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41) Medium cool
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
42) Bad News Bears
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morris Buttermaker, former ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a struggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a group of players who transform the field of dreams into the stuff of nightmares!
43) Ragtime
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 1972
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
46) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
48) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics : Distributed by Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the mid-1970s, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Isolated by their over-protective parents, they move like fleeting visions against the suburban landscape, luminous and unattainable. But when school hunk Trip Fontaine convinces Lux Lisbon and her sisters to go to the prom, the boys' romantic fantasies threaten to come true - until they are engulfed in...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape.
51) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
52) In & out
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When a former student tells the world that a high school teacher is gay, the man tries hard to assert his manliness.
53) Sabrina
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Axel Foley is a brash, street smart Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh surroundings of Beverly Hills. And before Axel gets his man, he gets up to his neck in an international network of smugglers and drug peddlers.
55) The conversation
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme.
57) Hud
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
58) Out-of-towners
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Ohio couple experience the trip from hell while in New York, when everything that could go wrong does.
59) Hustle & flow
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the door to success demands one last hustle--if he's ever going...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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