Mike Nichols
1) Working girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and charm to make it big. All she needs is the right haircut, clothes and job. The opportunity arises when her classy, seductive and treacherous boss breaks a leg skiing. Tess steps into her job, her apartment and her clothes, and all sorts of witty and romantic things follow!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
3) Heartburn
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rachel is a successful food writer who puts love and motherhood ahead of her career. Mark is a woman-chasing newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. She lives in New York, he lives in Washington, D.C., and if all those complications don't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will!
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
4) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he₂s dating.
5) Zappa
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
8) The birdcage
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
9) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
A bombardier during WWII tries desperately to be declared insane so he can go home. A dark comedy depicting the insanity of war. Based on Joseph Heller's book.
10) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
13) Closer
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
14) Closer
Publisher
[Distributed by] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by four people is put under the microscope. Their lives become entangled in various forms of relationships, and ultimately, someone is sure to get hurt.
15) Silkwood
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
cc2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the story of Karen Silkwood who is poisoned by plutonium in the Kerr-McGee Nuclear plant, where she works. She speaks out against the plant's safety hazards and loses her job, many of her friends, and her life in a mysterious accident.