Bronislaw Kaper
1) Them!
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Series
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English
Description
Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing...
2) The stranger
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Charles Rankin, responsible for unspeakable brutality in the Holocaust, is now living as a history professor in a small American town, with plans to wed Mary, the daughter of a local judge. When an old comrade escapes prison and comes looking for refuge, Rankin quickly sees that it's a plot to find him and kills the man.
3) Malaya
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], 1949.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this exciting wartime adventure weaves a tale of danger and intrigue as it focuses on the daredevil exploits of a handful of extraordinary men.
4) Gaslight
Series
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, a callous Russian officer; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexey; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.
9) Lili
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets"--Container.
10) Butterfield 8
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000].
Language
English
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominent man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
11) The mortal storm
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On the same day that Professor Roth celebrates his birthday, Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. This causes a tragic rift among the guests at the professor's party. Politics come between Roth's daughter Freya & her fiance. Freya finds herself falling in love with an old friend, but their only hope for a future together is to escape to freedom across the Austrian border.
13) Bewitched
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Only Joan knows the real reason she fainted at her engagement party and suddenly desert[ed] her fiancé, Bob. It's the command of the sinister, vengeful 'Karen, ' a terrifying alternate personality raging inside Joan who will ultimately direct her to kill. Not even the psychiatrist who discovers her fate can stop the tormenting voice that controls Joan's every move--forcing her to run, to hide, to plot and to murder."--Container.
14) The stranger
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dark story about a Nazi who has escaped to a small town in America and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, breathtaking Irene Forsyte: Men adore her. Women envy her. Love defines her. Based on the first book of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, about a woman who cannot cut her free spirit to fit the cloth of Victorian society.
17) Comrade X
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter "Mac" Thompson is hunky and self-confident. Together, in pre-World War II Russia, the two share an adventure involving secret identities, a marriage of convenience, hairbreadth escapes and a thrilling tank-chase as Mac tries to help Theodore leave for the USA one step ahead of the corrupt secret police.
18) Rhapsody
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A soap opera with classical music background. Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman involved with a violinist and a pianist. They take out their frustration with flamboyant concerts.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The love affair between a man of faith and a scarlet woman is told in this compelling drama starring Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde; set during the Spanish Civil War; Disillusioned by the church's empty piety; Father Arturo Carrera (Bogarde) forsakes his vows only to find himself a wanted man; hunted by the Loyalists; Thought to know the location of a holy relic that could help them win the war; Arturo is hidden by Soledad (Gardner); a prostitute with...
20) Mrs. Parkington
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Susie Graham was working in her mother's boarding house when she met millionaire Augustus Parkington and became his wife. Now the 84-year-old family matriarch, Mrs. Parkington looks back on the decades of her family's ups and downs.