Adrien Brody
3) Home at last
Series
Publisher
Public Media Video
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
During the 1800's, trains took orphaned, homeless children away from the squalor and poverty of the city streets and took them West to live with farm families. This is the story of one of the "orphan train riders".
5) Predators
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Several criminals and military-trained operatives mysteriously find themselves on another planet where they realize they are being hunted by aliens.
6) Third person
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing related, but share deep commonalities.
7) The pianist
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
The pianist is the true story of Polish Jew Wladyslaw Szpilman, a celebrated composer and brilliant pianist, who witnessed the brutal Nazi occupation of his beloved city, the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the deportation of his entire family to the labour camps. Surrounded by the madness and horror of war-torn Europe, Szpilman finds safety in the generosity and kindness of strangers in a story of the true power of humanity.
8) Dummy
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Steven is a recently unemployed lovable loser who has difficulty expressing himself. Steven's best friend is Fanny, an aspiring singer, who, along with Steven, is just looking for her niche. Eventually Fanny takes a shine to Yiddish music and Steven finds he has a knack for ventriloquism. Through his newfound talent, Steven discovers that he is able to overcome his social problems through his dummy and decides to try impressing and winning the heart...
10) The village
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An and his group of trained warriors teams up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new friends, Huo An gathers the warriors of thirty-six ethnic nations together to fight Tiberius in an incredible epic battle.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
By night, Jack and his partner Charlie, masquerade as vice cops to pull risky scams on Manhattan tourists. By day, Jack secretly crafts a pulp novel based on the experiences and emotions that define his life. But Jack's street charm prove no match for Claire, a beautiful, straight-laced grad student who manages to see through Jack's lone wolf exterior. Through Jack, Claire eventually finds herself drawn into the underworld Manhattan night life.
13) Detachment
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winners Adrien Brody and Marcia Gay Harden star in this award-winning drama about a substitute teacher at a troubled high school. From the Tony Kaye, director of *American History X*. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*Harrowing depiction of the American educational system features a superb performance by Adrien Brody.*"- Frank Scheck, ***Hollywood Reporter***
14) Bread & roses
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them.
16) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
17) Summer of Sam
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
18) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
19) Detachment
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A substitute teacher who usually avoids emotional connections creates a bond with students at his latest assignment.
20) The jacket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A Gulf War veteran has returned home with amnesia only to be convicted of a murder he didn't commit. While in an institution for the criminally insane he is put on a heavy course of experimental drugs and restrained in a jacket-like device and locked away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process mysteriously transports him to the future where he hopes to make changes that can alter the course of history.