Bestsellers > VHS > Mystery and Suspense
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Avenging Force»rank: 3112starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, William Wallace, John P. Ryan
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Phantom Lady»rank: 3250starring: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez
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Paperhouse»rank: 13322starring: Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Sarah Newbold
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Outrageous Fortune»rank: 3712starring: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck
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Charlie Chan: At the Opera»rank: 14145starring: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, William Demarest, Guy Usher
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Harem»rank: 3038starring: Nancy Travis, Art Malik, Sarah Miles, Yaphet Kotto, Julian Sands
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39 Steps»rank: 17617starring: Peggy Ashcroft, Ivor Barnard, Wilfrid Brambell, Madeleine Carroll, Frank Cellier
: essential video:Hitchcock's first great romantic thriller is a prime example of the MacGuffin principle in action. Robert Donat is Richard Hannay, an affable Canadian tourist in London who becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious spy winds up murdered in Hannay's rented flat--and both the police and a secret organization wind up hot on his trail. With only a seemingly meaningless phrase ('the 39 steps'), a small Scottish town circled on a map, and a criminal mastermind identified by a ... |
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Citizen Kane»rank: 5405starring: William Alland, Georgia Backus, Fortunio Bonanova, Sonny Bupp, Ray Collins
: essential video:Arguably the greatest of American films, 0rson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or ... |
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The Fast and the Furious»rank: 740starring: Thom Barry, Jordana Brewster, Vin Diesel, David Douglas (II), Noel Gugliemi
: :A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. lt's trash, but it's fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom ... |
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Psycho (1998)»rank: 14904starring: O.B. Babbs, Ryan Cutrona, Chad Everett, Flea, Robert Forster
: :Numerous critics had already sharpened their knives even before Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot color 're-creation' of the 1960 black-and-white Hitchcock classic was released, chiding the Good Will Hunting director for defiling hallowed ground. This intriguing cinematic curiosity, though, is hardly as sacrilegious as critics would lead you to believe. lf anything, Van Sant doesn't take enough liberties with his almost slavish devotion to the material, now updated with modern references. At times, you wish Van Sant would cut loose with a little spontaneity, ... |