Winona Ryder
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was, Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he was not quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon sales person took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia....
3) The letter
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Martine Jamison (Winona Ryder) is a NY theatre director beginning rehearsals for a new play starring her boyfriend opposite an young beauty. As rehearsals continue, Martine has periods of disorientation that quickly deteriorate into vivid hallucinations. As she becomes convinced Raymond is trying to poison her. As Martine's mental state devolves, she begins to rewrite her play, and art and life become inseparable.
4) Black swan
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
5) Homefront
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker retires to a quiet Southern town with his ten-year-old daughter and discovers that the idyllic setting is riddled with drugs and violence. When a riveting chain of events forces him to face off with psychotic local drug lord Gator Bodine, Broker must retaliate using the fearsome skills he hoped to keep in his past."--Container.
6) The iceman
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, follows notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski from his early days in the mob until his arrest for the murder of more than one hundred men. Appearing to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father, in reality Kuklinski was a ruthless killer-for-hire. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 70
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Lois met and fell in love with Bill Wilson, and when Bill returned from World War I, they married. Despite concerns over Bill's drinking, Lois believed he was destined for greatness. Bill's drinking spiraled out of control and soon his job, their home, even their dreams were gone. When Bill attained sobriety, he poured his time and energy into helping other drunks, which led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Frustrated that Lois was not acknowledged...
Publisher
Netflix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.
10) The dilemma
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees something he should not have and makes it his mission to get answers. As the amateur investigation dissolves his world into comic mayhem, he learns that his best friend Nick has a few secrets of his own. Now, Ronny must decide what will happen if he reveals the truth.
11) The crucible
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, a group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by one of the town's ministers, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial.
13) Reality bites
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
15) Mermaids
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Flax is the eccentric matriarch of the Flax family that includes daughters Charlotte, an awkward, quirky teen torn between her personal devotion to becoming a nun and her longing for romance, and Kat, a nine-year-old whose interest in swimming may be a result of an inherited gene from Rachel₂s one-night stand with an Olympic contender.
17) Little women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
19) Frankenweenie
Publisher
Distribued by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Young Victor conducts a science experiment that will bring his dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous consequences.
20) Homefront
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An action-packed thriller about how far one man will go to protect his family. Widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker retires to a quiet Southern town with his ten-year-old daughter and discovers that the idyllic setting is riddled with drugs and violence. When a riveting chain of events forces him to face off with psychotic local drug lord Gator Bodine, Broker must retaliate using the fearsome skills he hoped to keep in his past.