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Peter Sarsgaard
1) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Seperation theory.
3) Blue Jasmine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her life falls apart, socialite Jasmine moves to San Francisco to stay with her sister.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
6) Mr. Jones
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1933. Hitler rises to power and Stalin’s Soviet propaganda machine pushes their “utopia” to the Western world. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade that would later...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine, The New Republic. He was also a freelance writer featured in Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar and George. By the mid-1990s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in its tracks.
Publisher
Sender Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle that clashed with the values of the National Park Service. But up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. This film recounts the history of Yosemite's climbing tradition: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity-- and the laws of the land.
10) Pawn Sacrifice
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** "*An enthralling...
11) Green lantern
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. When a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest...
12) Boys don't cry
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life of Teena Brandon, a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena.
13) Knight and day
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a small-town girl named June meets a mysterious stranger, she thinks she's found the man of her dreams. But she soon discovers he's a fugitive super-spy, who thrusts her into a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase that spans the globe. As the bullets and sparks fly, June must decide if her 'Knight' in shining armor is a dangerous traitor or the love of her life. Bonus features included.
15) Robot & Frank
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A former cat burglar struggling with dementia receives a humanoid robot caretaker as a gift from his son.
16) Year of the dog
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A happy-go-lucky secretary must find meaning in her life after her dog Pencil dies unexpectedly.
17) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
18) Night moves
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
19) Desert Blue
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Starring Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck, DESERT BLUE is a comedy-drama following an academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his TV-star daughter as they finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone -- the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next...
20) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...