Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova. 190 min. Criterion. 1967–71. DVD UPC 715515300414. $39.99; Blu-ray UPC 715515300315. $59.99. DRAMA

In her initial solo features, the iconoclastic Ukrainian director proffers complex portrayals of women dealing with work, love, and family. Oft banned by Soviet authorities, both films are daring in their experimental, impressionistic stylings.

The First Omen. 119 min. Arkasha Stevenson, Sony. 2024. DVD UPC 043396637283. $26.99; Blu-ray UPC 043396637290. $34.99. Rated: R. HORROR

A young woman (Nell Tiger Free), sent to Rome in service to the Catholic Church, contends with a dark force compelling her to doubt her faith in this unexpectedly well-received prequel to the scattershot “Omen” franchise, auspiciously begun in 1976.

Mother. 104 min. 1996. Blu-ray UPC 715515301015. Rated: PG-13. Real Life. 99 min.1979. Blu-ray UPC 715515300810. Unrated. Ea. vol.: Albert Brooks, Criterion. $39.99. COMEDY

A twice-divorced, self-obsessed science fiction writer (Albert Brooks) moves back in with his charming but controlling mom (Debbie Reynolds) to try and figure out his life in Mother. In the prescient mockumentary Real Life, a vain filmmaker (Brooks) embeds with an ordinary family to capture their day-to-day life. Restored in HD.

Not a Pretty Picture. 82 min. Martha Coolidge, Criterion. 1976. DVD UPC 715515300612. $29.99; Blu-ray UPC 715515300513. $39.99. DRAMA

The trailblazing Coolidge (Valley Girl; Rambling Rose) cut her filmic teeth with this meta-docudrama portraying her own sexual assault as an adolescent, with a rape survivor playing her younger self and confronting the reenactment process.

The Patrice Leconte Collection: The Hairdresser’s Husband / Yvonne’s Perfume / Girl on the Bridge / Half a Chance. 2 discs. 369 min. In French w/English subtitles. Kino Lorber. 1990–99. DVD UPC 738329267032. $39.99. Rated: R. DRAMA / COMEDY / ROMANCE

A quartet of films from stylish French director Leconte, whose masterwork remains 1989’s Hitchcockian Monsieur Hire. There’s The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990), about an obsessive man madly in thrall to a beautician; Yvonne's Perfume (1994), concerning a loving couple who attract the attention of a gay epicurean; Girl on the Bridge (1999), tracking the relationship between a carnival knife-thrower and an itinerant woman; and Half a Chance (1998), where French cinema icons Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon try to save a young woman from gangsters. Except for Chance, the titles in this collection are also separately available on Blu-ray.

The People’s Joker. 92 min. Vera Drew, Altered Innocence. 2022. DVD UPC 688187004679. $27.95; Blu-ray UPC 688187004686. $32.95. Rated: R. COMEDY

An aspiring clown (Vera Drew) struggles with her gender identity while searching for a place in Gotham City’s outlaw anti-comedy ranks, setting up a showdown with a caped crusader in this low-budget parody of the DC Comics universe.

Ride. 108 min. Jake Allyn, Well Go USA. 2024. DVD UPC 810348037213. $24.99; Blu-ray UPC 810348037213. $29.99. Rated: R. DRAMA

A retired cowboy (C. Thomas Howell), whose wife (Annabeth Gish) has left him and whose daughter is sick, teams up with his recently paroled son (director Jake Allyn, also costarring) and hits the rodeo circuit to raise money for his child’s pricey cancer drugs.