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Publication Date
2001, 1973.
Summary
Returning to the scruffy town of Valentine, Texas, after many months of tracking wanted criminals, Cahill learns that there's been trouble at home as well. The local sheriff and deputy have been murdered by a masked gang of bandits. These outlaws robbed the bank and then disappeared into the hills. Deputizing his elder son, Cahill sets out to routinely track and capture the dangerous desperadoes. Instead, the gritty marshal finds himself up against...
2) The goonies
Author
Publication Date
2007
Summary
The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publication Date
2001
Summary
In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt is a soldier and former boxer beiing manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden and Karen Holmes tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on...
Publication Date
c2002
Summary
Lately, FLoyd is experiencing more than his fair share of hard times. The Blue Water Grill, his Gulf Coast cafe, is about to be seized for back taxes owed to the government. His wife disappears without a trace, leaving behind her father, who lives in and out of senility. And a potential buyer won't give up until the cafe is his. As Floyd begins to accept his new way of life, in walks Louise, a beautiful, smart woman who has big plans for the Blue...
Series
Publication Date
Ã2008
Summary
Contains four films about a computer hacker who realizes the world is an elaborate deception created by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence. In Matrix, in an anti-utopian future, the "real" world is a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human race. In Matrix reloaded, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue...
7) Black knight
Publication Date
[2002], ©2001
Summary
Jamal is an employee at Medieval World amusement park when he is magically transported back to 14th century England. Now he must do battle with an evil king, deadly assassins - and really bad plumbing.
8) Jennifer8
Publication Date
2002
Summary
They are the unidentified victims of an unsolved death spree, women linked by a killer's handiwork ... and by police files giving them the code name 'Jennifer'. Police make a breakthrough when they uncover a witness, a young blind women. Yet, who can rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see?
Publication Date
[2008]
Summary
"Light Yagami, a college law student, comes into the possession of the Death Note - a special notebook with the power to kill. With it he decides to create a perfect world by killing all the criminals. Soon the world's greatest detective, known only as "L", is on the case. Now the chase begins to find the ultimate serial killer.--Container.
13) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Publication Date
2004
Summary
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
14) Falling in love
Publication Date
2001
Summary
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
Publication Date
2007
Summary
A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreymanś record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this...
Publication Date
1994
Summary
Convinced that a recently burned-down structure harbors ghosts, young Matthew Mackay and Siluck Saysanasy decide to investigate the ruins. In true "urban legend" fashio, what Mackay sees inside the structure causes him to go bald on the spot! His distress is mollified when a pair of friendly ghosts whip up a "peanut butter solution" that will obstensibly restore his hair. So hirstute does Mackay become that he is kidnapped by a paint-brush manufacturer....
17) Cadillac man
Publication Date
c2002, 1989
Summary
Whether he's pitching himself, or his high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales, Joey O'Brien never lets a day go by without "doing" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control...and now he's riding in the hot seat.
Publication Date
c2003
Summary
When a high school student unwittingly activates a mysterious alien weapon, he is transformed into The Guyver, a powerful mechanized warrior. He must now defend mankind against the Zoanoids, devastating creature created by an ancient alien race as a result of a DNA experiment gone terribly wrong.
19) Best men
Publication Date
2002
Summary
Fresh out of jail, the groom is met by his friends to escort him to the altar. But on the way, one friend decides to stop and rob a bank, forcing the angry bride to join them in the stand-off.
Publication Date
[2006]
Summary
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but Ben's daughter, Cale, persuades Ben to buy the horse, which causes him to lose his job. Rehabilitating the horse is almost too much for Crane's nearly bankrupt farm, but it proves to be the perfect salve in mending a broken family.
