The time is the success-driven '50s; Tommy Wilhelm is a middle-aged man who has just lost his salesman's job. Margaret, his wife, is on the verge of divorce and fully intends to take him to the cleaners whether he has an income or not. Doctor Adler, Tommy's judgmental father, cannot abide having a failure in the family and refuses to lend his son a single penny.. In desperation, Tommy heads to New York City, where his old wheeler-dealer pal Dr. Tamkin has promised him a job. Even there, however, Tommy is defeated by the cold-shoulder treatment afforded him by the people whose opinions he values most..

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore's quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women-the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell - caught in a toxic romance. By turns mesmerizing and unsettling, KAMIKAZE HEARTS is both a fascinating record of pre-gentrification San Francisco's X-rated underground and an intense, searing love story. The film offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.

A bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.

Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, The sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.

This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test.. Winner of the Special Prize for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

This Oscar-nominated drama follows a group of intellectual friends during a country holiday. As the conversation naturally turns to sex, the men brag about their promiscuity while their female counterparts dish on their own exploits at a nearby gym. But what was a fun and titillating topic devolves into the catalyst of hurt feelings and accusations when an unexpected dinner guest reveals some shocking secrets.. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.. "The mistake, in viewing THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE is to think it's about sex. It is really about what has replaced sex in our society - thinking and talking about sex. The movie is wise, deep, and painful..." - Roger Ebert

Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their new Japanese bosses, setting the stage for a comic clash of cultures.

In this Jim Henson holiday classic, Rugby the Tiger, who was young Jamie's favorite Christmas toy last year, thinks he should go under the tree again this year.

Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film about the inner life of a sex worker imprisoned for killing her pimp won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for "Best Independent/Experimental Film of the Year", and was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial as well as in over 40 other film festivals worldwide. Tinka Menkes brilliantly portrays the emotionally frozen protagonist on a circular inner journey, battling the material and psychic walls which imprison her. New 2K restoration by Arbelos Films.

From Brian Trenchard-Smith, the acclaimed director of The Man from Hong Kong, Turkey Shoot, Dead End Drive-In and The Siege of Firebase Gloria,comes this action-filled adventure starring Henry Thomas (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cloak & Dagger). Cody (Thomas) is a young man of intrepid spirit, always looking for a challenge. Living with his guardian (Tony Barry, Shame), Cody learns of an ancient myth, the story of "Donkegin." He is told to leave it alone, but the legend sparks his lively imagination. Defying all authority, Cody and his girlfriend embark on a search that takes them into the shadow-land of mystery and to the edge of death. Written by Everett De Roche (Razorback, Race for the Yankee Zephyr) and featuring a top-notch score by the great Brian May (Mad Max, Road Games, The Road Warrior), THE QUEST is a treat for the whole family with a backdrop of spectacular Australian scenery.