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2) Carnage
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Two parental couples meet one evening to discuss their sons' recent fight at a playground, but their polite conversation quickly turns chaotic.
4) The pianist
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
5) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
Publisher
R.P. Productions ; Monolith Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her...
7) Rush hour 3
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese criminal flees to Paris, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter find themselves in the middle of a battle between the French police and the Triad gang.
8) Repulsion
Publisher
Entertainment Programs, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski's first English language film. Catherine Deneuve stars as a London manicurist repulsed by sex. Her psychological problems ultimately lead to murder.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In 1971, Roman Polanski spent a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempted to win the Monaco Grand Prix. Polanski was given intimate access to Stewart's world for three days, both on the track and off. Weekend of a Champion gives an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers. Polanski and Stewart revisit the film and look back with both nostalgia and the temperance of time. Includes...
10) Tess
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance, Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant in late 19th century England, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Although Tess rejects the advances of the D'Urberville's son Alex, he forcibly seduces her, leaving her pregnant and alone. After her sickly baby dies, Tess falls in love with Angel, a parson's son, who abandons her on their...
11) Rosemary's baby
Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a young New York couple who are expecting their first child. Rosemary experiences confusion and fear; her husband makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.
12) The ghost writer
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
13) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
15) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Frantic: After his wife disappears in Paris, American Richard Walker must confront a bewildering web of language, locale and bureaucracy as he scrambles to find her.
Presumed innocent: A twist-filled whodunit where Ford is pledged to uphold the law yet determined to escape it. He plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who's both the prosecutor of a murder case...and suspect #1!
16) The tenant
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, the man behind such films as Rosemary's baby, Love story, Chinatown, and The Godfather - tells it like it is and was in Hollywood. Includes his appeal to the Board of Directors short film that saved Paramount Pictures in 1970. Also, includes archival interviews about Evans with stars and filmmakers. Includes an Evans gag reel.
18) Rosemary's baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
19) Macbeth
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A classic tragedy about the lust for power and its ultimate bloody consequences. Macbeth is a Scottish war hero whose insane ambition unleashes a cycle of violence. Prompted by the supernatural prophecy of three witches, Macbeth is then goaded by his lady into slaying King Duncan in order to assume the throne. He plunges further into murder and moral decay to keep the unsteady crown on his head.
20) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
