Harvey Keitel
Series
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
Series
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the final days of the First World War, during Malta's revolution for independence, two British officers are tasked with quelling the riots and covering up the bloody encounter, while innocent protesters are jailed and killed.
Series
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Czech
Description
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski novel, THE PAINTED BIRD is about one boy's journey through Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
This documentary offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the **Academy Award** for Best Director for her masterpiece *Seven Beauties*. The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when she was Federico Fellini's assistant director on *8 1⁄2*, to the places where her most famous films were set, revealing the artistic and human universe of...
5) Holy Smoke!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
PJ Waters is a cult deprogrammer who meets his match when he is hired to "cure" the beautiful, intelligent, and iron-willed Ruth. It's no holds barred in this darkly hilarious electric battle of the sexes!
6) Mean streets
Series
Criterion collection volume 1198
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential works of American independent cinema, Martin Scorsese's gritty portrait of 1970s New York City is an electrifying vision of sin and redemption starring Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, and Amy Robinson.
7) The congress
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 24
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
8) The congress
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
9) Clockers
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this film by Spike Lee, drug-dealers engage in a power struggle with their boss, even as the leader is suspected of murder.
10) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
11) Saturn 3
Publisher
itv Studios Global Entertainment / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the distant future, two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-foot robot, which later takes on a murderous mind of its own.
12) Reservoir dogs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets up in a warehouse, only to suspect that one of them is really a cop.
13) The piano
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances, bold cinematography, and a transcendent score.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a descendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he has to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping...
16) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in Little America, the film centers on Charlie, a small-time hood who lacks the ruthlessness to make it in his uncle's syndicate. Charlie feels responsible for his girlfriend's cousin, Johnny Boy, but things get out of hand when Charlie intervenes in a quarrel over debts.
17) The border
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A border guard faces corruption in his department when the infant of a poor Mexican girl is kidnapped.
18) The last man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this apocalyptic thriller, Hayden Christensen plays a vet suffering from PTSD who takes the advice of a street prophet and starts preparing for the end of days.
19) Lansky
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
20) The Duellists
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, THE DUELLISTS explores the themes of obsession, honor and violence. This visually breathtaking film weaves a compelling...