Weinstein Company
61) Burnt
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Formats
Description
Chef Adam Jones had it all, and lost it. A rockstar chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he'll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene.
"...it captures...
62) Transamerica
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bree Osborne, a pre-operative transsexual, learns she fathered a child back when she was Stanley Osborne. The wheels of fortune take Bree and her teenaged son on a cross-country trip that will change both their lives.
63) Kon-Tiki
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96, 118 minutes) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching.
64) The immigrant
Formats
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
65) Undefeated
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a high school football team from inner-city Memphis, Tennessee, and the coach who hopes to turn the team around. No hope. No future. Until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
66) The butler
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
68) Planet terror
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Niko is a young reindeer with big dreams to be like his father: a member of Santa's Flying Forces reindeer troupe. With the help of a flying squirrel named Julius and a singing weasel named Wilma, he will embark on a daring and exciting journey to Santa's place where dreams come true if you believe.
70) Hoodwinked
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
71) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
72) Coriolanus
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' is a feared and revered Roman general, suddenly pitted against his own city and fellow citizens. Rebelling against the power-hungry designs of his manipulative mother and rejected by his own people, Coriolanus incites a riot that expels him from Rome. The banished hero joins forces with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius to extract his revenge and determine his destiny.
73) Afterwards
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-powered attorney finds his life turned upside down when he is visited by an ominous doctor who predicts people's deaths. Unable to stop the fatal predictions, the lawyer races against time to put his life in order before he becomes death's next victim.
74) The grandmaster
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
75) Snowpiercer
Formats
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
77) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (299 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
79) El Cid
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1-2. Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, a Castillian knight who has been dubbed El Cid [El Cid Campeador "The Lord Champion"] by his followers, vows to free his country from the invader. The epic tale romanticizes the years of love, warfare, revenge, rivalries, as El Cid becomes a revered warrior.
80) The matador
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...