Mystery & Suspense VHS Movies
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Witchboard 2
Price: $24.99
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Republic Pictures Starring: Ami Dolenz, Christopher Michael Moore, Laraine Newman, Timothy Gibbs, John Gatins Directed By: Kevin Tenney Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Z
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $8.85 You Save: $ 6.13 (41%)
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Publisher: Fox Lorber Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner Directed By: Costa-Gavras Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who gradually discovers how far the state will go to rid itself of political opposition. |
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Love Letters
Price: $46.50
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper Directed By: William Dieterle Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who gradually discovers how far the state will go to rid itself of political opposition. |
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Midnight Murders (aka "In The Line of Duty - Manhunt In The Dakotas")
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: New Concorde Starring: Rod Steiger, Michael Gross, Gary Basaraba, Christopher Rich, Amy Wright Directed By: Dick Lowry Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who gradually discovers how far the state will go to rid itself of political opposition. |
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Macbeth (1971)
Price: $39.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride Directed By: Roman Polanski Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales), and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. If you think the play is normally a bit of a downer, you haven't seen Polanski's bleak version of it, made in reaction to the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson "family." Jon Finch (Hitchcock's Frenzy) is an forceful Macbeth, bringing out the Scot's warrior instincts, and Francesca Annis is a memorable Lady Macbeth, but the main thrust of the film belongs to Polanski's and noted British playwright and critic Kenneth Tynan's take on the play: extremely violent, nihilistic, and visceral; this is down-in-the-dirt, no-holds-barred Shakespeare, not fussy costume drama. Pay close attention to the end, a silent coda that puts a chilling twist on all the action that has come beforehand and foreshadows more tragedy to come. --Mark Englehart. |
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
Price: $77.50
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret Directed By: Ted Kotcheff Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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European chefs are being killed in the manner that their signature dishes are prepared.. |
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Cry Wolf
Price: $54.50
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Basehart, Jerome Cowan Directed By: Peter Godfrey Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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European chefs are being killed in the manner that their signature dishes are prepared.. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $9.96 You Save: $ 5.02 (34%)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White Directed By: Robert Mulligan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defense of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. |
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Vertigo (1958)
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $1.97 You Save: $ 13.01 (87%)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Isabel Analla, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Bryar, Ellen Corby Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the most recent survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. |
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The Changeling
Price: $7.79
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos Directed By: Peter Medak Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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When a recent widower (the wonderfully overemphatic George C. Scott ) moves into an antique Washington mansion, his realization that he may not be the only resident leads him toward a deadly secret that refuses to remain buried....The best haunted-house film since the legendary Haunting, this potent, classy combination of the mystery and horror genres eschews explicit gore and dumb shocks in exchange for a subtle creepiness that occasionally builds to a terrifying peak (watch out for that seance scene!). The result is a satisfyingly intelligent horror film with an intriguing dash of Watergate-era paranoia. Director Peter Medak went on to direct the considerably more gratuitous and somewhat less effective Romeo Is Bleeding and The Krays. --Andrew Wright. |
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