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Anthony Hopkins
1) Thor
Publisher
Marvel Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero. Includes commentary, featurettes, trailers, and deleted scenes.
2) Hitchcock
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma, as he sets out to make the film.
3) Othello
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
4) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
6) Proof
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.
7) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board a slave ship bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch's world upside down, inside out... and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping tale of love and horror, tragedy and triumph set against the Spanish conquest of Mexico. After twenty years as the legendary Zorro, Don Diego must transform a troubled drifter into the fearless hero he once was.
11) Fracture
Language
English
Formats
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....
12) Red: 2
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses rejoins his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
14) 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.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster, and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki, Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction.
16) Thor: Ragnarok
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen version.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
20) Desperate hours
Publisher
MGM Home Entertanment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In need of a hideout, escaped convict Michael Bosworth (Mickey Rourke) uses his charm to gain entry into home of Nora and Tim Cornell (Mimi Rogers and Anthony Hopkins). While waiting for his beautiful accomplice (Kelly Lynch) to arrive, Bosworth soon explodes into homicidal rage when the Cornells try to fight back. Pitting husband against wife, Bosworth's fury escalates into a shocking night of terror, and the family is forced to take a stand that...
