Barry Levinson
4) Avalon
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
6) Disclosure
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When an executive in a large company resists the advances of his new boss who is also a former love, she charges him with sexual harassment. Suddenly his marriage and his career are at risk, and his struggle to extricate himself leads to the exposure of an executive conspiracy.
8) Rain man
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience ... and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what begins as an unsentimental journey...
9) Tin men
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two less-than-honest aluminum siding salesmen meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendetta against each other's symbols of success--their prized Cadillacs.
10) Toys
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When his army general uncle takes over Zevo Toys, toy designer Leslie Zevo's whimsical, carefree world changes overnight, and he must find a way to save the company and grow up without losing his playful spirit.
11) Bugsy
Series
Language
English
Description
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a ruthless mobster who had it all, and then met a woman who wanted more. Their love affair was passionate, tempestuous and ultimately tragic.
12) The bay
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009, a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told, until now. The authorities believe they have buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing both the cover-up...
13) Liberty Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
14) Rock the Kasbah
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A music manager is on tour in Afghanistan when he discovers a talented teenager. He convinces the young girl to compete on the television show, Afghan Star.
15) Suspicion
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Johnnie Aysgarth appears to be the perfect gentleman and a very wealthy and eligible bachelor. Bu the truth is very different. Little does American Linda Mclaidlaw realize how different until the couple are married following a whirlwind affair. She discovers that far from being rich, Johnnie is a compulsive liar and gambler. Unable to keep a job and unwilling to give up gambling, Johnnie develops a bizarre fascination for murder.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Looks at Muhammad Ali's historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land. This HBO movie is a look at Muhammad Ali's historic Supreme Court battle for Conscientious Objector status to the Vietnam War, and a...
17) Rain man
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A young self-centered con-man learns how to love from the autistic savant brother whose skills he had intended to use in Las Vegas."--
19) The humbling
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Over-the-hill stage actor Simon Axler struggles to find his passion for life again. Near his breaking point, he finds motivation in the form of a young and lustful lesbian Pegeen Stapleford, but as their relationship heats up Simon has a hard time keeping up with the youthful Pegeen.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar is shattered when he meets a mysterious woman, but years later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant; a washed-up ballplayer becomes coach to one of the All-American Girls Baseball league teams in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the enthusiasm of the sport; tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find...