Anthony Quinn
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur's retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant's judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering...
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Formats
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Portrait in black: An adulterous couple conspire to kill the woman's tyrannical husband. Then an anonymous letter arrives advising them that someone knows their secret and their new life together begins unraveling.
Madame X: A woman is blackmailed by her mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder where she is defended by her own son.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1990
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The story of T. E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
9) River's edge
Series
Studio classic volume 40
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Deep in the New Mexico desert, Ben Cameron and his wife Meg struggle to build their ranch. When Meg's old lover shows up he forces the couple to guide him safely to Mexico with his stolen fortune. Each man struggles to gain the upper hand for survival and for Meg.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittoria is the wine-loving town's leader. Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town. The town turns to Bombolini when they want to hide over a million bottles of wine from the Nazi army.
12) Caravans
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Mark Miller is ordered to find the missing daughter, Ellen Jasper, of an influential U.S. senator. Once he locates her, he must convince her to leave the revolutionary Zulffiqar's nomadic tribe. An alliance forms between Mark and Zulffiqar, yet dangerous secrets unfold as Mark discovers that the tribe leader is actually the head of a gun-running caravan. Mark and Ellen are caught in a web of murder and intrigue as they try to escape.
13) The magus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
14) Only the lonely
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Comedy about a 38-year old Chicago cop who still lives with his mother, a domineering widow used to controlling her son's life. When he meets and falls in love with a young woman, Mama sets out to break up the romance.
16) La strada
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.