Bill Paxton
1) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
2) Mean Dreams
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's the true American story of a legendary family feud, one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. It chronicles a clash of clans that inspired passion, vengeance, courage, sacrifice, crimes and accusations, while forever transforming the two families and the region where they lived.
5) The Circle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
6) Frailty
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Wesley Doyle is startled by the spontaneous declaration of youngster Fenton Meiks that Fenton’s delusion father believed he had a divine mission as avenging angel that required him and his brother Adam to become his “demon-slaying” murder accomplices. Fenton promises to provide the agent with a complete confession if he agrees to be shown the secret graves of the victims. Agent Doyle agrees, but this seemingly open-and-shut case is...
7) Predator 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Predator, a creature from a distant world who likes to hunt people for sport, is now back on earth, this time in Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
9) 2 guns
Language
English
Formats
Description
DEA agent Bobby Trench and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman are working undercover for a narcotics business. After a distorted attempt to infiltrate the drug cartel, they soon learn the secret of their dubious affiliation.
11) Weird science
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two nerdy best friends have the power to create the "perfect woman". Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's fantasy creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescences.
12) Vertical Limit
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When mountain climbers are trapped by an avalanche on 28,250 foot-high mountain K2 in Pakistan, a rescue team races against time to save them.
13) Twister
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
14) Haven
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Shy and Andrea share a secret her parents can never know: they are in love. But their love is soon discovered, prompting a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother. Meanwhile, an American businessman has fled with his daughter to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit.
15) Streets of Fire
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Amid a brooding rock & roll landscape, the Bombers motorcycle gang, led by the vicious Raven Shaddock, kidnap diva Ellen Aim. Her hope for rescue lies with unlikely heroes: Tom Cody and his sidekick, the two-fisted beer guzzling McCoy.
16) A Simple Plan
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When three men come across a downed plane with over 4 million dollars stuffed inside a duffel bag, they devise a seemingly foolproof plan to keep the money. But their scheme spirals out of control into intrigue, mistrust, and murder.
17) Nightcrawler
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
18) Tombstone
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday team up to bring law to the lawless in a showdown with ruthless outlaws at the O.K. Corral.
19) The Terminator
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A cyborg is sent to the past to kill the woman who will conceive the child destined to become the great liberator and arch-enemy of the Earth's future rulers.