John Turturro
2) Slipstream
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Hired to rewrite a film, an aging screenwriter finds the lines between reality and imagination blurring as characters from his script (and others) hop off the page and into his life.
4) Rounders
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A young man who is a reformed gambler returns to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When the passengers of a subway train are taken hostage for ransom, New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber must use his vast knowledge of the subway system to try to outwit the criminal mastermind behind the crime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An ex-commando from the Israeli army decides the only way to follow his dream of becoming a hairdresser in New York is to fake his own death.
"...a laff riot."--Time Magazine
"Crude, idiotic, ridiculous - in other words, flat-out hilarious, and Sandler's funniest film in years."--Newsday
"...a surefire hit."--Hollywood Reporter
7) The night of
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
9) Five corners
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment (distributor)
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A psychotic rapist is released from prison and pursues the young woman who helped convict him.
10) Mac
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three brothers in a volatile Italian-American family struggle to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York, in the 1950s.
11) The Big Lebowski
Language
English
Description
Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians.
12) Passione
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
Italiano
Description
Watch a musical adventure that comes directly out of the people and the volcanic land they inhabit. Conjuring ancient stories and myths that still live of love, sex, jealously, and social protest, each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard.
13) The big Lebowski
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for another Lebowski who is rich and owes some thugs a lot of money. After Dude comes home one day to find that the thugs have broken in and ruined his favorite carpet, he vows to get even.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, the lives of four strangers, an innocent woman with a dangerous secret, a seductive cabaret dancer, a mysterious stranger, and an unscrupulous operatic tenor, collide on one fateful evening when secrecy is a matter of survival.
15) The Batman
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman, striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City.ÈẄith only a few trusted allies, Alfred Pennyworth, Lt. James Gordon, amongst the city's corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens. When a killer targets Gotham's elite with a series...
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
17) Fearless
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year journey that follows songwriting sensation Denise Waverly, who struggles to escape the shadow of pop-music icons and emerge a singer in her own right. In crafting the hits the whole world sings, Denise draws on her relationships with the men in her life: a brilliant but self-destructive composer, and her songwriting partner.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
20) Anger management
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Rydell. But when the doctor steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, Dave goes from mild to wild as the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc with his life.