Paramount Pictures
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Going my way (127 min.): When old and fading St. Dominic's Church gets a new priest (Crosby), things are bound to change. For starters, young Father O'Malley meets the crusty old Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), who doesn't think much of him or his ideas. The two have their differences but O'Malley is able to inspire some neighborhood roughnecks to open their hearts and minds in a way the old priest simply could not do.
Holiday Inn (101 min.):...
2) Rear window
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2000-
Language
English
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Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1037
Language
English
Description
Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From a space wheel 500 miles above the Earth, commander Samuel Merritt and his men construct a sleek robot, then receive orders providing their new craft's destination, Mars! But once the spaceship is underway, doubts surface. Merritt questions the audacity of humankind's reach for the heavens. He calls it blasphemy and threatens to destroy the mission.
As a spaceship is bound for Mars, the commander questions the mission, calls it blasphemy, and...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
9) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned Addie falls into the care of a small-time con artist and turns out to be better at it than he is. Set in Depression-era Kansas.
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
10) Harold and Maude
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
11) The prince & me
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Paige is a college student at a university in Wisconsin where she hopes to attend medical school. One day, Paige meets a new student on campus, Eddie, who is obviously attracted to her. Paige and Eddie strike up a friendship which slowly turns into romance. Paige learns that Eddie is actually Prince Edward, heir to the throne of Denmark, who has come to Wisconsin to chase girls and enjoy himself away from the eye of the European press. Now Paige must...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Comedy drama based on the true story of the American opera singer. World renowned as a virtuosic pianist, Florence Foster Jenkins has a new dream: to become a famous opera singer. Her voice, however, leaves a lot to be desired and she becomes famous for her lack of talent. Despite the constant critisicm from her peers and audiences which Florence's manager and partner St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) endeavours to keep from her, Florence battles on...
13) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Set in San Francisco, Hitchcock-the Master of Suspense-creates a fascinating love story between an acrophobic detective and the beautifully troubled woman whom he rescues from the bay.
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson...
15) Don't look now
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
Psychic terror in a Gothic setting in Venice provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
16) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
17) White Christmas
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by a massive transparent barrier. The epic story of a town in peril unfolds as the residents struggle to maintain control and ultimately figure out the truth about the dome.