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Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) has it all...but no way out. When he tries to quit show business, his studio boss (Rod Steiger) blackmails him with a secret that could ruin him. A starlet (Shelley Winters) also knows the secret, and when she threatens to talk, Hoff plans murder. Now, Charlie is trapped and could lose everything...including his soul!
Publisher
Image Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998, [1948]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
4) Ferrari
Language
English
Description
Set during the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle and danger of 1950’s Formula 1, ex-racer, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for their one son. Ferrari struggles with the acknowledgement of another. His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race, the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
6) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
7) The fall guy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
8) Grand jeté
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
**Warning:** This film contains sexual content that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Nadja (Sarah Nevada Grether) is an aspiring ballerina with the scars to prove it. A masochistic pursuit at her dream career has left her body battered, a map of the tumultuous torture dancers withstand on a daily basis. Working now as a dancing instructor for children, rather than as the dancer she always wanted to be, she decides to visit the adult...
10) American fiction
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
11) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
12) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
13) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, an iconic box-office record shattering adaptation, stars seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo and fifteen-year-old Olivia Hussey as Juliet. The raw talent of these leads capture the youth and innocence of the legendary characters like never before in what has gone down in history as one of the most profitable film adaptations of Shakespeare ever produced. Winner of...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
15) Love, unscripted
Author
Language
English
Description
"Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Anderson penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book's publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option. Chloe is thrilled a production company wants to bring her movie to the big screen and film it right in her hometown, Stillwater Bay, North Carolina....
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 34
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A nonstop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity, surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akizaku stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the revelations that affect all he holds dear.
17) The equalizer 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
19) Fast Charlie
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Swift is a fixer with a problem: the target he's whacked is missing his head and the only way Charlie will be paid is if the body can be identified. Enter Marcie Kramer, the victim's ex-wife and a woman with all the skills Charlie needs.
20) The long game
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows five young Mexican-American caddies in 1955 who, fueled by their passion for golf, defy the odds by creating their own course in the South Texas desert. Despite facing outdated equipment and a lack of professional instruction, they triumph over wealthier, all-white teams to win the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship.
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