Frank Langella
Author
Language
English
Description
Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street...
Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes...
2) The Caller
Author
Language
English
Description
A corporate executive conceals his identity while hiring a detective to surveil a man he labels a ruthless killer. But when the shocking truth is revealed, the man he's trailing is also his client, a web of suspenseful intrigue unfolds.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
5) Dave
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to impersonate the ailing president.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2009, c1970
Language
English
Description
Set in Russia in 1927 this is the tale of a former aristocrat now reduced to the statues of a clerk by the Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune in jewels into a dining room chair, he sets off across Russia to find the chair -- pursued by an opportunist, a priest, and his former servant.
10) 5 to 7
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young Manhattan writer (Anton Yelchin) starts a passionate love affair with a glamorous, married French woman in this sexy romance. Co-stars Glenn Close and Frank Langella.
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them. Nominated for Best...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
13) Lolita
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by] Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1998
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man marries an oppressive widow in order to be near and carry on an affair with her nymphet daughter.
14) Unknown
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Harris plunges into a deadly mystery, forcing him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
18) Sweet November
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An all-business San Francisco ad executive falls into an improbable, life-altering romance with a bohemian, free-spirited woman with a secret, who usually discards her new beaus after a month.
19) True Identity
Author
Language
English
Description
The world may be a stage, but for Miles Pope, a struggling black actor in New York, life is one discouraging audition after another. Determined to maintain his artistic and racial integrity, Miles is above accepting the stereotypical roles he's invariably offered. Suddenly, it looks like the curtain may come down on his life before it ever goes up on his career -- flying home from another failed acting assignment his plane begins to crash. In...
20) The Time Being
Author
Language
English
Description
A young artist (Wes Bentley: The Hunger Games, American Beauty) accepts a series of mysterious assignments from a reclusive millionaire (Frank Langella: Frost/Nixon) hiding a lifetime of family secrets.