Joseph Cotten
Series
Studio classic volume 32
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A southern belle finds out the truth about her husband's murder when her cousin reopens the case.
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial...
5) Citizen Kane
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although based on the life of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the movie was deemed so controversial that it was recalled from distribution and not released until after Hearst's death. It introduced many original and revolutionary techniques that have since been adopted as film standards.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A lawman and a hitman are in love with the same woman. All three are caught up in a devastating class war, when ruthless ranchers decide to kill off the starving immigrants who have been stealing their cattle. The story is based on a real range war in the 1890s in Johnson County, Wyoming.
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In The Paradine case, a spectacular British murder trial brings together a barrister with a wandering eye and a charming young widow accused of poisoning her invalid husband. In Foreign correspondent, an American war correspondent attempts to save a kidnapped Dutch diplomat while attempting to continue his romance with the daughter of a fraudulent peacemaker. In The lodger, the Buntings take in a very reclusive boarder. Is there a connection between...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
He has a wife and family. She has a demanding career as a concert pianist. Together they share an affair they know must end - until the plane they are thought to be on crashes at sea. Thus the lovers grab their one chance to begin life anew.
11) Heaven's gate
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
12) Niagara
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
14) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
15) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
20) Caravans
Publisher
Wham! USA
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Epic adventure drama about a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a U.S. Senator. She has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom, and has opted for the nomadic lifestyle. Filmed on locations near the Iran-Afghanistan border.