'Til death do us part

'Til death do us part [videorecording] / a documentary by Vita Lusty.

'Til Death Do us part takes the viewer on a journey with incarcerated battered women, as they relate their stories from first falling in love, through the abuse by their spouses, the murder, trial, parole process, and finally, for one woman, freedom. It is thought in our society that a woman can leave an abusive relationship at any time. However, the women in this film prove the contrary. They were under the age of 24, isolated from their families and had virtuallly no money. They all reached a point where there was a final beating in which the survival instinct prevailed. In these final moments, they snapped and killed. No one has heard their stories until now.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-5376 VIDEODISC

11:14

11:14 [videorecording] / Media 8 Entertainment presents a Firm Films production; a Greg Marcks film; produced by Beau Flynn, John Morrissey; written and directed by Greg Marcks.

Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The lives of many cross at this one point in time which shall have life-altering effects.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1627

12

12 [videorecording] / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Three T Productions presents Nikita Mikhalkov's film; producers, Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereschagin; screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Novototsky-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko; director, Nikita Mikhalkov.

Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-6350 VIDEODISC

15 minutes

15 minutes [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents an Industry Entertainment, New Redemption/Tribeca Productions, a John Herzfeld picture; producers Nick Wechsler, Keith Addis, David Blocker, John Herzfeld; written and directed by John Herzfeld.

When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they do in order to sell their video to a local tabloid TV show.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1395

16 blocks

16 blocks [videorecording] / Alcon Entertainment; Cheyenne Enterprises; Donners' Company; Emmett/Furla Films; Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co.; Millennium Films, Inc.; Nu Image Entertainment; produced by Randall Emmett, Avi Lerner, Arnold Rifkin, John Thompson, Jim Van Wyck, Bruce Willis; written by Richard Wenk; directed by Richard Donner.

Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-3656 VIDEODISC

21 grams

21 grams [videorecording] / a Focus Features presentation, a This is That production, a Y Productions production, an Alejandro Gonz

Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-668

25th hour

25th hour (Motion picture: 2002)

Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to prison, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-252

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma [videorecording] / Lionsgate presents; in association with Relativity Media; a Tree Line Film production; directed by James Mangold; screenplay by Halsted Welles, and Michael Brandt & Derek Haas; produced by Cathy Konrad.

Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail, and dangers at every turn, the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-4309 VIDEODISC

The 400 Blows

Les quatre cents coups

Les quatre cents coups [videorecording] = The 400 blows / une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du Carrosse; [directed by François Truffaut; producer, Georges Charlot]; scénario de François Truffaut; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut.

Sensitively recreating the trials of Truffaut's own childhood, portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-5559 VIDEODISC

8 women

8 femmes

8 femmes [videorecording] = 8 women / Focus Features release Fid

A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.

IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-159