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Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operato
Genres: | Thriller, Crime, Drama |
Production Companies: | Paramount, Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Closest to the Hole Productions, Leverage |
Publication Date: | December 25, 2014 |
Budget: | $25,000,000 |
Runtime: | 111 |
Tagline: | The only way out is all in |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (678) |
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Publisher: | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
Genres: | Romance, Drama |
Production Companies: | Focus Features, BBC Films |
Publication Date: | October 17, 2003 |
Budget: | $7,000,000 |
Runtime: | 109 |
Tagline: | Life was too small to contain her... |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (51) |
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Genres: | Fantasy, Comedy |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Lucamar Productions |
Publication Date: | December 25, 2014 |
Budget: | $50,000,000 |
Runtime: | 125 |
Tagline: | Be careful what you wish for... |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (2431) |
Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, a
Publisher: | The Criterion Collection |
Genres: | Drama, Action, Romance, Thriller |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Orion Pictures, Breathless Associates, Miko Productions |
Publication Date: | May 13, 1983 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 100 |
Tagline: | He's the last man on earth any woman needs - but every woman wants... |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (87) |
Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, a
Genres: | Drama, Action, Romance, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Orion Pictures, Breathless Associates, Miko Productions |
Publication Date: | May 13, 1983 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 100 |
Tagline: | He's the last man on earth any woman needs - but every woman wants... |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (87) |
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one o
Genres: | Thriller, Crime, Drama |
Publication Date: | August 15, 2014 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 91 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (35) |
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Maj
Genres: | Action, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions |
Publication Date: | February 14, 1986 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 125 |
Tagline: | They don't negotiate with terrorists... they blow them away! |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (129) |
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival a
Genres: | Action, Drama, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Universal Pictures, The Filmakers Group |
Publication Date: | November 15, 1974 |
Budget: | $7,000,000 |
Runtime: | 123 |
Tagline: | When the big one finally hits L.A. |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (112) |
God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Genres: | Fantasy, Comedy, Family |
Production Companies: | Playtone, Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media, Shady Acres Entertainment, Original Film, Columbia Pictures |
Publication Date: | June 9, 2007 |
Budget: | $175,000,000 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | A comedy of biblical proportions |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (1867) |
Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox |
Rating: | PG |
Genres: | Comedy, Family |
Production Companies: | All Lit Up Productions, Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Corduroy Films |
Publication Date: | November 22, 2006 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 93 |
Tagline: | There glows the neighborhood |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (188) |
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped
Publisher: | Millennium Entertainment |
Genres: | Art House, Comedy |
Production Companies: | Gilbert Films |
Publication Date: | September 7, 2013 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 114 |
Tagline: | Friendship... there's nothing in it for anybody. |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (140) |
Wile E. is stalking Bugs this time, but with no more success than he has against the roadrunner.
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Animation |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | June 4, 1960 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 7 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) liberate Mexican p
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western |
Production Companies: | The Mirisch Production Company, The Mirisch Corporation |
Publication Date: | July 14, 1969 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 105 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 4.8 / 10 (25) |
'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.' S
Publisher: | Bullfrog Films |
Genres: | Documentary, History |
Publication Date: | September 3, 2010 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 60 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 4.4 / 10 (4) |
Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial.
Publisher: | Grapevine Video |
Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Adventure |
Production Companies: | Selig Polyscope Company |
Publication Date: | June 5, 1920 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 52 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 3 / 10 (1) |
Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970's. Filmed during the making of "Philip Guston: A Life Lived."
Publication Date: | January 1, 2010 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 46 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
John Carpenter's Halloween scared the living daylights out of 25 million people and set a precedent in smashing box office records for a horror film. But the nightmare is just beginning... Picking up precisely where its predecessor left off, Halloween II
Publisher: | The Weinstein Company |
Genre: | Horror |
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genre: | Adventure |
Publisher: | Fox |
Genre: | Comedy |
Rating: | PG |
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genre: | Children's Cinema |
<![CDATA[<p>Coming To America (DVD)</p><p>Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Murphy's regal father (James Earl Jones) agrees t
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genre: | Comedy |
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genre: | Drama - Romantic |
Publisher: | Screen Gems |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lu
Publisher: | Columbia Pictures |
Genre: | Comedy |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Publisher: | MGM |
Genre: | Comedy |
Rating: | PG |
One of the great figures of the 1950s, described as the "cowboy" from Wyoming, the "James Dean of the art world" he was the first American artist to be equated with European masters of the 20th century.
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey continues the exploration of the remarkable mysteries of the cosmos and our place within it. Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, this thrilling, 13-part adventure will transport you across the universe of
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox |
Rating: | Unrated |
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena
Publisher: | Columbia Pictures |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG |
When Barbet Schroeder (More, General Idi Amin Dada, Single White Female) began work on the movie Barfly, he had no idea that it would be such a struggle. During the seven years it took him to complete the film, he turned his cameras on its screenwriter, p
Publisher: | Barrel |
Genre: | Romance |
Rating: | NR |
THE BEATLES' STORY AS TOLD BY THE BEATLES THEMSELVES. THE ORIGINAL 8 VHS TAPE SET SPANS 4 DVDS AND THE 5TH DISC CONTAINS PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN MATERIAL EXCLUSIVE TO THIS DVD PACKAGE.
Publisher: | Capitol |
Rating: | NR |
Publisher: | Columbia Pictures |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG-13 |
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publisher: | Buenavida Producciones S.L |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Publisher: | Comedy Central |
Genre: | Comedy |
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen. An American prizefighter moves to Ireland to become a peaceful man-only to face constant turmoil. 1952/color/153 min/NR/fullscreen.
Publisher: | Republic Pictures |
Rating: | NR (Not Rated) |
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genre: | Science Fiction |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genre: | Family Cinema |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genre: | Action |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genre: | Action |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |