Ramin Bahrani
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
3) At any price
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The relationship between a self-absorbed father and rebellious son is tested when a crisis threatens the family farming business.
4) Chop shop
Series
Criterion collection volume 1067
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Living and working in an autobody shop in Willets Point, Queens, twelve-year-old orphan Alejandro hustles on and off the streets to help him and his sister survive.
5) Chop shop
Series
Criterion collection volume 1067
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Living and working in an autobody shop in Willets Point, Queens, twelve-year-old orphan Alejandro hustles on and off the streets to help him and his sister survive.
6) Chop shop
Publisher
Distributed by KOCH Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a bustling wasteland of stolen cars, mechanics and street hustlers, Alejandro, a tough and ambitious street orphan, and his older sister, Isamar, must rely on each other to survive. Living and working in the Iron Triangle, a sprawling junkyard in Queens, New York, the two find their dreams threatened by the hard truths of life, only to find hope and salvation in one another.
7) 99 homes
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to go to work for Rick Carver, the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal-with-the-devil that provides security for his family; but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1066
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
The experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels from a midtown Manhattan food cart, engaged in a Sisyphean search for human connection and a sense of purpose that seems perpetually just out of reach.
9) Goodbye Solo
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (7 hr., 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the activity of the CIA black ops program known as Operation: Treadstone, which uses behavior modification to turn recruits into deadly assassins and sleeper agents.