James Mason
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Considered by many to be the finest film version of this classic tale. The doctors team up to create monsters from dead body parts. A truly chilling and epic take on the story that has frightened generation after generation!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
5) Salem's Lot
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's Lot comes a stranger who unleashes an insidious evil so devastating it threatens to destroy the entire town and everyone in it. Ben Mears, a young novelist, returns home to Salem's Lot, determined to write a book about the eerie old Marsten House which overlooks the town. It is Mears' conviction that the source of all the trouble is the house itself, which he believes attracts evil to it. With the help of his...
6) Lolita
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Series
Shout select volume 96
Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A tale of marital dissatisfaction in which a middle-aged housewife struggles with depression and rage.
9) The verdict
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Packed with compelling special features including on-camera interviews with Oscar winner Paul Newman and director Sidney Lumet and is the perfect way to experience a courtroom film. Frank Galvin (Newman) is a boozy washed-up attorney with a long losing streak. So when he's handed a lucrative out-of-court settlement, everyone expects him to take the money and run. But Frank is tired of running.
10) Cross of iron
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Centers on Corporal Steiner, an accomplished but war-weary combat veteran, leading a group of German soldiers on the Russian front. Steiner gets replaced by Stransky who's only goal is to get the iron cross, Germany's highest medal.
12) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elderly Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman has made a life of seeking out the last remnants of the Third Reich. But when he investigates a lead about a mysterious plot to assassinate ninety four seemingly unconnected men from around the world, he makes a terrifying discovery that has dire consequences for the fate of the human race. Lieberman₂s desperate quest to stop the unthinkable launches him on a collision course with the sinister figure behind the...
14) Heaven can wait
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
Publisher
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1939, 937 Jewish Germans were offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba. They departed Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. However, after being denied access to Cuba, will the refugees find a new home or be forced to head back to Europe? Based on a true story.
16) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Stranger on a train: A man jokes with a stranger about killing his wife. The stranger wants his own father dead. In theory, each could murder the other's victim. The problem is, the stranger takes the idea seriously.
North by Northwest: An ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Franco Zeffirelli creates an unforgettable portrait in his legendary interpretation of the life of Jesus. Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, it brings to life all the majesty and sweeping drama of the life of Jesus as told in the Gospels. A star-studded international cast adds depth and humanity to the roles of the saints, sinners and ordinary people who walked in the footsteps of the Lord.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli and an all-star cast come together to deliver a powerful adaptation of the gospels in 1977's Jesus of Nazareth. From the Nativity to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the life of Jesus (played by Robert Powell) is presented with stunning depth, gravity, and emotion. Acclaimed by critics and viewers alike, Jesus of Nazareth remains one of the finest depictions of the story of Christ nearly forty years after its...