John Schlesinger
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
3) Billy Liar
Series
Criterion collection ; 121
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
4) Marathon man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
8) The innocent
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dangerous espionage mission turns deadly when an aggressive CIA agent discovers that his young partner has become involved with a mysterious seductress.
9) Billy liar
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname Billy Liar. Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents' house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, this is a dazzling and uproarious classic, beautifully shot...
10) Yanks
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This beautifully filmed drama follows three American soldiers stationed in England during WWII and the relationships that they form with three local women: Jean, Helen, and Mollie. The relationships that blossom would affect their lives forever.
12) Darling
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising...
13) The believers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"A widower and his son move to New York City and become involved with a cultish religion which believes in the sacrifice of children." --
14) Midnight cowboy
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Two small-time hustlers have a powerful friendship that transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams." --
16) Pacific Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Psychological thriller about two homeowners battling a pathological tenant. Protected by complex eviction laws, this sadistic schemer soon has the couple fighting to save their home and then their lives.
18) Eye for an eye
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Karen McCann's orderly life is shattered when a stranger breaks into her home and murders her 17-year-old daughter. But shock and grief turn into rage and disbelief when the killer is released on a legal technicality. When he commits another murder--and is set free once again-- Karen is determined to make him pay for his crimes. Alienating her husband and her friends, Karen quietly and methodically devises a deadly plan for retribution.
