Paul Schrader
1) The walker
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers fro her, Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear...
2) Taxi driver
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
4) Touch
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emerging from years of seclusion, Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) goes to work in an L.A. clinic ... and casually begins healing the sick with just a touch of his hands. He doesn't think it's a big deal, but the hustlers who find out about his talents want to turn him into a superstar. But when he meets an attractive woman (Fonda), he no longer feels like touching anyone else but her.
5) Raging bull
Language
English
Description
Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary parish pastor at a small church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. The church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented...
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protege uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
10) Dog eat dog
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, are hired for a kidnapping. When the abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control, the cons find themselves on the run, vowing to stay out of prison at all costs.
11) Raging Bull
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta. Includes bonus features.