Columbia Pictures
21) Against all odds
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terry Brogan, a cynical ex-football star, is hired to find Jessie Wyler, the runaway mistress of a ruthless L.A. nightclub owner, Jake Wise. According to Jake, Jessie had stabbed him and vanished with $50,000. But Terry's mission is soon forgotten when he tracks down the beautiful Jessie on a Mexican island and falls in love with her.
24) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four Korean war vets dream up a college prank to rob a casino, convincing the girlfriend of one of them to help. Problems arise when one of the vets, who suffers from a war injury, turns the prank serious.
27) The war lover
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stationed in England during WW II, Buzz Rickson is the bravest air force pilot in his squadron. His maniacal quest for aerial thrills prompts his many daredevil heroics. His rebellious attitude, however, threatens to alienate him from everyone around him.
28) Stir crazy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1980
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
29) Total recall
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
31) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
32) The cable guy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cable installer, raised on television sitcoms, wants life to look like "My three sons." And when he meets a single-guy, he sees his chance for some serious male bonding.
33) The way we were
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The romance and marriage of opposites-- the love that binds them together and the differences that tear them apart. A love story from college to Hollywood in the thirties, forties, and fifties.
34) The collector
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mild-mannered butterfly collector takes a turn to the sinister when he "collects" a new specimen -- a beautiful woman.
35) Stand by me
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends are in search of a missing teenager's body. Wanting to be heroes in each other's and their hometown's eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.
36) Educating Rita
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
37) Little Nikita
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A teenager's life is on the line when he discovers his All-American parents are Soviet spies in this taut espionage thriller. With excellent performances from a top-notch cast, Little Nikita is a fast-paced suspense thriller in the tradition of classic Hitchcock.
38) Ship of fools
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
39) Ghostbusters
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge. If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!