Eli Wallach
Author
Language
English
Description
The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway. Wallach has worked...
Author
Language
English
Description
A murder mystery set at the top of the international literary world, "The Bookfair Murders" follows New York publisher Marsha Hillier (Samantha Bond) and struggling freelance journalist Judith Cass (Linda Kash) as they try to find out why an in-demand author was murdered at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On the island of Crete, two youthful sleuths, an English girl on holiday with her aunt and a young man wrongly accused of stealing jewels, set out to expose the criminal, and are drawn into a death-defying adventure.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village.
7) Nuts
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
8) Girlfriends
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring photographer Susan Weinblatt and would-be poet Anne Munroe are best friends and roommates in a five-flight walk-up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. But one day Anne decides to marry and move out. When the best friends go their separate ways, focus on what happens to the one left behind. It's about valuable, delicate and complex ties that bind people, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and lovers.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Gerrie and Arthur Mason discover that their daughter, Maxie, is a drug-addict. Guessing their son Artie is responsible, they turn him out. Maxie flees, into the arms of her drug addict partner, but her parents find them and forcibly bring her home. A bad trip now leads the young girl to hospital. Her parents hear with amazement that her dealer is an exemplary student, Sandy, their respectable neighbors' son...
10) The hunter
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Ralph 'Papa' Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter. Thorson's exploits are detailed as he pursues a number of fugitives who have skipped bail. The chase comes full circle when he becomes the quarry of a vengeful psychopath.
11) Baby doll
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A claustrophobic depiction of the sweaty competition between a dim cotton mill owner and his business rival for the attention of the mill owner's simpering child bride.
14) The holiday
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled...
16) 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...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé. But they learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
18) Insomnia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ralph Roberts never expected to live out his remaining golden years mourning the death of his beloved wife. He also never expected to begin suffering from chronic insomnia for the first time in his life. Each night he wakes up a little bit earlier, until he's barely sleeping at all. During his overnight walks, he's now observing some strange things going on here in Derry, Maine--and they're more than sleep-deprived hallucinations. There's definitely...