Barbara De Fina
1) Casino
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
2) Silence
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video : ǂb Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
4) Kundun
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances, bold cinematography, and a transcendent score.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Frank Pierce [is] a paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of saving and losing lives. One fateful night, Frank meets Mary Burke, the daughter of a man Frank tried to save. Together, Frank and Mary confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among the living"--Container.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...
8) Casino
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal.
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
Series
Criterion collection volume 913
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America.
11) New York stories
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
A trilogy about life in the big city. "Life lessons" is the tale of a passionate painter (Nolte) torn between his obsession for his art and his infatuation with his sultry assistant (Arquette). "Life without Zoe" is a whimsical fantasy of a very grown-up 12-year-old who brings charm and magic to life in New York. "Oedipus wrecks" is the story of a neurotic lawyer (Allen) who cannot escape the influence of his mother.
14) Cape Fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges after being imprisoned for fourteen years with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney, Sam Bowden. Realizing he is legally powerless to protect his beautiful wife Leigh and his troubled teenage daughter Danielle against Max's relentless psychological torment, Sam resorts to unorthodox measures, leading to an unforgettable action packed showdown on Cape Fear"--Container.
15) Kundun
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's daughter Caroline Bourget.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
Two friends returning from World War II team up with an old rancher to raise cattle the cowboy way, in conflict with a corporate cattle rancher who employs half the town of Hi-Lo, New Mexico. When one of his friends has an affair with the wife of the corporate rancher's foreman, the conflict increases.
18) New York stories
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A trilogy about life in the big city. Life lessons is the tale of a passionate painter torn between his obsession for his art and his infatuation with his sultry assistant. Life without Zoe is a wimsical fantasy of a very grown-up 12 year old who brings charm and magic to life in New York. Oedipus wrecks is the story of a neurotic lawyer who cannot escape the influence of his mother.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1917: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Age of innocence: "No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted...
Publisher
Touchstone Pictures
Pub. Date
[©2009]
Language
English
Description
The Color of money: An aging pool shark who believes "money won is twice as sweet as money earned", forms a profitable yet volatile partnership with a young pool hustler. Cocktail: An ambitious young bartender becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side until a new romantic interest causes him to look at life differently.