James Mason
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On Sir Topham Hatt's railway, the winter season is a very special time of year and all the engines work extra hard to make the holidays special. Join Thomas and his friends for some snowy adventures as they work to keep this winter season on track.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A battle-hardened German sergeant tries to hold his platoon together on the Russian front during WWII. Not only must he try to hold his platoon together, but he must deal with his commander, a glory seeker, who wants to be awarded Germany's highest medal of honor, the "Cross of Iron."
6) Lolita
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
7) The verdict
Language
English
Formats
Description
Packed with compelling special features including on-camera interviews with Oscar winner Paul Newman and director Sidney Lumet and is the perfect way to experience a courtroom film. Frank Galvin (Newman) is a boozy washed-up attorney with a long losing streak. So when he's handed a lucrative out-of-court settlement, everyone expects him to take the money and run. But Frank is tired of running.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
10) The Desert Rats
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Story of the Allied troops who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite being hopelessly outnumbered.
11) The man between
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
12) The verdict
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.
13) Lord Jim
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A disgraced 19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives. From the Joseph Conrad novel.
14) Georgy girl
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
20) Heaven can wait
Series
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.