Anthony Perkins
Author
Language
English
Description
When the record book closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before he racked up those numbers, Piersall faced a foe much tougher that a 90-m.p.h. fastball: mental illness. Anthony Perkins stars as Piersall in this powerful true story. Fear Strikes Out also marks the filmmaking debut of Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan, the team...
2) Psycho
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
3) Psycho II
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Norman Bates is finally released from a mental institution, he returns to the Bates Motel to what he hopes will be a normal, quiet life. But he soon hears the voice of his dead mother, and the bodies begin to pile up. Has Norman cracked, or is someone trying to drive him insane?
4) Psycho III
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The specter of his domineering mother won't leave poor Norman Bates alone in a suspenseful and intriguing second sequel to the Hitchcock classic.
5) Winter kills
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick (Jeff Bridges) is the son of Pa Kegan (John Huston), a tycoon who heads a powerful business empire, and the brother of an American president who was assassinated 15 years ago. Working in the China seas on one of his father's oil drilling ships, Nick is plunged into the past when a dying man reveals the true identity of his brother's assassin. Nick sets out on a twisting trail to unravel a web of greed and vengeance which leads him to confront...
6) The trial
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles2s film casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
30-year-old hardworking Bobby Grady is married with two children, and his marriage to frigid Amy is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion-design studio whose owner believes that his talented, introspective designed Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub. Following Joanna after-hours, he discovers her double life, working as {dollar}50-hooker China...
10) The lonely man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The past and the future close in on a reformed gunslinger. He's a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does trouble. Fearful citizens are quick to turn him out of their town. Vengeful killers have vowed to stalk him to his grave. And Wade's son, embittered over his father's long absence, cannot quell the pain and hate in his heart.
11) On the beach
Publisher
Kino Lorber ; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Laurence Jeffries (Anthony Perkins), a psychiatrist dedicated to his research, neglects his wife Frances so she leaves him for another man. When Jeffries receives a visit from a stranger with amnesia (Charles Bronson), he convinces him that Frances is his wife, planning to make him jealous and take revenge by proxy...
13) Pretty poison
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a mentally disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him, and murder and mayhem ensue.
14) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
15) The matchmaker
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this early adaptation of Thornton Wilder's hit Broadway play, we meet matchmaker Dolly Levi (Shirley Booth), who is always good at arranging things primarily matrimonial and has now set her sights on the domestic affairs of one Mr. Vandergelder (Paul Ford), a cold-hearted local store owner. The difference this time is that she plans to be the one to marry him! As Dolly plots and schemes her way into Vandergelder's heart, she brings along Anthony...
16) The black hole
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are all aboard an Earth discovery vessel on a fruitless search for life in space when they encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of the universe's most powerful phenomenon, a black hole.
17) The tin star
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.
19) Wave Maker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some moments in everyday life have the power to transform us. Wave Maker by Jeff Fisher is a testament to the profound impact that chance encounters can have-if we're willing to open our hearts. This captivating book follows one man's experience paying a simple act of kindness forward and the ripple effects reverberating through his life. Through Eli's story, readers are invited to consider the seven principles that can turn ordinary interactions...
20) Be Deliberate
Author
Language
English
Description
In a world that often feels chaotic and uncontrollable, Emmett Roberson Jr.'s "Be Deliberate" serves as a hope and resilience. Drawing from his harrowing yet uplifting 26-year military career and subsequent personal trials, Emmett offers readers a compelling guide to reclaiming their lives through deliberate action. This book is about survival and about thriving in the face of adversity.
At the heart of this book is the powerful message that no matter...