Joel Coen
Author
Language
English
Description
Quintessential Coen brothers fare, but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Misérables. In it almost all the principal actors, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, sing. While not quite a musical, Inside Llewyn Davis is, built around full-length performances of folk songs that were, heard in the grubby cafes of the Village in a year when Bob Dylan, who kind of, sort of shows up in the movie, had just appeared on...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club- on an odyssey to audition for...
5) True grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
8) Unbroken
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
10) The big Lebowski
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any drama in his life; he can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug (you gotta understand, that rug really tied the room together). Now, the Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy friends to make things right and get that rug back! Includes an exclusive interview, behind-the-scenes photos, film timeline, and more.
11) Barton Fink
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
13) Fargo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A persistent, pregnant police chief tries to solve the disappearance of a wife and mother from Fargo.
14) Crimewave
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company is bumped off by two exterminators who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets. The exterminators go after the partner who hired them and his blatantly obnoxious wife and, in the meantime, frame a poor security guard for the murder of the company boss.
15) The ladykillers
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked by Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
19) Paris Je T'aime
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, this delightful anthology explores the many faces of love. Featuring Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
20) Fargo
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A midwestern policewoman tracks down killers responsible for a brutal series of crimes resulting from a bungled kidnapping.