John Huston
Series
Criterion collection volume 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
5) Key Largo
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
6) Jezebel
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Annie: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Annie, a royal adventure: Annie and Daddy Warbucks are going to England for Daddy's knighting. A diabolical Lady Hogbottom has plans to take over as queen, and it's up to Annie to stop her.
8) Chinatown
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
11) Annie
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, Townsend Harris is appointed the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan in 1856, battling hostility and mistrust to eventually earn the respect of the local government and the love of a young geisha.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Deadly trakcers: After witnessing the brutal murder of his wife and son, a Texas lawman seeks revenge and relentlessly pursues the outlaws into Mexico where a deadly showdown awaits him. Man in the wilderness: Driven by revenge, Harris makes a 600 mile journey across the 1820's American Northwest facing every obstacle to find his attackers.
16) Prizzi's honor
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley, the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated, especially when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
18) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head as he takes on a case involving the most rich and powerful people in Chinatown.
19) Humphrey Bogart
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Beat the devil is an offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Humphrey Bogart on film provides a glimpse into the unique life of the quintessential Hollywood legend.