Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short
Starring: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Wallas Eaton, Tommy Manley, Florence Austin, Freddie Mirfield, Keith Warwick
Directors: Alan Cullimore
Country: UK
Year: 1951
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Two valuable early Peter Sellers performances, rescued from obscurity and restored by the BFI National Archive. Penny Points to Paradise sees all the Goons beside the seaside in a cheap and cheerful comic escapade climaxing in a Brighton waxworks. Shot around the same time Let's Go Crazy, is a madcap selection of variety turns, with memorable performances from Spike Milligan and Sellers in multiple roles. Both films provide an important insight into British comedy history and, specifically, chart the beginnings of Seller's rise to stardom. A must-have for all Goons fans.
Genres: Musical
Starring: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo
Directors: Wayne Isham
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Official 2009 release on Universal, only being released in various Latin American countries.The title translates to; 'Pride, Passion, and Glory: Three Nights In Mexico City'. From Metallica.com 'In June of this year we were fortunate enough to return to Mexico City for three sold out shows at Foro Sol Stadium and with 155,000 of you there over the three nights, we knew it would be extra special. So we asked our friend Wayne Isham to join us with a film crew and the results of that crazy, magical, most memorable long weekend are shown here on this single disc pressing. Includes 18 tracks performed over the three nights.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Craig Hill, Robert Wagner, James Gleason, Wally Vernon, William Demarest, Henri Letondal, Max Showalter
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1952
In 1918 France, Captain Flagg commands a disreputable company of Marines; his new top sergeant is his old friendly enemy, Quirt. The two men become rivals for the favors of fair innkeeper's daughter Charmaine, but the rivalry goes into reverse when Charmaine proves to be angling for a husband. When the company is ordered to the front, this comedy interlude gives way to the grim realities of war.
Genres: Musical, Romance
Starring: Shirley Jones, Audrey Christie, Jacques d'Amboise, John Dehner, Cameron Mitchell, Gordon MacRae, Barbara Ruick
Directors: Henry King
Country: USA
Year: 1956
Billy Bigelow asks for permission to be sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival as a carousel barker, which is where he met Julie. The carousel owner, Mrs. Mullin, fired him because of jealousy, and he and Julie got married. Billy got into bad habits when he couldn't find a job and they were forced to live with Julie's cousin Nettie after Julie was fired from her factory job for staying out late with Billy. When Julie told him she was pregnant, he felt compelled to somehow find a way to support his family, but the only option seemed to be falling back into crime with...
Genres: Family, Musical, Drama
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Ben Wright, Portia Nelson, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Angela Cartwright
Directors: Robert Wise
Country: USA
Year: 1965
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Julie Andrews in the heartwarming true story that has become a cinematic treasure. Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." Julie Andrews is Maria, the spirited, young woman who leaves the convent and becomes a governess to the seven unruly charm and songs soon win the hearts of the children and their father but when Nazi, Germany unites with Austria, Maria is forced to attempt a daring escape with her new family.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Arthur Gould-Porter, John Ericson, Cyril Delevanti, Reginald Owen, Sam Jaffe, Angela Lansbury
Directors: Robert Stevenson
Country: USA
Year: 1971
During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This...
Genres: Family, Musical, Romance
Starring: Keith David, Ritchie Montgomery, John Goodman, Terrence Howard, Anika Noni Rose, Jim Cummings, Oprah Winfrey
Directors: John Musker, Ron Clements
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Starring: Rob Schneider, Udo Kier, Corey Carrier, Bebe Neuwirth, John Sessions, Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Directors: Steve Barron
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Czech Republic, France
Year: 1996
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.
Genres: Musical, Drama
Starring: Allen Maldonado, Lindsey Haun, Nate Parker, John Rubinstein, Russell Howard, Les Feltmate, Elijah Kelley
Directors: Charles T. Kanganis
Country: USA
Year: 2008
This modernization of Shakespear's tragic love story Romeo and Juliette is set in Los Angeles against a backdrop of inter-racial romance.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Christopher McDonald, Maureen Teefy, Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, Pamela Adlon, Sid Caesar, Didi Conn
Directors: Patricia Birch
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone? He's surely going to try!
Genres: Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Theodore Bikel, Paul Frees, Casey Kasem, Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Country: USA
Year: 1980
This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith, but Sauron seems to have the upper hand while the source of his power, the Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its bearers.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Starring: Vincent Price, Candy Candido, Alan Young, Tony Anselmo, Wayne Allwine, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin
Directors: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Country: USA
Year: 1986
In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.
Genres: Musical
Starring: Daniel Breaker, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Rebecca Naomi Jones
Directors: Spike Lee
Country: USA
Year: 2009
A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Starring: Walter Barnes, Mickey Rooney, Jeff Conaway, Jim Dale, Charles Tyner, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus
Directors: Don Chaffey
Country: USA
Year: 1977
A young troubled boy named Pete and his guardian dragon Elliott elude the abusive Gogan family, who all use Pete as a slave instead of a loved child. When Pete can successfully run away from them with his dragon, he stumbles into the town of Passamaquaddy- an ocean front harbor town filled with superstitious fishermen, drunken hooligans and wary townsfolk. Pete's arrival does not mix well with the citizens, as his dragon Elliott accidentally causes town rioting and gossip among the town drunks about the dragon. Expecting to be an outcast yet again, Pete is taken in by the kind Nora who lives in a lighthouse with her father Lampy. While Pete b...
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Jean Del Val, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima
Directors: Stanley Donen
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott, the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo ...
Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical
Starring: Keenan Wynn, Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Benay Venuta
Directors: George Sidney
Country: USA
Year: 1950
Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.
Genres: Family, Musical
Starring: Richard Hunt, Brian Henson, Rob Mills, Dave Goelz, Zachary Bennett, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen
Directors: Eric Till
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 1986
When no people are around, the toys still play in the playroom. But since a toy will be frozen forever if a person catches it out of position, they have to be very careful. It's Christmas Eve, and Rugby the Tiger remembers how he was the Christmas Toy last year, and thinks he's going to be unwrapped again. And it's up to Apple the Doll, whom Rugby supplanted as favorite toy, to tell him what's in store. But Rugby won't believe her, and tries to get into the Christmas package and lets Meteora, Queen of the Asteroids loose. Unfortunately, she doesn't know she's a toy, and thinks she's landed among aliens. And it's up to Apple, Mew (the Cat's to...
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III, Jerome Benton, Billy Sparks
Directors: Albert Magnoli
Country: USA
Year: 1984
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm, Natalie Finland, Shari Weiser
Directors: Jim Henson
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1986
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Sarah, a teen, summons the goblins from her favorite book, the Labyrinth, to steal her baby 1/2 bro Toby. When they actually do, she must solve the Goblin King's Labyrinth in 13 hours or else Toby will become a goblin.
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe, Ralph Moody, Leon Askin
Directors: Hal Walker
Country: USA
Year: 1952
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.