Malpaso (Company)
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Contains two feature films starring Clint Eastwood, including "Dirty Harry," in which he plays San Francisco Police Department cop Harry Callahan, tracking down the Scorpio Killer in "Dirty Harry," and going after vigilante cops in "Magnum Force."
5) Joe Kidd
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
8) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
After avenging his family's brutal murder by Union Forces in the Civil War, Missouri farmer Josey Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels westward alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts is drawn to him, and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected.
12) Gran Torino
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
13) Jersey boys
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
15) Cry macho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
17) Dirty Harry
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.
18) Mystic River
Language
English
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some...
19) Breezy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited young woman helps an older man learn to love again.
"[A] mismatched pair ... eventually find common ground. Successful businessman Frank Harmon, disillusioned after a bitter divorce, thinks he can shut out the pain by isolating himself at his beach house. But when free-spirited Breezy appears on his doorstep, Frank is unable to turn her away."--Container.
20) The gauntlet
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A Phoenix police officer is assigned to transport a witness named Guy Mally from Las Vegas in order for her to testify in a mob trial. Mally turns out to be a prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a high-placed figure. Shockley's suspicions are aroused and the betting line against Mally testifying begins to climb when they are attacked along the way. The pair must face the truth about those they trust, as well as their own...