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The Street Fighter: Meet the meanest and most lethal karate master ever to rule the streets. He's Sonny Chiba, one of the greatest martial arts actors to ignite the screen. Terry Tsurugi, a mercenary who has been hired by both the yakuza and the mafia to kidnap a wealthy heiress, but when he isn't paid, a violent clash will ensure.
Return of the street fighter: Chiba is back, this time Tsurugi is hired by the mob to kill two informants, but when...
2) Midnight run
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Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
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Shout select volume 7
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During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
5) Mr. Mom
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Shout select volume 28
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When his wife starts bringing home the bacon, an out-of-work 'house-husband' has to learn to fry - among other heinous domestic tasks - in this hysterically funny comedy.
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Shout select volume 26
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The Billy Jack cycle in widescreen with updated commentary. In "Born losers" (1967), Tom Laughlin introduced the character of Billy Jack, a mixed-race Native American, ex-Green Beret, and Vietnam vet who just wants to be left alone. When a vicious motorcycle gang launches a reign of terror on a small town, he finds he must stand up and fight while others hide in fear. Billy Jack kills the leader of the gang, but is accidentally slain by a deputy sheriff....
7) Going my way
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"Father O'Malley [is] a young priest new to an established but financially troubled parish. When his philosophies conflict with those of the curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the unflappable Father O'Malley perseveres, eventually winning over his gruff superior and the parish with his fresh, inspirational approach"--Container.
8) The ticket
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Shout select volume 20
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After James, a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements -- a nicer home, a higher-paying job, tailored suits, luxury car -- leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife and close friend Bob. As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return...
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Witness the birth of Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed greatest rock band of all time. On a fateful day on Venice beach, JB and KG meet and realize that they were destined to make history by combining their musical genius. But when overnight success eludes them, they set out to find the legendary "Pick of Destiny" - a special guitar pick believed to possess magical powers that can turn any open-mike wannabe into a rock legend.
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"Waldo Pepper [is] a young pilot back from World War I, barnstorming his way across the Midwest. Taking on rival after rival, Waldo meets his match in Axel, an air-show promoter. Together, with acrobatic Mary Beth, they take air showmanship to great heights. Eventually landing in Hollywood as a stunt pilot, Waldo finally meets up with the legendary German pilot Ernst Kessler leading to a climatic airborne fight to the finish"--Container.
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Shout select volume 61
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In the south of France, two rival con men, suave and sophisticated Lawrence and third-rate American hustler Freddy, make a wager. The first one to extract $50,000 from the next woman they meet wins, and the other leaves town.
12) The tiger hunter
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Shout select volume 38
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It is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low-end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is, or perhaps ever could be.
13) Trespass
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Shout select volume 24
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When two firefighters looking through the rubble of a fire discover a map leading to stolen gold, they set out to find the treasure in an abandoned apartment building occupied by a vicious gang.
14) The deer hunter
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Shout select volume 105
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Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
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No one knows the game of baseball better than twelve-year-old Billy Heywood. When he inherits the Minnesota Twins from his grandfather, he names himself manager in the hopes of turning the beleaguered team's season around. While his players aren't too keen about taking orders from a kid, Billy promises them if they can't get out of the last place, he'll fire himself. With the help of pitching coach Mac and team captain Lou Collins, Billy learns what...
16) Candy
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Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name, and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other possessions and attachments become unimportant.
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Shout select volume 110
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"Presiding over the renowned Battle Creek Sanitarium is the visionary cornflake inventor and health-craze huckster Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Seeking to improve their health -- and their marriage -- are Eleanor, Kellogg's spellbound devotee, and Will, her reluctant but devoted husband. What doesn't kill them in this spa/hospital/grand hotel will only make them stronger as they make their way through an obstacle course of sexual temptations, mechanical...
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Shout select volume 17
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Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront...
19) Suburbia
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Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with 'The Rejected' (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a new family. But their new family will be tested when they become the target of 'Citizens Against Crime', a group of unhappy suburbanites.
20) Homeboy
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A boxer who finally gets his big break finds that his life as well as his career is put on the line by the devious dealings of his manager.
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