Anthony Hopkins
1) Othello
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (204 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Jealousy in love is one of the most common of human emotions. In OTHELLO, Shakespeare combines this universal theme with perfectly structured scenes, a storyline that...
2) Hannibal
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
One of Dr. Hannibal Lecter's surviving victims is poised to enact sweet revenge on the world's most feared cannibal. FBI agent Clarice Starling is brought back on the case when Lecter decides to come out of retirement to face his adversary.
3) The edge
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A model is accompanied to a photo shoot by her rich, much older husband. When their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between her jealous husband and a young photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
4) The Bounty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen, special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English butler is the perfect manservant who doesn't allow his own feelings to interfere with his duties, even when he falls in love with the housekeeper or when his father dies.
7) Alexander
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
Widescreen format; special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
"London, September 3rd, 1939. The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don, author C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode). On this...
10) The son
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
11) Howards end
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
25th anniversary 4K restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
A tragic series of events occurs when two impulsive sisters become involved with a working-class couple and a wealthy family.
12) Noah
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
A man is appointed by God to carry out a crucial mission of rescue before a calamitous flood destroys the world.
13) Armageddon time
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
14) Fracture
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 667 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Woman of substance: the story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world. Hold the dream: continues the saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula. To be...
16) Thor: Ragnarok
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English, French or Spanish dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], ©2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power....
18) Meet Joe Black
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Death appears to claim a wealthy media mogul who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with the man's daughter.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Special ed.; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer rides an improbable series of events to the Louisiana governor's mansion, where his populist policies and ruthless scheming quickly earn him some powerful enemies.
There are several differences between this film and the 1949 film adaptation. Most notably, this film occurs in Louisiana during the 1950s, whereas the 1949 film occurs in an unnamed Southern state during the Great Depression.