Frank Darabont
Language
English
Description
City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
3) The mist
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's shoppers...
4) Collateral
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an...
Language
English
Description
Few movies capture the triumph of the human spirit as memorably as this. Red (Morgan Freeman), a life who "knows how to get things" inside the bleak walls of Shawshank State Prison, finds himself drawn to new inmate Andy (Tim Robbins), a quiet banker with an indomitable will. As Andy brings hope and change to the entire prison, he turns out to be full of surprises - and the best comes last, leading to one of the most satisfying finales in movie history....
9) The Majestic
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1951, a Hollywood screenwriter suspected of Communist activity loses his memory in a car crash. He arrives in a small California town where the people believe he is a long-lost war hero. He comes to believe this too, and is happy with this new life, but the truth eventually surfaces when he is discovered and called before a Senate committee.
10) The Blob
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A vile, malignant life-form crashes to earth in a cozy, rural American town and eats everything that moves.
11) The Blob
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A vile, malignant life-form crashes to earth in a cozy, rural American town and eats everything that moves.
13) The mist
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A group of people are trapped in a grocery store and fighting for their lives when a mysterious mist full of bloodthirsty creatures descends on their small town." --
14) The Salton Sea
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jazz musician Danny Parker's wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. The heartbroken trumpet player is on the skids, lost in the lifestyle of Los Angeles' derelict tweakers. Or is he? In Danny's world nothing - most of all Danny - is what it seems.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Shawshank redemption: Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
The green mile: Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their...
16) The fly II
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "The fly", a young man, the son of a human fly, awaits a horrifying transformation when the mutant genes inside him come out of their dormant state when he falls for a beautiful researcher.
Language
English
Description
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman's metamorphosis as Dracula who grows from old to young, from man to beast is nothing short of amazing. Winona Ryder brings equal intensity to the role of a young beauty who becomes the object of Dracula's devastating desire. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor who dares...
18) The green mile
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Paul Edgecomb, now in a retirement home, looks back to 1935 and his time as head guard in charge of the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, especially his relationship with inmate John Coffey, a gentle prisoner with the power to heal and transform lives.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Forrest Gump tells the story of a good-natured man with a low IQ who personally experiences important events in American history and continues to love, albeit unreciprocated, his childhood sweetheart Jenny.
The green mile: A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Road to perdition: Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, 92 min.): Freddy Krueger, the razor-nailed maniac, kills children in their dreams.
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's revenge (1985, 87 min.): A new kid on Elm Street is being haunted by gruesome visions of Freddy Krueger.
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream warriors (1987, 96 min.): The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy haunts their dreams with horror.
Nightmare on Elm Street 4:...