Matt Damon
2) Downsizing
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
3) Stillwater
Formats
Description
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
6) The Martian
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
"Hell, I'm scared of simply sleeping outdoors and I walked out of the movie with just the tiniest daydream of strapping myself into a rocket and shooting for the stars (ideally with Matt Damon as my co-pilot)."--Globe and Mail.
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7) Suburbicon
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
8) Rounders
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Master poker player Mike gives up gambling for law school but is lured back into the game when his friend gets out of prison and is in over his head with a ruthless Russian card shark.
10) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
12) Interstellar
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
13) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
14) Elysium
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join Sprit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
16) The last duel
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Knight Jean de Carrouges settles his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel at the order of King Charles VI.
17) True grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
18) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
19) School ties
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past...