Al Pacino
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
4) Phil Spector
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwrite David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by acting in Italian productions. Cliff Booth, Rick's long-time...
8) Manglehorn
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Al Pacino and Holly Hunter give moving performances as a cat loving locksmith and a lovelorn bank teller who are both transformed by a new romance in this magical love story.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering...
10) Paterno
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Language
English
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In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Brandon Lang becomes the protege of sports gambling's power player, Walter Abrams, he swiftly becomes the golden boy of the high-rolling world for his football picks. He soon finds himself in a deadly game of con-versus-con with his mentor.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this searing police thriller, Jonathan is a second-generation cop who gets assigned to reopen a double homicide cold case in his neighborhood. An anonymous source feeding new information on the long-unsolved murders to a local reporter leads to evidence suggesting a possible cover-up by the former lead detective who was on the investigation. As Jonathan digs deeper into the assignment, a dark secret about the case emerges, which threatens to destroy...
14) Serpico
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer who refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
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The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
16) Scarface
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami; wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name. Starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, this film has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written...
17) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Videos
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Misconduct
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...