Phoenix Pictures
Series
Language
English
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
3) Lake Placid
Language
English
Description
A paleontologist travels from New York to Maine to investigate the mysterious death of a man near a remote lake. With the help of a taciturn fish and game warden and a sheriff, she discovers the incredible secret behind the havoc.
4) The 6th day
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
5) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go. Includes featurette
7) Holes
Language
English
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.
8) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500"...
9) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
10) Dick
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When, during a class field trip to the White House, two high school girls wander into a top-secret shredding session, the President appoints them "Official White House Dog Walkers" to find out how much they discovered.
11) Basic
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a drill instructor and several of his cadets disappear during training exercises in Panama, a U.S. DEA agent is called in to investigate the mysterious disapperance.
12) Apt pupil
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
While working on a school project, Todd Bowden discovers that his neighbor is a fugitive Nazi war criminal. The two engage in a series of psychological games.
13) Southern comfort
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When nine National Guardsmen enter the Louisiana swamp for routine training, they incite an all-out war with some angry local Cajuns. Armed with a precious few bullets, and confused by the moss-covered maze into which they've stumbled, the innocent guardsmen know they'll be picked off one-by-one, until they come up with a solution using the only resources they have left, themselves.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. This is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking a seemingly impregnable position,...
15) U-turn
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A small time gambler and a woman caught in a twisted relationship with her powerful husband want to get out of the town of Superior, Arizona.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later.
18) Black swan
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses...
20) The outsider
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca, a beautiful young Quaker widow, forges an unexpected relationship with a mysterious gunslinger.