Penelope Ann Miller
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Sprung from prison on a legal technicality, former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante stuns the local underworld when he vows to go straight. Taking a job managing a glitzy, low-life nightclub, he tracks down his onetime girlfriend and rekindles their romance, promising he's changed for good. But Carlito's dream of going legitimate is undermined at every turn by murderous former cronies and even deadlier young thugs out to make a name for themselves. Ultimately,...
3) The Artist
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
George Valentin is a silent movie superstar who is losing his job and Peppy Miller is a young extra who has many prospects in her career.
5) Funny money
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Description
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does.
6) ADVERSE
Pub. Date
2021
Description
A rideshare driver discovers that his sister is in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate.
9) Dead-Bang
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck (Don Johnson) searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is...
10) Flipped
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A coming-of-age romantic comedy that follows eighth graders Bryce and Juli, who start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites.
When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure. Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the...
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
"It takes a condition that we have all thought about historically, politically and even dramatically and makes us actually feel it and live it. That's a serious achievement."--San Francisco...
12) Ruby Bridges
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
14) Carlito's way
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A drug kingpin gets out of prison and tries to go straight but the forces of his former life draw him back into it.
15) Kindergarten Cop
Pub. Date
1998, c1990
Description
A veteran detective is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to trap an elusive criminal.
17) Awakenings
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Based on a true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he saves.
18) Chaplin
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972. Includes featurettes and a home movie.
19) The Shadow
Pub. Date
1998
Description
In New York City in the 1930s, The Shadow takes on his nemesis Shiwan Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, who tries to control the world by threatening detonation of an atomic bomb.
