Oscar-nominee Woody Harrelson ("Wag the Dog," "People vs. Larry Flynt") stars as a small-town journalist on his way to a promising career when he refuses to kill a story on a horseracing racket. Subsequently set up to take the fall, he goes to prison. Two years later, a free man again, he reluctantly returns home to Palmetto, where he soon finds himself embroiled in a shady scheme involving a mysterious femme fatale (Oscar-nominee Elisabeth Shue - "Hollow Man," "Leaving Las Vegas") and the...

Stage a bogus kidnapping, collect the ransom, take 10% off the top and have a nice life, see ya later. They told Harry Barber the plan would work like clockwork. But it's hapless Harry who is running out of time. Woody Harrelson is Harry, a Florida drifter who goes from perpetrator to patsy when lured into an abduction scam proposed by a mysterious blonde. Director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum, The Handmaid's Tale) steadily raises the stakes as Harry scrambles to untangle the mystery...

Is there any truth in the ancient art of palm reading? Can we discover our own future from a few lines on the hand? Across hundreds of years many prophecies have been told and believed. From reading tea leaves to casting bones or sticks, from Tarot cards to divining the entrails of animals; all these and more have been brought into play in numerous cultures. Palm reading is personal. It speaks to us of our present and future. Join us as we listen to Master Palmist, Hand Analyst and Natural...

Eddie Cantor, master of music and mirth, stars as Eddie Simpson, put-upon assistant to phony psychic Yolando (Charles Middleton). When Yoldano sets his sights upon A.B. Clark's (Spencer Charters) art deco bakery ("Glorifying the American Doughnut"), Eddie is accidentally mistaken for an efficiency expert. While dodging the ministrations of fitness fanatic Helen Morgan (Charlotte Greenwood), Eddie ends up guiding the bakery to soaring profits and a hefty bonus -- which leads Yolando and his...

In this quintessential boxing tale, up-and-coming fighter Joe Palooka (Stuart Ervin) takes up with a salty but colorful old manager.(Jimmy Durante), who delivers an endless stream of hilarious one-liners on the way to making the kid a champ. But along the way, a bawdy vixen (Lupe Velez) threatens to derail their progress. Based on the hugely-popular and long-running Joe Palooka comic strip. Also keep an eye out for James Cagney's lookalike brother, WiIliam, who co-stars!

Jimmy Durante stars as a boxing manager and fast-talking hustler in this film version of the popular Ham Fisher comic strip. When Knobby Walsh comes across simple farm boy Joe Palooka, the son of retired boxing champ Pete Palooka, he decides to take him to New York and make him as famous as his father. The fact that Joe doesn't seem to possess his father's natural ability in the ring doesn't stop him from beating champ Al McSwatt by sheer luck. With the money rolling in, Knobby arranges a...

Jimmy Durante stars as Knobby Walsh, the opportunistic trainer of boxing contender Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin). Joe manages to knock out the champ (William Cagney) and wins his girlfriend in the process. But now that he's the champ, can Joe survive life in the fast lane? Director Benjamin Stoloff pulls together a vibrant cast, including Robert Armstrong (King Kong) and a trio of lovely actresses, Thelma Todd, Mary Carlisle, and the Mexican Spitfire herself, Lupe Velez!

Steve Barton is dedicated to making a success of his uncle's Circle Ranch, where his first job is to smash a gang of hombres who have devised an ingenious plan to steal his cattle. Circle Ranch cattle, each branded with a circle, are "disappearing" because Zed, foreman of the nearby Circle B Ranch, is branding a large "B" inside those circles to make them look like Circle B stock. With the help of an old prospector, Steve engages the outlaws in a battle that culminates when he and Zed go fist...

Devoid of of human decency, Jeff Gray is stealing cattle from his recently orphaned six-year-old niece, Sugar. Jeff plans to bankrupt the ranch so that his boss, shady Vic Insley, can take over. All is going smoothly until cowhand Tex catches the thieves altering the brands on Sugar's herd. He concocts a clever plan to steal the Longhorns back from the rustlers. Tex will need to come up with a survival plan after the gang learns that their rustled livestock has completely vanished.Tex Ritter's...

Share the drama as daring adventurers from 97 countries attempt a seemingly impossible feat to cut through Panama's hostile terrain and join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans! By succeeding, they halve the distance of coast-to-coast water travel but formidable obstacles had to be conquered. See workers battle deadly swamps and risk their lives to blast apart enormous boulders blocking their way. Witness the massive fumigation campaign to wipe out the dreaded yellow fever and rampant malaria. And...

Hattie Maloney (Ann Sothern) is a gaudy, good-hearted nightclub singer who tends to love above her station. This time, it's pedigreed officer Dick Bulliet (Dan Dailey, Jr.), and it's for real. But there's one little problem: he's got a small daughter so ladylike she makes Emily Post look like Tugboat Annie -- and she's not impressed with Hattie's bangles and bows. And Hattie's got a trio of protectors, three goofball gobs who think that maybe Hattie's too good for Dick. This World War II...

Major Phillip Waring (Leon Ames) and assistant Helen Lane (Charlotte Wynters) must break the code of an enemy message that threatens the security of the Panama Canal. The pair discovers a treacherous "Oriental" espionage ring behind the communication, whose spies have managed to steal top government secrets.Phillip orders fellow agent Arlie Johnson (Abner Biberman) to question a shady character who has been suspiciously surveilling government buildings.The stranger is murdered by a unknown...

Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation. Based on the historical character's real story.

The adventures of a cute little panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent.

A virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. Lauren, a doctor comes to LA to lead the charge in the hunt for survivors. Nothing could have prepared her and her team for the mayhem that they encounter.

A virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. Lauren, a doctor comes to LA to lead the charge in the hunt for survivors. Nothing could have prepared her and her team for the mayhem that they encounter.

A thoughtful window into a spectrum of key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic through the prism of 32 international experts in biology, education, history, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, and more. All participants were filmed remotely using local film crews during the second half of 2021.

A thoughtful window into a spectrum of key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic through the prism of 32 international experts in biology, education, history, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, and more. All participants were filmed remotely using local film crews during the second half of 2021.

A young woman and her two children travel during the Covid19 pandemic, amid flights bans, to reach her husband in her home country. A journey through lock downs and human rights violation, accompanied by scientific contributions and touching stories.

The "Alpha Video Rewind Series" is an ever-growing collection of specially-selected films from our vast library on DVD, now in collectible retro-style packaging inspired by VHS cover art from that format's heyday! Every Alpha Video Rewind Series title also includes a free collectible postcard.While seeking a life-saving vaccine, a scientist at a large chemical consortium inadvertently infects himself with a volatile virus that turns him into a horribly disfigured monster. Now cursed with a...

In Panic (1982), a scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. In The Forest (1982), a cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.

With its assets In a sling, a panicked business group decides to solve its tax problems by creating a gargantuan entertainment flop and using it as a tax write-off. Before all you film buffs shout out the name of the famed comedy The Producers, let us introduce you to Panic Button, an earlier, lesser-known comic riff on the same theme. Michael Connors (Mannix) plays the biz group's front man and spearhead of a sham film of Romeo and Juliet that would have made The Bard put down his quill...

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

A dramatic re-telling of the final five years of the life of the Italian cycling champion and the controversial events surrounding his death.