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1) Jezebel
Publisher
[Dist. by] Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
3) Sunset Blvd
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad,...
4) Liar liar
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on this fifth birthday cake, Max has just one wish-- that his dad stop lying for 24 hours. When his son's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset, his mouth, has become his biggest liability.
5) I am
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
7) Modern times
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
9) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
12) Mystery train
Series
Criterion collection volume 521
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1989, ℗2010
Language
English
Description
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of Memphis in hot pursuit of the elusive 'King' himself, Elvis!
13) Dangerous minds
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.
14) A few good men
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
16) King Kong
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, 1933
Language
English
Description
A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A gaint simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.
18) 12 angry men
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
19) Haywire
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead -- by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary"--Container.
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