This week we like our movies shaken, not stirred:

Martini Movies —Coming Tuesday to DVD.

Five films from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment make their DVD debut under a puzzling Martini Movies banner. It is not quite clear what makes a Martini Movie because these five do not share common themes, or cast, or crew (not counting music scores on three from Quincy Jones).

But they do signal hope that Sony will begin releasing more of the treasured nuggets they have in their Columbia Pictures library. These five cover 20 years and include various genres, from espionage to caper to social drama.

The five discs come virtually movie-only, containing the original trailers and brief “Martini Moments,” which offer martini recipes. Titles are available individually but not collectively. They are:

The Garment Jungle ***1/2 Volcanic Lee J. Cobb stars as the owner of a clothing firm in Manhattan’s garment district. Working under the thumb of a mob boss (Richard Boone), he fights to free himself, while also combating union organizers. Tense, well-directed drama. 88 minutes. 1957.

Affair in Trinidad *** Glen Ford and Rita Hayworth reunite, attempting to capture some of the magic of their earlier Gilda. She plays a nightclub singer in Trinidad when her husband dies mysteriously. Ford plays the husband’s brother who comes to the island to investigate, finding trouble where expected. 98 minutes. 1952.

$ ***1/2 Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn star in this highly entertaining, fast-paced caper-thriller from veteran Hollywood director Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood). Beatty plays an American security expert who installs a system in a Hamburg bank that he proceeds to rob with help from a ditzy American call girl (an unlikely Hawn). 121 minutes. 1971.

The New Centurions *** Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel becomes an episodic yet action-packed police drama. A rookie cop (Stacey Keach) joins teams with a gnarly veteran (George C. Scott), and together they tour the mean streets of Los Angeles. One nears the end of his career, as the other gradually becomes as cynical as his older partner. 103 minutes. 1972.

The Anderson Tapes *** New York director Sidney Lumet, still active at 84, directed this crime thriller starring Sean Connery and introducing Christopher Walken. Plans to rob a luxury apartment complex go awry after meticulous planning. 95 minutes. 1971.

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L.A. Confidential ***** This masterpiece gets a VIP re-release in a three-disc set amply filled with extras and a digitally remastered print (the third disc is a CD of the eclectic period soundtrack).

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Detectives Bud White (Russell Crowe), center left, and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) get a sharp new transfer in the newest remastered version of L.A. Confidential, which comes to DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday on a three-disc set.

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Director Curtis Hanson earned one of the film’s seven Oscar nominations, including two winners: Best Adapted Screenplay (Hanson and Brian Helgeland) and Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger). James Ellroy’s sprawling novel serves as the source for the labyrinthine story about murder, police corruption, fake movie stars, the beginning of the tabloids, and mob infiltration. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey star as three Los Angeles detectives interlocked in battle, with James Cromwell as their superior and Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake look-alike call girl. Superior filmmaking.

Rated R, 138 minutes.

The second disc, also on Blu-ray, contains both old and new materials in featurettes holding interviews with the major cast and crew. The “making of,” “Whatever You Desire,” is an informative half-hour segment dissecting how the film made its way from Ellroy’s “unfilmable” novel onto screen. Several other featurettes cover everything from the cast to the visual style rendered by ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti. For true obsessives, “The L.A. of L.A. Confidential” takes the viewer to 15 different existing L.A. locales in which the film was shot.

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Disney goes for the dogs, not to the dogs, in re-releasing all three titles in their highly popular series of Dalmatians movies. Several have not been available for a while but will now briefly reappear filled with new and extra bonus materials:

101 Dalmatians —Rated G, 103 minutes.

101 Dalmatians II (animated) — Rated G, 70 minutes.

102 Dalmatians —Rated G, 100 minutes.

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With the fall TV season upon us, several shows from last season finally make their DVD debuts:

Brothers and Sisters: Second Season —An excellent cast inhabits a roster of characters drawn from the feuding Walker family. Sally Field plays the intimidating matriarch, surrounded by her tribe: Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths and Rob Lowe. Sixteen episodes come on five discs.

Rated TV-14, 671 minutes.

The bonus materials include deleted scenes, commentaries, bloopers, and featurettes on the season’s guest stars, on the food highlighted in the series and an on-set tour with the set designer.

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Samantha Who? First Season —Christina Applegate stars as Samantha Newly, who comes out of a coma and must then spend the entire first season trying to piece together her identity, from her own personality to that of her family and friends, including her befuddled boyfriend. With Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito, Kevin Dunn and others. Fifteen episodes come on two discs.

Rated TV-PG.

The discs hold commentaries, deleted scenes and bloopers.

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Dirty Sexy Money: First Season —Peter Krause appears as Nick George, lawyer to Manhattan’s wealthy Darling family. Lurid yet immensely entertaining in Dallas fashion, the strike-shortened series also featured Donald Sutherland and Jill Clayburgh as the family heads. With William Baldwin and Samaire Armstrong.

Ten episodes come on three discs.

Rated TV-14, 426 minutes.

The DVD offers commentary, four featurettes, bloopers and deleted scenes.

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Private Practice: First Season — Extended Edition —This Grey’s Anatomy spin-off takes place in California, not Seattle, as Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) has relocated. But, regardless, she again experiences romance, drama and personal conflicts. The strike-shortened season, on three discs, also offers a pair of extended episodes among the supplements.

Rated TV-PG, 394 minutes.

In addition to the extended episodes are commentaries, deleted scenes, bloopers, a “behind-the-scenes” featurette, and an individual segment on Kate Walsh.

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Also this week: Dororo, Foot Fist Way, Leatherheads, Midnight Eagle.