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Rome. The complete second seasonRome. The complete second season [videorecording] / HBO Entertainment; in association with the BBC; created by John Milius and William J. MacDonald and Bruno Heller; co-producers, Robert Papazian and James Hirsch. In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. The conspirator Brutus ponders how to curry favor with the masses that have condemned him as a murderer, while his mother Servilia concocts a deadly plot of her own. Meanwhile, Titus Pullo attempts to pull his friend Lucius Vorenus out of the darkness that has engulfed his soul in the wake of personal tragedy. For once again, the fates of these two mismatched soldiers seem inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-4515 VIDEODISC D.2 |
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Rome. The complete second seasonRome. The complete second season [videorecording] / HBO Entertainment; in association with the BBC; created by John Milius and William J. MacDonald and Bruno Heller; co-producers, Robert Papazian and James Hirsch. In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. The conspirator Brutus ponders how to curry favor with the masses that have condemned him as a murderer, while his mother Servilia concocts a deadly plot of her own. Meanwhile, Titus Pullo attempts to pull his friend Lucius Vorenus out of the darkness that has engulfed his soul in the wake of personal tragedy. For once again, the fates of these two mismatched soldiers seem inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-4514 VIDEODISC D.1 |
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Runaway trainRunaway train [videorecording] / directed by Andrei Konchalovsky; Northbrook Films [Cannon Films]. Escaped convicts on a train that goes out of control when the engineer drops dead at the throttle. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-3595 VIDEODISC |
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The samurai trilogyThe samurai trilogy [videorecording] / Toho Company Ltd.; a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema; producer, Kazuo Takimura; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki,; director, Hiroshi Inagaki. A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1624 |
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The samurai trilogyThe samurai trilogy [videorecording] / Toho Company Ltd.; a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema; producer, Kazuo Takimura; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki,; director, Hiroshi Inagaki. A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1623 |
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The samurai trilogyThe samurai trilogy [videorecording] / Toho Company Ltd.; a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema; producer, Kazuo Takimura; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki,; director, Hiroshi Inagaki. A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1622 |
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ScarfaceScarface [videorecording] / Universal; a Martin Bregman production; a Brian De Palma film; produced by Martin Bregman; screenplay by Oliver Stone; directed by Brian De Palma. Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-2716 |
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Scorpion kingScorpion king (Motion picture) Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that Memnon was holding her against her will. Mathayus then uses his newfound sense of justice to convince the surviving tribal leaders to join forces again to defeat Memnon. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-888 |
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SerenitySerenity [videorecording] / Mutant Enemy, Inc.; Universal Pictures; Barry Mendel Productions; produced by Barry Mendel; written by Joss Whedon; written and directed by Joss Whedon. River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative to make sure that what River knows doesn't get out. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-5775 VIDEODISC |
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Seven samurai *videorecording! / a Janus Films presentation ; Toho Company ; Criterion ; produced by Sojira Motoki ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; written by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni.Seven samurai *videorecording! / a Janus Films presentation; Toho Company; Criterion; produced by Sojira Motoki; directed by Akira Kurosawa; written by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni. 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-4045 VIDEODISC GUIDE |
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