Mystery & Suspense VHS Movies
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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
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 Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Naím Thomas, Gonzalo Penche, Teresa José Berganza Directed By: Marcos Zurinaga Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The fate of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca under the brutal Franco regime is the subject of this political thriller. Esai Morales plays an expatriate writer named Ricardo who returns to his hometown Granada in 1954 to find out what happened to Lorca (Andy Garcia), his boyhood hero. With Franco's forces still in power, Ricardo meets a lot of official resistance, takes a few beatings, and defies the wishes of his own host (Jeroen Krabbé), an army colonel who was thickly involved in the torture and assassinations of the 1936 revolution. The closer the intrepid journalist gets to the truth of Lorca's disappearance, however, the more gray that truth becomes, and the more obscure the line between heroism and villainy. |
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Scooby Doo: Headless Horseman of Halloween
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Publisher: Turner Home Ent Starring: Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The fate of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca under the brutal Franco regime is the subject of this political thriller. Esai Morales plays an expatriate writer named Ricardo who returns to his hometown Granada in 1954 to find out what happened to Lorca (Andy Garcia), his boyhood hero. With Franco's forces still in power, Ricardo meets a lot of official resistance, takes a few beatings, and defies the wishes of his own host (Jeroen Krabbé), an army colonel who was thickly involved in the torture and assassinations of the 1936 revolution. The closer the intrepid journalist gets to the truth of Lorca's disappearance, however, the more gray that truth becomes, and the more obscure the line between heroism and villainy. |
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Once Upon a Time in America
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld Directed By: Sergio Leone Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. |
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Marnie
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Diane Baker, Henry Beckman, Sean Connery, Rupert Crosse, Bruce Dern Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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You could call this one Hoot Along with Hitch. With the possible exceptions of Topaz and Family Plot, this is Hitchcock's cheesiest movie, visually and psychologically crass in comparison with a peak achievement like Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from the second Bond picture, From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realizes that she's a professional thief; she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance office in order to embezzle mass quantities. His patient program of investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood trauma. |
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Day of the Jackal
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton Directed By: Fred Zinnemann Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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With its high-intensity plot about an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle, the bestselling novel by Frederick Forsyth was a prime candidate for screen adaptation. Director Fred Zinnemann brought his veteran skills to bear on what has become a timeless classic of screen suspense. Not to be confused with the later remake The Jackal starring Bruce Willis (which shamelessly embraced all the bombast that Zinnemann so wisely avoided), this 1973 thriller opts for lethal elegance and low-key tenacity in the form of the Jackal, the suave assassin played with consummate British coolness by Edward Fox. He's a killer of the highest order, a master of disguise and international elusiveness, and this riveting film follows his path to de Gaulle with an intense, straightforward documentary style. |
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Hunt for Red October
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Publisher: Paramount Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones Directed By: John McTiernan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. |
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Nowhere
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar Directed By: Gregg Araki Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Set in L.A. over the course of one crazy day, this film surveys the emotional and sexual turmoil experienced by a multiracial, pan-sexual group of adolescents.. |
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Farewell My Lovely
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Publisher: Avid Home Ent Starring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe Directed By: Dick Richards Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Of all the Philip Marlowes, Robert Mitchum's in Farewell, My Lovely resonates most deeply. That's because this is Marlowe past his prime, and Mitchum imbues Raymond Chandler's legendary private detective with a sense of maturity as well as a melancholy spirit. And yet there's plenty of Mitchum's renowned self-deprecating humor and charismatic charm to remind us of his own iconic presence. As in the previous 1944 film version, Murder, My Sweet, Marlowe searches all over L.A. |
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Play Misty for Me
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Duke Everts, George Fargo, Mervin W. Frates, Tim Frawley, Jack Ging Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Clint Eastwood (making his very assured directorial debut) is a poetry-spouting stud-muffin DJ stalked by a maniacally amorous fan after a misguided one-night stand in this enjoyably schlocky, undeniably effective film about good intentions gone murderously wacky. Although many of the very '70s trappings presented here may ultimately be too dated to be taken seriously (including a very self-indulgent jazz number and a hilariously gooey seduction number between Eastwood and Donna Mills), the core premise of infatuation taken out of bounds remains uncomfortably plausible--and was influential enough to be appropriated by one of the biggest hits of the '80s. (Here's a hint--it starred Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and a very unfortunate bunny rabbit). A well-staged and occasionally very frightening thriller worth watching for Jessica Walter's peerlessly unhinged performance alone. |
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Rasputin (1996)
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen, David Warner, John Wood Directed By: Uli Edel Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Winner of 3 Golden Globes! Based on the true story of one of the most powerful men in Russian history - and one of the most dangerous. In a time of revolution, he has the power to heal an empire or destroy it.. |
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