With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Boutique labels and distributors craft premium editions of films on physical media, elevating the home viewing experience with meticulous attention to detail. These releases shine through superior picture and sound quality, stunning packaging, and a wealth of extras, including alternate film cuts, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and collectible booklets packed with essays, interviews, and expert commentary.
Renowned boutique labels like The Criterion Collection, Eureka! Masters of Cinema, and Indicator set the standard for cinephiles. Emerging in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the VHS boom, distributors have since evolved to champion Blu-ray and 4K UHD formats. Explore my curated collection of boutique titles below, filterable by label using the orange buttons:
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VHS, BETAMAX & VCR DISTRIBUTORS United States of Leland, The
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case....
Smile
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this...
Sitcom
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent...
Save the Tiger
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
Phase IV
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Misunderstood
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
Mallrats
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses.
Lionheart
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take...
Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
