Jack Nicholson
1) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
2) Heartburn
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
5) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns ... to even the score"--Container.
7) The border
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas is involved in an international drug smuggling operation, but decides to clean up his act to help a woman whose child has been sold across the border.
Series
Criterion collection volume 550
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Estranged siblings David, a depressive late-night radio talk show host, and Jason, extroverted con man, come together when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral into tragedy.
9) A safe place
Series
Criterion collection volume 548
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tuesday Weld stars as a fragile young woman in New York unable to reconcile her ambiguous past with her unmoored present.
10) Hoffa
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of the life of labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, tracing his career from 1935 to his mysterious disappearance in 1975.
11) Prizzi's honor
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
12) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extramarital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
14) 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.
15) Carnal knowledge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], p1971
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film traces the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.
17) Goin' south
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unwashed outlaw is saved from the rope when a young girl promises to marry and reform him.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (13 hr., 51 min.) : sound, color & black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unravel twelve of the most bizarre and eccentric works of horror in this tribute to some of the greatest bad movies ever made. A blend of film creations from the 1940s through the 1970s from The Ape man to cavemen and every bloodthirsty mutant along the way, it's an enjoyable journey!.
Manos. Everything that can go wrong does on a young couple's terrifying vacation, when they become lost and stop at the door of a mysterious house.
Track of the Moon...
20) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.