Richard Donner
3) Maverick
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
4) Radio flyer
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother marries a child abuser, Mike decides to help Bobby escape by turning their Radio Flyer wagon into a magic rocket ship that will carry Bobby to safety.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles police sergeants Murtaugh and Riggs are working on drug related case. After a chase and car crash, the two find one million dollars worth of South African krugerands. Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to keep an eye on Leo Getz, who is scheduled to testify in a drug case. The South African drug smugglers, led by Arjen Rudd, the minister of diplomatic affairs, doesn't want Leo to testify. Rudd turns out to be the man that Riggs and Murtaugh...
6) The goonies
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
7) Timeline
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357 ... from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lethal weapon: The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
Lethal weapon 2: Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
Lethal weapon 3: Further action by...
10) The lost boys
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young teen thinks his town of Santa Cruz is infested with vampires, and becomes convinced of it when his own brother starts turning into one.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond escaped from Hungary in 1956 and immigrated to the United States to toil in the underbelly of Hollywood. Suddenly, after ten years, Laszlo’s camera broke the rules of cinema with *Easy Rider* and Vilmos poured “poetic realism” into *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*, ushering a new wave of American cinema. Combined with interviews from some of Hollywood's biggest names including: Sandra Bullock, Peter Fonda, Denis Hopper...
13) 16 blocks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burned-out detective who is assigned the task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
One of television's most popular series, offers a gritty, unflinching look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage. The collection includes all 31 episodes from the fourth season of this groundbreaking, classic TV series.
15) Cursed films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A five-part documentary series which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood's notoriously 'cursed' horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary among film fans and filmmakers alike. Were these films really cursed, as many believe, or just the victims of bad luck and bizarre circumstances?
16) Lethal weapon 3
Pub. Date
[1998], c1992
Language
English
Description
Murtagh is days away from retirement, and is relectant to get involved with his partner's schemes.
17) Maverick
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poker tournament attracts gamblers of all kinds, including the legendary Maverick, that is if he can avoid the noose, outlaws, snakes & a runaway stage to get there.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Man of Steel believed his home planet of Krypton was obliterated, yet there seems to be one other survivor, a small boy who is sent rocketing to Earth. Close behind him is General Zod, who is on the warpath to seize the boy back as his own...Nemeses abound as Superman must also face down Krypton's foe, the one true Brainiac. Aboard his ship, the Coluan alien hoards former worlds, shrunken down in size, in an attempt to strip the universe clean...
19) Scrooged
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor-perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver...
20) The omen
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the Biblical prophecy of the warning which will foretell the coming of Armageddon. The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil will begin with the birth of the son of Satan, in human form.