Gene Hackman
Author
Language
English
Description
As Jubal Young rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family's laughter and love, his pa's wisdom. his ma's thick books, his beautiful, bright sister, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man's murderous grudge. Nothing can stop Jubal from climbing a peak of blood and madness: for justice, or payback, or something he can live for--or die for--redeeming.
5) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
6) Unforgiven
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two retired outlaws take up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes seeking revenge, and run up against the sadistic sheriff of Big Whiskey, Mont.
7) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Armand & Albert, a middle-aged gay couple, reluctantly accept Armand's son's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend-- the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries. A hidden past. A secret life. Witness or suspect? Guilty or innocent?
Series
Language
English
Description
A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry, a surveillance man, hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder, and paranoia.
10) Downhill racer
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A skier desperate to win gold in the Olympics joins an American team only to find that his new coach doesn't agree with how he goes about getting it.
11) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to L.A. to collect a debt from a down-and-out filmmaker, he jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene. All would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
12) Twilight
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Harry Ross is a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups.
13) Bonnie and Clyde
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
14) Unforgiven
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome...
15) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
16) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
18) A bridge too far
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.
19) We, the marines
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by former marine and actor, Gene Hackman, the film honors something more than dedication and service; the film offers an unforgettable glimpse into the first-hand experiences of America's 'first responders' and what it takes to become the men and women who honor and defend our country.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Old gringo: Harriet, a frustrated spinster flees her unrewarding life in America hoping to discover the passion in her soul. Ambrose Bierce, the Old Gringo, is a retired journalist and adventurer who wanders through the hostile desert seeking some meaning to the last years of his life. Arroyo, a fiery young general, is driven by both the Revolution and his desire for Harriet. Set in the spectacle of the Mexican Revolution, their lives become inexplicably...