This week's recommended top DVDs include Thai filmmaker Ki-duk Kim's mesmerizing "3-Iron" and the release of the essential box set "Garbo: The Signature Collection."
1. 3-Iron
A mysterious prankster combines burglary and golf: the mesmerizing film from acclaimed Korean director Ki-duk Kim ("Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring") develops an unusual love story between two lost souls that plays out in empty strangers' homes.
2. Garbo - The Signature Collection
The Signature Collection contains some of Greta Garbo's greatest films: "Anna Christie," "Mata Hari," "Grand Hotel," "Queen Christina," "Anna Karenina," "Camille," "Ninotchka," and "Garbo Silents." There's also an excellent documentary about the legendary star.
3. Crash
A talented ensemble cast (including Sandra Bullock, don Cheadle, Matt Dillon and Thandie Netwon) collides haphazardly in this insightfully written roundelay of racism, rage, and redemption which takes place over the course of one day in L.A. Writer-director Paul Haggis (writer of last year's Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby) received great acclaim for this thoughful exploration about race in America.4. The Girl in the Café
This first screened as HBO television movie but when your leading actors are the magnifecnt Bill Nighy (currenly personifying evil in "The Constant Gardener" and Kelly McDonald (of early "Trainspotting" fame). Richard Curtiss' moving story about unlikely love affair during the time of the G8 Summit in Rekyavik.5. Gunslinger's Revenge
Harvey Keitel and David Bowie star in Giovanni Veronesi's 1998 Italian neo-spagetti western.