Joan Allen
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Language
English
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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...
2) Nixon
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Language
English
Description
Drama about the fall of Richard Nixon based on the view that a dark, murderous conspiracy controls the world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station everyday and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Even after his master passed away, he continued to return to the same spot at the station every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits he touched many lives and taught the local people about love, compassion, and above...
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English
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
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Language
English
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State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
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English
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Aaron Cross is an agent groomed by the government program that also unleashed Jason Bourne, but with a few new wrinkles. Cross is busy training in Alaska when he's caught in a tsunami of hurt, thus beginning a frantic search for answers to who and what he is.
7) The notebook
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Edition
Blu-ray
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love one summer, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite seven years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
8) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
[English/Spanish subtitled version]; [Blu-ray version].
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
9) Yes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon who works as a chef in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A sharp-witted suburban wife is left alone to raise four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor, an ex-baseball player turned radio DJ.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Language
English
Description
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
13) Bonneville
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Enterrtainment
Language
English
Description
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband's ashes to her step-daughter. What begins as a simple road trip for the trio, will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises and always living life to the fullest.
14) Manhunter
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy," he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
15) Death race
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Unrated [edition].
Language
English
Description
Private corporations run most of the prisons across the U.S. for profit. Jensen Ames is framed for his wife's murder on the same day that the steel mill he works at closes. Ames is sent to prison where he is coerced by Hennessey, the sadistic prison warden, to drive a Ford Mustang and become known as the famous masked driver, Frankenstein. She tells Ames that she knows his baby was left in foster care, but that prisoners are freed upon winning five...
16) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
17) Pleasantville
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Language
English
Description
Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Supports early reading; leadership; history knowledge.
19) Nixon
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Edition
Director's cut ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A riveting look at a complex man, Richard Nixon, whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power--when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States.
20) Room
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.