Leather-jacketed Elwes and friends rip off and murder a Vietnamese mob bagman, whose associates vow vengeance. A devastating human drama about love, friendship and the pain of growing up in a world gone wild. Leather Jackets explores the fragile relationship between three friends desperate to make sense of their lives before a brutal act of violence rips them apart.
Two estranged brothers go on the run through the Lake District pursued by two hitmen.
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his demented family...a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their hands and a feast on their minds. The students' only chance for escape is a survivalist with enough firepower to blast Leatherface and the rest of the grisly predators to hell. A depraved shocker of intense terror from the gruesome beginning to the bloody finish.
Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) had intended to become a nun, but when her father contracted tuberculosis, she got a job in the fledgling film industry. After starring in her own series of one-reel comedies, she appeared opposite Lon Chaney in The Ace of Hearts and Voices of the City (both 1921). It was in those films that she came to the attention of Cecil B. DeMille, whose cycle of films with Gloria Swanson had recently ended with The Affairs of Anatol in 1921. Joy replaced Swanson...
A successful novelist who has it all is plagued by a terrifying nightmare after surviving a traumatic experience. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is by writing about it, he leaves to a remote home to begin work on his next novel -- a thriller. But on his way there, he meets a drifter who confronts him with information that threatens to turn everything he knows to be true upside-down.
Mickey Rooney plays real-life clown Jack Thum. When Jack realizes he has terminal cancer, his wife helps him regain his inner strength, while taking care of orphans.
Beaver Cleaver and his mischievous ways are back and on the big screen in this updated film adaptation to the classic television sitcom, Leave it to Beaver. A lot has changed since the show aired over fifty years ago, but eight-year-old Beaver's innocent fun still has a knack for getting him into big trouble. Join the Beaver, his parents Ward (Christopher McDonald) and June (Janine Turner), and his brother Wally (Erik von Detten) in their wacky family adventures in this hilarious and...
Inspired by real-life experiences, Leave It to Beaver built the blueprint for quintessential sitcom families with the relatable comic adventures of Ward, June, Wally, and young Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. From neighborhood mischief to misunderstandings at school and at home, Beaver and his family bring hilarious laughs, wholesome life lessons, and endless entertainment across 234 beloved episodes spanning six memorable seasons that have become as much a part of Americana as baseball and apple...
In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
At the height of his stardom, the world's biggest pop star, Michael Jackson, began long-running relationships with two boys, aged seven and ten, and their families. They now allege that he sexually abused them.
Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti star as two mismatched wanderers in Leaving Normal - a captivating comedy about the choices we all have to make, at one time or another. After Marianne (Tilly) walks out on another failed marriage and cynical cocktail waitress Darly (Lahti) serves her last drink, the two friends decide to leave the town of Normal, Wyoming and set out on the road to Alaska. The road is jam-packed with crazy characters, wild predicaments, romance, new friendships and difficult...
Lee Fields is a funk and soul legend 50 years in the making. In this feature documentary, his journey to find his place in music history takes you from vinyl to virtual and back again.
Trigger Pals (1939, B&W): Rustlers have been helping themselves to livestock from the Allen Ranch. Three of the hands - Lucky, Stormy and Fuzzy - suspect an inside job. When Lucky is framed for the thefts, Stormy and Fuzzy vow to find the traitor in their midst. Starring Lee Powell, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Arthur Jarrett, Dorothy Fay, Ted Adams; Directed by Sam Newfield.Texas Man Hunt (1942, B&W): Nazi agent Otto Reuther's army of saboteurs derail cattle trains, flood ranchlands and murder cattle...
Patter master Lee Tracy (Dinner at Eight) commands the spiel in this collection, culled from his post-Code career, that sees him playing a slippery shyster (o' course), a newshound (natch), a screen hack (ditto) and a circus promoter (he's got the gift of gab). Margot Grahame costars in Criminal Lawyer (1937), in which Tracy plays a defense attorney-turned-DA caught between his methods and a murder. Behind the Headlines (1937) finds Tracy playing a wireless reporter competing with his news-hen...
Lee Van Cleef, the iconic "bad man" of Italian "Spaghetti Western" cinema stars in three bloody pictures: "Death Rides a Horse" (1967), "God's Gun" (1976) and "Kid Vengeance" (1977).
His name: William Bonney. His legend: Billy the Kid, the fabled gunslinger of The Left Handed Gun. The West had never before seen the likes of this Brooklyn-born desperado, a troubled teen who wrote his name in blood on history's pages. And the genre had never before seen a performance like the one by Paul Newman. He displays a complex, twitchy moodiness that captures the killer's half-boy, half-man nature. Another major presence is first-time film director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde,...
This America Undercover documentary charts the long-anticipated rise, scandalous near-fall, and subsequent salvation of Air America Radio, a liberal radio network geared towards those whose opinions skew a bit more to the "Left of the Dial." Told through verite footage shot at the New York-based station over a nine-month period, the 90-minute film begins with a frenetic pace and never lets up from the network's evolution twelve days before and up to its March, 2004 launch, through a...
In season two, Hope Mikaelson reunited and worked with Alaric Saltzman to lead their Super Squad into battle against fantastic and deadly monsters. As season three begins, Hope has risked everything to pull her friends back from the brink of a monstrous prophecy that threatened them. But when a heartbreaking loss shatters her whole world, Hope Mikaelson will be forced to fight fate itself.
As Season 4 begins, Hope must choose between saving the boy she loves and ending Malivore's threat once and for all. This choice will have life-changing consequences for Alaric Saltzman and the Super Squad. Working together, these young and powerful vampires, witches and werewolves will face their darkest and most deadly threat of all and The Salvatore School will be torn apart in the process.
SYNOPSIS For the last decade, the iconic heroes and villains of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals captivated audiences and left an enduring history of love and family which continues in Legacies. This thrilling drama tells the story of the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. It's here that Klaus Mikaelson's daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), Alaric Saltzman's (Matt Davis) twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman (Jenny...
Last season, the supernatural students at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted and their beloved headmaster, Dr. Alaric Saltzman, came face-to-face with a stunning assortment of monsters and mythological creatures. A dragon. A gargoyle. The Headless Horseman. Making matters even worse, Malivore, the ancient evil they all serve, was found to have a shocking connection to one of their own -- Landon Kirby. But Hope Mikaelson, the only tribrid in existence, sacrificed herself to...
Cruel misanthrope Christopher Dean is finally dead and allegedly buried - a package for the devil if there ever was one. His four children circle the family mansion like vultures waiting for their vast inheritance. According to the terms of their father's will, each child and their spouses must stay on the grounds of the estate for one week's time in order to collect. However, no sooner than the will is read, the grisly murders begin. As the old man's creepy servants look on, the squabbling...
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.Cruel misanthrope Christopher Dean is finally dead and allegedly buried - a package for the devil if there ever was one. His four children circle the family mansion like vultures waiting for their vast...