Peter Yates
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001, 1979]
Language
English
Description
Four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team--an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends to challenge the local college boys in the town's annual bike race.
2) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005, c1968]
Language
English
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
3) Suspect
Publisher
Columbia/Tristar Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Bizarre evidence leads Kathleen on a dangerous trail from Washington's seamy underbelly to the highest levels of government. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more her life is in danger. Cher and Dennis Quaid take the law into their own hands in this daring suspense thriller where everything is revealed in court--except the truth."
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
World War II rages overseas, the prestigious Devon prep school holds a summer session for boys trying to graduate before they are drafted. Among the students are two unlikely new roommates - Gene, a quiet, introspective bookworm; and Finny, a carefree and wildly popular athlete. Charmed by Finny, Gene joins him for a series of exciting escapades. But when Gene's grades decline, he suspects that Finny secretly wants him to fail. Fueled by anger and...
5) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before the night is out, the star witness for an important trial lies dying and Detective Frank Bullitt won't rest until the shooters, and the kingpin behind them, are nailed. From opening shot to closing shootout, 'Bullitt' crackles with authenticity: San Francisco locations, crisp dialogue and to-the-letter police, hospital and morgue procedures. This edgy thriller also features one of cinema's most memorable car chases"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. *"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, **The New York Times*** *"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is...
8) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
10) The deep
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset star as a vacationing American couple who quickly find themselves involved in a modern-day pirate tale, complete with sunken treasure and sadistic voodoo terror.
11) John and Mary
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A furniture designer and an art gallery assistant meet in an upscale New York singles bar and go home together. The next day, they individually wander around the city, wondering what their night together might have meant-- if anything. Even though both carry over-the-limit baggage from unsuccessful earlier affairs, and both are stocked with enough hang-ups to fill volumes of psychological textbooks, there's still a chance that they'll wind up together...
12) Roommates
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evicted from his home, gruff-but-lovable old Rocky goes to live with his grandson Michael in the young man's crampted one-room apartment. When Michael brings home a new girlfriend...things really heat up!
13) An Innocent man
Language
English
Description
Jimmie Rainwood is an average citizen whose life becomes a living nightmare when he's framed by a pair of crooked cops and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. With his life torn apart, Rainwood swears revenge, vowing to fight back and deliver justice to the dishonest cops who set him up, no matter what the price! Ultimately, Rainwood risks everything, even his freedom to prove, once and for all, that he is an innocent man!
14) Krull
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Colwyn sets out on a daring journey to rescue his young bride who is held captive by the Beast. But slayers and alien beings under the command of the Beast oppose him at every turn. Colwyn must first reach a faraway cavern to recover the legendary Glaive, a key to phenomenal powers, then continue his search, witnessing sights and events beyond his wildest imagination. Facing the Beast, Colwyn must use the magic of the Glaive to save his fantastic...
15) Robbery
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Using earnings from a diamond-robbery, Clifton hires first-rate specialists for the hold-up of all time. They will rob the night postal train that carries millions in old banknotes. Everything goes according to plan until the very last moment when a series of unforeseen events conspire against them and the police manage to capture the gang. Clifton however tries to escape the country using a counterfeit identity... Winner of Best British Original...
16) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
17) Eleni
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her children are kidnapped and sent to communist camps inside the Iron Curtain, Eleni arranges for the escape of her three daughters and her son. For this act, Eleni is imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Several years later, her son, now a New York Time reporter, returns to his homeland to discover the facts surrounding his mother's death and to hunt down the man who murdered her.
18) Murphy's war
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Irish merchant seaman Murphy is the sole survivor of a World War II German U-boat attack in tropical waters. Picked up by a French oil engineer, he is taken to a native village hospital. Upon recovering, he learns about a downed seaplane which he repairs and learns to fly. His plan: a personal vengeance on the submarine by destroying it with homemade Molotov cocktails. Murphy is drawn into a relentless struggle against the German boat; it is his...
19) Murphy's war
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During the last days of WWII, the merchant ship 'Mount Kyle' is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Venezuela and the sailors machine-gunned in the water. Only Murphy survives, making his way to shore where he is nursed to health by Dr. Hayden, a pacifist Quaker who runs a missionary settlement near the mouth of the Orinoco River. When Murphy discovers that the U-boat is now hiding further up the river using the jungle for cover, he becomes obsessed...
20) For Pete's sake
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A woman borrows money from a loan shark after receiving a hot stock tip. When the stock tumbles, she has to resort to more and more outlandish means to pay the debt off before her husband finds out.