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62) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
This is one of Griffith's most widely acclaimed films, using a new style of lighting and photography to stress intimate character relationships rather than spectacle. A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. The result is tragedy.
63) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
64) Red planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Looking starward for a solution to the dying of Earth, something no one expected awaits.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Two interwined romantic tales take place inside the Chʻung-chʻing high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: A policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer.
66) Runaway bride
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An unlikely love story developes when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.
67) Willow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Willow Ufgood leaves his village to carry a special baby to safety. Aided by a swashbuckling warrior, Willow's quest is plagued by danger as the Powers of Darkness scheme to destroy the child-- a child destined to bring everlasting peace and freedom to the land.
68) Fantasia
Series
Fantasia anthology volume 1
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
69) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
70) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
71) The apartment
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
72) Lake Placid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An investigative team, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile.
Series
Publisher
Orion Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
75) 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!
76) The outsiders
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
78) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer....
79) A knight's tale
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The rousing story of lowborn Willian Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
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