(0)Jack Nicholson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Contains three great movies from the vintage vault starring Jack Nicholson.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: A timid young clerk in a flower shop develops an unusual plant for his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the plant requires human blood to survive.
TERROR: A young officer in Napoleon's army (Jack Nicholson) pursues Helene (Sandra Knight) to the castle of an elderly baron (Boris Karloff) who finds himself tortured by the ghost of his wife. Is Helene the...
4) Batman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c[1997]
Language
English
Description
A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
5) The shining
Language
English
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
6) The departed
Language
English
Formats
Description
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
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,...
9) Man trouble
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A singer who discovers her Hollywood Hills house was burglarized enlists the help of the owner of The House of Bliss Guard Dog Agency, a wisecracking con man who makes things worse the more he tries to help.
10) A few good men
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full-spectrum of institutional repression. The patients in the mental hospital then rebel against the rule-bound head nurse, whose smiling, unruffled and patient manner conceal her ruthless determination to crush any hint of individuality of spirit in the men in her charge.
12) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1948 Los Angeles, private eye Jake Gittes investigates a case of marital infidelity resulting in a murder, which is tied to a grab for oil and to his own past.
13) 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.
14) Easy rider
Series
Language
English
Description
A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two cowboys, on their way home from a cattle drive, accidentally find themselves in the company of outlaws. As a result, they are mistaken for part of the gang when approached by the posse. In their flight, they take refuge with a farmer and his family. Unfortunateley, as the posse closes in, the innocent family is drawn into the tragedy.
16) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
17) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Jake Gittes returns in this sequel to Chinatown. It is 1948 Los Angeles, and Jake must solve a case of murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
18) Wolf
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Language
None
Formats
Description
Film version of the age-old legend of a man who turns into a wolf-like creature under the influence of the full moon.
19) Ironweed
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Drifter Francis Phelan returns to his hometown to confront the family he abandoned twenty-two years ago, and relates the secrets of his life to his alcoholic friend Helen as they try to survive winter on the streets of 1938 Albany, New York.
