Joaquin Phoenix
3) Two lovers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After moving back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, Leonard must decide between the woman his parents think would be perfect for him and the gorgeous neighbor he can't get out of his mind.
"The whole movie is so well-cast and performed that we watch it unfolding without any particular awareness of 'acting.'"--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...wells with sights and sounds that are guaranteed to lift, not sink, the spirits."--New...
4) Earthlings
Publisher
Earthlings.com
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humankind's absolute economic dependence on animals raised as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Earthlings is the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation...
5) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
6) Ladder 49
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
7) C'mon c'mon
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
10) Clay pigeons
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A black comedy about serial murder, sexual obsession and stifling small-town paranoia.
11) We own the night
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his...
12) Reservation Road
Publisher
Roadshow Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A western dark comedy based on the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt. The film stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as the two notorious assassin brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters, who get caught up in the California Gold Rush.
14) Walk the line
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love story of country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, Cash revolutionized music and forges his legacy as a genuine Amercian icon.
15) Quills
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.
16) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
17) Reservation Road
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.
19) Inherent vice
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.