Matthew McConaughey
1) U-571
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
Just as a U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are beginning to enjoy their shore leave, they are called back to active duty in order to infiltrate a Nazi U-boat and steal the their top-secret encoding device.
3) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Language
English
Formats
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
4) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
5) Sahara
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Three intrepid adventurers, including the legendary Dirk Pitt, set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
6) Frailty
Publisher
distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons".
7) Greenlights
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
10) Bernie
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede is one of the town's most beloved residents. He sings in the church choir and is always willing to lend a helping hand. He befriends an affluent widow, and she soon becomes dependent on Bernie. Later it is reported that Marjorie Nugent has been dead for some time, and Bernie Tiede is charged with the murder.
11) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Description
A young white lawyer tries to defend the vengeful father of an African American rape victim and faces dangerous racial tensions.
12) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the efforts of coach Jack Lengyel to rebuild the football program at West Virginia's Marshall University after thirty-seven team members, coaches, and others were killed in an airplane crash in November 1970.
13) The dark tower
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
14) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
15) The gentlemen
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
16) Tiptoes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Rolfe is the dwarf brother to a normal-sized Steven. When Steven's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarism gene. Matters are complicated still further when Carol finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.
17) Interstellar.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"It's a mass audience picture that's intelligent as well as epic, with a sophisticated script that's as interested in emotional moments as immersive visuals."--Los Angeles Times
"A knockout one minute, a punch-drunk crazy film the next, Interstellar is a highly stimulating mess."--Chicago Tribune
"As the rare director whose singular vision is buoyed by infinite artistic freedom, Christopher Nolan would be derelict if he didn't take gargantuan risks....
18) The sea of trees
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this powerful story of love and redemption, Arthur (Matthe McConaughey), an American professor, travels to Japan in the midst of a personal crisis. As he wanders through a mysterious forest with a dark past, he meets an enigmatic stranger (played by Ken Watanabe) who is lost and injured. The two men embark on a spiritual, life-changing journey of friendship and suvival that reconnects Arthur with his love for his wife (Noami Watts).
19) Interstellar.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
20) The gentlemen
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.