Joaquin Phoenix
1) Joker
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of living apart, John arrives in New York to deliver divorce papers to world-famous ice skater Elena. But as he re-enters Elena's high-profile world, he discovers things that are slowly destroying his estranged wife.
Series
Language
English
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
4) Hotel Rwanda
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa. "One of the most inspirational films I've ever seen" (Richard Roeper, "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies").
5) Quills
Language
English
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his...
7) The master
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
10) Two lovers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
11) Ladder 49
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
12) The village
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the...
13) Beau is afraid
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man faces his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque journey back home.
14) Irrational man
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. He feels that everything he's tried to do from political activism to teaching hasn't made any difference. Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who is unhappy in her marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation...
17) Her
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc (126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, Theodore, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright, female voice who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly...
18) C'mon c'mon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
19) Signs
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + companion booklet.
Language
English
Description
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.