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Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1898.
Language
English
Description
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, The Gardener, Arrival of a Train at La Ciot Station and many more are on display in Lumiere's First Picture Show; a collection of firsts from the filmakers that started a business of film production, exhibition and distribution. The acknowledged birth of film history was December 28, 1895 when the first paying audience gathered at the Grand Cafe on Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, for a performance of films on the...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Noted by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as one of his top ten favorite films of all time, this masterpiece from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog is an unforgettable portrait of madness and power. In the mid-16th century, after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro (Allejandro Repulles) leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are dark days coming, and the only way to survive them is by being rich. Made during the re-election year of Ronald Reagan, the election year of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the very beginnings of the shattering saving and loan scandal that would come to look like candy store shoplifting a generation on, Ron Mann's rare early non-documentary...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
A woman who has never had much trouble choosing between love or money tries to teach a man the tricks of the trade in this sly romantic comedy. Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an attractive thirtysomething woman who lives a comfortable life by taking up with older and very wealthy men. She meets Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a handsome bartender who works a variety of odd jobs to keep himself afloat. She ends up enjoying a romantic evening with Jean, that is until...
45) Lost highway
Publisher
Seville
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks, a man in black who threatens to expose him, a young mechanic with links to a mobster, and the mobster's moll are all riders on the lost highway, trapped in their worlds of desire, destiny and unknown destination.
46) Wild at heart
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two young lovers are on the run from her nasty mother.
47) American beauty
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
A biting, penetrating and often humorous look at contemporary life in suburban America. When midlife crisis hits, Lester Burnham's fascination with a young girl spurs him to make some major changes in his life.
48) Saboteur
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Wartime thriller about a Los Angles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.
50) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy (Warnock), they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoelon (Holm), Robinhood (Cleese), Agamemnon (Connery), and others.
51) Rush hour
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Jackie Chan is Inspector Lee, a Hong Kong Detective who helps confiscate millions of dollars worth of stolen Chinese artifacts from crime Lord Juntao. Seeking revenge, Juntao kidnaps the eleven year old daughter of the Chinese consul when he moves to America. Chan is sent as a diplomatic advisor and finds himself paired up with a New York cop (Chris Tucker) - a man who works alone, and wants to stay that way.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This supplementary collection of films by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès presents 28 films that have been recovered. Many of these films that have not previously appeared on home video, and have been mastered in high-definition yielding excellent results. The source prints themselves range from good to excellent, with two films presented in their fragmentary survival state.
53) Dead & buried
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed, then brutally murdered. But even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal, friendly citizens around town. Now the local sheriff and an eccentric mortician must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well and no one is ever really dead...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him. Through all the road-blocks, he impresses not only Suzanne, but himself also.
55) Edison album
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The landmark first "peep-show" films that dazzled the viewers of the Kinetoscope were created by Thomas A. Edison and W.K.L. Dickson, and continue to be known as the first revelation of what film would become. Inventor Thomas A. Edison and William. K. L. Dickson, his principal associate, began work on the motion picture project in 1891. In 1894, they began to exhibit films commercially in the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device. Theatrical projection...
56) Annie Hall
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Story of Alvy Singer (Allen) and the humorous and diverse relationships he has with women. Keaton stars as Annie Hall, Alvy's principal romantic interest.
57) Sixteen candles
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
It's Samantha Baker's sweet sixteen birthday and no one in her family remembers the occasion. She's a typical teen, enduring creepy freshman, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the Big Blonde on campus who stands between her and the boy of her dreams.
58) What about Bob?
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Murray plays a therapy patient who won't leave his therapist alone, even when the therapist goes on vacation.
59) Jeremiah Johnson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A man seeks out the solitary life of the mountains in the mid-19th century, learning his skills from a veteran.
60) The Mexican
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Jerry has one more "job" to do before he can commit himself to Samantha.
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