John Hurt
1) Deadline!
Publisher
[Passion Pictures]
Pub. Date
[Ã2002]
Language
English
Description
A washed-up British reporter living in the oil-rich Mideast city of Awad is involved in a tragic romance as well as a military coup.
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound, and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity.
7) Rob Roy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Scottish rebel Rob Roy, his Highlands clansmen, and their fight to save themselves from obliteration.
10) Brighton Rock
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
11) The Climb
Publisher
Vanguard Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 suburban Baltimore a man is not a man unless he's a war veteran. Danny Hine's father isn't. Danny wants to vindicate his father and believes he can do that by climbing the city's 203' radio tower. With the help of Langer, an old man who has come home to die, Danny learns the true meaning of courage.
12) V for vendetta
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
13) The skeleton key
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
14) Elephant man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of John Merrick, a 19th century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of a kindly doctor, he regains some of the dignity he lost during years as a side-show freak.
Publisher
DVD International
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Feature length film combined with computer game-like navigation and interactivity. The player is voyeur, detective, judge and patient all in one in this suspense story. Between each variable scene, the viewer helps to access the behavior of each of the film's characters. The viewer's answers shape the course of action and the final outcome of the story.
16) The Pied Piper
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A wandering piper is hired by a selfish mayor to rid his village of rats; but when the mayor refuses to pay him, the piper plays his way out of town, leading all the children of Hamelin after him--never to be seen again.
17) V for Vendetta
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, this is the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she...
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the University hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
19) Contact
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The fate of mankind hangs in the balance when a ruthless prince awakens an unstoppable army of creatures and wages war with the human world. It's up to Hellboy and his team to face off with the forces of darkness. Extras included.
"Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine"--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Hugely inventive...and smashingly beautiful."--Wall Street Journal
"The movie overall is engaging, though...