Akim Tamiroff
1) Alphaville
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In ALPHAVILLE, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to ALPHAVILLE, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60....
Series
Criterion collection volume 25
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
5) Topkapi
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
The story of Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories.
Series
Criterion collection volume 322
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A unique vision of two men, Don Quixote and his companion Sancho Panza, who journey through provincial Spain and suddenly are pitted against enemies both real and imagined in the modern world. A rarelyseen piece of film history.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies
10) Ocean's eleven
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
11) Touch of evil
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. Includes three versions of the film: the preview version (109 mins.) , the theatrical version (99 mins.), and the reconstructed version (111 mins.).
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Cold War, this charming comedy based on Shakespeare's classic love story follows a tiny European country's President who holds the deciding vote in a United Nation's debate. Determined to remain neutral, he orchestrates a romance between the American ambassador's daughter and the Russian ambassador's son. If the two opposing world powers can't successfully join forces, there just may be a plague on both their houses!" -- Container....
13) Mr. Arkadin
Language
English
Description
Mr. Arkadin tells the story of a reclusive billionaire who, faking a case of amnesia, hires a young adventurer who has been seeing his daughter to investigate his own past. As the inquiries begin unraveling, Arkadin's sordid history, the young man realizes he's being used to keep the truth from Arkadin's daughter and that his own life is in danger.
14) Alphaville
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film's title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
15) Union Pacific
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Butler, overseer of the Union Pacific's construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau, Jack Cordray and Dick Allen. Dick is a forrmer pal of Jeff's, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan, the railroad's spirited postmistress." -- Container.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A ruthless racketeer pursues a socialite who is not interested in him and ruins her life; a Chinatown doctor and her father help protect their neighbors against gangsters; a cabaret singer searches for her father who disappeared in the Malaysian jungle with stolen government funds.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandonded sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.
18) Black magic
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After watching his gypsy parents executed by hanging for the alleged crime of sorcery, a young Joseph Balsamo is tortured mercilessly for the insolence of objecting to his parents' conviction. After a narrow escape from his captors, he vows revenge on the nobleman who sentenced his parents to death. Having honed his skills as a charmer through his teen years and into adulthood, Joseph now dons the name Cagliostro and becomes a famous sorcerer throughout...
19) The trial
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A man awakens one morning to find himself arrested for undisclosed charges. To uncover the reasons behind his charges and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial systems, all to no avail.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
There's plenty of swordplay and swashbuckling adventure in Alexandre Dumas's tale of identical twins separated as infants, and raised unaware of each other's existence. One becomes a Parisian gentleman, the other a country bandit. When they are reunited as adults, they seek revenge on the evil Baron who plundered their homestead and robbed them of their birthright. Complications arise when both fall in love with the same beautiful Countess, and the...