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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence.
A man living in a small Texas town comes across a crime scene and finds two million dollars, and a killer is set on his trail to recover the money.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
For four years, the residents and students of Dillon, Texas, have faced difficult choices on and off the field with courage, passion and perseverance. Now the time has come to find closure for problems of the past, while pursuing new possibilities that will lead many beyond Dillon city limits.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada y asesinada, Gale es condenado del crimen. Ahora Gale espera la ejecución, y con menos que una semana antes su cita con la inyección fatal, Gale consiente en decir su historia a Bitsy, una periodista presuntuosa de una revista de noticias mayor. Cuando ella...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Mighty Mites high school football team that originated within a Freemason orphan-and-widow home and was able to reach dominant status in the 1930s and 1940s and play in prestigious state-champion competitions.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When talented young golfer Luke Chisolm blows his shot at making the professional tour, he escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself stranded in Utopia, Texas, where he meets rancher Johnny Crawford who helps him see life from a new perspective.
10) Giant
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Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Director George Steven's sweeping saga of family conflict and social consciousness based on Edna Ferber's best seller. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Starring Rock Hudson as rancher Bick Benedict, Elizabeth...
11) True women
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A story about two fearless women, and friendship, romance, courage, and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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In the small town of Dillon, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game, and new coach Eric Taylor, his charismatic players, and their passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field in the day-to-day dramas of their tight-knit community.
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English
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A house of ill repute is in danger of being shut down unless the proprietor's boyfriend - the sheriff - can pull some strings.
A sheriff and a proprietress join together not only in romance, but to fight a big city TV crusader in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.
A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse....
14) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
15) True stories
Series
Criterion collection volume 951
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows a visitor to the fictional town of Virgil, Texas, as the citizens prepare for the town's sesquicentennial with a "Celebration of Specialness."
Language
English
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Publisher
Universal Studios Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Coming of age story of high school students in the '70s. Eight seniors facing life after high school have one last party. Includes audio commentary class reunion-style with Richard Linklater, deleted scenes, and much more.
20) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the farmer to die,...
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