Angie Dickinson
1) Point blank
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A thief is double-crossed by a crime group called 'The Organization' after pulling a heist. Their mistake was not killing him; now he is out for revenge and the $93,000 that The Organization owes him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Part fact, part fiction, Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, the film centers on the legendary David "Mickey" Marcus, whose motto was "life isn't a spectator sport, you've just got to get involved." Kirk Douglas gives a strong, compassionate performance as Marcus, and American Jew and World War II hero who "got involved" by becoming a volunteer...
7) The chase
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about power and greed. When a convict (Robert Redford) escapes from prison and is reported to be heading towards his hometown, the news evokes various reactions from many of the town's residents. The sheriff (Marlon Brando) must find the fugitive before a drunken and bloodthirsty mob does.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A realistic look at life and love inside a stateside military hospital's psychiatric ward during World War II. The Oscar-nominated comedy-drama follows the affable Captain Newman as he uses both humor and compassion to reach patients whose wartime injuries plague their minds instead of their bodies.
10) Big bad love
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Leon is a Vietnam veteran who is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
11) China gate
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful Eurasian girl agrees to lead a small team of mercenaries through enemy territory to the Chinese border and in return, the soldiers agree to take her illegitimate son to America.
12) Oceans 11
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sinatra and ten of his wartime buddies unite forces to rob five Las Vegas casinos simultaneously on a New Year's Eve.
15) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The killers (1946) Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life, Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with gorgeous, mysterious Kitty Collins.
The killers (1964) Supposedly based on the short story by...
16) The art of love
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Having failed to establish himself as a painter in Paris, Paul Sloane decides to return home to his wealthy girlfriend, Laurie Gibson. His roommate, Casey Barnett, argues that Paul should fake his own suicide, which will make his paintings much more popular. With Paul presumably dead, demand for his work soars. When Casey grows wealthy selling it off and begins courting Laurie, an angry Paul frames his deceitful friend for his murder.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
New York City. 1958. In these concrete canyons, everybody's got an angle: The beauty with the sob story who killed her old man. The harmless geezer who's in bed with the mob. The kidnapped broad who's really a fraud. When a case gets too twisted for the cops, only one man can straighten it out: two-fisted gumshoe Mike Hammer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...