Filmways Pictures
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Caine plays the part of a psychiatrist to a woman who is murdered early in the film. He is initially reluctant to help the police. The detective assigned to the murder seems happy to do nothing, leaving the investigation to a prostitute who witnessed the murder and the son of the deceased"--Internet Movie Database.
2) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005, 1964]
Language
English
Description
A cynical American naval officer (Garner) is assigned a lovely young English widow (Andrews) as his driver in this comedy set in London during World War II. Despite their differences they fall in love, but his superiors seem to have nasty plans for him involving D-day!
4) Four friends
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Steven Tesich and Oscar-nominated director Arthur Penn team up for this coming-of-age story set against the protest, prosperity, and broken promises of the 1960s.
6) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Patrick Foley is a hard-hearted, no-nonsense loner who spent his life exploring the world and avoiding his feelings. When he returns to his remote Australian birthplace, he is met with more than the average outback wildlife. Fate throws him together with young Shawn Daley, a recently orphaned, city-bred boy with little hope and even less self-reliance. How can he take a pampered little child into the perilous, wild country without risking both their...
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Navy honchos in World War II London have a humdinger of a war on their hands. Now they need a hero to go with it. They want the first American fatality of D-Day to be a sailor to glorify the Navy's effort." -- container.
11) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
13) Eye of the devil
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A forbidding French chateau and its surrounding vineyards are the settings for Gothic thrills in this haunting excursion into the occult. In a chiller reminiscent of the later The Wicker Man (1973), in which an innocent outsider to an enclosed world peels back layers of mystery to reveal a shocking truth.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
15) Topkapi
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.
17) King
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and events of the Civil Rights Movement leading up to his assassination.
18) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Yossarian, a reluctant bombadier stationed in the Mediterranean in World War II, has come to the utterly sane conclusion that everyone is trying to kill him. The Germans, yes, but also commanding officers supposedly on his own side like Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions his flyers must perform to finish their tours. Everybody seems equally dead-set on his destruction, and Yossarian is just as determined to stay alive.
19) Castle keep
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI's occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagon. A baker among them moves in with another baker's wife. A group of shell shocked holy rollers wander the bombed out streets. A GI art historian tries vainly to protect the castle and its masterpieces.