Steve McQueen
Author
Language
English
Description
From Steve McQueen, "I think Bruce Brown's motorcycle film "On Any Sunday" is the best thing that has ever happened to motorcycling. The audience is taken on a visual ride in what I believe is finally the definitive film on motorcycling. To me it is an unforgettable film, and I was very happy to be a part of it in some small way." Writer, producer and director Bruce Brown, explores this dizzying and intoxicating world of rugged road riders where...
4) The Hunter
Author
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen's last movie shows the dynamic talent of the late, great actor in one of his most memorable roles: the true story of Ralph "Papa" Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter. Thorson's exploits are detailed as he pursues a number of fugitives who have skipped bail. The chase comes full circle when he becomes the quarry of a vengeful psychopath. McQueen's multi-dimensional performance as Thorson, a man born in the wrong age, is counterpoint to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen delivers a powerful, gripping performance as a defiant loner whose skills as a soldier make him invaluable to his struggling platoon. In the heat of battle during World War II, McQueen and his fellow soldiers find themselves severely outnumbered as they hold off a Nazi advance along the Siegfried Line in France. Using only their ingenuity and bravery, they must bluff the Germans in order to buy some time…and save their lives. Don...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the original motorcycle documentary masterpiece that feature Steve McQueen and riding legends Mert Lawwill, Malcom Smith, Dave Aldana, and many others, with music by the famed Dominic Frontiere, this is without a doubt the quintessential motorcycle film of all time. This special 50th Anniversary Edition has been digitally enhanced with a remixed and remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack by Emmy Award Winner Chris...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Two of Hollywood's all-time favorite stars heat up the steamy streets of Manhattan in this tough and tender romance. Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen star as a charming, footloose musician and the innocent Macy's salesgirl who is carrying his child. Natalie Wood received an **Academy Award** nomination for her touching and memorable performance. Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Natalie Wood), Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written...
9) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
10) Widows
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story is about four women who do not share anything in common apart from the debts their dead husbands left behind. They all take fate into their own hands concerning all the criminal activities their husbands were involved in. The four women become close friends and find a way that will give them a secure and a conducive environment. They end up working together and conspires to collaborate a future on their rapports to avoid being involved in...
11) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
12) Shame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
13) The great escape
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1968
Language
English
Description
A sleek insurance investigator has been assigned to solve a bank robbery that has Boston's finest completely baffled. Her sleuthing leads to the sophisticated, handsome and unbelievably rich Thomas Crown. The more she gets involved with the case, the more she becomes suspicious of his involvement.
17) The Blob
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Science fiction film in which residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
18) The Hunter
Series
Publisher
Paramount [Home Video
Pub. Date
2001]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Ralph "Papa" Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter. Thorson pursues fugitives who have skipped bail; the chase comes full circle when he becomes the quarry of vengeful psychopath.
20) Papillon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Thrilling adventure of an escape from a French Guiana prison.