Martin Scorsese
3) Silence
Author
Language
English
Description
"Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs"--
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
A group of children, age seven through fourteen, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with rule-breaking, ultimately leading to house break-ins around the neighborhood. The arrival of the maids son, a teenager of lesser privilege, exposes prejudice and ferocity climaxing with crimes that force the children to re-examine their actions.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Departed: Rookie cop Billy Costigan infiltrates the mob to help bring boss Frank Costello down, but Costello has a mole of his own winning everyone's trust within the police department. GoodFellas: one man's life in the Mafia is depicted over a period of three decades. The Aviator: the early life of the eccentric millionaire, movie producer, director, and aviator Howard Hughes is dramatized.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
10) Hugo
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This videodisc tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
11) The aviator
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow a star...
12) Raging bull
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of boxer Jake La Motta's life and how his self-destructive behavior affected his career and relationships.
13) Mean streets
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Set in Little Italy, the film centers on Charlie, a small-time hood who lacks the ruthlessness to make it in his uncle's syndicate. Charlie feels responsible for his girlfriend's cousin, Johnny Boy, but things get out of hand when Charlie intervenes in a quarrel over debts.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, Atlantic City's undisputed czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America. Season three begins on New Year's Eve 1922-23. The roaring '20s are about to start; though the economy is booming, alcohol has become scarce, competition is fierce, and gangster violence is heating up.
15) Help!
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Atlantic City, 1921. In a city whose fortunes have soared in the wake of Prohibition, Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in 'the world's playground'. Though the 1920 election is over, Nucky finds himself the target of a federal investigation for vote tampering, and an insurrection by those he counted among his closest allies.
18) Casino
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
19) Cape fear
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney. Sam Bowden. Realizing he is legally powerless to protect his beautiful wife Leigh and his troubled teenage daughter Danielle against Max's relentless psychological torment, Sam resorts to unorthodox measures, leading to an unforgettable action packed showdown.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Just prior the the Civil War and after years in prison, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns to lower Manhattan's lawless, corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But before long, Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare.