Joe Pesci
Author
Language
English
Description
All gangster Tommy Spinelli wants to do is board a plane and get to San Diego so that he can deliver his carry-on duffel bag to his boss. Unfortunately, the bag is dumped during boarding and is switched with that of a Mexican-bound medical student...who has no idea that the bag he now carries contains the severed heads of eight Los Angeles gangsters.
3) With Honors
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon, a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day's accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.
4) The Irishman
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
5) A Bronx Tale
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s. Restored in 4K UHD for the first time.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two carefree pals mistakenly arrested and charged with murder are defended by the cousin of one of them (Vinny), a former auto mechanic of Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court and this case quickly turns into a hysterical escapade.
7) Home alone
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accidentally left behind when his parents rush off on their Christmas vacation, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister embarks on a hilarious, madcap mission to defend the family home when two bumbling burglars try to break in and find themselves tangled in Kevin's bewildering battery of booby traps.
8) GoodFellas
Language
English
Formats
Description
Focuses on a group of men involved with organized crime while giving an inside look at the Mafia from 1955-80. Based on the life of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood.
For as long as he could remember, Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster. So, when he was 12 years old, he started running errands for the neighborhood wiseguy and...
9) Casino
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the rise and fall of three friends in 1970s-era Las Vegas: Mafia-connected casino operator Sam "Ace" Rothstein, Mafia enforcer Nicky Santoro, and hustler Ginger McKenna
As the opening credits say, the film is "adapted from a true story". The source material is Pileggi's nonfiction biography of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, and most of the characters in the film are based on real people.
10) Raging bull
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert De Niro teams up with director Martin Scorsese to create one of cinema's eternal masterpieces. Nominated for eight Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, this contemporary classic is "ambitious, violent, poetic and lyrical" (The New York Times). De Niro turns in a powerful, Best Actor Oscar®-winning performance as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both...
11) Casino
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
12) Lethal weapon 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
Widescreen and standard ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
13) Lethal weapon 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles police sergeants Murtaugh and Riggs are working on drug related case. After a chase and car crash, the two find one million dollars worth of South African krugerands. Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to keep an eye on Leo Getz, who is scheduled to testify in a drug case. The South African drug smugglers, led by Arjen Rudd, the minister of diplomatic affairs, doesn't want Leo to testify. Rudd turns out to be the man that Riggs and Murtaugh...
14) Hero Quest
Publisher
Glukoza Production
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fairy tale about a grand life journey of ten-year old boy Savva, devoted to help his mom and fellow village people to break free from the vicious hyenas.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen. Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of the lives of two New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Friends from childhood, they entered a life of crime together that inevitably led to tragedy and death.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hit man Tommy Spinelli has 24 hours to deliver a bag of 8 "former associates" to an angry mob boss in San Diego. But when Charlie, a fellow passenger on his flight, mistakenly takes the bag, the heads go to Baja. When Charlie discovers the bag's horrific contents, he desperately tries to get the bag back to the border.
19) Raging bull
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
De Niro stars as champion boxer Jake La Motta, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.
20) Lethal weapon 4
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Buddy cop action comedy. Family man Murtaugh is partner to loose cannon Riggs, who may or may not marry his girlfriend.