Alan Parker
Series
Language
English
Description
Gilbert lives in Endora, a place where nothing happens. Aside from a secret affair with a housewife, Gilbert spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother, and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing will ever change, a pretty stranger arrives on the scene, capturing Gilbert's heart and inspiring him to...
Language
English
Description
David Gale was an active member of Deathwatch, an anti-capital punishment activist group. Constance is a fellow Deathwatch activist. When Constance is found raped and murdered, Gale is convicted of the crime. Now Gale awaits execution, and with less than a week before his date with the fatal injection, Gale agrees to tell his story to Bitsy, a nervy journalist from a major newsmagazine. As she discusses the facts of the murder with Gale, it occurs...
5) Evita
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
True-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame.
8) Bugsy Malone
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In this unique mobster movie, all the gangsters are children. Bugsy Malone determines to rule over New York City and battle with "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan". Instead of using bullets, they shoot cream to bury the enemies. The film is a musical..
10) Angel heart
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Angel heart: Mickey Rourke is Harry Angel, a down-and-out Brooklyn detective who is hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite on an odyssey that will take Angel through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and ultimately to the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo in this cult thriller that is at once eerily thrilling, darkly sensual...
12) Evita
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray version ; fifteenth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
True-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and scandal to achieve fortune and fame.
Series
Pub. Date
[1988, 2019]
Language
English
Description
In Jessup County, 1964, as three civil rights activists drive down a desolate stretch of highway, headlights ominously draw near. Telling each other to stay calm, they have no way of knowing that in minutes they will disappear into the night and spark one of the most explosive murder investigations in history. Enter straight-laced Ward and deceptively easy-going Anderson.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
French connection: Popeye Doyle is a police detective out to bust an international narcotics ring.
Hoosiers: A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
Mississippi burning: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Fame (1980, 133 min.): Story of the hopes and dreams of eight talented teenagers at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
Flashdance (1983, 94 min.): An 18-year-old dreams of being a dancer. By day she's a welder and is having an affair with her boss, by night she dances in an exotic club.