Phillip Noyce
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
5) Sliver
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Unrated.
Language
English
Description
A lonely book editor moves into one of Manhattan's tooth-pick thin buildings where she has a fling with her handsome neighbor who owns the building. He has installed video cameras in every unit that reveal many secrets.
6) Dead calm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Standard and widescreen versions
Language
English
Description
John and Rae Ingram rescue the only surviving crew member of a crippled schooner, only to find themselves the targets of a deranged killer.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
8) The saint
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A super-thief is hired by Russians to steal the formula for cold fusion so that Russia can return as a world power. Includes trailer, and commentary.
9) Salt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2010
Edition
Theatrical edition.
Language
English
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
10) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
11) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
12) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[English/Spanish subtitled version].
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.