Max von Sydow
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
Series
Star wars volume VII
Description
As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It's up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
3) Robin Hood
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
An archer serving in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion leads the poor people of Nottingham in a rebellion and becomes known as Robin Hood.
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
5) The Magician
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A nineteenth-century traveling hypnotist is subjected to a cross-examination by the royal medical adviser in Stockholm who wants to expose him as a fraud, but the hypnotist proves to be too clever.
6) Dune
Pub. Date
1998
Description
The saga of intergalactic warrior Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Four years after Chris and Annie Nielsen lose their children in a traffic accident, Chris himself is killed and finds himself reunited with his children in a beautiful and astonishing afterlife, but Annie commits suicide in despair and is banished to a very different realm. Chris risks his own eternal happiness to find Annie and rescue her from her fate.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother's frantic resolve to save her, and two priests, one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith, joined in battling ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless. The extended director's cut includes over ten minutes of footage deleted before the film's 1973 release.
10) Winter light
Series
Criterion collection volume 209-212
Pub. Date
2003
Description
SYNOPSIS: "On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss...
11) The exorcist
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
12) Hawaii
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
16) Dreamscape
Pub. Date
1983
Description
A young psychic is taught to participate in other people's dreams, but someone evil is also entering their dreams. They enter into a duel where anything can happen.
17) The seventh seal
Series
Description
A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling players.
19) Solomon
Pub. Date
[1997].
Description
Solomon, the King of Israel rules the land with peace, love and respect. Then he meets the Queen of Sheba and falls madly in love. When she returns home he falls into a deep depression while his kingdom collapses around him.
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A look at three sisters and the relationship they have with one another, and with the men in their lives. Hannah, the eldest, is a loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters, Lee and Holly. But when sibling rivalry sabotages her perfect world, Hannah sees she must choose between her independence and her family.