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Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
1932
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all -- man.
42) A touch of class
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An affair between a married man and a divorced woman is complicated when they fall in love.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's death.
44) Seconds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, an aging banker succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into a handsome, young man, he begins a jet-set existence among a shadowy community of similar "reborns." But his heady exhilaration spirals into a heart-stopping terror as he discovers that his newly purchased life carries a terrifying price.
45) Shiri
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
Korean
Description
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Ryu and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks.
46) Kwaidan
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
日本語
Description
Four terrifying tales of the supernatural filmed with exquisite visual sensitivity. The film is filled with graceful camera movements, dream-like settings, elaborately stylized action, unusual colors, and haunting sound effects and music.
47) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur biologist escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged, the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing, erotic lust.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship.
51) American pie 2
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The guys have just finished their freshman year of college and are now ready to take on conquering the summer. After renting a summer house at the beach to live in, the guys have to take on a job in order to pay for the house and all the beer they can drink. At the end of the summer they want to have a party to beat all parties.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1993
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Empress has announced a Lion Dance martial arts contest. Wong Fei-Hung and his sidekick Chung arrive just in time. Along with his secret fiancee, Wong has to deal with a Russian diplomat and the brutal Club Foot, who has beaten up Wong's father.
53) Showtime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Mitch Preston never wanted to be anything but a cop. Same for patrolman Trey Sellars. He always wanted to be a cop ... on TV. The two now have to come together to work for a TV show. Backed by a ratings-obsessed producer and coached in the finer points of TV copdom by a veteran star, Mitch and Trey soon becom America's favorite buddy cops. A brutal crimelord must be stopped - and that's where the shrapnel hits the fan.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
Español
Description
During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
55) La bûche
Publisher
distributed by Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
Français
Description
When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test their love and their loyalties.
56) 12 Monkeys
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Cole arrives at a mental hospital, claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2035. His mission: to save humanity from a killer virus that will devastate the future world population. A beautiful psychiatrist initially classifies Cole as delusional, but she soon joins him in an effort to unravel the mystery surrounding his questionable sanity with two clues: a haunting childhood memory and a series of puzzling symbols from a group known as The...
57) The odd couple
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
58) South Pacific
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Set in the Pacific theater during World War II, this musical film explores the theme of racial prejudice in two parallel stories; that of a Navy nurse's love for a plantation owner with two Eurasian children, and a Marine lieutenant's love for a native woman.
59) Hot shots!
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel" -- a lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
60) Grand illusion
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Français
Description
In this classic tale of adventure duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.
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