Shelley Winters
1) The Visitor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An intergalactic warrior is in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. THE VISITOR fuses elements of The Omen, Rosemary's Baby and even Star Wars creating the greatest of all '70s mindwarps.
Language
English
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Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Frank Pierson's energetic and ambitious film KING OF THE GYPSIES is a fascinating saga of three generations of a violent Romani family. Eric Roberts makes an impressive screen debut as Dave, grandson of the aging King Zharko, who is chosen by him to lead the clan at his death. Dave's only inclination is to join the American mainstream, but he knows that the mantle of Romani power cannot be taken lightly or denied. Based on the best-selling non-fiction...
4) The Tenant
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller THE TENANT. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors — mostly old recluses — eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
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Language
English
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Description
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
6) Alfie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
7) Elvis
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Realistic portrayal of Elvis from his beginnings as a 35-dollar-a-week truck driver to one of the most popular music and film stars the world has ever seen.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook has endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel. They spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic.
9) Alfie
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Meet Alfie. He's the ultimate ladykiller, yet rarely emotionally attached. All of that changes when he has a series of reversals that turn his life upside down.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Frosty the snowman: Frosty comes to life and his friends build him a snowwife. The snowpeople fall in love and prepare for a lavish wedding celebration. But the evil Jack Frost freezes Frosty lifeless. Only a special warm kiss placed onto Frosty's cold cheek and the words "I love you" can bring him back to life. 'Twas the night before Christmas: Albert Mouse calls Christmas "a fraudulent myth" and intercepts letters to Santa Claus.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
14) The scalphunters
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When trapper Joe Bass is bush-wacked by Indians who steal his furs he's determined to get his property back. They left a runaway slave with him in exchange. When the Indians are attacked by outlaws, Joe and the slave must join forces to retrieve the furs.
15) Winchester '73
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
17) Saskatchewan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While returning from outpost duty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector O'Roarke happens upon Grace Markey, the sole survivor of a vicious Indian attack. Upon hearing her story, the naive Mounty Commander Benton believes the Cree are on the war path, not realising the Sioux have set up the confrontation in order to gain allies against the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Only O'Roarke knows the truth and must mutiny in order to save his men and the woman he has...
18) Harper
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
19) A double life
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A great actor who has the ability to "become" his characters gets a little more than he bargained for when he takes on the role of Othello.