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Series
Paramount presents volume 13
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
In 12th century England, the infant king is usurped by the wicked King Roderick. Black Fox and his band attempt to restore the rightful king to the throne by having a member of their group infiltrate the court by posing as the jester.
Series
Paramount presents volume 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superiors and law enforcement colleagues....
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy ... the upper-middle-class couple whose 'ordinary' existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident ..."--Container
Series
Language
English
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Montgomery Clift plays a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Clift is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.
6) Vanilla sky
Series
Paramount presents volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. David tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, David's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
8) Ragtime
Series
Paramount presents volume 28
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Layering fascinating characters with the riotous events of early 1900s America, the best-seller by E.L. Doctorow became a cinematic epic under the direction of two-time Oscar winning director Milos Forman. From the emerging New York suburb of New Rochelle to the flashy spectacle of Atlantic City, a family faces racial tensions, scandals and violence that will test everything they believe in."--Container.
Series
Paramount presents volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
10) Blue Hawaii
Series
Paramount presents volume 36
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being discharged from the U.S. Army, cool guy Chadwick "Chad" Gates returns home to Hawaii. Following several years of strict military life, Chad wants nothing more than to hang loose and surf all day. His family pressures him to take over the family pineapple business. Much to the chagrin of his snobby mother, Chad lands a job as a tour guide at the same company where his girlfriend also works. It isn't long before a group of amorous girls...
Series
Paramount presents volume 32
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
12) Trading places
Series
Paramount presents volume 12
Language
English
Description
The very rich and extremely greedy Duke Brothers wager a bet over whether "born-loser" Billy Ray Valentine could become as successful as the priggish Louis Winthorpe III if circumstances were reversed.
13) Nashville
Series
Language
English
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Description
Follows 24 unique characters through 5 days in the country music capital. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are a politically ambitious country icon and his fragile star protégée, a self-absorbed rock star who woos a lonely married gospel singer, a talentless waitress painfully humiliated at her first singing gig, a runaway wife with dreams of stardom, and a campaign guru who is trying to organize a concert...
14) The haunting
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.
15) King Creole
Series
Paramount presents volume 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 15 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?
16) Bugsy Malone
Series
Paramount presents volume 23
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1929. Fat Sam's gangster enterprises are under threat from his rival, Dandy Dan, whose new weapon, the splurge gun, has rendered Sam's custard pies obsolete. Sam asks Bugsy Malone for help and Bugsy recruits an army of the down-and-out to help Sam. Meanwhile, Bugsy is romantically torn between the sweet, ambitious Blousey Brown and the seductive Tallulah.
17) The sheik
Series
Paramount presents volume 25
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
18) Rough cut
Series
Paramount presents volume 33
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Rhodes is a "semi-retired" rich American attending a swanky London party, where he meets (and falls for) Gillian Bromley. Just as quickly as the double entendres fly, they're soon involved in a spectacular heist of $30 million in uncut diamonds. Quick on the trail is a Scotland Yard inspector, whose great ambition is to trap Rhodes.
Series
Paramount presents volume 35
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray (82 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in).
Language
English
Description
The war of the worlds: A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing-- neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester-- can stop it.
When worlds collide: As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically...
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