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4) Blood alley
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her younger brother run away from home and take up residence at the Metropolitan Museum where they come across a beautiful and mysterious statue. Determined to discover its maker, they first have to find the statue's former owner, the reclusive and mischievous Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and then sort through her incredibly mixed-up files.
6) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[1989,1946]
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe is hired by millionaire Gen. Sternwood to learn who is blackmailing his young, loose daughter, Carmen, with pornographic pictures. Hard-boiled private eye Marlowe has his hands full when he gets involved in a web of sex, blackmail and murder.
Publisher
GKids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond.
10) The walker
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers for her. Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear...
11) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay, they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to...
13) Casablanca
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
"Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo ... whose only hope is Rick Blaine ... a cynical American...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John Wayne returns with the following three western movies: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (a senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed); The Sons of Katie Elder (four sons who reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral); and The Shootist (A dying gunfighter who spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
17) Key Largo
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
18) Diamonds
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A feisty ex-boxing champ and his son take a road trip from Canada to Reno, Nevada to track down 13 missing diamonds promised for throwing a fight years ago.
20) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
