David Raksin
1) Laura
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
A Park Avenue society beauty is murdered in her apartment bringing Detective Mark McPherson to New York's most elegant neighborhood. As he tries to get inside the head of the victim, Laura Hunt, he also questions the men in her life; the acerbic critic Waldo Lydecker and playboy fiance Shelby Carpenter. Lulled by her stunning portrait, fine liquor and classical music, McPherson doesn't know he's in for a heart-stopping shock with the sudden appearance...
2) Suddenly!
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Series
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English
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Frank Sinatra's chilling central performance as a cold-blooded assassin with a heart of steel sparks this explosive thriller about a gang of brutal hired gunmen who invade the home of an unsuspecting suburban family, in a plan to murder the President of the United States.
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Language
English
Formats
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
5) Al Capone
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
7) Modern times
Publisher
CBS-Fox Video
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk undaunted into the sunrise.
8) Whirlpool
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
"A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her subconscious mind."--Container.
9) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
10) Forever Amber
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A woman confined by her Puritan upbringing finds a new life in London as a courtesan.
12) Laura
Series
Fox film noir volume 01
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Otto Preminger's classic psychological drama about the love of a man for a woman he has never seen.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ladies man: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a mansion which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females? The bellboy: Anything can go wrong, and does, with Stanley, a non-speaking, bumbling bellhop at the ritzy Fontainebleau Hotel in Florida's Miami Beach. Guests may come and guests may go, but Stanley is...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A powerful banker hires a smart gunslinger to wipe out Matt Weaver, but the gunfighter changes his mind when he realizes that Weaver is the only real man left in town. Instead, he tries to turn the people of Pecos against the banker.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Director Frank Capra, known to millions as the man behind [beloved] classics [also] used his talents in support of the war effort by directing, producing and acting as an advisor on a series of World War II propaganda films. Depicting the ravages of combat, the lives of soldiers engaged in battle, as well as those left behind on the home front, five of the films that Capra was involved in bringing to the screen are represented in this special edition...
16) Separate tables
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
At the Beauregard Hotel, all the eccentric guests feel lonely. In one emotional evening, four of them will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
17) Hilda Crane
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A New York City woman returns to her hometown after two failed marriages and once there entices the town gossip and the ex-lover, only to have his overbearing mother try to sabotage their relationship.
18) Right cross
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[©2013]
Language
English
Description
"World championship boxer Johnny Monterez has had 84 fights-- never knocked out, knocked down only once-- but he's begun to worry. A hand injury has him thinking his championship days are numbered. And he's resentful and concerned about making his way in what he calls the 'gringo world.' So Johnny makes a rash move, dumping his longtime promoter for another's promise of a secure future. He also underestimates an eager, hammer-fisted opponent and agrees...
19) Jubal
Series
Criterion collection volume 656
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Black widow: Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect...