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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes's ravishing fiancée for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
3) Snitch
Language
English
Description
A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Jailhouse rock: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. It happened at the World's Fair: Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Stay away, Joe: Native...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Language
English
Description
Jim Caviezel (HIGH CRIMES) and Guy Pearce (THE TIME MACHINE) give sizzling performances in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO -- the greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge the world has ever known. When the dashing and guileless Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) is betrayed by his best friend (Pearce) and wrongly imprisoned, he becomes consumed by thoughts of vengeance. After a miraculous escape, he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count...
6) Lockout
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Full frame version.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Language
English
Description
In the Destry films, the main character was Tom Destry, a western lawman who was fast on the draw, but who preferred non-violent solutions in dealing with outlaws. In the TV series, John Gavin plays Tom's son Harrison, a lawman who had been framed and sent to prison. Upon his release, Destry roams the west searching for the men who framed him, but like his father, his natural inclination is to avoid violence when he can.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Consenting adults: When two neighboring couples grow too close, one of the husbands is lured into a shocking web of sexual obsession, betrayal and murder. An innocent man: A man, framed as a drug dealer and sent to prison by a pair of crooked cops, risks everything to prove he is innocent.
Publisher
Provident Distribution
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Sam 'Shooter' Green is a legendary outlaw, whose notorious reputation far exceeds his actual deeds. He never set out to be an outlaw but is caught up in a stagecoach heist that ends in a fatal shooting. Framed for murder, Sam sees no other choice but to take off with the stolen money, but Virgil Earp tracks him, shoots him and brings him to justice. Thirty years later, he has one thing on his mind: To break out and meet the daughter he never knew....
12) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
13) Need for speed
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
14) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
15) Just Mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
16) Dark places
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Libby Day was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were murdered and her brother Ben was jailed for the crime. Now, twenty-five years later, Libby discovers shocking evidence that Ben may be innocent, and the real killer still at large.
18) Left to die
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Accused of a crime she did not commit. Imprisoned by a corrupt system. The odds are stacked against Sandra Chase when she finds herself behind bars in Ecuador. As her daughter tirelessly works to rally political suport in Washington D.C., Sandra makes desperate choices in order to survive her horrifying ordeal.
19) Captain blood
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
An Irish doctor, Peter Blood, is exiled to slavery by an evil governor. He escapes and becomes a pirate, saves the damsel in distress and an English port, then becomes governor.
20) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
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