In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is Cary Grant’s suave, mysterious stranger. Director Stanley Donen goes deliciously dark for Charade, a glittering emblem of sixties style and macabre wit. – Criterion

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi

The second in Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy, DESPERADO follows the wandering gunslinger/heart-stealer El Mariachi as he travels from one dusty town to the next carrying his signature guitar case loaded down with weaponry. After being wounded in a bloody bar gunfight, El Mariachi teams up with a local woman to hunt down the drug lord who killed his lover and to snuff out the cartel that’s terrorizing her town.

On January 19, 1991, nearly 3000 purveyors of New York Hardcore would cram into the venue formerly known as Studio 54 in NYC to thrash away to a line-up of bands collectively billed as the Superbowl of Hardcore IV. Atop the bill was NYHC’s forever crucial Agnostic Front, directly supported by next wave phenoms Sick of it All and Gorilla Biscuits.

The performances were captured by director George Seminara for what would turn out to be one of the most celebrated Hardcore documents of the time, Live in NYC ’91. More recently referred to simply as the “In-Effect video,” the long out of print VHS tape and highly bootlegged Live in NYC ’91 showcases three of NYC’s most intense and ferocious bands in their prime while telling the story of a complex, and ever-changing scene via exclusive interview footage with members of AF, SOIA and GB, plus representatives of Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law and Nuclear Assault, in addition to numerous NYHC scene stalwarts.

Starring: Sonney Weil, Bick Balse, Herb Hummel

For a long time, Japanese animation had a bad rep in America: “those freaky violent cartoons with the schoolgirls and the tentacle monsters.” UROTSUKIDŌJI: THE LEGEND OF OVERFIEND is the film that’s largely responsible for this reputation. A video store staple in America, Hideki Takayama’s gruesome adaptation of Toshio Maeda’s erotic horror comic had a brief stint in U.S. theaters rocking a well-earned NC-17 rating.

Grim-faced and grotesque, Urotsukidōji is a hellish Freudian vision of torn bodies, sexual depravity and bitter pessimism.  The apocalyptic film picks up just before the prophesied rise of the demon-god The Overfiend, whose re-birth would merge the worlds of men and demons. As time of prophecy draws closer, demons flood into the dimension of men, throwing the Earth into a chaotic storm of sex and violence.

Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weson, Biff McGuire

Release Date: June 19, 1968

Thomas Crown, a playboy bank executive, has just pulled off the perfect heist without getting his hands dirty. Using five men to steal a multi-million dollar haul from a Boston bank, Crown deposits the money bit-by-bit into a Swiss bank account. As Crown counts cash, a wily insurance investigator begins looking into the affair, buddying up to Crown in a relationship that soon turns physical.

Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley

Release Date: May 2, 1968

“Following the collapse of his marriage, TV newswriter Felix Ungar decides to commit suicide in a cheap hotel room near Times Square. He fails at even this, however, and dejectedly makes his way to the weekly poker game being held at the Riverside Drive apartment of his best friend, Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter. Felix accepts an invitation to share the 8-room apartment, but his hypochondria and his compulsion for order and cleanliness drive the slovenly Oscar to distraction, and the two men are soon quarreling.” – American Film Institute

Starring: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman

On the brink of forming a new business arrangement with a cabal of shady Americans, cockney mobster Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) eyes the throne at the top of the London underworld until an explosion on Good Friday threatens to throw the deal off the rails. With twenty-four hours to put a lid on the underworld strife, Shand runs through the city leaving a trail of bloody mayhem as he tries to stomp out the insurgency.

Lawrence Kasdan’s tramped up and ruthless remix of Double Indemnity, sees a Florida heat-wave fry the brain of a dopey two-bit lawyer who falls into the trap of a bored and wealthy woman just out to pass the time while her husband’s out of town with a bit of a steamy affair. As the clothes shed and the days pass, a plot hatches to kill her husband and make off with his mountain of money. Dopey lawyer being what he is, goes for it; but one can hardly blame him, it’s for Kathleen Turner, after all.

Starring: Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Joe Manganiello

Loosely based on Channing Tatum’s days of banana hammocks and hurricane parties working as a stripper in Florida; Magic Mike went and surprised everyone by being a real, honest-t0-goodness movie. Headed up by Steven Soderbergh, the film follows Mike as he works the Tampa strip scene building up a nest egg to start a business of his own. The problem is he works under a club-owner named Dallas whose in the game more for himself than the health and well-being of his boys; and Mike finds himself in trouble when Dallas’s influence starts taking a toll on Mike’s young-buck protegee.

Starring: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Everett McGill, Benicio Del Toro

A Central American drug lord snuffs out one of James Bond’s friends and the world’s most famous super secret agent isn’t having one bit of it. Vowing revenge, he breaks up with MI6 and heads down to Key West with vengeance on his mind.

Quite brutal for a Bond flick, License to Kill sets a mean-mugged Timothy Dalton up against an iguana-stroking, pinky-ringed kingpin played by Robert Davi. Critics thought it was mean – but they just can’t stand that Florida heat.