Paul Schrader
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
2) Taxi driver
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
3) Raging bull
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert De Niro teams up with director Martin Scorsese to create one of cinema's eternal masterpieces. Nominated for eight Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, this contemporary classic is "ambitious, violent, poetic and lyrical" (The New York Times). De Niro turns in a powerful, Best Actor Oscar®-winning performance as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate as to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, MASTER GARDENER follows Narvel Roth (award-winner Joel Edgerton), the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill (three-time Academy Award® nominee Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time." - Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael (1919-2001). In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans ("Paulettes") and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and '70s...
9) The canyons
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unrated director's cut.
Language
English
Description
An erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveilance. While calculating young movie producer Christian (adult film star James Deen) makes films to keep his trust fund intact, his actress girlfriend, Tara (Lindsay Lohan), hides an affair with an actor from her past. But Christian becomes aware which thrusts the young Angelenos into a violent, sexually-charged tour through the dark side of human nature. Also stars Gus van Sant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1041
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
11) Raging bull
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition, second-disc DVD collector's set.
Language
English
Description
Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage.
12) American gigolo
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Julian Kay is on the prowl and looking for someone to please. Boyish and sensual, he speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. He is the American gigolo. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect."--Container.
13) Cat people
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman on the bridge of sexuality learns that because of an inherited feline characteristic, a relationship with a man is impossible.
14) The canyons
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young movie producer discovers that his actress girlfriend is having an affair with an actor from her past and uses violence and sex to seek revenge.
16) Dog eat dog
Author
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
When three ex-convict friends attempt a kidnapping, they find that the crime has grown out of their control.
17) Raging bull
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent middleweight champion Jake La Motta.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, " and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
19) Adam resurrected
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
20) Obsession
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland discovers that his wife and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. In an attempt to trap the criminals, counterfeit money is used to pay the ransom, but the plan fails and the wife and child are never recovered. Ten years later he meets the double of his dead wife and on the eve of their wedding, she disappears and he is drawn into a strange plot to recreate the past....