Phoenix Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
2) The 6th day
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
4) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the notorious Hustler publisher who was sued by the Religious Right and paralyzed by a fanatic's bullet. Chronicles Flynt's raunchy business savvy, his wildly unconventional marriage, and his infamous courtroom antics.
6) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen special ed.; [2-disc, high definition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three Navy pilots are charged with stopping a fighter jet piloted by a computer that has developed a mind of its own before it incites a war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. Based on James Jones' novel, this is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1996
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the notorius Hustler publisher who was sued by the Religious Right and paralyzed by a fanatic's bullet. Chronicles Flynt's raunchy business savvy, his wildly unconventional marriage and his infamous courtroom antics.
9) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts Beatrix Potter's life from her early fascination with woodland creatures to her days as an independent woman pursuing a career in writing and illustrating.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
12) Basic
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a drill instructor and several of his cadets disappear during training exercises in Panama, a U.S. DEA agent is called in to investigate the mysterious disapperance.
13) U turn
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small time gambler and a woman caught in a twisted relationship with her powerful husband want to get out of the town of Superior, Arizona.
14) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
2-disc director's cut; [widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Graysmith is a socially awkward newspaper cartoonist. He becomes obsessed with the Zodiac, a serial killer whom was murdering people in the San Francisco area. The publicity-hungry Zodiac starts writing cryptic letters to the papers regarding the unsolved murders. He latches onto columnist Paul Avery who has the crime beat and gets overly involved with the investigation. Lead investigator, David Toschi and his partner, William Armstrong, have...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The last voyage of the Demeter chronicles the doomed journey of a merchant ship ferrying 50 mysterious wooden crates from Carpathia to London. As they set sail, the crew soon discover they are not alone on board: at night they are stalked by a hidden passenger whose monstrous thirst for blood turns the trip into a harrowing nightmare of tension, terror and unfathomable evil." --container
16) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen special ed.; [2-disc].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen and Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells Joseph Conrad's story of Russian emigres and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
19) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the...
20) Holes
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen version (1.33:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.