Miguel Sandoval
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the life story of Allison DuBois, a woman who can communicate with the dead, but for most of her life she viewed this gift as a curse. Allison finally submits to her calling when she realizes she can do more good as a medium than as a lawyer.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Language
English
Description
An anthology of 5 loosely connected and interwoven stories showing how women deal with the variety of problems that each faces in her life. A doctor looking after her invalid mother who realizes that her own life is passing her by. A wealthy bank manager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a workaholic boyfriend, and a street woman who dispenses advice that hits too close to the truth. A single mother debating starting a relationship with the dwarf...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Allison Dubois works in the Phoenix District Attorney's office. She uses her psychic abilities to help crack criminal cases. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people and by touching someone she often gets to see beneath the facade into the person's soul. Allison juggles her job with her role as wife and mother, including a daughter who seems to be developing similar powers.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
7) Panic
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Psychic Allison Dubois is a Phoenix wife and mother who struggles to make sense of her dreams. This season, Allison's world is turned upside down when her abilities are revealed to the public. Her boss, Manuel Devalos, is ousted from office, and detective Lee Scanlon won't return her calls. But as she and husband Joe--also newly unemployed--struggle to survive and care for toddler Marie and eldest daughters Ariel and Bridgette, Allison knows one thing--...
9) Get Shorty
Series
Shout select volume 51
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. Bonus features included.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Research medium Allison Dubois is a young wife and mother who uses her visions to help the Phoenix District Attorney's office. Other forces threaten her husband Joe and oldest daughters Ariel and Bridgette. She can not refuse to listen to the dead when they call out to her in her dreams.
11) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.
Publisher
Distributed by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
For Love or Country is a biopic about Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. It explores his life as an adult, when he becomes increasingly dissatisfied with Fidel Castro's constraints on his music and the politics of a "Revolution" that declares his real musical love, American jazz, illegal. The film does not concern itself with every nuance of Cuban politics, but is about Sandoval's struggles to remain true to his country, which he loves with a passion,...
13) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan₂s domestic...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Allison and her family's world is turned upside down after her abilities to talk to dead people, see into the future, and read people's thoughts are publicly exposed. The results cause major changes in both her professional and personal life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Super-operatives Ecks and Sever both want their hands on a newly developed, micro-robotic assassination device. If they both survive their personal wars, the two foes are destined to become allies who take on the shadowy forces that are pitting them against each other.
16) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan's domestic...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia.
18) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
19) Tortilla heaven
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A miracle appears on a tortilla at a local restaurant in a tiny town in New Mexico, turning the lives of the residents upside down when people flock to the town in order to see it.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
The hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius...