Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
1) Saltimbanco
Author
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Created in 1994 as an antidote to the violence and despair typical of the 20th century, this phantasmogorical show proposes a new vision of urbanity, overflowing with optimisim and happiness.
2) Big night
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.
3) The guard
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
4) Closer
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
6) éZelary
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Czech
Description
During WWII, nurse Eliéska is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of éZelary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They live in a modest cabin for two years, waiting for the...
Publisher
Warner brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston's film of The Man Who Would be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins out, shoulders squared and with a sly wink -- star as British Sargeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men...
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President, his aides and the Pentagon struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
10) Spider-man 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry. Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever of Peter. One day Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, resurfaces after a failed science experiment. Peter begins to notice he's losing some of his powers and wonders at the stress in his personal life. He realizes...
11) Desperado
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
12) Anger management
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Rydell. But when the doctor steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, Dave goes from mild to wild as the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc with his life.
13) Tears of the sun
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he’s sent into the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience.
14) Divided we fall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
Czech
Description
During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, a couple, Josef and Marie, decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their small apartment. They keep getting a visit from their neighbor, Horst, who is a German sympathizer and has his eye on Marie. When she rejects his advances he seeks revenge by trying to move a Nazi clerk into their home, forcing the couple to tell a lie that will change their lives forever.
16) Journey of man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An odyssey following the stages of human development from birth to maturity, with each stage presented by a Cirque du Soleil act.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similiar to the one seen by his late wife.
18) Radio
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the writer of The Rookie comes a dramatic and moving story inspired by events in the life of RADIO, a man who made an enduring impact on the lives of all those around him. RADIO focuses on the mentoring relationship between a high school football coach (Ed Harris) and Radio (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), known as "the same as everybody else, just a little slower than most," and how their unique friendship ultimately transforms the conservative attitudes...
19) The order
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A thief of religious artifacts whose archeologist father has found the lost scripture of a mysterious religious order, is mysteriously kidnapped. He finds himself cruising around the twisty streets of Jerusalem, getting into dynamic kickboxing battles while disguised as a Hasidic Jew. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, he uncovers a plot within the religious order that leads to secret catacombs beneath the holy city.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez), a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Destiny throws the unlikely pair together for one night, but when Marisa’s true identity is revealed, the two...