Norman Lloyd
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
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...
3) Saboteur
Language
English
Description
Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The retelling of the classic Cold War doomsday thriller. A computer malfunction triggers the transmission of nuclear-attack codes to a U.S. bomber squadron. The orders are irreversible, the primary target is Moscow, and the President, his advisors and military leaders race time to head off global catastrophe. Recalling the adrenaline-rush of early TV drama, this movie was staged and telecast live in black-and-white, establishing an immediate sense...
6) Spellbound
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist falls for a suspect in a murder, which she tries to solve by unlocking the clues hidden in his mind.
7) Steambath
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Controversial comedy about 12 characters in a steambath which turns out to be a waiting room between this world and the next.
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Trapped: A counterfeiter on the run from the Treasury Department. They're hot on his trail using every trick in the book and the G-men won't give up until he's locked up behind bars with the counterfeit plates destroyed. A walk in the sun: The story of a platoon of American soldiers in Italy in 1943 striving to attain their objective: a farmhouse occupied by German soldiers.
9) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director₂s most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
10) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
11) Awake and sing
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Television adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, set in a detention room in Vichy in 1942, where a number of Jews await interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. Issues of personal responsibility are explored through the character of an Austrian prince who has been guilty of silent complicity during the German occupation of France.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A riveting wartime thriller following an innocent man who suddenly finds himself in a very deadly situation. After aircraft factory worker Barry Kane witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, he finds himself falsely accused of sabotage and killing his best friend. To clear his name, Kane begins a relentless cross-country chase that takes him from Los Angeles to Boulder Dam and New York's Radio City Music Hall. The suspense builds to a climactic...
14) The southerner
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer (Zachary Scott) trying to raise a family and a crop of cotton in the face of extraordinary challenges, both natural and societal."--Container.