Richard Gere
Author
Language
English
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
2) Arbitrage
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Miller is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all: money, power, a loving wife, and a devoted daughter working by his side. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is running on borrowed time, trying to unload his crippled trading company before his frauds are revealed. A deadly error throws Miller's life into a tailspin, raising the suspicions of a detective and threatening the future of his financial empire.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
5) Chicago
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
6) The dinner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
7) Red corner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Moore is an American attorney having talks in Bejing about founding the first satellite TV joint venture. Suddenly he is arrested, accused of murder and has to prove it was a frame-up together with his court-appointed attorney Shen Yuelin.
8) Unfaithful
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
9) Primal fear
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
10) The flock
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Erroll Babbage has spent his career tracking sex offenders, and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl, he and his new partner must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.
11) Shall we dance?
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
12) Sommersby
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
13) Pretty woman
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When successful corporate mogul Edward Lewis meets independent and carefree Vivian Ward, their two lives are worlds apart. But her energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense, business-minded approach to life, sparking an immediate attraction. He teaches her the finer things of life; she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made.
14) Amelia
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kansas-born girl Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor by her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...
15) Pretty woman
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills...and then falls for her.
16) Strike force
Pub. Date
1997, 1975
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A streetwise New York detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust a narcotics case involving the Mafia.
17) First knight
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sir Malagant declares war on King Arthur in hopes of gaining part of Camelot. In the meantime, Arthur's young bride, Guenivere, has fallen in love with Lancelot, one of Arthur's loyal knights.
18) The Jackal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
20) Runaway bride
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely love story developes when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.