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Extensive Collection of Films POS Dept. Video Library Page 1 [Last updated April 2013] he'll only bail Tony out if he marries a sensible woman. The trouble is, Tony isn't the sensible type -- until he meets Eloise 12 ANGRY MEN. 1957. DVD (Eleanor Parker). This classic comedy from NR Frank Capra features the Oscar-winning Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means song "High Hopes." death, a jury of 12 men (including Jack Warden and Jack Klugman) must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally A PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1984. BLU RAY stabbing his father. But only one juror PG (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time to Adventurous young Englishwoman Adela coolly deliberate the case. Sidney Lumet Quested (Judy Davis) journeys to colonial (Network) made his directorial debut with India with open-minded Mrs. Moore (Peggy this Oscar-nominated drama that illuminates Ashcroft). Ignoring English customs, the all the petty impediments on the path to women accompany a "native" named Dr. justice. Aziz on a tour of the Marabar Caves. The excursion turns ugly, however, when Adela emerges from the caves accusing Aziz of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. 1971. BLU RAY rape. British authorities urge Adela to press R charges, but the truth isn't as obvious as the In this Stanley Kubrick classic based on government believes it to be. Anthony Burgess's novel, teenage miscreant Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) wanders aimlessly amid a bleak, futuristic urban A SEPARATION. 2011. DVD landscape, drinking drugged milk and PG-13 listening to Beethoven with his fellow An Iranian husband and wife split up over "droogs." But he also spends his time his decision to stay and care for his aging stealing, raping and beating innocent people father instead of leaving the country with his in nihilistic orgies of violence, all in an family. But his fateful choice to hire a attempt to get his nightly kicks. stranger to do most of the caretaking breeds unexpected consequences. A FACE IN THE CROWD. 1957. DVD NR Elia Kazan's masterpiece proves that ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS. 1940. DVD celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes ABRAHAM AND MARY LINCOLN: A (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, HOUSE DIVIDED. 2001. DVD he gets a taste of the good life. But his NR hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with An unlikely couple, Abraham Lincoln and famous people such as Burl Ives and Mary Todd came from vastly different Bennett Cerf (who play themselves), turns backgrounds -- he the son of a dirt farmer, desperate, and he loses sight of who he is she the daughter of wealthy slave owners. and what he's truly about. This dual biography tells both of their stories. From their childhoods to their marriage, to their years in the White House, A HOLE IN THE HEAD. 1959. DVD [FILED this profile touches on their differences of UNDER "THE FRANK SINATRA opinion on the Civil War, their marital ups COLLECTION] and downs and Mary's fragile state of mind NR after Lincoln's assassination. Tony (Frank Sinatra) is trying to keep his failing Miami hotel afloat while raising his 12- year-old son (Eddie Hodges). As a last ABSOLUTE POWER. 1996. DVD resort, he's forced to ask his harried brother, R Mario (Edward G. Robinson), for help, but POS Dept. Video Library Page 2 Cat burglar Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) Dixiecrat determined to sink the finds himself in the president's doghouse appointment. when he spies the chief executive (Gene Hackman) trysting with a trophy wife. When their rough romancing turns lethal, efforts to AIR FORCE ONE. 1997. BLU RAY cover up the scandalous situation spiral R violently out of control. Now, Luther must Harrison Ford stars in this high-stakes survive a desperate pursuit from the back thriller set in the skies aboard Air Force One, streets of the nation's capital to the halls of in which Russian terrorists (led by Gary power. Eastwood also directed this riveting Oldman) conspire to hijack the aircraft with crime thriller. the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the THE ACCUSED. 1988. DVD terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk R everything to uphold his principles -- and the Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her portrayal integrity of the nation. Glenn Close co-stars. of Sarah Tobias in this fact-based drama. After being raped by three men in a local bar, Sarah, enraged at the light sentence AJAMI. 2009. DVD her attackers receive, persuades attorney NR Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) to press When their uncle wounds an important clan charges against the men who cheered on member, 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) the attack. But it won't be easy: Sarah has a and his older brother, Omar (Shahir shady past that could be used against her in Kabaha), fear he has put their whole family court. in terrible danger in this moving, Oscar- nominated drama set on the West Bank. A truce is arranged, but Omar must start ADAM'S RIB. 1949. DVD selling drugs to pay the fine he now owes. NR Meanwhile, a number of other locals Successful attorney Amanda Bonner struggle to negotiate the political and social (Katharine Hepburn) decides to defend tinderbox of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood. Doris (Judy Holliday), who stands accused of the attempted murder of her husband ALEXANDRIA. .WHY? 1978. DVD (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen), NR while Bonner's lawyer husband, Adam Living in Egypt during the chaos of World (Spencer Tracy), signs on as the War II, teenager Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) prosecuting attorney. The sensational trial often escapes into the glamour of movies, that ensues finds them sitting at opposing dreaming of telling his own stories in sides of the courtroom -- and the dinner Hollywood. But as he falls in love with a table. George Cukor directs this Oscar- local girl and learns more about the Nazi nominated comedy. atrocities occurring across Europe, Yehia finds it increasingly difficult to hide. This first film in Youssef Chahine's "Alexandria" ADVISE & CONSENT. 1962. DVD trilogy follows numerous characters in NR intertwined stories. Henry Fonda stars as Robert Leffingwell, the president's hand-picked candidate for secretary of state, in Otto Preminger's ALL THE KING'S MEN. 1949. DVD examination of party politics and NR Washington wheelings and dealings. But Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) is a model Leffingwell is hardly a shoe-in. A Senate politician -- until he's corrupted by the very committee has been assigned to investigate system he tries to reform. Based on the the nominee's past, dredging up dirt and cautionary Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All brewing a storm of scandal. Charles the King's Men was nominated for seven Laughton provides a memorable turn as the Academy Awards; it won Best Picture, as well as Best Actor and Actress for stars POS Dept. Video Library Page 3 Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (later midlife crisis and becomes infatuated with the voice of the possessed Regan in The one of his daughter's friends (Mena Suvari). Exorcist). Director Sam Mendes dazzles with this arresting blend of social satire and domestic ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. 1976. DVD tragedy that scooped up five Oscars, PG including acting honors for Spacey. The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President's Men chronicles how the work of AMERICAN DREAM. 1991. DVD reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) PG-13 and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) Documentarian Barbara Kopple weighs in contributed to the public downfall of with an unsettling account of the months- President Richard M. Nixon. The duo long strike of employees at the Hormel connected a Washington, D.C., hotel break- meatpacking plant, juxtaposed against the in with a Nixon "dirty tricks" team assigned Reagan administration's demolition of the to discredit Democratic rivals, launching a nation's air traffic controllers' union. In series of tense events that forced Nixon to Austin, Minn., in 1984, Hormel strikers found resign. themselves picketing during the worst climate for organized labor since the 19th century. Kopple won an Oscar for Best ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Documentary in 1991. 1930. DVD NR Teenage German soldiers pass from AMERICAN HISTORY X. 1998. BLU RAY idealism to despair in this poignant, Oscar- R winning depiction of survival on the front A California neo-Nazi (Oscar-nominee lines, adapted from an anti-war novel by Edward Norton) gets sent to prison for Erich Maria Remarque and banned in a murder and comes out a changed man. But number of countries during wartime. can the reformed rebel atone for his sins Awarded Best Picture in 1930, the film has and prevent his younger brother (Edward lost little of its original impact, with brutal Furlong) from following in his hate-filled imagery and a peaceful message that also footsteps? With searing performances and earned director Lewis Milestone an gut-wrenching realism, Tony Kaye's Academy Award for Best Director. sobering drama offers a compelling and anguishing look at racism, family and forgiveness. AMANDLA! 2002. DVD PG-13 The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. 1995. DVD Africa has been chronicled over time, but no [ON A SHARED DISK WITH "DAVE"] one has addressed the vital role music plays PG-13 in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little- (Michael Douglas), one of the world's most known part of South Africa's political history powerful men, can have anything he wants - through archival footage, interviews and, of - and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen course, several mesmerizing musical Wade (Annette Bening), a Washington performances.
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