Staff Picks
Not Streaming to a Device Near You
- Allison T.
- Thursday, October 26, 2023
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Break out your DVD and Blu-Ray players because you won't find these films on any streaming service!
The Abyss
Published in 1993
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
Angels in the Outfield
Published in 2002
A little boy believes his family will be reunited if the California Angels win the pennant. Some celestial help shows up, and soon the lifeless team is playing at champion level.
Band of Outsiders
Published in 2003
Two restless young men and a beautiful young woman team up to rob her rich aunt.
The Basketball Diaries
Published in 1998
A teen athlete spirals into a world of drug addiction and street hustling.
The Bermuda Depths
Published in 2009
What secret lurks 20,000 feet below the waves in the paranormal realm called The Bermuda Triangle? That's the question a scientist, his student, and a young man haunted by nightmarish memories of his Bermuda childhood ask themselves. The answer involves a beauty who has sold her soul for eternal youth. And a giant sea turtle that leaves death in its wake. Eerie and hypnotic.
Blonde Venus
Published in 2018
Tasked by studio executives with finding the next great screen siren, visionary Hollywood director Josef Von Sternberg joined forces with rising German actor Marlene Dietrich, kicking off what would become one of the most legendary partnerships in cinema history.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Published in 2021
From Sam Peckinpah, the legendary director of Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway and Convoy, comes this audacious crime drama starring the great Warren Oates. When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced and impregnated his daughter, two money-hungry hired killers recruit a small-town bartender to help them do their dirty work. But their tequila-fueled trek across the desolate Mexican frontier grows more intense, gruesome and bloody with every savage murder they leave in their wake. Some people will do anything for a million dollars!
The Cannonball Run
Published in 2009
Burt Reynolds cult classic about a group of misfits competing in an illegal, cross-country, car race. Other racers include Jackie Chan, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Fonda, Dean Martin, Roger Moore, and Sammy Davis Jr. Not only is the race itself illegal, but the methods used by the contestants to beat the competition range from dubious to desperate.
Cocoon
Published in 1985
The fountain of youth for the elderly is actually a breeding ground for aliens. Side A: widescreen; side B: full screen.
The Cowboy Way
Published in 1998
An urban action-comedy involving two New Mexico cowboys and their adventures in New York.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Published in 2005
Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Published in 2020
"A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer"--IMDb
La Dolce Vita
Published in 2014
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome|s rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Published in 2016
The Sarah Rose Princess America Pageant is a beauty contest to die for. And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen, Gladys, has been pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies.
Emergency Kisses
Published in 2009
In Emergency kisses "the entire Garrel clan steps in front of the camera as versions of themselves. When a philandering film director refuses to cast his stage actress wife in a role largely based on her, the couple begins to wrestle with their conflicting philosophies on art and life"--Container.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Published in 2015
A beautiful young woman with unusually big thumbs, Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) decides, fittingly enough, to become a hitchhiker. After finding work as a model for feminine products, Sissy goes to shoot an ad at the Rubber Rose, a ranch owned by the Countess (John Hurt), the company's flamboyant cross-dressing head. While at the ranch, Sissy meets numerous other eccentric characters, including an outgoing and rebellious cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix).
The Flamingo Kid
Published in 2017
It's going to be a summer to remember! Jeffrey Willis is out to set the world on fire, starting with a well to do Long Island beach club!
For Love of Ivy
Published in 2017
Ivy Moore, the Austin family's housekeeper and confidante for nine years, startles everyone by announcing that she is leaving to go to secretarial school and join life's mainstream. The family blackmails high-rolling hustler Jack Parks into initiating a romance, although love is the last thing on his mind. But Jack has never met anyone like Ivy, and now he's really beginning to care for her, just as she discovers the truth!
French Kiss
Published in 2009
A woman goes to France looking for her fiance who ran out on her. Instead, she falls in love with a charming thief.
The Good Girl
A young wife has become bored with marriage and her dead-end job and seeks something more fulfilling. When a passionate co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, they have an illicit affair that has unexpected and comical results.
Gotcha!
Published in 2003
Jonathan goes on vacation in Germany, where he meets Sasha, who is only interested in him because he is a virgin. They get separated, and he has to find his way back by himself.
Happiness
Published in 2003
A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection. Includes illicit sexual behavior.
Harry & Tonto
Published in 2005
Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.
Henry & June
Published in 1999
Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
Hysterical Blindness
Published in 2003
A single mother and a lonely office worker seek after "love" in the meat-market bars of Bayonne, New Jersey, ca. 1987.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Published in 2019
On February 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, ratcheting up the frenzy of a fanbase whose ecstatic devotion to the band heralded an explosive new wave of youth culture. The film looks back to that fateful weekend, following six teenagers, each with their own reasons for wanting to see the Fab Four, from New Jersey to Manhattan on a madcap mission to meet the band and score tickets to the show.
John Waters' Pink Flamingos
Published in 2022
Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the "Filthiest Person Alive." When a pair of sociopaths with a habit of kidnapping women to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy.
Jungle Fever
Published in 2020
In this film by Spike Lee, a married black man has an affair with his white secretary.
Lady Sings the Blues
Published in 2021
Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse.
The Landlord
Published in 2019
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family|s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
Love Streams
Published in 2021
An emotionally fragile pair of middle-aged siblings find themselves caring for each other after years apart.
Mask
Published in 2004
The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls in love with Diana, a blind girl who cannot see his deformity and is entranced by the boy's kindness and compassion.
Melvin and Howard
Everyday loser Melvin picks up a haggard hitchhiker that later turns out to be Howard Hughes who has named him beneficiary.
Merrily We Go to Hell
Published in 2021
Reporter Jerry Corbett aspires to be a playwright but finds himself drinking more than writing. Everyone is stunned when heiress Joan Prentice agrees to marry him, though it initially appears that he has changed his ways. However, when his work takes the couple to New York, Jerry’s bad behavior and a persistent old flame seem to doom their chances for a happy ending.
Minnie and Moskowitz
Published in 2000
Minnie Moore (Rowlands) is an art museum curator with a duplex apartment and a large library. Seymour Moskowitz (Cassel) is a free-spirited, long-haired parking lot attendant who steps in when her date threatens her in his car lot. The two dissimiliar, but lonely, people begin an unlikely romance.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Published in 2005
In 1953, Larry, an aspiring actor, leaves his home in Brooklyn and heads for Manhattan. He moves into an apartment in Greenwich Village. Between acting classes, auditions and odd jobs he spends time with his eccentric friends.
Once Upon a Time in China
Published in 2010
Followed is the life of legendary martial arts hero, Wong Fei-Hung as he fights against foreign forces that are plundering China in late 19th century Canton.
Pink Floyd The Wall
Movie
Published in 1999
"A burned out rock performer sits in his motel room watching war movies, and slowly loosing touch with reality."
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Published in 2005
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have pioneered an industry that literally transformed the entire world. The passion, luck and genius of these quirky visionaries is presented in this portrayal of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire.
The Postman
Published in 1999
The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.
Prizzi's Honor
Published in 1985
A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
Rebecca
Published in 2017
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
The Rose
Published in 2015
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Short Cuts
Published in 2016
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Silent Movie
Published in 2006
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
Silkwood
Published in 1983
The Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
Sling Blade
Published in 2014
Twenty five years after commiting an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl finally returns home. Once there, he's befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. But when his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend, Karl is suddenly placed on a collision course with his past!
Spice World
The Spice Girls Movie
Published in 2007
Gear up for a madcap musical adventure with the Spice Girls for their first live concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Super Mario Bros
Published in 2003
The brothers find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs rule. They must save Princess Daisy from King Koopa.
The Sure Thing
Published in 2015
College freshman Walter "Gib" Gibson has a "sure thing" date with a very hot and very sex-craved blonde across the country in LA. Crossed by fate--and the ride-share bulletin board--Gib makes the trip with a studious and abrasive coed. But as they overcome every obstacle, from show-tune-singing simpletons and bad weather to leering truck drivers and worse luck, their temperaments change and Gib realizes that the only sure thing is that losing the real thing would be the worst thing of all!
Sweet Charity
Published in 2003
A lovelorn New York dance hall hostess named Charity Hope Valentine dreams of old-fashioned romance but falls in love with one undeserving man after another.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Published in 2005
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
To Live and Die in L.A
Published in 2003
An Unmarried Woman
Published in 2020
One woman's journey of self-discovery brings about a warmly human cultural conversation about female liberation, in this wonderfully frank, funny chronicle of changing '70s sexual politics by Paul Mazursky. When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan gallery worker Erica finds herself alone and adrift, but also newly empowered to explore her needs and desires as she tests the waters of a new relationship with a charismatic artist.
Wild at Heart
Published in 2018
Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
Zelig
Published in 2001
This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.