Frances McDormand
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
2) Nomadland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
4) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
5) Blood simple
Language
English
Description
When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
7) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
8) Lone star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love.
10) Paradise road
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
11) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Playtone Productions ; As Is Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
13) Raising Arizona
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
16) Good omens
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
17) North country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.