Jared Leto
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe 'Deke' Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track the killer, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's...
3) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
4) SwitchBack
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is on the loose and he's kidnapped the son of the FBI agent pursuing him. But who is the killer? Where is the child hidden?
5) Fight club
Series
Language
English
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in Coney Island, this is the story of Sara, a lonely widowed mother who becomes addicted to amphetamines prescribed for weight loss by a sleazy doctor; her heroin-addicted son Harry ; his best friend Tyrone; and Harry's girlfriend Marion, a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father.
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Requiem for a Dream: Four human beings hold on so tightly to their dreams that when things fall apart, so do they. Pi: Cohen is attempting to decode the numerical pattern beneath the ultimate system of ordered chaos - the stock market.
10) Morbius
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most compelling and conflicted characters--the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius--comes to the big screen! Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil -- or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?" --
11) Chapter 27
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On a raw, cold evening in early December of 1980, Mark David Chapman, a disturbed drifter from Hawaii, met ex-Beatle John Lennon. Moments later, the entire world was shocked senseless.... Based on chilling true events, an unhinged and angry man whose descent into madness led him to commit one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century. It is a psychological portrait like no other that will leave you stunned long after its nerve-shattering...
12) Lonely hearts
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and...
13) Summer fling
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
A crowd pleasing comedy which shows that growing up in one offbeat family isn't always easy, but it is always funny. It's June, and Frankie is sure he's blown his exams and his one chance at getting into college. He thus pursues this summer's major goals: planning the ultimate beach party and getting better acquainted with the babes on the beach.
14) House of Gucci
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder." --
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Requiem for a dream: Harry and his best friend, Tyrone, are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY. Harry's girlfriend, Marion, is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry's mother, Sara, spends her days watching television and wants to lose weight to go on a game show. She visits a sleazy doctor who prescribes her amphetamines and soon Sara has a drug habit of her own.
[Pi]: A brilliant mathematician...
16) House of Gucci
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dramatized story about the family behind the Italian fashion house, who find their legacy beginning to unravel after Patrizia Reggiani marries into the family, with her ambition leading to betrayal and murder."--
17) Fight club
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
18) American psycho
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder." --
19) Panic room
Language
English
Description
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
20) Mr. Nobody
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The life story of Nemo Nobody, a 118 year-old man who is the last mortal on Earth after the human race has achieved quasi-immortality. On his deathbed, Nemo shares his life story with a reporter and reviews the choices he made along the way. Yet even with his last breath, a pivotal decision awaits to conclude his destiny.