Melanie Griffith
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English
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A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable--one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search...
2) Smile
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
4) Working girl
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and charm to make it big. All she needs is the right haircut, clothes and job. The opportunity arises when her classy, seductive and treacherous boss breaks a leg skiing. Tess steps into her job, her apartment and her clothes, and all sorts of witty and romantic things follow!
5) RKO 281
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Stuart Little is back for more action-packed adventure. This time around Stuart and the reluctant Snowbell embark on a dangerous mission to rescue Stuart's new friend Margalo from a villainous falcon. But the journey proves more difficult than he ever imagines, and Stuart has to decide if he's up to the task.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room....
8) Roar
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
While a father is fighting to preserve his family and his dream, a mother and her three children must struggle to survive in a world suddenly gone crazy with cats ... big cats.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Buffalo girls: Calamity Jane searches the Wild West for her estranged daughter. While on this quest she meets Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Wild Bill Hickok. True women: Follow three women in the American wild west as they fight to survive and preserve their family in the tough times of war, hostile indians, and renegade soldiers.
10) Tippi
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English
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For decades, Tippi Hedren's luminous beauty enchanted moviegoers and cemented her among Hollywood's elite. From Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to Roar, one of the most controversial movies ever made, Tippi Hedren has had few dull moments, and though stories about her have spread through gossip and tabloid headlines, she has never told the full tale of her astonishing life until now. Here, she details her rise from humble beginnings in Depression-era...
13) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Language
English
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Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
14) Nobody's fool
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman earned an Oscar® nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son - and grandson - drop into his life. Melanie Griffith and Jessica Tandy are among the talented costars of this engaging film honored...
16) Body double
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A house-sitting actor finds himself obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. When she is brutally murdered, he engages the unwitting key to the crime, porn queen Holly Body, to help him catch the killer.
18) Shining through
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A secretary ends up behind the lines as a secret agent during World War II.
20) Shining through
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A secretary ends up behind the lines as a secret agent during World War II.
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