Drama - DVD

<p>John Boorman, director of Deliverance, Hope and Glory and The Emerald Forest, guides another gripping tale of survival and personal transformation, this one based on true-life events. When Dr. Laura Bowman (Medium's Patricia Arquette) arrives in Burma (now Myanmar) shortly after a devastating family...

<p>Musical star Jenny Stewart functions on two emotional levels: demanding and impossible. Only one person will stand up to Jenny: her accompanist, blinded in the war. But it may be Jenny who can't see, not only her own loneliness but also her chance for...

<p>Hard-edged carny dancer Lane Bellamy shakes her curves and shakes a sleepy Southern burg to its core. Joan Crawford rejoins her Mildred Pierce costar (Zachary Scott), producer (Jerry Wald) and director (Michael Curtiz) in another steamy saga of a steely dame with gams, guts...

<p>Storm clouds gather over Europe on the eve of World War II, but the cafes of Paris thrive. Elena (Audie England, Red Shoe Diaries), a beautiful young American writer, reveals her love for Lawrence (Costas Mandylor, Mobsters), a handsome French novelist. Their steamy relationship...

<p>Madison Avenue man-about-town Stuart "Mac" McAllister (George Brent) has his sights set on the Great White Way's most celebrated leading lady, the glamorous and sophisticated Helen Walbridge (Verree Teasdale). Mac thinks he's about to have the night of his life when the perpetually overbooked...

<p>Deep inside the concrete jungle of an infamous Communist Bloc prison, one innocent woman struggles to stay alive amid sadistic, heroin-smuggling guards and a psychotic, stiletto-heeled warden. Voluptuous Brigitte Nielsen (Beverly Hills Cop II ) stars as the masterful mistress of a women's prison...

<p>Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen....

<p>A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.</p>

<p>Three beautiful women visit record executive Morris Levy with one thing in mind: to claim the music royalties earned by their husband, the late, great '50s rock icon Frankie Lymon. They say good things and bad news always travel in threes: Looks like the...

<p>Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Clark Gable and Joan Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story...

<p>As working girl Sadie McKee, Joan Crawford wears a maid's uniform. And as any Crawford fan knows, she'll shortly swap her white apron for black sable -- even (or especially) if it means heartbreak along the way. In this rags-to-riches tale, Sadie wins the...

<p>New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something -- anything -- to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents on this...

<p>Advertising executive Eddie Anderson has success in business, comfort in marriage and a gnawing despair he can't escape. So one morning he turns his sports car into the path of an 18-wheeler on the freeway -- and toward a tumultuous future. Writer/director Elia Kazan...

<p>No one rats on mobster Johnny Vanning. That's a message delivered to every would-be stoolie when Vanning's henchmen slash a gangland insignia on Mary Dwight's face. The real-life saga of prostitutes whose testimony put Lucky Luciano behind bars inspired Marked Woman. Bette Davis, sinking...

<p>No one thought death row inmate Ed Biddle would escape the hangman's noose. Most of all, no one in 1901 Pittsburgh imagined his accomplice in a daring jailbreak would be Kate Soffel, the warden's wife. Directed by Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, 1994's Little...

<p>Dennis Quaid, Academy Award winner Jessica Lange and John Goodman star in this love story that spans three decades as a football hero and the high school sweetheart he marries must learn how to grow up after their time of glory ends.</p>

<p>Beverly Hills attorney Stephen Blume loves his wife Nina more than ever before. Trouble is, he didn't realize it until they divorced. Now bumbling, bereft Blume will do anything to win her back. Each overture is rejected. And each rejection just fuels Blume's humbling...

<p>Hilary, a teenage girl with a crazy new stepfamily, decides to escape domestic madness and run away from home! Her moms, dads and stepsiblings join forces to find her. While Hillary is busy having the adventure of her life, her family is busy learning...

<p>Movie queen Margaret Elliot's popularity and fortune have gone bad. But she's sure she can jump-start her dimming career. "One good picture is all I need," she says. As Margaret, Bette Davis got yet another good picture and earned her ninth Academy Award nomination....

<p>Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo),...

<p>Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora's lives. Now it's time to meet the in-laws. The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and head to Nick's boyhood home of Sycamore Springs. Of course, wherever they go, murder has...

<p>In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a "performer," a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide -- and the impact is both exotic and explosive. James Fox and Mick...

<p>The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she's shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she "nuts?" Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender...

<p>Academy Award winner Holly Hunter (Little Black Book) and Danny DeVito (Be Cool) star in this romantic comedy written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, acclaimed screenwriter of The Horse Whisperer and The Bridges of Madison County. Judith Nelson (Hunter), newly divorced, is consumed by...

<p>Lillian Roth has it all: youth, beauty, movie and Broadway fame, and a devoted fiance. Then her fiance dies, and Lillian takes one drink to ease her grief. Then another. Then ten. Then thousands. And soon her youth, her career and her life are...

<p>Ruth Chatterton ends the Warner Bros.' phase of her illustrious film career on a high note -- elevating what could have been a lurid melodrama into a sensitive, underplayed and compelling character study. In this adaptation of the Jacques Deval drama Une Vie Perdue,...

<p>South American car-racing champ "Bulldog" Banks (Lyle Talbot) has a secret -- he's really a wanted fugitive from the USA named Wally Storm! Clashing with former Sanford Racing Team teammate Robert Griffin (Gavin Gordon) over the attentions of the team's "female mechanician" Pat Sanford...

<p>Charlotte Gray's World War II assignment could be the first of many. Or her fatal last. The people she meets could be friends. Or insidious traitors. Trained to be an undercover courier for England, Charlotte straps on a parachute and falls from the sky...

<p>In the early 1930s, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness, including nudity, adultery and prostitution, featured in this restored and remastered three-movie collection. Saucy Jean Harlow shrewdly vamps unwitting exeuctives to get what she wants in...

<p>He flew with World War I's Lafayette Escadrille. Later, he made his Hollywood introduction by landing a plane on Douglas Fairbanks' property and went on to a remarkable 40-year career that includes these six snappy, pre-Code works. Disc 1 of this William A. Wellman...

<p>Illicit sex. Glorified vice. Crime that pays. You can't do that said the film industry's Production Code. But in the pre-Code era, Hollywood could -- and did -- with lots of classic style. On Disc 1 of this set of five pre-Code sizzlers, Norma...

<p>Edmond O'Brien stars as defense attorney Sam Benedict in this riveting legal drama based on the true-life experiences of renowned San Francisco trial lawyer Jacob W. Ehrlich (who served as the series' legal consultant). Richard Rust and Joan Tompkins costar as legal associate Hank...

<p>In colonial Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson) and Kimani (Sidney Poitier) have maintained their deep friendship despite differences in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau uprising convulses their magnificent homeland. And the men discover that even the strongest...

<p>In 1866, new fighting units are formed within the U.S. Cavalry: the courageous 9th and 10th regiments. Plains Indians call them Buffalo Soldiers because of the bison coats they wear in winter. History, judging from the regiments' list of Medal of Honor winners, calls...

<p>The roughest of Alaska's oil-rig roughnecks, Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal, also making his directorial debut) specializes in fighting oil-well fires. Yet he faces an even more incendiary battle against renegade Aegis Oil president Michael Jennings (Michael Caine). Aegis has put profits over environmental safety....

<p>It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? A classic of suspense directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) and written for the screen by Rod Serling (The...

<p>From Mike Figgis, the Academy Award -nominated director of Leaving Las Vegas, comes an erotically charged love story that explores the passion and betrayal of a one night stand. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) has it all: a happy marriage, children and a successful career....

<p>When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the "killing fields." The Killing Fields is an epic story of friendship and survival produced...

<p>A railroad crossing. A stranded car. A beautiful blonde -- unconscious. Moody scientist Jim Grayam (Jeff Hunter) rescues the lovely Lorrie (Anne Francis), only to learn that she's his boss' wife! She wants out of the marriage, but her cruel, controlling husband Cort (Dana...

<p>Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's his job to become what he isn't -- even a thief and convict -- to convince the group he infiltrates that he's one of them. And it's his job to get through it all...

<p>Private eye Lew Harper is in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air. Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years...

Land, a family, a future. They're "dreams fried up, short order" for Blayde Hollister (Gary Cooper). Rightly or wrongly, this ex-Confederate from Georgia has waged his own war to settle past injustices. Now he's a wanted man. And he can feel the law closing...

<p>Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort -- $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect...

<p>Based on the wildly popular comic book character from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight --...

<p>It's 1865 and Robert E. Lee, in a last-ditch bid to turn the tide of war, wants the West. Lafe Barstow's task is to get it. He leads a band of Confederates to California to enlist insurrectionists. But another war roils the West. Marauding...

<p>The star who brought frontier justice to Dodge City and San Antonio heads for the wide open spaces of Montana in this adventure saga about a bitter range war. Errol Flynn plays an Australian transplant looking to buy grazing land. But the cattle-raising locals...

<p>Are you tourist or traveler? Kit (Debra Winger) and Port Moresby (John Malkovich) find the distinction important. A tourist wants the comforts of home. A traveler seeks adventure. Kit and Port are travelers, drawn by desire and destiny to the Sahara in an attempt...

<p>Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmo, a grade-A ding-dong -- just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim...

<p>Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Bjork). Rural factory worker Selma (Bjork) is a single...

<p>She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and then she was no more. Jazzman Danny Parker's wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. Now the heartbroken Danny is on the skids, lost among the derelict tweakers of L.A....