French Connection New York City detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) & Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring & ultimately uncover The French Connection. But when one of the criminals tries to kill Doyle he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits. Based on a true story this action-filled thriller with its renowned chase scene won five Academy Awards in 1971 including Best Picture Best Director (William Friedkin) & Best Actor for Hackman. French Connection IIGene Hackman reprises his Oscar-winning role as Popeye Doyle the hard-nosed New York detective determined to break a French narcotics ring. Kidnapped by heroin kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) in Marseilles Doyle is mercilessly forced to become a junkie himself. Upon his release Doyle must kick his habit & join forces with his French police counterpart (Bernard Fresson) to hunt down Charnier. Gritty action riveting performances & a vividly realistic setting make French Connection II a powerful sequel to the brilliant original. ...

Oscar winners Meryl Streep & Jeremy Irons star as two separate pairs of lovers in this engaging & beautiful visualized film. Embraced by audiences & critics alike
- & garnering five 1981 Academy Award nominations including Best Actress (Streep)
- The French Lieutenants Woman will forever remain one of the literate imaginative & stunning love stories ever to grace the screen. As Mike & Anna two film actors involved in a tumultuous affair & Charles & Sarah the star-crossed Victorian lovers whom the actors portray Streep & Irons are at their compelling best. Just as his character Charlies reputation is ruined by the enigmatic Sarah Mike finds he cannot accept the intangible affections of the wily Anna. The skilful interweaving of these two love stories
- one period one contemporary
- yields a fascinating insight into the passion & mystery that can pull two people together...and just as easily tear them apart.



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LIBERT& Eacute; & Eacute;GALIT& Eacute; FRATERNIT& Eacute;: A new republic is born in blood. On July 14 1789 a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille & seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism war murder & carnage followed bringing about the end of feudalism & the rise of equality & a new world order. ' The French Revolution' is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments illustrations & paintings from the era plus revealing accounts from journals & expert commentary from historians ' The French Revolution' vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence discontent & fundamental change. ...

When a brash street kid from Philly moves to a Left Coast zip code even posher than 90210 cultures are sure to clash. But not to worry. The kid is Will Smith & he'll have Bel-Air bustin' a move in no time! Smith was already a Grammy-winning rap artist when he shot to acting renown as the smart wisecracking urban teen who's sent to live with wealthy relatives in an area so exclusive a former President drops in to share some Christmas cheer. This 5-disc DVD collection features all 25 Season-One Episodes from Will's first day at the country club (which one is the fish fork?) to his first day at Bel-Air Prep School (sort of homeboy meets Harvard). When it comes to comedy. Fresh Prince rules! ...

After a serious car accident which killed his wife & left him in critical condition Architect Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) developed a gift that allows him to interact with the dead. Still racked with guilt & disturbed from the crash Frank decides to put his Architect lifestyle on hold & use his new found skill for his own financial gain. When a series of murders take place in his town leaving the victims with numbers engraved into their heads Frank thinks it’s time to put his skill to a more needed path & sets out to find the culprit of whom he believes to be the Grim Reaper himself. Creepy & often hilarious horror from Oscar winning director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings King Kong). -M.F. ...

In the sleepy little town of Fairwater a monstrous evil has awakened.. . an evil so powerful its reach extends beyond the grave! From Oscar nominated Director Peter Jackson (The Lord Of The Rings) & Executive Producer Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) comes The Frighteners a riveting comedy-thriller with the most spectacular special effects! Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) makes a living as a small-town ghost buster ridding haunted houses of their 'unwelcome' guests. But he's in cahoot with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam.. .. until a powerful spirit goes on a murderous rampage & everyone in town thinks that Frank is behind it. Now he must try to clear his name & find a way to stop this diabolical ghost
- without becoming one himself!
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In the sleepy little town of Fairwater a monstrous evil has awakened.an evil so powerful; its reach extends beyond the grave. Director Peter Jackson & executive Producer Robert Zemeckis unleash a riveting thriller with the most spectacular special effects this side of the hereafter. For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome guests. But hes in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! Its the perfect scam...until frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on a murderous rampage & the whole town believes Frank is behind it. Boasting music by Danny Elfman & co-starring Trini Alvarado Jeffrey Combs & John Astin this supernatural chiller is so fiendishly entertaining its scary! ...

Milestones in the world of Adult Animation! As Fritz goes through college & beyond these animated classics follow the sexual & other wild adventures of the long haired drop out cat. Dealing with sex drugs marriage & the counter culture Fritz is on a journey through a psychedelic haze that takes him out of his eight other lives. There he lives out fantasies as an out-of-world astronaut an aide to the President Kissinger & worse... an orderly to Hitler! But as his star-crossed hallucinations put him on a collision course with reality Fritz becomes a casualty just waiting to happen! ...

This acclaimed comedy with its serious compelling theme vividly brings to life one of the America’s most disturbing memories: the Communist ‘witch hunts’ of the ‘50s. Woody Allen stars as Howard Prince a small-time restaurant cashier part time bookie & full-time loser who is induced by a writer friend to front for the submission of his of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted for an alleged subversive. Howard is soon ‘fronting’ for other writers. He becomes a celebrity & is lionized as television’s most brilliant & prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel) is blacklisted & his career is threatened he agrees to keep Howard under surveillance. Howard is then summoned to appear before an investigation committee & his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion. ...