The Thomas Crown affair

The Thomas Crown affair [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents an Irish Dreamtime production; produced by Pierce Brosnan and Beau St. Claire; story by Alan R. Trustman; screenplay by Leslie Dixon & Kurt Wimmer; directed by John McTiernan.

Billionaire Thomas Crown loves courting disaster and winning! But when he meets his match in an intelligent, cunning, lady insurance investigator, a game of cat and mouse ensues.

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Pump up the volume

Pump up the volume [videorecording] / New Line Cinema in association with SC Entertainment.

By day, Mark Hunter is a painfully shy kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down.

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Begotten

Begotten [videorecording] / Theatreofmaterial; a film by E. Elias Merhige.

"In this nightmare classic by Edmund Elias Merhige, a godlike thing dies giving birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their corpses. It is as if a druidical cult had re-enacted, for real, three Bible stories-creation, the Nativity and Jesus' torture and death on Golgotha- and some demented genius were there to film it."--Container.

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Notorious

Notorious [videorecording] / RKO Pictures; produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay by Ben Hecht.

Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.

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Snatch

Snatch [videorecording] / Screen Gems presents in association with SKA Films a Matthew Vaughn production; a film by Guy Ritchie; producer, Matthew Vaughn; written and directed by Guy Ritchie.

"A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone"--Container.

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Training day

Training day [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment an Outlaw Productions; producers, Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer; writer, David Ayer; director, Antoine Fuqua.

Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins to suspect that he is, rather than having the opportunity to join the squad, being set up to take the fall.

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Heist

Heist [videorecording] / Morgan Creek Productions, Inc. and Franchise Pictures present in association with Indelible Pictures, a film by David Mamet; producer, Art Linson, Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens; written & directed by David Mamet.

An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings are the order of the day as they get closer to the payday of a lifetime.

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Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Amélie from Montmartre

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain [videorecording]: Amélie from Montmartre / Claudie Ossard & UGC présentent une coproduction Victoires Productions, Tapioca Films-France 3 Cinéma, MMC Independent GmbH avec la collaboration de la Sofica Sofinergie 5 et le soutien de la Filmstiftung avec la participation de Canal+, un film de Jean-Pierre Jeunet; producers, Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard; screenplay writers, Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet; director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.

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Mulholland Dr.

Mulholland Dr. [videorecording] / Universal; Studio Canal; Alain Sarde presents a Les Films Alain Sardre/Asymmetrical Production; a film by David Lynch; produced by Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire, Tony Krantz; written & directed by David Lynch.

A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?

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Hedwig and the angry inch

Hedwig and the angry inch [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents a Killer Films production.

Based on the smash hit New York show, this is a high-energy rock musical in the tradition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half."

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