Laurence Fishburne
1) The Matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In an anti-utopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and are now fighting for the future of the human race.
3) Imprisoned
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dylan Burke attempts to move from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgotten him for an old crime.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
5) The Mule
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
7) School daze
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A music-filled, offbeat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life. Includes soundtrack audio cd.
8) The colony
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A savage and unrelenting thriller about mankind's greatest enemy: himself. As an endless winter engulfs Earth, humans struggle to survive in remote underground outposts. When Colony 7 receives a distress call from a nearby settlement, Sam and Briggs race through the snow on a dangerous rescue mission. What they find at the desolate base could mean mankind's salvation-or its total annihilation. Terrifying discoveries will unfold that will change the...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
11) Rudderless
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sam, a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father's downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin a young musician. The unlikely duo forms a rock band that becomes a local sensation....
12) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
14) Last flag flying
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
15) Passengers
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
17) Once in the life
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, separated for years with only a father in common, retreat to an abandoned New York building in the aftermath of a drug heist gone wrong. When one of them summons his former partner to help a three-way confrontation results, testing the bonds of loyalty, brotherhood and love.
18) The Civil War
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
19) Ride along
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his soon-to-be brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James's sister.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...