satan's Naked Slave Girl", more commonly known as "The Head"
$20
CARNE (1968, Argentina, 89 min.)
Director: Armando Bo. Stars: Isabel Sarli, Victor Bo and Romualdo Quiroga.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
A beautiful, humble and honest young woman is engaged to a painter with whom she plans to marry and start a family. One day, on her way to work at the meat packing company, she is brutally raped by a co-worker. The malefactor constantly harasses her and reiterates the fact on other occasions, until one day when she was totally obfuscated, he sells her to the highest bidder among other co-workers.
$20
ANTINEA, QUEEN OF THE LOST KINGDOM (1961, Italy, 93 min.)
Director: Edgar G. Ulme. Stars: Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Georges Rivière.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
The kingdom of Atlantis lies luxuriantly beneath the Sahara desert, beautifully ruled by the ruler Aintinea. Three French technicians from a nuclear power plant who escaped a helicopter accident pay us a forced visit.
$15
EL JARDIN SECRETO (1984, Spain, 100 min.)
Director: Carlos Suárez. Stars: Assumpta Serna, Xabier Elorriaga and Taida Urruzola.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Lucia is a computer expert who relieves stress through secret nightly s&m sessions, where she plays the sub. One day, a letter from her supposedly dead ex lover arrives, so she and her new partner investigate the matter. AKA "The Secret Garden".
$20
AUTUMN BORN (1979, USA, 73 min.)
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl. Stars: Dorothy Stratten, Ihor Procak and Nate MacIntosh.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline."
$20
ALONE AGAINST ROME (1962, Italy, 89 min.)
Directors: Luciano Ricci and Riccardo Freda. Stars: Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podestà and Philippe Leroy.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none.
After the Roman conquest of the city of Alesia, the tribune Silla is appointed as administrator who proceeds to subjugate the city. He captures the two men, Goruk and Brenno, and lets them fight as gladiators. They decide to form a resistance group.
$20
I MARRIED A SPY (1937, U.K., 60 min., B&W)
Director: Edmond T. Gréville. Stars: Neil Hamilton, Brigitte Horney and Gyles Isham.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Lena, a German girl living in Paris, is having a bad time when WW1 breaks out. She's sent to a concentration camp, but the French realize that, since she speaks German, she could be a wonderful spy. Original British title: “Secret Lives”.
$15
LE ALTRE (1969, Italy, 85 min.)
Director: Renzo Maietto. Erna Schurer, Monica Strebel and Flavio Bucci.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Flavia and Sandy are lovers, and their greatest wish is to have a baby. So the race in search of the ideal inseminator starts: after having rejected various candidates, the choice falls on a Catholic. But when the media comes to find out that a couple of women have a child, the scandal erupts. AKA "The Others".
$20
MANIA (1974, Italy, 85 min.)
Director: Renato Polselli. Stars: Brad Euston, Ivana Giordan and Isarco Ravaioli.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Professor Brecht finds out his wife Lisa is having an affair with his twin brother Giordano. His brother disappears under mysterious circumstances and he takes his place, pretending to be him, driving his wife crazy.
$20
LA STREGA IN AMORE (1966, Italy, 110 min., B&W)
Director: Damiano Damiani. Stars: Richard Johnson, Rosanna Schiaffino and Gian Maria Volontè.
Language: English dubbed or Italian original. Subtitles: English.
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work. AKA "The Witch In Love".
$20
THE VIOLENT FACE OF NEW YORK (1973, Italy/Mexico/USA, 90 min.)
Director: Jorge Darnell. Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Fernando Rey and Sergio Jiménez.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
In the slums of the Big Apple with Fernando Rey in a raw metropolitan drama. A Mexican boy in search of fortune decides to leave his city and moves to New York, but is framed by a gang that blackmails illegal immigrants like him. Falling in love with the boss's woman, a girl treated like a slave by her boss, he will try to free himself from the grip of crime by fleeing with her to Mexico. But the betrayed boss has no intention of letting them go and sets out on their trail.
$20
METTI, UNA SERA A CENA (1969, Italy, 124 min.)
Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Tony Musante and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. AKA: "Love Circle", "Suppose, A Night At Dinner".
$20
INTIMATE STRANGER (1991, USA, 96 min.)
Director: Allan Holzman. Stars: Debbie Harry, James Russo and Paige French.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
Cory is a bar singer and phone sex operator, who "witnesses" a murder on the phone. A cop helps her in his spare time in tracing the killer and protecting her.
$20
THE GIRL WITH THE CAT EYES (1958, Germany, 89 min., B&W)
Director: Eugen York. Stars: Vera Tschechowa, Joachim Fuchsberger and Wolfgang Preiss.
Language: German. Subtitles: English.
A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector.
$20
HOTLINE (1982, USA, 96 min.)
Director: Jerry Jameson. Stars: Lynda Carter, Steve Forrest and Granville Van Dusen.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
A beautiful telephone operator is stalked by a murderous madman.
$13
LA CHOCA (1974, Mexico, 94 min.)
Director: Emilio Fernández. Stars: Pilar Pellicer, Mercedes Carreño and Armando Silvestre.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Fullscreen (4:3)
Martin lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, and his son, little Martin, and Flor, Choca's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling. During his abscence, three men arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and set a trap to capture him. When he arrives, all hell breaks loose, and out of the carnage only La Choca survives.
$20
HAND OF NIGHT (1969, U.K., 90 min.)
Director: Frederic Goode. Stars: William Sylvester, Diane Clare and Aliza Gur.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen (4:3)
A tourist travelling through the desert comes at night upon a lavish Moorish castle wherein he is entertained by a mysterious wealthy woman. He departs and returns in the morning to find the place has vanished. His inquiries only bring fear and hostility from the local villagers. He gradually finds himself lured into a deadly and sinister mystery.
$20
LA PUNITION (1973, France, 95 min.)
Director: Pierre-Alain Jolivet. Stars: Karin Schubert, Georges Géret and Amidou.
Language: French. Subtitles: English.
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accommodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
Sourced from a Japanese print which may contain blurring on below the waist frontal nudity.
AKA: “The Punishment”.
This is quite a rarity for Karin Schubert fans.
$20
RANA, THE LEGEND OF SHADOW LAKE (1981, USA, 96 min.)
Director: Bill Rebane. Stars: Paul Callaway, Richard Lange and Glenn Scherer.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
When Kelly Morgan was 11 years old he had a terrifying encounter with Rana, a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake. The creature killed his father and many other people before Kelly destroyed it. Now as a young man he returns to search for the monster's hidden treasure, and to see if the legendary creature really was killed.
$20
DR. CRIPPEN LIVES (1958, Germany, 83 min., B&W)
Director: Erich Engel. Stars: Elisabeth Müller, Peter van Eyck and Fritz Tillmann.
Language: German. Subtitles: English. Fullscreen (4:3) 1.37:1
Just one day after the execution of the murderer Dr. Crippen in England, it turns out that the convict was not Dr. Crippen, but his assistant who had acted in his place. Dr. Crippen is alive and, with a new look, resumes his old activities as a scientist and murderer. He murdered a French researcher couple who developed a healing serum against snake venom. Since Crippen did not come into possession of the formula, Fleur, the couple's daughter, is his next destination as it is believed that she has the manuscript of the formula somewhere in her possession.
$25
Translated for and subtitled by CFV. No one else offers this with English subtitles, if at all.
SUMMER CAMP NIGHTMARE (1987,USA, 90 min.)
Director: Bert L. Dragin. Stars: Chuck Connors, Charlie Stratton and Harold Pruett.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen (4:3)
A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
*Note: This was mastered to digital from PAL VHS many years ago. At approx 59min there is a digital pixilation for about 5 secs.
$20
SURROGATE (1984, USA, 95 min.)
Director: Don Carmody. Stars: Art Hindle, Shannon Tweed and Carole Laure.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen (4:3)
Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police is baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.
$20
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SEI KAZUKO (1971, Japan, 73 min., B&W/Color)
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu. Stars: Tamaki Katori, Miki Hayashi and Yôko Mutô.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A military father dominates his family s*xually and violently. AKA: "Sexy Family"
$20
SUBMERSION OF JAPAN (1973, Japan, 143min.)
Director: Shirô Moritani. Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka and Tetsurô Tanba.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras: Trailer.
The original 1973 full Japanese version without the inserted American actors and storyline. Japan is on the verge of a massive disaster which is believed will submerge the entire country. All anyone can do is hope that other countries around the world will allow Japanese people to migrate there before Japan is wiped off the map completely. AKA: “Tidal Wave”.
$20
SINKING OF JAPAN (2006, Japan, 140 min.)
Director: Shinji Higuchi. Stars: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ko Shibasaki and Etsushi Toyokawa.
Language: Japanese.Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras.
Remake of the 1973 disaster classic "Submersion of Japan". Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The government's only hope is evacuate all Japanese to other countries.
Extras: Various trailers for the film and over 1 hour of deleted scenes. Dual-layer DVD9.
$25
SENSUALIDAD (1951, Mexico, 96 min., B&W)
Director: Alberto Gout. Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Fernando Soler and Domingo Soler.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
The harsh judge Alejandro Luque becomes obsessed with Aurora, a prostitute whom he himself sentenced to prison. The irrepressible desire will lead him to renounce all his principles and to skip any rule to achieve possession.
$20
SOBRENATURAL (1996, Mexico, 100 min.)
Director: Daniel Gruener. Stars: Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi and Ricardo Blume.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Dolores returns home one afternoon to find a killer creating havoc in her apartment block. A woman from the floor below is murdered. Following this, Dolores becomes more and more paranoid and finally convinced that satanic forces are at work.
AKA "All of Them Witches".
$20
ROSAURA AT 10 (1958, Argentina, 100 min., B&W)
Director: Mario Soffici. Stars: Juan Verdaguer, Susana Campos and María Luisa Robledo.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Using an old photograph, Camilo invents a sexy girlfriend so as to arouse the interest of his true love, his landlady’s daughter. And then one day, Rosaura shows up in the flesh.
$20
SANTO VS THE VICE MAFIA (1971, Mexico, 95 min.)
Director: Federico Curiel. Stars: Santo, Elsa Cárdenas and Patricia Ferrer.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Santo fights against a gang of drug traffickers who supply narcotics to the cabarets of Mexico.
$20
L’IMMORALITA (1978, Italy, 105 min.)
Director: Massimo Pirri. Stars: Lisa Gastoni, Howard Ross, Mel Ferrer and Karin Trentephol.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and her mother.
$20
THE SEED OF MAN (1969, Italy, 100 min.)
Director: Marco Ferreri. Stars: Stars: Marzio Margine, Anne Wiazemsky and Annie Girardot.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future, the majority of the European population is wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what serves as the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in, and use that time to conceive a child. They are later visited by an enigmatic group of black-clothed, initially threatening vigilantes, who are evidently satisfied with the couple when they hear that a child is contemplated. However, despite her evident fondness for Cino, Dora is reluctant to try to conceive a baby. Then their domestic tranquility is interrupted by a beautiful French interloper who seems as if she is more than willing to fill in for Nora.
$20
THE LONG NIGHTS OF VERONIQUE (aka BUT YOU WERE DEAD, Italy, 1966, 86 min.)
Director: Gianni Vernuccio. Stars: Alba Rigazzi, Sandro Pizzochero and Cristina Gaioni.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English.
Fifty years after her death, Véronique's ghost haunts the villa of a wealthy aristocrat in search of his old love. A very rare film. Its only home video release was an Italian VHS. Image quality is the best available on this obscurity.
$18
ONDATA DI CALORE (1970, Italy, 89 min.)
Director: Nelo Risi. Stars: Stars: Jean Seberg, Luigi Pistilli and Lilia Nguyen.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English.
Joyce is alone in her luxurious apartment in Morocco during a heat wave. While trying to cool down, she shows signs of sexual frustration and anxiety. She holds a party, goes to the beach and meets her physician. But where's her husband? Full uncut version from an Italian TV airing. AKA: "Heat Wave", "Dead of Summer".
$20
PLAY MURDER FOR ME (1990, USA, 80min.)
Director: Héctor Olivera. Stars: Jack Wagner, Tracy Scoggins and William Paul Burns.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen 4:3
Paul Slater, a down and out saxophone player, runs into his former lover at his nightclub in Buenos Aires. Tricia seduces Paul into helping her kill her wealthy underworld husband. Paul is now trapped between love and the law in a gripping noir ending.
$20
OUTSIDE THE WALL (1950, USA, 79 min., B&W)
Director: Crane Wilbur. Stars: Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell and Signe Hasso.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Thriller of an ex-prisoner who becomes aware of a gang plot trying to find the hoard of a former colleague.
$15
LOVE SLAVES OF THE AMAZONS (1957, USA, 81 min.)
Director: Curt Siodmak. Stars: Don Taylor, Gianna Segale and Eduardo Ciannelli.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
Mastered from a VHS which has signs of wear but this is a very rare film. Priced accordingly.
$13
NIGHT GAMES (1966, Sweden, 105 min.)
Director: Mai Zetterling. Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm and Jörgen Lindström.
Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English.
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood in the house of his eccentric and erotic mother. Original title: "Nattlek".
$20
THIS PAGE IS DESCENDING. LATEST ADDITIONS ARE FARTHER DOWN.
AS ALWAYS, NEWLY SUBTITLED MOVIES ON DVD WILL BE PRICED AT $25 TO COVER THE COSTS OF PAYING TRANSLATORS.
NEW ADDITIONS AS OF OCTOBER 8, 2021
CLASH (1984, France, 98 min.)
Director: Raphaël Delpard. Stars: Catherine Alric, Pierre Clémenti and Bernard Fresson.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Extras: Trailer.
A young woman has to take some dirty money to an abandoned warehouse and wait for a couple of gangsters to join here. Alone in this isolated place, she's suddenly accompanied by a man who's come to open the doors to other places...
$25
POSSESSION (1981, France/W. Germany, 124 min.)
Director: Andrzej Zulawski. Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill and Margit Carstensen.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Extras.
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Extras:
Audio Commentary with director Andrzej Zulawski
The Other Side of the Wall: The Making of POSSESSION
Video interview with director Andrzej Zulawski
Video interview with translator Eric Veaux
$25
I AM SEMIRAMIS (1963, Italy, 101 min.) BD/DVD Combo
Director: Primo Zeglio. Stars: Yvonne Furneaux, John Ericson and Renzo Ricci.
Language: BD, Italian with English subtitles. DVD, English dubbed. Widescreen.
Story of an ancient Assyrian queen that supposedly took place around 810 B.C.
NOTE: The English dubbed DVD version contains scenes not present in the Italian language Blu-ray. Rather than install these scenes into the HD Blu-ray, it was better to keep them intact in the SD DVD version. Blu-ray contains English subtitles.
$30
MISTERIOS DE LA MAGIA NEGRA (1958, Mexico, 73 min., B&W)
Director: Miguel M. Delgado. Stars: Nadia Haro, Oliva Carlos Riquelme and Aldo Monti.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Stage magician Eglé Elohim offers a show that is causing a sensation. An archaeology professor who is
also a great specialist in the history of magic, attends one of her shows and attempts do find out how she knows what she knows.
$25
RETORNO A LA JUVENTUD (1954, Mexico, 101 min., B&W)
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro. Stars: Enrique Rambal, Rosario Granados and Carlos López Moctezuma.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love, but the things don't go as he planned. AKA: "Return To Youth"
$25
UNKNOWN GUEST (1943, USA, 61 min., B&W)
Director: Kurt Neumann. Stars: Victor Jory, Pamela Blake and Veda Ann Borg.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
$13
(VHS mastered, a bit dark but overall not the worst)
THE MAN WHO DARED (1946, USA, 66 min., B&W)
Director: John Sturges. Stars: Leslie Brooks, George Macready and Forrest Tucker.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
$15
(VHS mastered,)
ISLAND OF THE LOST (1921, Germany, 61 min., B&W)
Director: Urban Gad. Stars: Fritz Beckmann, Hans Behrendt and Loo Bell.
Language: German title cards with English subtitles.
A very loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
$20
GUNGALA, THE NAKED PANTHER WOMAN (1968, Italy, 88 min.)
Director: Ruggero Deodato. Stars: Kitty Swan, Micaela Pignatelli and Angelo Infanti.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras: Image Gallery, Ruggero Deodato interview.
An insurance company, led by a wealthy English family, organized an expedition to Africa to find a lost heiress who has been raised in the wild as Gungala and one of the explorers falls in love with her.
$25
GUNGALA, VIRGIN OF THE JUNGLE (1967, Italy, 87 min.)
Director: Romano Ferrara. Stars: Kitty Swan, Linda Veras and Poldo Bendandi.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras: Trailer, Image Gallery.
Two unscrupulous explorers rob a sacred diamond from the Basoko tribe of leopard-men. Their white queen, Gungala, and her pet, a black panther, lead the revenge to impose the justice of the jungle.
$25
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944, USA, 72 min., B&W)
Director: William Cameron Menzies. Stars: Paul Lukas, Mady Christians and Morris Carnovsky.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.
$15
OS VIOLENTADORES DE MENINAS VIRGENS (1982, Brazil, 78 min.)
Director: Francisco Cavalcanti. Stars: Salvador Amaral, Francisco Cavalcanti and Suely Conti.
Language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English.
A band of kidnappers are out seeking young, virgins for sex trafficking to three wealthy men who pay small fortunes to deflower them. But after their depravity is finished, they kill off the women so that their secret is never found out. Things get really spicy when one of the wealthy men of the group notices his own daugther among the newly kidnapped virgins.
$25
(Mastered from a very rare Brazilian VHS)
A MENINA DO SEXO DIABOLICO (1987, Brazil, 93 min.)
Director: Mario Lima. Stars: Makerley Reis, Walter Gabarron and Nelson Carlos Magalhães.
Language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English. Fullscreen.
Rosana, a virgin girl, is going to the farm of his uncles to forgot of a loving deception. She falls in love for his cousin Cláudio (Walter Gabarron), loses the virginity and, in the absence of her lover, is raped and brutally killed by her three brothers-in-law. Possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, Cláudio initiates a bloody revenge against his own family.
$25
(Mastered from a very rare Brazilian VHS)
TERROR OF THE RED MASK (1960, Italy, 87 min.)
Director: Luigi Capuano. Stars: Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso and Livio Lorenzo.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen. Extras: English dubbed VHS version.
In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.
NOTE: The opening credits on the main Italian language feature are a bit squashed for some reason. But once the opening credits end, the rest of the movie is in it's correct aspect ratio.
Extras:
The English dubbed 1990's VHS version is added as an extra. It is of subpar quality.
Quality: Italian w/English subtitles 8/10
Quality: English dubbed VHS 4:3 version 6.5/10
$25
SUPER DUDE (1974, USA, 76 min.)
Director: Henry Hathaway. Stars: Cliff Potts, Marki Bey and William Elliott.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen 4:3
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher.
$15
(VHS mastered)
TWISTED NIGHTMARE (1987, USA, 95 min.)
Director: Paul Hunt. Stars: Rhonda Gray, Cleve Hall and Robert Padilla.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.
$20
AI MARGINI DELLA METROPOLI (1953, Italy, 86min., B&W)
Director: Carlo Lizzani and Massimo Mida. Stars: Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti and Giulietta Masina.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English.
Mario Ilari, a worker without a job, ends up in trouble when he is accused of the murder of a young woman, of whom he professes to be innocent. Although all the evidence seems to indicate him as guilty, attorney Roberto Marini decides to accept the assignment, at the request of his typist, friend of Gina, who is in love with Mario. When all seems lost, a second corpse emerges from the investigation, leading the investigation on the trail of the real murderer. AKA: "At the Edge of the City", "At the Edge of Metropolis".
$25
COONSKIN (aka STREET FIGHT)
Director: Ralph Bakshi. Stars: Barry White, Charles Gordone and Scatman Crothers.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Extra: Trailer.
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.
$25
NEW ADDITIONS AS OF NOVEMBER 12, 2021
PSYCHO GIRLS (1986, Canada, 96 min.)
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti. Stars: John Haslett Cuff, Darlene Mignacco and Rose Graham.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
A grisly tale of sibling rivalry unfolds when Victoria falsely accuses her sister, Sarah, of fatally poisoning their parents. For 12 years, Sarah has been securely locked away in an insane asylum. Now she is out, and free to take revenge on Victoria...and all those who sheltered her during the years.
$15
REDNECK (1973, Italy/UK, 94 min.)
Director: Silvio Narizzano. Stars: Franco Nero, Telly Savalas and Mark Lester.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
Sadism and sleaze dominate this fast-paced film about the getaway aftermath of a heist-gone-wrong-turned-kidnapping.
$20
BLACK APHRODITE (1977, Greece, 92 min.)
Director: Pavlos Filippou. Stars: Ajita Wilson, Annik Borel and Pavlos Filippou.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
European softcore meets American blaxploitation when a sexy black heroine (Ajita Wilson) attempts to single-handedly take down an international arms-smuggling ring in Greece.
$20
SWEET HOME (1989, Japan, 100 min.)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Shingo Yamashiro and Nokko.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter’s wife.
$20
NAKED IN THE SAND (1969, Argentina, 90 min.)
Director: Armando Bó. Stars: Isabel Sarli, Jorge Porcel and Fanny Navarro.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen (4:3)
Sarli plays the role of Alicia, a wife whose husband goes to work in Panama, leaving her and their son in Argentina. She decides to travel to make money as a go-go dancer, also leaving her young son behind. She meets Ricardo, with whom she develops a rather unique relationship; they coconspire to extort random wealthy men by having Alicia pretend to be a sexual escort, all while Rocardo takes photographs of the bedroom antics with the threat of blackmail.
$20
IL CROLLO DI ROMA (1963, Italy, 84 min.)
Director: Antonio Margheriti. Stars: Carl Möhner, Loredana Nusciak and Evelyn Stewart.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.After the death of Emperor Constantine in Rome, the persecutions of the Christians threaten the centurion Marco forced to become a gladiator, fighting for the freedom of the Christians. However, Rome is suddenly hit by an earthquake.
$20
RUMPELSTILTSKIN (1960, East Germany, 69 ,im.)
Director: Christoph Engel. Stars: Karl-Heinz Rothin, Karin Lesch and Reinhard Michalke.
Language: German. Subtitles: English. Full screen.
Because of miller Kunz's boastfulness, his daughter Marie is imprisoned in the castle. Kunz claimed that she could spin straw into gold and now she is supposed to fill the king's empty coffers. Suddenly, a dwarf appears to the desperate Marie, offering to spin all the straw into gold if she promised him her first-born child. In her hour of need, the miller's daughter consents. A year later, Marie has married the king and their child is born. All of a sudden, the dwarf reappears, demanding his reward. Terrified, Marie implores him to let her keep her child. The dwarf responds with magnanimity, agreeing to waive his claim if she can guess his name.
$20
GUINEA PIG VOL 1: THE DEVIL’S EXPERIMENT/FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD
(1985, Japan, Made For Video)
Directors: Satoru Ogura and Hideshi Hino.
GUINEA PIG 1: DEVIL’S EXPERIMENT is the first video release in the Guinea Pig series. It is set up like a fake snuff film and shows a woman being tortured by three men in various ways.
GUINEA PIG 2: FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD
Infamous Manga artist Hideshi Hibino received an 8mm snuff film in the mail. After contacting the Japanese police and handing over the evidence, Mr. Hibino created a semi-documentary film on what he witnessed. The Flower of Flesh and Blood is a recreation of the snuff film that is in the hands of the Tokyo Police. Now that you know, do you have the guts?
$25
STAR POTRAL (1997, USA/Ireland, Made For Video, 78 min.)
Director: Jon Purdy. Stars: Athena Massey, Steven Bauer and Stephen Davies.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
An alien from a race dying of a disease, crashes on Earth and assumes the body of a human. She then precedes to take blood from other humans to send back to her planet.
$18
LE MANOIR DE LA PEUR (1924, France, 83 min., B&W)
Directors: Alfred Machin and Henry Wulschleger. Stars: Romuald Joubé, Gabriel de Gravone and Cinq-Léon.
Language: French Title Card with English Subtitles.
Since a mysterious stranger and his servant settled in a mansion on the outskirts of a Provencal village, a wave of crimes has hit the country and sows terror among the inhabitants. The young Jean Lormeau, refusing to give in to fear, goes to meet the disturbing owner to unravel his secret.
$20
EL MUSEO DEL CRIMEN (1945, Mexico, 80 min., B&W)
Director: René Cardona. Stars: David T. Bamberg, Pituka de Foronda and Ricardo Mondragón.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
Note: The frame rate of this copy is jittery (like watching a vintage film projector). The source went from NTSC to PAL back to NTSC by the time CFV got it. And somewhere along the way, someone duplicated it in the wrong frame rate. However, CFV (with the help of translator Alberto, who did his best with the audio) have provided the subtitles. No one else offers this rarity in an English friendly version.
$20.
LA CASA EMBRUJADA (1949, Mexico, 70 min., B&W)
Director: René Cardona. Stars: David T. Bamberg, Mary Clark and Carlos Martínez Baena.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
The last film in the series of the magician Fu Manchu, which follows his adventures in a supposedly haunted house.
English subtitled by CFV.
$20