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21) Paradise Hills
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Generations into the future, a strict binary divides society into the bourgeoisie "superiors" and the "inferiors." Uma, a superior teenager, struggles with her family's decision to marry her off to Son, a fellow superior. Instead, she finds herself falling for Markus, an inferior. When her mother learns of the secret romance, she banishes Uma to Paradise Hills, a finishing school for rebellious young women. Uma learns that behind the high-class facility's...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a band of castaways lands on a mysterious island, they discover it's already inhabited by giant carnivorous creatures and wonders beyond the imagination. In order to stay alive, they're pitted to the death against deadly dinosaurs, fearsome sea monsters, soaring pterodactyls, and marauding tribes of primitive humans.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the instant they meet, a marooned American soldier (Marvin) and his Japanese counterpart (Mifune) have the same objective: to kill each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the only way they will survive is by forging an uneasy truce and cooperating with each other. Can the rise above the hatred that divides them long enough to stay alive?
Publisher
Rhino Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 420 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ring of terror: A medical student must confront his worst fear when he is hazed by a fraternity.
Industructible man: A brutal convict seeks revenge on those who wronged him after his executed body is reanimated during a failed scientific experiment.
Tormented: A soon-to-be married pianist is haunted by his jealous mistress after he fails to save her from falling to her death.
Horrors of Spider Island: Stranded on a mysterious island, seven chorus...
28) Savage sisters
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Savage Sisters three of the world's deadliest women. Black Belt Jones is the Colonel, lean, mean, and foxy, with plenty of ammunition stacked in just the right places. Too Hot to Handle is the Field Marshall, who took command of the Liberation Army to save her men. Savage! is the Brigadier General, top mama of a female commando unit. They're trouble multiplied by three and they've got plans for a spectacular jailbreak, a million-dollar robbery,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
[Two-DVD special edition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
30) Swiss army man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (approximately 1,056 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While Jack, Kate, and Locke investigate what's inside the hatch, the "tailies" are found. These survivors are from the tail of the plane and include tough girl Ana-Lucia and the spiritual and mysterious Mr. Eko. Learn what happened to Walt when he left Michael with some very hard choices to make and get a better insight into just who the "others" are. Find out that the island has some connection with the Dharma Corporation.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (approximately 991 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, but their mission of discovery becomes the ultimate battle between man and nature when they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger, they decide to forge an unsteady truce and form an unlikely super-team to save their homes.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
38) Jaws
Language
English
Description
In the ocean surrounding Amity, a small tourist resort off the coast of New England, a 25-foot man-eating predator stalks any human foolish enough to get in the water. At first, the only believer in the shark's existence is the town's chief of police, Martin Brody. Brody enlists the help of scientist Matt Hooper and Quint, a crusty old seaman whose life is devoted to hunting sharks. The threesome sets off in Quint's boat to kill the leviathan. The...
39) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
40) Moonrise kingdom
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
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