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Author
Series
Houdini volume 2
Language
English
Description
Night 2 of Houdini follows Harry Houdini's epic battle against the spiritualists whose practices he found to be false and misleading. As the 20th century progresses, Houdini must come to terms with his new place in a fast-changing world.
Author
Series
Houdini volume 1
Language
English
Description
From humble beginnings at circus sideshows to sold out concert halls in Europe, night 1 of Houdini follows the rise of the boy Erich Weiss as he becomes the man Harry Houdini, master escapologist.
3) Detachment
Author
Language
English
Description
Adrien Brody (in his most acclaimed performance since THE PIANIST), Marcia Gay Harden & Christina Hendricks star in this award-winning drama about teachers and students in a troubled high school. From the director of AMERICAN HISTORY X.
4) High School
Author
Language
English
Description
The day after soon-to-be valedictorian Henry Burke (Matt Bush of ADVENTURELAND, PIRANHA 3DD) takes a hit of the chronic for the first time, his school principal (Michael Chiklis of TV's THE SHIELD, FANTASTIC FOUR FRANCHISE) institutes a zero-tolerance drug policy and mandatory drug tests for all students. Henry has two options: fail and lose his college scholarship, or team up with his stoner friend Breaux (Sean Marquette of AMERICA'S SON, TV's THE...
5) High school
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A high school valedictorian who gets "high" with the local druggie realizes he has to take a drug test. This causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get the entire graduating class to face the same fate, and has everyone fail!
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
9) The Village
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the...
10) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
11) The pianist
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
12) Cadillac Records
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James. Chess makes all of his artists part of his family and takes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beat Poet Neal Cassady is pulled between two women, Mary (Gretchen Mol), a teen temptress and Joan (Forlani), his first true love. Based on a letter written by Cassady to his friend, author Jack Kerouac, this beautifully photographed film is about the choices people make and how they alter the course of one's life.
14) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by...
15) Liberty Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
17) Home at Last
Publisher
Feature Films for Families, distributor
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Based on real orphan trains which resettled children in the Midwest at the turn of the century. Billy, a streetwise kid from New York, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family.
19) Air strike
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
20) Summer of Sam
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam held New York City in terror.
