SHUTTER ISLAND - Martin Scorsese's latest has Leonardo DiCaprio investigating a woman's mysterious disappearance from a compound for the criminally insane, circa 1954. Dripping with tormented psyches and good old-fashioned pulp nostalgia.

180 DEGREES SOUTH - Professional surfers Chris Malloy and Jeff Johnston retrace the epic 1968 journey of Doug Tompkins and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard to Chile's Patagonia, mountain climbing and surfing their way to epiphanies on what matters most in life. Both gorgeous vistas and extreme danger abound in this environmental call to arms.

THE CRY OF THE OWL - Psychological thriller based on the novel of the same title by Patricia Highsmith (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY). A Peeping Tom has the tables turned on him when the object of his attention turns out to be even more disturbed than he is. Starring Julia Stiles of creepy SWIMFAN fame.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 7 - Larry becomes embroiled in the planning of a Seinfeld reunion and attempts to get back together with his ex-wife by casting her as George Costanza's ex-wife on the show...

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE - Pierre Morel (TAKEN) directs John Travolta in this action-comedy flick penned by Luc Besson (THE FIFTH ELEMENT). A low-level CIA operative in France finally gets his big break with a senior-level assignment, but finds himself in over his head when paired with trigger-happy, maniacal agent Travolta.

THE 41 YEAR OLD VIRGIN WHO KNOCKED UP SARAH MARSHALL AND FELT SUPERBAD ABOUT IT - We're pretty sure the title needs no further explanation.

PHYLLIS & HAROLD - Marketed as "Bergman's SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE seen through the prism of I LOVE LUCY," this documentary by Cindy Kleine examines her parents' disastrous 59-year marriage, through home movies, interviews, and animation.

AIR DOLL - A modern fairy tale by Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu (AFTER LIFE), about an inflatable sex doll who comes to life, gets a job at the local video store, and falls in love with a co-worker. An Un Certain Regard pick at Cannes.

SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD - George A. Romero's latest zombie allegory pits two families against each other in their battles with the undead: those who want to kill brain-eating zombies on sight, and those who want to capture them alive in hopes of reaching some sort of peaceful solution to the zombie plague.

POWER KIDS - This Thai action flick is like a family-UNfriendly SPY KIDS, with a group of junior high school students busting into a terrorist-occupied hospital to try to retrieve a donor heart for another child, smashing through windows and incapacitating gun-wielding thugs with their muay thai martial art moves.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Lewis Carroll's classic grows up and gets the Tim Burton treatment as filtered through a psychedelic Jefferson Airplane trip. Stars a nightmarish Johnny Depp as red-headed, white-eyelashed Mad Hatter, and Helena Bonham Carter as the bobble-headed Red Queen.

THE SUN - This eerie new masterpiece by Aleksandr Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) follows Japan's Emperor Hirohito during the last days of World War II, as he is holed up in an underground bunker, sheltered from the devastation around him. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hirohito is forced to meet with General MacArthur and renounce his divine status. Feels like a monumental moment in Japanese history as directed by David Lynch.

WOLFMAN - Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins star in this gothic Victorian monster movie, a remake of the 1941 Universal Horror classic with Lon Chaney. Get ready for mutton chop sideburns, brooding intensity, and fog machines galore!

TONY MANERO - Set during Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship in 1970s Chile, this Cannes pick concerns a middle-aged criminal so obsessed with John Travolta's character in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER that he is driven to murder when a Tony Manero impersonating contest is announced on TV.

GIALLO - Adrien Brody stars as a tormented cop hunting a serial killer in Milan, in the latest from legendary Euro-horror auteur Dario Argento. The title translates as "Yellow," but it also happens to be the genre to which this film belongs: the colorful, sensual Italian giallo thrillers popularized in the 60s and 70s by directors like Argento, Mario Bava, and Lucio Fulci (all Featured Filmmakers in our Cult section, if you'd like to get acquainted with the classics of the genre!).

ANTICHRIST - Danish director Lars von Trier (BREAKING THE WAVES, DOGVILLE) goads Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe into the dark side. 2009's most notorious and divisive art-house feature, sure to be this year's BROWN BUNNY - now at La Dolce Video!

THE RED BARON - German director Nikolai Müllerschön makes a very American feeling historical drama about this infamous WWI German crack pilot, with high-budget aerial combat scenes and a life-changing romance.

THE ESCAPIST - This taut U.K. thriller is an impressive update on the prison break genre, with lifer Frank Perry impelled to organize an escape when he hears that his only daughter is critically ill.

ADAM - An especially awkward romance develops between a young man with Asperger's syndrome and his pretty new neighbor, in this feel-good love story with a twist.

LIFE miniseries (U.K. version) - In most video stores, you will find the Discovery Channel version of this breathtaking new nature series, narrated by Oprah Winfrey... but at La Dolce Video you can pick up the BBC version narrated by David Attenborough (sorry Oprah fans, we love our BBC!).

MIDSOMER MURDERS Season 15 - More sinister secrets lurk in the hedges of seemingly quaint Midsomer County, in this U.K. telly favorite.

FOYLE'S WAR Season 6 - In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle comes out of retirement to solve various mysteries in Hastings.

And some especially exciting highlights from this week's JUST ADDED section!

SANTA SANGRE - This nearly-impossible-to-find cult masterpiece was directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky of HOLY MOUNTAIN and EL TOPO fame. Shot in 1989 and debuted at Cannes, it tells the story of a man who grows up in a mental asylum and later acts as the arms of his mother, committing murders for her after her own arms are cut off by an angry husband. This rare import is only available at La Dolce Video!

SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA - One of our most requested out-of-print titles, this 1993 period piece by Tran Anh Hung is set in 1950s Saigon, during the French occupation of Vietnam. Mui is a young girl working as a servant for a family consumed by grief. When the father of the household runs away with the family's wealth, she is sold to a man she has secretly been in love with, and she can only show her love through her work. This rare import is only available at La Dolce Video!

THE COMPLETE MUSKETEERS - Michael York, Oliver Reed, and Richard Chamberlain play the dashing swashbucklers, Raquel Welch plays the bumbling, busty maiden, and Charlton Heston is the dastardly villain in this 1974 comedy version of the THREE MUSKETEERS story, and in its 1975 sequel THE FOUR MUSKETEERS.

JAMÓN, JAMÓN - Javier Bardem and a young Penelope Cruz star in this hard-to-find 1992 erotic comedy by Spanish director Bigas Luna, "a tale where women eat men and men eat ham." This out-of-print import is only available at La Dolce Video.

QUATERMASS & THE PIT - A must-see for any sci-fi fan, this hard-to-find 1967 British film was the first of Nigel Kneale's Quatermass stories to be shot in color. A Martian spacecraft with a link to the origins of mankind is unearthed beneath a London tube station, and Professor Q must figure out a way to save humanity from the murderous impulses unleashed by the craft. You will only find this rare import at La Dolce Video. They just don't make them like this anymore...

THE CREMATOR - This 1968 Czech chiller is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation. Barely-sane cremator Karl Kopfrkingl, already obsessed with death as a perceived liberation from suffering, is pushed further into madness by Nazi propaganda and comes to see himself as the saviour of mankind. The darkest of dark comedies, Eastern European style.