Sidney Lumet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. they and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law but now their son Danny wants to stop running from a past not his and to do so, he might never see his family again.
3) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.
4) Serpico
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
5) 12 angry men
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
6) Deathtrap
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A playwright with writer's block is desperate for a new hit play, and just may steal it from his gifted student.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Instead of ratting out friends, family, and colleagues, mobster Giacomo DiNorscio decides to go to court and defend himself against criminal charges, leading to the longest running mafia trial in U.S. history.
8) Fail-safe
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President tries to call them back, but their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate.
9) Child's play
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Paul Reis starts teaching at the exclusive all-male Catholic boarding school he attended as a boy, he is drawn into a feud between two older instructors who blame each other for the puzzling outbreak of violence among the students.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Alex wakes up to a dead guy laying next to her and can't figure out how they met. Alex runs for it and ends up in the car of a former cop. Their uneasy alliance draws them closer together, and closer to the startling truth behind the murder.
12) Power
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The film shows the maneuverings of political candidates as they try to get elected, and the people hired to sell them to the public, the media consultants.
13) Network
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A satirical, behind-the-scenes look at the fights for power among television network officials and stars.
14) Network
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.
15) The Wiz
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A schoolteacher in Harlem is whisked away by a snowstorm to a fantasy New York City in order to find herself.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Newly released from prison, an ex-con assembles his professional pals and plans a multi-million dollar robbery of an entire luxury apartment house. He is unaware that a hoard of lawmen are recording their activities.
18) The offence
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After 20 years on the police force, Detective Sergeant Johnson has seen too much. One day while interrogating a snide, sarcastic suspect in a child molestation case, all of his pent up anger and hatred surfaces and Johnson loses control, killing the man. What had started out as a routine investigation has turned into a case of police brutality, and Johnson must now attempt to reconcile his own violent behavior.
19) 12 angry men
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.