Drama - DVD

<p>Based on a true story, one woman takes on the military and the makers of the F-16, fighting the only way she knows how -- to win.</p>

<p>A major TV network looking for a way into the hot urban market hires their first black executive. For George it's a great opportunity to prove he's got what it takes. George brings in Tomasina, a writer with vision, and she in turn brings...

<p>Virginia Hill lived the high life in Hollywood in the 1950's. She played host to endless nights of elegant parties where movie stars, businessmen and politicians came to call. Little did they know that nothing in the house belonged to Virginia - it belonged...

<p>When a doctor discovers that his son is the tortured victim of a brutal dictatorship, he fights back the only way he can - through the law courts. Blocked at every turn, this becomes more than one man's fight against a government - it...

<p>From the writer/ director of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION comes a tense, explosive screenplay. Four escaped convicts are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way- and Johnny Del Grissom just lost a car race. His father's disappointed, and his girlfriend Sara Jane's dad- who just...

<p>Pleasure turns to terror when a group of executives faces disaster as their white-water raft overturns in the churning Chilko River. The rush of a high-speed adventure turns into a perilous nightmare as the pounding waters suck men under while others struggle to stay...

<p>"5 brilliant stars to thrill you! Charles Farrell! Bette Davis! Ricardo Cortez! Glenda Farrell! And Allen Jenkins!" This pre-code crime picture's original trailer promised -- and it delivers. One of Warner Bros.' patented 'ripped from the headlines' social dramas, the tabloid tale promised (in...

<p>Television favorite George Maharis (Route 66) makes the transition to big-screen stardom in this underrated courtroom gem, powerfully directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Lamont Johnson. When Louise Talbot is found strangled, suspicion immediately falls upon her husband, Brian (Earl Holliman), a bad apple...

<p>Two-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ("On Golden Pond," "Coming Home") stars in this wonderful story about the crumbling of a wealthy suburban community's facade of smug respectability when four women allow themselves to become part of a scientific survey that examines their sex lives....

<p>Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Warren Beatty ("Down to Earth," "Bulworth") and real-life wife and Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Annette Bening ("Being Julia," "American Beauty") star in this remake of the classic love story "An Affair to Remember." Four-time Academy Award and Emmy-winner...

<p>Fred Savage (TV's "The Wonder Years") and Bonnie Bedelia ("Presumed Innocent," "Die Hard") star in a heartwarming story about the special friendship between two teenagers struggling to adjust to life after each suffers a great loss. A splendid supporting cast -- including TV heartthrob...

<p>"Bette Davis gives a sharp, vital interpretation of Miss Moffat (the spinster teacher fighting to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village) by remaining true to its legitimate stage counterpart," said the Herald Tribune. The story, based on Emlyn Williams' autobiographical play,...

<p>Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-author of Citizen Kane, and Nicholas Ray, director of such classics as Rebel Without a Cause, combined their talents for this intriguing psychological drama of ambition, jealousy and murder. Through mesmerizing flashbacks, the story is told of Marian Washburn (Maureen...

<p>Man hunter Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) sets her traps for Nick Bradley (Robert Ryan) and Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott) in director Nicholas Ray's scandalous tale of lust and betrayal, costarring Joan Leslie and Mel Ferrer. If Christabel ever drew an honest breath, she'd probably...

<p>A stranger with a mysterious past arrives in a small, quiet Ohio town and forever changes the lives he touches. Joseph Cotten stars as Chris Hale, the enigmatic drifter who comes to the town to assume an ordinary life: he takes a room at...

<p>Jane Russell and Victor Mature play it as it lays in this hardboiled thriller costarring Vincent Price. Linda Rollins' (Russell) luck has gone from bad to worse. A casino owner's been bumped off, her diamond necklace is missing and her shady husband (Price) is...

<p>Money is the root of all evil in this "solid documentary-style crime thriller" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) starring Don DeFore and Andrea King. When phony $10 bills flood the country, the Treasury Department recognizes the work of imprisoned counterfeiter Eugene Deane (Morris Ankrum),...

<p>Long before M*A*S*H, there was Battle Circus. Made during the Korean War, this tribute to the indomitable human spirit takes an authentic, almost documentary-like look at the nurses and doctors who operated in the battlefront Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals. Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart)...

<p>Movie legend Edward G. Robinson stars, Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) makes his feature directorial debut and Big Leaguer swings for the entertainment fences with its tale of hopefuls eager to make the cut at a New York Giants baseball training camp. Vera-Ellen (On...

<p>Oscar-nominee Jill Clayburgh ("An Unmarried Woman," "Starting Over") and Richard Benjamin ("Love at First Bite," "First Family") star in the hilarious film based on the sexy Phillip Roth bestseller -- about the not-so-warm relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother -- that started...

<p>An all-star cast headlines this witty mystery-thriller about a movie producer who invites six friends to a cruise aboard his yacht, the "Sheila," named after his late wife who died in an unsolved hit-and-run accident a year ago that day. As the ship sets...

<p>James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck shine in their only screen pairing, a powerful story of loss and regret costarring Walter Pidgeon. After 20 years, middle-aged steel magnate Steve Bradford (Cagney) has decided to return to his hometown to take care of some unfinished business....

<p>After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume...

<p>An enticing trio of suave silver screen seducers lies at the heart of this fourth collection of pre-Code sensations whose subject matter would soon be forbidden by the infamous Production Code. William Powell, Kay Francis and David Manners prove that sophistication and sexiness once...

<p>Broadway and silent-screen legend Elsie Ferguson stars in her only talking picture, a scandalous tale of murder, sin and redemption. The most brilliant criminal lawyer in New York, Mary Bancroft (Ferguson) agrees to defend Nora Mason (Marian Nixon), a cabaret dancer who freely admits...

<p>Young John Cassidy is a driven man. By day, he works manual labor, secretly trains in the hills with a band of revolutionaries eager to take Ireland's fate into their own hands, joins mates for a pint, or sometimes enjoys the company of a...

<p>They took over a city square -- and in 18 days, they brought down a regime. Shot in the center of Egypt's Tahrir Square from the beginning of the battles to the climax of the celebration, In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished...

<p>Many stars saddled up and rode into Technicolor sunsets during the great Western revival of the 1950s, but only a few would be forever associated with the rugged individualists of the West. Among them are John Wayne, Randolph Scott and the start of The...

<p>In this bloody, action-packed psycho-thriller, death is waiting on a dark road-- but Doug and Lynn Kaine (Ron Silver, Rebecca DeMornay) are ill prepared. When they accidentally kill a policeman who staggers into the path of their truck, the Kaine's decide it's better to...

<p>In a nation that loved gossip, Winchell loved gossip, and the nation couldn't help but love WINCHELL. From young starlets to aging businessmen, from presidents to purse-snatchers, Winchell didn't just report the news ... he made it.</p>

<p>(Drama) HBO Films presents The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, a kaleidoscopic look inside the unquiet mind of Peter Sellers. Despite his Hollywood success, his comic virtuosity belied a troubled private life plagued by self-loathing, insecurity and abusive behavior. The film peers behind...

<p>Ray and Irma are a devoted couple living a normal life in rural Illinois when, at a party celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy inexplicably blacks out. As he awakens, it is with the realization that his life must change forever. Roy confesses to...

<p>New York has a reputation for being a surprising city. But you won't believe the surprises that rock its foundations daily, and the adventures that await those who venture into its serpentine subway system. Subway Stories is ten movies in one, capturing the laughter,...

<p>Glenn Ford and Chad Everett aim to let their guns do the talking in this hair-trigger Western adventure costarring Angie Dickinson. The fastest man with a handgun this side of Abilene, middle-aged marshal Dan Blaine (Ford) is about to have his reputation tested...again. Riding...

A lawyer, a priest, a farmer, a surgeon, a wine vendor: these civilians-turned-soldiers are among the combatants captured and held in a POW camp after Nazi troops overrun France. Also among the captives is fiery Victor Labiche, a former cab driver chained to a...

<p>Capt. Jeff Eliot (Gene Kelly) roams the tawdry dives of post-war Munich searching for a delicate young beauty named Wilhelmina (Pier Angeli), the only survivor of the family that hid him from the Nazis after his plane was shot down during the war. He...

<p>Two men have already died. How many more may be lost? From filmmakers John and Roy Boulting (Brighton Rock, Lucky Jim) comes this suspenseful tale of Royal Navy sailors risking their lives in a dangerous mission to engineer a top-secret torpedo. When a test...

<p>Make ready the topsails! Australian-born leading man Rod Taylor portrays English seafaring captain Sir Francis Drake in this sword-clanging, swashbuckling adventure told in bold, colorful strokes that includes Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, a mutiny at sea, raids that brought England a wealth of...

<p>In an era when Sean Connery, Michael Caine, James Coburn, Dean Martin, Robert Vaughn and more brought varying styles of secret-agent cool to movie screens, along came one of the most unusual spies ever to enter the Top Secret realm of hush-hush, bang-bang and...

<p>Secret warehouses, basement bomb factories, fake passports. . . It took a lot of work to plan the bombing of the World Trade Center. But under the noses of the FBI and the NYPD, a plan has been devised that will stun the nation,...

<p>Two of Hollywood's hottest young actresses, Mira Sorvino (1995's Academy Award Winner: Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Mighty Aphrodite") and acclaimed stage and screen star Ashley Judd star as two sides of the woman America loved, but who struggled to love herself:...

From the director of "Moonstruck" comes a movie about food, fun, and infidelity. Gabe and Karen. Beth and Tom. Four close friends, two great couples. Married for 12 years, they planned on eating, drinking, and parenting their way into old age together. But when...

<p>Michael Corday has his medical degree from Harvard and is ready to begin his internship at NYC's Bellevue. His proud father (Charles Coburn), a noted surgeon, counsels him to make his own career a priority. "Be impersonal and aloof," he says. "Your patients are...

<p>The fierce battle has taken a grim toll. Lashed to a British man-of-war, the fledging Continental Navy's Bonhomme Richard is sinking and half its crew is lost. English demand surrender. "I have not yet begun to fight!" the colonial commander replies. Indeed he has...

<p>Starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Enrique Murciano and Eric Close, this hit procedural drama focuses on a special New York--based FBI task force known as the Missing Persons Squad. At the start of the third...

<p>In 1956, a band of international refugees flee Budapest, escaping the bloodshed of the Hungarian uprising. Among them are Lady Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr) and her lover, Hungarian Paul Kedes (Jason Robards, Jr.), who is forced to hide both his nationality and the wound...

<p>Robert and Cathy Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr), possibly the dullest married couple in England, bid each other a tepid farewell when World War II separates them. Robert joins the Navy, gets in shipshape condition and becomes a war hero. Cathy joins the...

<p>A gripping, dramatic thriller infused with a twist of dark humor, PU-239 reveals the lengths to which a man will go to secure his family's future. While working at a nuclear power plant in Russia, Timofey (Paddy Considine) is exposed to a deadly dose...

<p>Owning a restaurant in the meat-packing district of New York, Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) can't run a business unless he runs with the mob. In a world of payoffs and kickbacks, he's just doing things that are the price of doing business. At least...

<p>In 1973, General Augusto Pinochet overtook Chile in a violent military coup. During his 17-year rule, he ruthlessly repressed all opposition to his regime, leading to the deaths of 3,000 civilians and the torture of another 30,000. HBO Films presents the fascinating true story...