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Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
3) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
4) Rio Bravo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Widescreen version; director approved edition.
Language
English
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
8) True women
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A Texas ranch foreman keeps his honor-bound commitment to return the body of his slain friend, Melquiades, to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness, embarking upon a voyage filled with revenge and redemption.
10) Greater Tuna
Publisher
Greater Tuna Corp
Language
English
Description
Comedians Joe Sears and Jaston Williams portray all 24 colorful citizens of Tuna, Texas.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm & blues, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, a band from Lubbock, Texas, catapulted to national stardom in just three short years. By the age of 22, Buddy Holly had it all, but tragedy cut short his brilliant and promising career.
14) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Follows the first predominately African American basketball team in college history to an NCAA championship.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in cash, his decision to take the money and run sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence--and not even West Texas law can contain it.
16) Giant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Two-disc special edition; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife, and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and nouveau-riche oil tycoons.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada...
19) The getaway
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
A convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
20) Texas justice
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
"Texas Justice is the true-life tale of a Texas oil magnate on trial for conspiring t murder his brassy ex-wife--and for very successfully doing away with her lover and her daughter. The millionaire business falls in love with the beautiful and exotic Priscilla, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Texas Justice weaves a tale of treachery, deceit, and lust so bizarre it must be based on truth. When their relationship goes sour, Dave Cullen's...
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