Frances McDormand
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but not very bright, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. Events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
4) Darkman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Dr. Peyton Westlake, on the verge of a synthetic skin breakthrough, is horribly disfigured when a sadistic criminal destroys his lab.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The four-part drama tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.
"...a masterpiece."--Globe and Mail
"...a magnificant TV miniseries."--Boston Globe
"...one of the best explorations of clinical...
7) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A persistent, pregnant police chief tries to solve the disappearance of a wife and mother from Fargo.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation...
10) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
11) Crimewave
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Having been recently fired, Miss Pettigrew takes a job looking after high society singer and actress Delysia Lafosse, and in one day, she helps the young woman realize that love is more important than being with someone who can help her career.
13) City by the sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
When a respected NYPD homicide detective finds the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son, he is forced to return home to the decaying boardwalks of Long Island to confront the darkness of his past.
14) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mama's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
19) Promised land
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
20) Nomadland
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.