I made a thread like this before but it was shot down by FlameofCallandor because the titles I posted that I wanted to buy were too "obscure" for his tastes.
Anyway, post what you bought (if you bought anything). This is what I ended up buying:
The Hellbenders - spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci (director of Django and The Great Silence), starring Franco Nero (star of Django, Texas Adios, and a number of other high profile spaghetti Westerns - probably most famous in the US for his role as Lancelot in the movie musical Camelot and as the bad guy in Die Harder).
The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - White Man already made at thread about the awesomeness that are these films. Looking forward to watching them.
Fight For Your Life - A grindhouse movie about some crazy racist convicts that take a middle class African American family hostage. The tag line is "They took it until they couldn't take it any more!" and the cover features the white convict getting his ass kicked by the African American dad/husband character. Sounds like a sleazy remake of The Desperate Hours. Looking forward to seeing this, it sounds really over the top.
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Beyond Suspicion - A giallo with a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. I love watching these types of movies without knowing much about the plot. All I know is that it involves a wealthy young woman being blackmailed with erotic photos.
Lizard in a Woman's Skin - Another giallo. Another Ennio Morricone soundtrack. I don't know anything else about it other than the fact taht the title character is supposed to be a femme fatale.
Bird with the Crystal Plumage - One of Dario Argento:s most famous noirs. Again, Ennio Morricone scores the soundtrack.
Scarface (1932) - The original, starring Paul Muni as the Al Capone pastiche.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - A crime flick that inspired Tarantino when he was writing Reservoir Dogs. Stars Walter Matthau. Supposed to be very solid.
Magic - A creepy suspense movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a mentally unbalanced ventriloquist. Everything I've read about this makes it sound excellent. Sounds like Hopkins gives a great performance.
Danger: Diabolik - Based on a European comic strip. A James Bond style movie starring John Philip Law as the title character. Sounds like cheesy fun.
Serpico - The Sidney Lumet classic starring Al Pacino.
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola's "forgotten" masterpiece. Everyone remembers the first two Godfathers and Apocalypse Now, but few outside of film buffs remember this amazing film about an audio expert played by Gene Hackman. Probably inspired by Antonioni's Blow-Up.
Prince of the City - I have been waiting for this movie to come out on DVD for years. Might be my favorite Sidney Lumet film. Stars Treat Williams as a police detective turned informant on his fellow cops. Sidney Lumet is one of the most underrated directors of all time - 12 Angry Men, Fail-Safe, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Serpico, Prince of the City...he has directed a LOT of classic films. He did a movie called Find Me Guilty last year which was basically a huge flop but which is actually very good. Rent it, if you can.
Justice League Unlimited Season 2 - I was overseas when this aired, so all these episodes will be new to me.
The Naked Spur - Anthony Mann western starring James Stewart. Stewart and Mann collaborated on 8 amazing Westerns, and this is generally acknowledged to be the best one (though I'm very fond of Winchester '73). These are 'hard' westerns, and interesting precursors to the stuff Peckinpah and Leone did later on in the sixties.
Infernal Affairs Trilogy box set - I already own the first one on DVD, but buying the box set was cheaper than buying the movies individually, lawl.
What Have You Done to Solange? - Another giallo. Another hauntingly beautiful Morricone score. About a serial killer who murders young women and mutilates their bodies.
I am thinking of getting the new SEs for the Leone films...For A Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, and Duck You Sucker.
