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1) The pearl
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of a poor Mexican fisherman whose dreams of wealth are both realized and shattered.
2) The claim
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. In 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
Series
Criterion collection volume 692
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A group of strangers race across California to find $350,000 buried by an ex-convict.
4) 16 wishes
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Abby Jensen has been dreaming about her 'sweet 16' since she was a little girl, but it starts out anything but sweet. Then she receives a box of mysteriously magical birthday candles. And suddenly, Abby's every wish is instantly granted: the cherry-red sports car, the way-cool clothes, the uber-popularity at school. But when Abby makes a wish that turns her perfect new life totally upside down, she and her best friend Jay have just one chance to make...
5) Wall Street
Description
Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, happens upon a young orphan in the park and, on a whim, decides to adopt him. Together they set off on a series of madcap escapades"--Container.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
10) Elmer Gantry
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
11) The little foxes
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Davis stars as the vicious Regina Giddens, the southern lady who destroys everyone around her while trying to satisfy her desire for wealth and social position.
12) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash, but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
13) Gold
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
14) Ten canoes
Publisher
[distributed by] Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. Jesse Gemstone, the eldest of three grown children, receives a blackmail video that could put his reputation at risk.
16) Gold
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
17) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
18) King Lear
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, and they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
19) Lust for gold
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man searches for a fabled gold mine worth tens of millions of dollars.
20) Shallow grave
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000], c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash- but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
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