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Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
2) Hereafter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
3) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
5) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
John, a newly divorced father moves into a rural South Carolina home with his adolescent daughter Louisa and young son Sam. But when Louisa begins to behave in a bizarre and increasingly violent manner, John must uncover the truth behind her transformation. Is the former owner's shocking secret to blame? And how far will a father go to protect his daughter from an ancient evil determined to take her over?
7) Doubt
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
8) Push
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Nick is a 'mover' - someone who can move things with his mind. He meets up with Cassie who is a 'watcher' - someone who can predict the future. She is trying to rescue her mother from the government. As they try to piece things together, Kira enters their lives. Kira is a 'pusher' - someone who can influence the thoughts of others. She has had a relationship with Nick and is the only person to survive a powerful 'enhancement' drug that was administered...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
What begins as an average day for Ethan takes a dangerous turn when he's kidnapped and held hostage in his New York apartment by three assailants. The home invaders aren't looking to rob him; they are looking to avenge the death of Reverend Kalahan, the right-wing cult leader whose brutal murder remains unsolved. On a mission of revenge, the assailants vow to make Ethan pay, but the more they interrogate him, the more they doubt he is the killer.
10) Skyline
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern California. But when sunrise arrives two hours early in the form of a haunting light from an unknown source, a group of friends watches in terror as people across the city are drawn outside and swept into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. From tankers to drones and hydra-like extraterrestrials, the aliens are inescapable and seemingly indestructible.
11) Angels & demons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the University hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
13) The tourist
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
14) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, Lucian is a young Lycan who emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, whose the daughter of Viktor, in his battle against the Vampire army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.
16) The gift
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.
17) Margin call
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Set in the high-stakes world of Wall Street, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.
18) The Drop
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski and his hardened employer cousin Marv run a bar that is used as a 'drop'--a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters. But when they find themselves caught in a robbery gone bad, and on the hook for a debt they can't repay, both men have to make the dangerous choice between loyalty and survival.
19) Armored
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A group of veteran officers at an armored transport security firm pressure a new guard into stealing one of their own company's trucks containing $42 million dollars. Using a seemingly sure-fire plan, the men plan to make off with the money with no harm done until an unexpected witness causes their plan to come apart at the seams.
20) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily.
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