Tattooed Stranger, The - DVD

Having lost most of her family in a shelling, Aleppo hospital doctor Amira (Yasmine Al Massri) chose to leave civil war-torn Syria with her daughter Rasha (Massa Daoud). The legs of their bid for safety-as told through the multiple points of view of strangers, including a Syrian soldier (Yahya Mahayni), a Turkish human smuggler (Omar Sy), a Turkish refugee (Ziad Bakri) crossing the Aegean, and a Greek coast guard officer (Constantine Markoulakis)-are limned in this affecting drama. AKA InchThe Strangers' Case.Inch 103 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

The feature film debut from Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed director of Weathering With You and Your Name., is a haunting and beautiful story of friendship and loss, with stunning visuals and the emotional approach to science-fiction that would become the director's trademark. In an alternate post-war Japan, three teenagers become obsessed with a mysterious tower across the Union border, which reaches far into the sky. Hiroki and Takuya work on a makeshift airplane, which they promise their friend Sayuri they will use to visit the tower together someday, but she disappears before it is completed. Several years later, the tower suddenly activates, starting a phenomenon that threatens the world. And the young men now discover their long-lost friend Sayuri may hold the key to it all

Before he gained his fame directing cinematic masterpieces like The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama about troubled youth. When clean-cut Hal Ditmar (Hawaii Five-O's James MacArthur), son of a wealthy movie producer (James Daly), gets into a fight with a movie theater manager (Whit Bissell) no one believes he acted in self-defense. With the po