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Explorer Karl Lorenz is stranded on a steadily eroding iceberg. A rescue crew reaches him only to become stranded themselves. When his pilot wife arrives, she crashes her plane and is stranded too. They soon battle the elements and hope for a miracle.

Two Greek children embark on a mystical journey in search of the father they never knew.

When jet -setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now he is on a mission to save the world as a hero who's built, not born, to be unlike any other.

A gang of teenagers roam the slums until Sandra decides that she's had enough. Pregnant with El Cordobes' child, Sandra threatens to leave him if he doesn't straighten up. He decides to pull one more heist, but his plans go terribly wrong.

• Features: Restores image and sound
• Audio commentary by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck
• Original theatrical trailer
• New essay by Stephen Prince: the warrior's camera: the cinema of Akira Kurowawa
• 2 different subtitle translations
• Notes on subtitling.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.

In a mountain outpost a scientist lives with little contact to the outside world. In the middle of a fierce snowstorm, he loses his station is battered by the elements. Suffering from frostbite, he sends a desperate S.O.S. hoping that he can be rescued.

When a safari hunting ivory offends an African tribe, they are captured and tortured. One man is released without weapons or clothing, to be hunted in a life or death race. Includes essay booklet; interviews; and more.

A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, leaving the woman to teach the village children, whose parents are nowhere to be found.

The adventures of an American sea captain stranded on Micronesia in the South Pacific, as he tries to become an entrepreneur.

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• 1. Against all flags / [presented by] Universal-International, directed by George Sherman, screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie and Joesph [sic] Hoffman, story by Aeneas MacKenzie ; produced by Howard Christie (84 min.) ; Buccaneer's girl / [presented by] Universal-International, screenplay by Harold Shumate and Joseph Hoffman, adapted from a story by Joe May and Samuel R. Golding, directed by Frederick De Cordova, produced by Robert Arthur (77 min.)
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• 2. Yankee buccaneer / Universal-International presents a Universal-International picture, directed by Frederick De Cordova, story and screenplay by Charles K. Peck, Jr., produced by Howard Christie (86 min.) ; Double crossbones / Universal-International presents a Universal-International picture, story and screenplay by Oscar Brodney, directed by Charles T. Barton, produced by Leonard Goldstein (76 min.).

Against all flags:" In 1700, the pirates of Madagascar menace the India trade; British officer Brian Hawke has himself cashiered, flogged, and set adrift to infiltrate the pirate 'republic.' There, Hawke meets lovely Spitfire Stevens, a pirate captain in her own right, and the sparks begin to fly; but wooing a pirate poses unique problems. Especially after he rescues adoring young Princess Patma from a captured ship. Meanwhile, Hawke's secret mission proceeds to an action-packed climax"--DVDBeave web site.
Buccaneer's girl: "Robin Hood-like pirate Baste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and falls for the pirate; later, having become a New Orleans entertainer, she meets his alter ego, who's engaged to the governor's daughter. Sea battles and land rescues follow in lighthearted style"--DVDBeave web site.
Yankee buccaneer: "A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas; but the arrival of one of Porter's ex-students, the willful and independent Lieutenant David Farragut, brings a new mission: to disguise the ship and crew as a pirate ship and help the Navy locate the criminals who have been robbing America's merchant fleet. But as Farragut's disobedience threatens the safety of the crew, they stumble upon an international conspiracy"--DVDBeave web site.
Double crossbones: "Donald O'Connor, a poor but honest shopkeeper's apprentice, unwittingly becomes a sort of poor man's Captain Kidd, who fouls up the Governor's neat game of supplying quarries for the pirates and then bilking the hard-working pirates of their plunder. There's a romantic involvement, naturally, between O'Connor and Helena Carter, the governor's beauteous ward. But, despite Donald O'Connor's mugging and the broad histrionics of John Emery as the scheming governor, and such nefarious captains as Hope Emerson, Charles McGraw and Robert Barrat"--DVDBeave web site.
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with these four swashbuckling films.

To maintain international and internal security and to divert mankind's natural aggression, the UN organizes a series of military games, which are often fought to the death by different teams of crack combat specialists.

An undercover East India Company agent and a native expose the Thugs in circa-1825 India.
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John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.

After his father's death, young Mehrollah leaves home to make money to support his mother and sisters. At age 14, he returns home a success. He is shocked to learn that his mother has remarried in his absence and moved. Mehrollah rejects the new man of the house and sets off into the desert. When his stepfather goes after him, the two realize they will need mutual respect in order to survive the harrowing journey home.

An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.

Robin Williams stars as Alan Parrish, who after 25 years, is finally freed from the spell of an ancient magical board game named Jumanji. The two children who freed him, however, have also unwittingly unleashed a group of wild exotic creatures from the game, forcing the long-lost Alan to save his hometown from destruction.
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During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem.

Japan's most feared assassin wanders the countryside with his young son, hunted by the merciless minions of an evil Shogun. Once a noble samurai, he is now the most feared assassin in Japan, known only as Lone Wolf.

AN IMPRISONED YOUNG MAN SHARES HIS CELL WITH AN OLDER INMATE WHO SEXUALLY AND PHYSICALLY DOMINATES HIM.
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The world's three best fighter pilots find a common enemy when the military decides to replace human pilots with computers. Unfortunately, an accident gives the computer pilot a mind of its own and soon the whole world is at the mercy of a computer-controlled fighter plane.
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