Amy Irving
24) Bossa nova
Language
Portuguese
Description
Tells the stories of several people in Rio with love problems. There's Mary Ann, a widowed American schoolteacher who has given up on ever finding love again; Pedro, an attorney separated from his wife; and Tania, (the wife) who may want him back. Then there's Roberto, Pedro's shy brother; Acácio, a soccer champ; Sharon, a law intern; and Nadine, a young bohemian who thinks she's found the man of her dreams on the Internet.
25) The confession
Language
English
Description
A New York attorney, hired to defend a murderer who avenged his young son's death, struggles with his own desires for success versus the moral wishes of his client to choose the path of truth.
26) Micki & Maude
Language
English
Description
A lovable bigamist receives a shock when he learns both his wives are expecting. The complications reach the heights of hilarity when both women deliver their babies in adjoining rooms while their husband serves double duty as the frantic father-to-be.
28) The fury
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of a father's effort to rescue his son from the government agency which is using him in their secret mind-control experiments. During his search, he encounters a young girl whose frightening psychic powers help precipitate the final confrontation between pursued and pursuers.
30) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Language
English
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
31) Saint Joan
Author
Language
English
Description
The Irish playwright's dramatic presentation of Joan of Arc as peasant, genius, saint and fifteenth century feminist.
Series
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald's story is the classic tale of a boy from the provinces whose talents bring him fame and fortune-temporarily. Scott and Zelda's personalities, backgrounds, and relationships with others formed one myth of the Jazz Age, while the legend of his romantic life made him an American mythic artist hero. Fitzgerald's life has long held a fascination not precisely tied to his literary standing; now, as in his lifetime, he appears as both...
35) The fury
Language
English
Description
"[An] elaborate game of mind control begins when a government agent's son is kidnapped for his pschokinetic powers. Desperate to find him, the father hires a girl with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S. agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments and programmed for elimination"--Container.
36) Carrie
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go. Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie, a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother...
38) The confession
Series
Language
English
Description
The story begins in a courtroom where a man loses everything but in return gains his soul.
39) Rumpelstiltskin
Language
English
Description
In this musical adaptation of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, the miller's daughter must learn magic from a troll to perform a miracle. After Katie's father boasts to the king that she can turn grain into gold, she finds herself thrown in a dungeon with orders to spin straw into gold or else. A crafty troll agrees to help her perform the seemingly impossible feat and land the king's handsome son, but his assistance comes at a price. Unless...
Language
English
Description
In An American Tail, a Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. The courageous little mouse braves the strange new world in a thrilling adventure to find his family.
In Fievel Goes West, the fun continues when Fievel joins forces with famed lawdog Wylie Burp to thwart a plot to transform unsuspecting settlers into mouseburgers.