Harvey Keitel
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
2) Lansky
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the final days of the First World War, during Malta's revolution for independence, two British officers are tasked with quelling the riots and covering up the bloody encounter, while innocent protesters are jailed and killed.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Czech
Description
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski novel, THE PAINTED BIRD is about one boy's journey through Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its...
5) The piano
Author
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mute mail-order bride in New Zealand finds herself attracted to her new husband's neighbor when he ends up with her beloved piano.
Series
The criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A controversial film interpretation of the life of Christ, based on the equally controversial book.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
This documentary offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the **Academy Award** for Best Director for her masterpiece *Seven Beauties*. The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when she was Federico Fellini’s assistant director on *8 1/2*, to the places where her most famous films were set, revealing the artistic and human universe of...
8) Holy Smoke!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
PJ Waters is a cult deprogrammer who meets his match when he is hired to “cure” the beautiful, intelligent, and iron-willed Ruth. It’s no holds barred in this darkly hilarious electric battle of the sexes!
9) The Congress
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An aging actress (Robin Wright) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. In return, she receives healthy compensation so her digitized character will stay forever young.
10) Ulysses' gaze
Publisher
Fox Lorber
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey of Greek-American director across the Balkans in search of several lost reels of film short by the Manakia brothers, pioneers of cinema in that region of the world. Along the way he has several passionate encounters with various women who have been, or may have been, part of his life.
11) The piano
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The Piano weaves the passionate tale of Ada, a young mute woman desired by two men. Sold into marriage to a husband who doesn't understand her, Ada finds herself drawn to her darkly intense neighbor, stirring up vengeful jealousies and violent emotions. But in the end, only one man truly understands how to win Ada's heart, through her beloved piano."--Container.
12) The grey zone
Series
Lions Gate volume VM8238D
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz [II]'s Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz"--Container.
13) The Duellists
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, THE DUELLISTS explores the themes of obsession, honor and violence. This visually breathtaking film weaves a compelling...
14) Falling in Love
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
15) Madame
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When an American couple in Paris hosts a luxurious dinner party their plans go off the rails when their maid runs off with a wealthy guest.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a descendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping...
17) Two Evil Eyes
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, directed by two classic genre filmmakers. In George Romero's *The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar*, a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in Dario Argento's *The Black Cat*, a deranged crime scene photographer (Harvey Keitel) is driven to brutal...
18) Fail Safe
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
George Clooney stars as a U.S. fighter pilot mistakenly commanded to start a nuclear war with Russia. Now he must be stopped--at any cost--to avert Armageddon in the chillingly realistic movie. Colonel Jack Grady (Clooney) commands a fighter squadron ordered to destroy Moscow with nuclear warheads as a result of a glitch in a military computer. With the help of a translator named Buck (Noah Wyle), the President of the United States (Oscar winner Richard...
19) Thelma & Louise
Series
Criterion collection volume 1180
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
20) Rio, I Love You
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The series that started 'Paris, je t'aime' and 'New York, I Love You" travels to Rio de Janeiro to tell tales of love featuring an All-Star Cast directed by the filmmakers that brought you City of God, Babel, 21 Grams, Youth, The Great Beauty, and more!