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Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) and Daniela Thomas co-directed this crime drama about expatriate Brazilians who get mixed up in the Lisbon underworld. Paco (Pinto), a young Brazilian looking for a way to get to Spain, is offered a job as a courier to Lisbon by Igor, a black market dealer who assures him that when he gets to Lisbon he'll be given enough money to get there by his contact, Miguel. Meanwhile, Miguel's girlfriend, Alex, begins searching for a way back to her native Brazil, to no avail. Unfortunately, when Paco gets to Lisbon, Miguel is dead, the package he was supposed to deliver is stolen, and he finds himself on the run from his employers. Looking for anything to help him figure out what has happened, he runs into Alex, and both of them decide to try to get back to Brazil before they are caught by Igor and his gang.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies& AwardsDVD-ROM Features: Weblink
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Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the location of his lost loved one, their confrontation explodes.DVD Features:Region Encoding: All RegionsKeep Case
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This offbeat love story begins innocently enough, as a high school boy named Takuya nurses a crush on his beautiful and seemingly unattainable fencing partner, Satsuki. To his surprise, Takuya finds that Satsuki returns his affections, and the two begin a relatively innocent relationship. However, when Satsuki discovers that Takuya has a collection of fetishistic erotica and that he has broken into her locker, she immediately dumps him. Soon, though, she finds herself intrigued and aroused by Takuya's insistent and ardent devotion despite her attempts to humiliate him, beginning a new relationship that both frightens and excites Satsuki.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxed - 1.85Additional Release Material: Interview - 1. Akihiko Shiota - Director TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Lu Wei (co-writer of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) makes his directorial debut with this epic drama set in medieval China. A distraught mother is on a quest to recover her child, who was kidnapped by nefarious warriors. The journey she makes teaches everyone involved a valuable lesson about the power of a mother's love.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case
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Camus' winner of the Palme d'Or winner at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival is a modern reinterpretation of the myth of Orpheus which simultaneously celebrates the beauty, music and people of Brazil. In this version of the ages-old tale, Orpheus is a streetcar conductor and star Carnival dancer who is in betrothed to the determined Mira but is in love with Eurydice. As Mira and Death himself pursue the doomed Orpheus and his lover through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Carnival literally brings the streets to life. Lush photography and the timeless and brilliant bossa nova sounds of Jobim give the film a distinct power and beauty.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingDual LayerAvailable Audio Tracks: Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dubbed) (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)New Transfer with Four Minutes of Never Before Seen FootageFrench Theatrical TrailerNew and Improved English Subtitle TranslationOption English Subtitles or Dubbed TrackRemastered Sound
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