John Schlesinger
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned young man and his drug dealing friend, under the code names "Falcon" and 'Snowman" commit a brazen act of espionage, by selling some of America's most sensitive secrets to the KGB.
2) Billy Liar
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
4) Darling
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Psychological thriller about two homeowners battling a pathological tenant. Protected by complex eviction laws, this sadistic schemer soon has the couple fighting to save their home and then their lives.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The people of Ticaw Florida have big dreams of attracting huge tourist dollars. But when the construction of a new freeway leaves them without a crucial exit ramp, the townspeople will go to some pretty extreme and wacky measures.
9) Marathon man
Language
English
Description
Thomas "Babe" Levy is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc, is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa, becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
Depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty something divorcee who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s most intelligent, multi textured film about the complexities of romantic relationships.
11) Midnight cowboy
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Buck and Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo are two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.
12) Yanks
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama follows three American soldiers stationed in England during WWII and the relationships that they form with three local women: Jean, Helen, and Mollie. The relationships that blossom would affect their lives forever.
13) Billy liar
Series
Publisher
[Kino Lorber]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname Billy Liar. Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents' house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, this is a dazzling and uproarious classic, beautifully shot in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 629
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty something divorcee who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships; it is keenly acted and sensitively directed, from a penetrating screenplay.
16) Madame Sousatzka
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 2 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In London, flamboyant Russian piano instructor Madame Sousatzka begins teaching a young Indian prodigy, who is pulled in several directions by her discipline, his mother's ambition, and his own teenage whims.
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-Ray edition.
Physical Desc
32 Blu-rays (6,253 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 27 cm).
Language
English
Description
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, this set is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Owens shattering...
18) A kind of loving
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manchester draftsman Vic Brown becomes involved with Secretary Ingrid Rothwell, who works at his firm. After they sleep together, she gets pregnant. Vic feels a sense of responsibility, and although he's not really in love with her, he proposes marriage. The couple is forced to live with Ingrid's mother, who treats Vic with contempt because of his working-class background. But, when tragedy strikes, Vic must decide what his new wife means to him.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (1,203 min.) : sound, color or black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thelma & Louise: Meek housewife Thelma joins her friend Louise, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma joins her. On the way, Thelma falls for a sexy young thief and a sympathetic Detective Slocumb tries to convince the two women to surrender before their fates are sealed.
Midnight...