Naomi Watts
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matthew McConaughey stars as a professor with a troubled past traveling to a Japanese forest with a dark history. There he meets a mysterious stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love, discovery and redemption. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*A sumptuous, rewarding experience. "The Sea of Trees" is quietly mesmerizing and exceedingly wise, understanding there is profundity in every direction one gazes.*"...
2) Luce
Language
English
Formats
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 747 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy popular films based on organized crime. Titles included: The Kitchen, American Gangster, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Black Mass, The Town and Eastern Promises.
The kitchen: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving...
4) Le divorce
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
7) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
8) Dream house
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Atenton quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby, and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he's not sure if he's seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor.
9) Dream house
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Atenton quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby, and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he's not sure if he's seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor.
10) The impossible
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.
11) Eastern promises
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital.
12) The glass castle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based loosely on real-life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who takes extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
14) Adore
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escape to a close-knit seaside community where friendship, love and lust collide. A sensual yet thought provoking drama in which two lifelong friends find themselves entangled in passionate sexual relationships with each other's sons. As they struggle to make sense of conflicting emotions and desires, the lines between family, friendship and morality are blurred. When powerful bonds reach their breaking point, discover what truly keeps us connected....
15) J. Edgar
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
16) Funny games
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what could be the last.
17) Allegiant
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
18) The impossible
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.
19) Insurgent
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
20) Ned Kelly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of the legendary outlaw Ned Kelly, who lives on the run with his gang of bankrobbers in Australia.