An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
In the Heat of the Night
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 In a Lonely Place
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Ace High
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who...
Grave of the Fireflies
Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care...
Hannibal
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Halloween
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Naked Island, The
Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields.
Escape from New York
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash lands on the island, the authorities turn to...
Gorky Park
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
