Welcome to our store. We are a continually-expanding operation, so we hope you will continue to check back with us as our selection grows. These dramas are among our favorites. Clicking the icon will take you to the VHS version of each film, but most are also available in DVD format, and will be noted on the page you click to.
Many of these films are also available in DVD format.
A Few Good Men
(1992) Starring Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore. A murder in the Marine Corps at Guantanamo Bay is the basis for this tense court room drama. Also starring Kevin Bacon. DVD Version
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The Big Easy
(1987) Film noir murder mystery. Corruption and greed in the New Orleans Police Department are the underlying themes in this unusual flick. Good background music as well. Starring Dennis Quiad, Ellen Barkin. DVD Version
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Bonnie and Clyde
(1967) Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman.
Trend-setting film about unlikely heroes of 1930s bank-robbing team has spawned many imitators but still leads the pack. Veering from comedy to melodrama and social commentary, it remains vivid, stylish throughout. DVD Version
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Chariots of Fire
(1981)
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson.
Absorbing and unusual drama based on true story of two men--devout Scottish missionary Eric Liddell, driven Jewish Cambridge student Harold Abrahams--who run in the 1924 Olympics. Fascinating probe of their motives, challenges, and problems, and a case study of repressed emotions even in the midst of exultation.
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Chinatown
(1974) .
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway.
Director: Roman Polanski.
Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. . . |
Dances With Wolves
(1990) A moving story of a man's sense of honor. Vast panorama, wonderful scenery. A moving and touching film. Starring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell. DVD Version
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Driving Miss Daisy
(1989) A bittersweet comedy/drama about the collisions of the old and new South. Starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy.
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Fallen
(1998) Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman
Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. DVD Version
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Fargo
(1996) An offbeat, decidedly different murder mystery with a strong sense of irony and black humor. Clever and interesting movie. Starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy. DVD Version
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Forrest Gump
(1994) Academy Award winner for 1994, this touching film about a handicapped man's struggle and survival is inspiring and uplifting. Starring Tom Hanks, Sally Field. DVD Version
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Fried Green Tomatoes
(1991) A drama of the relationship of two women in the South of the 50's. Starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy.
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The Godfather
(1972) Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino. The original of Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy, one of the finest movies of the genre of all time. The saga of the organized crime Corleone family.Cast includes James Caan, Robert Duval. DVD Version
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Goodfellas
(1990) Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci team up in this Mafia movie based on a true story. Not for the faint of heart, this movie portrays the violence level of organized crime graphically. DVD Version
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In the Line of Fire
(1993) Starring Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. A taut suspense drama as an assassin (Malkovich) plots to kill the President. Eastwood plays a burned-out secret service agent trying to foil the plot. DVD Version
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Leaving Las Vegas(1995)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue.
Director: Mike Figgis.
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1995, this wrenchingly sad but extraordinarily moving drama provides an authentic, superbly acted portrait of two people whose lives intersect just as they've reached their lowest depths of despair. Ben (Nicolas Cage, in an Oscar-winning performance) is a former movie executive who's lost his wife and family in a sea of alcoholic self-destruction. He's come to Las Vegas literally to drink himself to death, and that's when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute who falls in love with him--and he with her--despite their mutual dead-end existence. They accept each other as they are, with no attempts by one to change the other, and this unconditional love turns Leaving Las Vegas into a somber yet quietly beautiful love story.
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Midnight Cowboy
(1969) This controversial film was one of the original "X" rated pictures on it's release. A black comedy/tragedy, it deals with some of the underside of society in an unflinching manner. Starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. Both actors give brilliant performances as "Ratso" Rizzo and Joe Buck. DVD Version
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Murder in the First
(1994) Starring Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon. Slater portrays a young attorney attempting to overturn the murder conviction of a retarded man (Bacon) in San Quentin. This 1940's period piece is a fine piece of acting by both performers.
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Of Mice and Men(1992)
A remake of the John Steinbeck classic, this film is a wonderful adaptation. Starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinese, and both actors deliver performances worthy of this deeply moving story.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975). Perhaps Jack Nicholson's best performance, this film looks at mental illness and institutional rigidity in a poignant and moving manner. Louise Fletcher cast as "Nurse Ratchett" embodies the image of institutional insanity which makes one wonder who is crazy, the patients or the keepers. |
Pulp Fiction
(1994) Instant cult classic is a stylish, taut, engrossing series of offbeat
vignettes. Star-studded crime drama appeals not just to the art-house crowd, but also
to many crime, drama, neo-noir fans. Stars:
John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson. Warning: Extreme violence. DVD Version
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Philadelphia
(1993) .
Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington.
Director: Jonathan Demme.
Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS, but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. DVD Version
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