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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive documentary about the beloved and influential 70s rock band Big Star. Together less than four years, the band flirted with mainstream success but never achieved it. Nonetheless, they produced a body of work of seminal importance to pop and alternative music, influencing major artists like REM, The Replacements, Elliot Smith, Beck, The Flaming Lips and countless others.
Series
Criterion collection ; 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
6) They live
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible." --
9) Sounder
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns home.
10) Foxcatcher
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Series
Criterion collection ; 540
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India to find themselves and bond with each other. They find themselves stranded alone in the middle of a desert and a new unplanned journey begins.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
March, 1942. 90-pound weakling Steve Rogers doggedly attempts to enlist in the army, only to be repeatedly classified 4F. Rogers' determination and decency come to the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Rogers is the first test subject for Erskine's super-soldier serum, which transforms him utterly. When the program is abruptly ended, Rogers becomes Captain America--touring America to sell war bonds. On a USO tour...
Series
Criterion collection ; 680
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Formats
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Series
Criterion collection ; 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
16) Incubus
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Esperanto
Description
People come to the village of Nomen Tuum, seeking youth, beauty and healing reputed to exist in the waters of its wells. But the village is inhabited by demonic incubi who tempt the seekers to their doom. One temptress Kia is ambitious and seeks to tempt and corrupt a saint, despite warning by her sister that saints will lure her away from Satan's thrall with the power of love. The man she chooses is a wounded soldier Marc. She is easily able to cause...
17) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
18) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
20) Ghostbusters
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler lose their University jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service.
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