Bill Pullman
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video (distributor)
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-belive lover's brother.
Publisher
distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Phoebe is an imaginative but troubled girl with a desperate longing to be in her school's production of Alice in Wonderland. When she is cast in the lead role her parents believe her unusual behavior is due to her creativity, but soon realize that she is on the brink of falling through the looking glass herself.
6) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
7) LBJ
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
The story of Lyndon Baines Johnson, as he was thrust into office after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
9) Titan A.E
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Earth has been destroyed by an alien race and the surviving humans have fled. A young Earthling must fulfill his destiny, to find the space ship Titan.
10) Too big to fail
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
11) Spaceballs
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A band of intergalactic freedom fighters face off against the forces of darkness.
A spoof of the Star Wars series, with Mel Brooks playing the dastardly president of an alien race out to steal the air supply of a neighboring planet. Fearless - and clueless - space heroes Lone Starr (Pullman) and his half/man half dog sidekick Barf (Candy) wage interstellar warfare to free Princess Vespa (Zuniga) from the evil Dark Helmet (Moranis). Along the way...
12) You kill me
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously...
13) Bottle shock
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the early days of California winemaking featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as the "Judgment of Paris."
14) The equalizer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice...
15) Why Shakespeare?
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.
16) Igby goes down
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of the adult world, his already jaded outlook grows even darker....
17) American ultra
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mike shares a small-town life with his girlfriend Phoebe. But Mike's sleepy world goes wild after he discovers that he's actually a CIA sleeper agent with lethal fighting skills, and the target of government hitmen. Mike, the ultimate slacker, transforms into an ultra-attacker as he and Phoebe fight to survive in this exhilarating adventure.
18) Lost highway
Series
Criterion collection volume 1152
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We've met before, haven't we?" A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch's seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker's most potent cinematic dreamscapes. The film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
"......
19) Casper
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Determined to get her hands on her father's hidden fortune, Carrigan is forced to hire an afterlife therapist to exercise the ghosts that keep frightening her away. Dr. Harvey and his daughter, Kat, move in and soon Kat meets Casper, the friendliest ghost. But Casper's uncles are still determined to drive all the "fleshies" away.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Steel Magnolias (1989 ; color ; 119 min.): A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
Sleepless in Seattle (1993 ; color ; 105 min.): After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding...