Alan J. Pakula
Publisher
LIVE Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998], c1982
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists escapes to New York where he, under a false name, lives in the house of an Irish cop who knows nothing about his real identity. Their surprising friendship and the cop's growing suspicions force the terrorist to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A relentlessly kooky coed and falls in love with a reserved young college student. She actively pursues the shy boyish-man and helps him through the tough first months in school. They both benefit from the relationship; he gains self-confidence and she's now able to come to grips with her unhappy home life.
9) Klute
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1971
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Small-town detective John Klute (Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of a friend. The trail leads to Bree Daniels (Fonda), a call girl, with whom Klute falls in love. She is being stalked by a psychotic murderer.
10) Sophie's choice
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Polish Catholic woman who survived Auschwitz but lost her children settles in America after World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1064
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1064
Description
Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in "accidents", the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frantic: After his wife disappears in Paris, American Richard Walker must confront a bewildering web of language, locale and bureaucracy as he scrambles to find her.
Presumed innocent: A twist-filled whodunit where Ford is pledged to uphold the law yet determined to escape it. He plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who's both the prosecutor of a murder case...and suspect #1!
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher with a can-do attitude at New York's inner city Calvin Coolidge High. Crowded classes, broken windows, lack of chalk and books are only a few of the problems she will have to face.
20) Klute
Series
Criterion collection volume 987
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
"Bree Daniels [is] a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute turns up at her door [...] Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society." --