Jack Nicholson
2) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A comedy, a love story and a cult classic starring a giant singing plant from outer space.
Seymour's exotic plant has an insatiable appetite that can only be fed by flesh and blood. Bonus features include both black and white and color versions of the film; commentary by Mike Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000; and much more.
4) Batman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Caped Crusader is the only one who can save Gotham City from the maniacal Joker and his sinister plans to destroy beauty.
5) Hoffa
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of the legendary Teamster Boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob and his prison term.
6) 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.
7) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head when he takes on a case involving the richest and most powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, a trailer, and more.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
10) How do you know
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
11) Ironweed
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums. She used to be a singer on the radio, he used to be a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them. Helen is sick, one of their pals has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped. Visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. One night, while drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits...
13) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery turned murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
14) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job for a private detective mushrooms into a murderous scandal...
15) Broadcast news
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Romantic triangle set in the world of television news. Tom Grunick is the perfect modern anchorman. He's got the smooth charm and handsome good looks that America loves. Jane Craig is the brilliant hot-shot producer, committed to fighting the trend toward flashy, style-over-substance "personality" news, whose job it now is to make Tom look like a newsman. Aaron Altman is the dedicated reporter, utterly devoid of on-camera charisma, who's jealous and...
16) Ironweed
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's winter, 1938 in Albany, New York. The soup kitchens and flophouses are overflowing with homeless people. Francis Phelan wanders the streets, back in his hometown after 22 years, ready to confront the family he abandoned long ago. While sharing his whiskey with longtime 'pal' Helen, Francis reveals the dark secrets of his past, the painful memories from which he once tried to escape, but now must reconcile.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Montana Badlands rancher David Brazton is a self-made man, through years of tireless effort and determination; he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving, prosperous empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief, Braxton takes matters into his own hands by hiring a sadistic bounty hunter to track down the outlaw.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
19) Tommy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Who's classic rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy who becomes a pinball wizard and the object of a religious cult, is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many of music's biggest stars.