Harvey Keitel
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While driving away his past in a beat-up old Cadillac trying to shake the memory of his wife's death, Byron picks up an eccentric on his way to Memphis. Normal enough, except that this drifter believes he is the real Elvis and that he's headed home to Gracelend. During the surreal and intense collision course that follows, this odd couple side swipes every emotion in the gamut. And after Byron unmasks a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, there's no denying...
2) The piano
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a descendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This debut feature film of Martin Scorsese is the story of a young, unemployed man who is content to hang out with his equally unambitious buddies in New York's Little Italy. Then he falls in love with a college-educated girl and is forced to look at the neighborhood and life itself in a new way.
5) Sister act
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
6) By the gun
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nick Tortano is an ambitious criminal from the streets of Boston. After years working for and idolizing Italian gangsters, he finally proves himself, but once inside the Mafia, Nick drives a wedge between him and the boss, which ends in a bloody gun battle on the streets of Boston.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is [an undercover police officer]. But which one?"--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eight year old Alice Graham dreams of becoming a singer. Twenty seven years later she spends most of her life mediating between her sullen husband and their son Tom. When her husband is killed she decides to sell up and pursue a singing career. She finds herself forced to reassess her life, her relationship with Tom, and most of all her dependence on men.
9) Red dragon
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
10) Thelma & Louise
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two women friends leave their partners for a short trip, but an unexpected incident turns them into fugitives from the law.
11) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
12) Bad lieutenant
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"He's a gambler ... a thief ... a junkie ... a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in."--Container.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
15) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
16) Fatima =: Fátima
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trial of faith unfolds at the apex of World War I, when secrets are revealed to three courageous Portuguese children through a series of apparitions, while their doubting family and aggressive government officials try to silence them.
"In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to...
17) Clockers
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 9 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine...
18) Isle of dogs
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.