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Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD)(12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen or standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
4) Serena
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
5) Wall Street
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
7) Casino
Language
English
Formats
Description
A casino owner falls from the heights of wealth and power as he, his loose-cannon best friend, and his ex-hooker trophy wife battle against each other because of greed, hubris and lust.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Lang is a neighborhood cop with a heart of gold - and a money-hungry wife Muriel who's always looking for a way to cash in. When she asks Charlie to buy a Lottery ticket, he agrees, then impulsively promises half the winnings to a waitress, Yvonne. When their numbers hit, the real fun begins, as Muriel learns to live large while Charlie and Yvonne learn to love again.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bounty hunter Howard King tracks down a vicious criminal in an attempt to start a new life with the money he'll collect. When he finally catches up with his prey, he faces an even more perilous trip back with his quarry.
11) The pearl
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an impoverished Mexican pearl diver whose life is changed forever when he discovers "the pearl of the world." Confident that the gem will bring him wealth and respect, Kino seeks a better life for himself and his community. However, despite his best intentions, the peasant is soon engulfed by greed, envy and betrayal as many suitors strive to get their hands on the pearl.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
13) Wild things 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Brittney is expecting to inherit her stepfather's fortune, until a fellow classmate appears suddenly, claiming to be the rightful heir. The girls devise a plan to claim the money, but an insurance investigator uncovers the plot, and soon the three are involved in a steamy relationship of sex, money and people being fed to alligators.
14) 16 wishes
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abby Jensen has been dreaming about her 'sweet 16' since she was a little girl, but it starts out anything but sweet. Then she receives a box of mysteriously magical birthday candles. And suddenly, Abby's every wish is instantly granted: the cherry-red sports car, the way-cool clothes, the uber-popularity at school. But when Abby makes a wish that turns her perfect new life totally upside down, she and her best friend Jay have just one chance to make...
16) The vanishing
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (a pproximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After three lighthouse keepers arrive for work on a remote Scottish isle, they make a fateful discovery: a wrecked rowboat, with a chest full of gold. As a mysterious boat heads toward the island, the three men make a choice that will change their lives forever, ensnaring them in a web of greed, paranoia, and murder.
17) King Lear
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
18) The little foxes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An evil southern woman sets out to destroy everyone in the way of her goals of wealth and power.
19) King of thieves
Publisher
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on the infamous true events.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her wealthy cousin's family steals her only treasure--the young sculptor she has taken under her wing, Bette joins forces with the ambitious and alluring Valerie Marneffe to get revenge and sets out to ruin the family by exploiting the sexual appetites of the men and the naiveté of the women.
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