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1) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
2) Fight club
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
3) Brubaker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
4) Raging bull
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent middleweight champion Jake La Motta.
5) Fight club
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (139 min.) : col., sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
6) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.
7) Straw dogs
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The aftermath of a black man being killed by a police officer. The story is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act. A high school baseball phenomenon and an African-American police officer were inspired to take a stand.
9) Death wish
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked and raped by a gang of thugs.
10) Bug
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agnes has finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, who has recently been released from state prison. Agnes is a lonely waitress with a tragic past who moves into a sleazy, run-down Oklahoma motel room with her lesbian co-worker R.C. She, in turn, introduces Agnes to Gulf War veteran, Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic...
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (119 min. ; 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former neo-Nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the wrong path ; A quiet man's family life threatens to fall apart when an act of self-defense thrusts him into the spotlight.
12) Trust
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
13) Raging bull
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert ([14] p. ; 18 cm.)
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.
14) The book of Ruth
Author
Formats
Description
Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her life, including her runaway father, shrewish mother, and crazy husband.
15) Tombstone
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
16) 24: Season six
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (1050 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After twenty months in a Chinese prison, Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the United States. But instead of being free, Jack's release is part of a secret deal: his life in return for the location of Hamri Al-Assad, the leader of a terrorist organization that has unleashed a wave of terror across the country. A broken man, physically and mentally, Jack agrees to the exchange. But when he learns that his new captor, Abu Fayed, is actually the man...
17) Joe
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy businessman and a factory worker form an unlikely friendship based on their hatred of the post-World War II counter-culture.
18) Taxi driver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1065 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds toward an explosive climax.
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