Billy Crudup
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
It's World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
6) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
7) Watchmen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters turn up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed.
10) Blood ties
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Two brothers in 1970s Brooklyn on opposite sides of the law face off as one is released from prison and gradually slips back into his criminal ways.
11) Big fish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
William Bloom is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward--outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days, William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
12) Almost famous
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Restored and remastered under the supervision of Oscar-winning writer/director Cameron Crowe, this is the semi-autobiographical odyssey of fifteen-year-old William Miller, whose writing talent and earnest passion for rock music earns him an assignment for Rolling Stone, interviewing and touring with Stillwater. Penny Lane is the young groupie who guides him through the wild world of rock heroes, all-night parties, and the most dangerous intensity...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two friends returning from World War II team up with an old rancher to raise cattle the cowboy way, in conflict with a corporate cattle rancher who employs half the town of Hi-Lo, New Mexico. When one of his friends has an affair with the wife of the corporate rancher's foreman, the conflict increases.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Isabel has devoted her life to working with the children in a Calcutta orphanage. Theresa is the multimillionaire leader of a media company who lives with her artist husband in New York. When Isabel hears of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially strained orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor, Theresa, in person, who then insists she stay for a family wedding.
15) Almost famous
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
It's the backstage pass of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine.
17) Public enemies
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen , in order to rescue Lindsey, one of his trainees, who was kidnapped...
19) Public enemies
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
20) Too big to fail
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.