Mos Def (Rapper)
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Charlie, the mastermind of a Venice heist, is overseen by John, a lifelong criminal. But the thieves are ruthlessly double-crossed by one of their own, Steve. In order to get their stolen gold bars back, Charlie enlists John's reluctant safecracking-prodigy daughter, Stella. But Steve proves himself to be one step ahead of them, and Charlie finds that he'll have to make some daring last-minute changes to their plan by creating the largest traffic...
Publisher
Tuelp Investments, LLC ; Gotham Group Productions ; Ashok Amritraj Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hank Grotowski is an embittered prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny. They both live at home with his racist father, Buck. Death Row inmate, Lawrence Musgrove, has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Hank mets Leticia, a young black woman, struggling to make ends meet. If only he knew that she is Musgrove's widow. Hank and Leticia quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas from an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures...
6) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy, " turning the two town misfits into local celebrities.
9) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.
10) Showtime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Mitch Preston never wanted to be anything but a cop. Same for patrolman Trey Sellars. He always wanted to be a cop ... on TV. The two now have to come together to work for a TV show. Backed by a ratings-obsessed producer and coached in the finer points of TV copdom by a veteran star, Mitch and Trey soon becom America's favorite buddy cops. A brutal crimelord must be stopped - and that's where the shrapnel hits the fan.
11) The woodsman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A pedophile attempts to pull his life together after serving a 12-year prison sentence.
12) Monster's ball
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosso and his son Paul have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub/brothel, but they both dream about getting out of the business. A suitcase left at their club with the means to bring the dreams alive may change their lives and fates.
14) The Italian job
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Charlie, the mastermind of a Venice heist, is overseen by John, a lifelong criminal. But the thieves are ruthlessly double-crossed by one of their own, Steve. In order to get their stolen gold bars back, Charlie enlists John's reluctant safecracking-prodigy daughter, Stella. But Steve proves himself to be one step ahead of them, and Charlie finds that he'll have to make some daring last-minute changes to their plan by creating the largest traffic...
15) Lackawanna blues
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives. Based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play about his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950's and 1960's Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by...