Mos Def (Rapper)
Publisher
Tuelp Investments, LLC ; Gotham Group Productions ; Ashok Amritraj Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hank Grotowski is an embittered prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny. They both live at home with his racist father, Buck. Death Row inmate, Lawrence Musgrove, has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Hank mets Leticia, a young black woman, struggling to make ends meet. If only he knew that she is Musgrove's widow. Hank and Leticia quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains.
4) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy, " turning the two town misfits into local celebrities.
7) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.
9) The woodsman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A pedophile attempts to pull his life together after serving a 12-year prison sentence.
10) Monster's ball
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Publisher
Rogue Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Join Dave as he travels through the heartland and makes a special stop in his hometown to pass out invitations to attend the event of the decade. It's a front row seat for outrageous comedy with music from today's hottest artists. The unrated version contains deleted scenes.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosso and his son Paul have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub/brothel, but they both dream about getting out of the business. A suitcase left at their club with the means to bring the dreams alive may change their lives and fates.