Tim Roth
1) Sundown
Author
Language
English
Description
Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this cleverly inspired twist on William Shakespeare's Hamlet, two of the outrageous supporting players take center stage for a dazzling game of illusion and reality that delivers one-of-a-kind entertainment!
4) Sundown
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an emergency disrupts a family vacation in Mexico, rising tensions erupt in this suspenseful jolt where nothing is quite as it seems.
5) Rob Roy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Rob Roy MacGregor is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. When Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life.
6) The padre
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hellbent on justice, retired US Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a small-time con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town, only to be thrown off course by a scrappy sixteen-year-old local girl intent on reuniting with her little sister in the US.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge...
8) 600 miles
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After being kidnapped by a young Mexican gunrunner, a U.S. agent must use all his skills and training to befriend his captor and avoid certain death.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago a Tsunami ravaged the coast of Thailand and hundreds of thousands lost their lives. This story follows a group of people whose lives are irrevocably transformed in the aftermath including: a young couple searching for their child; a Thai survivor who loses his family and tries to prevent developers from seizing the land his village is built on; an Englishwoman whose husband and son are missing; an ambitious reporter; a relief worker;...
10) Bergman island
Series
Criterion collection volume 1170
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences.
11) Resurrection
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
12) Dark water
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment seems to have a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings...
13) Broken
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 1
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswald in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
14) Luce
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular character's struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
15) The misfits
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A band of modern-day Robin Hoods recruits a renowned thief to help steal millions in gold bars stashed underneath one of the world's most secure prisons.
16) Reservoir dogs
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.
17) 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.
18) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's England. In this film, unemployment is rampant in London's working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, the grinding boredom of their daily existence is punctuated...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers come...
20) Mr. Right
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A girl falls for the perfect guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.