Irwin Winkler
Author
Language
English
Description
A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century
The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have...
2) Creed
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
3) Enough
Author
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
4) Rocky IV
Author
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rocky's training regimen takes him to icy Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match against a vicious Soviet fighter, Drago, who literally killed his last opponent.
5) Rocky III
Author
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rocky becomes world famous, scoring ten consecutive wins, but after suffering a humiliating defeat against Clubber Lang, he considers hanging up his gloves. With encouragement from his old nemesis, Apollo Creed, Rocky strives to regain the "eye of the tiger" before confronting Lang in a rematch.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A witch hunt has begun. Not one of roving mobs prowling by torchlight. The hunters are politicians sitting before clicking cameras in HUAC hearing rooms. Hollywood is on trial. And David Merrill is asked to "name names." Robert De Niro and Annette Bening star in GUILTY BY SUSPICION, a film of "resounding emotional impact" (Houston Post). Producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky, Raging Bull), in his screenwriting/directing debut, recreates Hollywood's "Blacklist...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a divorced man takes custody of his contemptuous teenage son, for whom quality time means doing drugs, engaging in small-time prostitution and avoiding his dying father. In his last chance to fulfill one of his life's dreams, the dad, who is an architect, begins to rebuild an old house.
8) Rocky V
Author
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rocky and his family must move to their old, low-rent neighborhood after all their money is lost by an an unscrupulous financial advisor and injuries force his retirement from the ring. As Rocky tries to resolve the resentment held by his son, a young boxer Rocky trained publicly taunts his mentor, and Rocky realizes he must fight once more.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
David Merrill is a successful director in the middle of the McCarthy era Communist witch-hunt that was sweeping through Hollywood. He soon finds that he can't get work, having been blacklisted for failing to cooperate and name names. However, if he will just tell them what they want to know, he can go back to work.
10) GoodFellas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
A young man grows up in the mob and works hard to advance himself through the ranks, enjoying the life of the rich and violent.
11) Raging bull
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside of it.
12) Creed III
Author
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
13) The split
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money.
14) At first sight
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
15) The gambler
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with an interest...
16) Point blank
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Reese and left to die while Reese takes off with Walker's wife Lynne and his $93,000. Resurrected, the stone-faced Walker returns to Los Angeles a couple of years later to seek revenge on Mal with the help of the enigmatic Yost and Lynne's sister Chris.
17) Silence
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
19) The right stuff
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton-- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.
20) The Irishman
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...