Charlize Theron
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. Starring in some of the best comedies ever made, she combined zany slapstick with exuberant mimicry to elevate tales of romance into the heights of hilarity. Loving and insightful, CAPTURED ON FILM: THE TRUE STORY OF MARION DAVIES deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore the young Hollywood star's life and...
3) The Road
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In the years following a world-shattering apocalyptic event, a father and son travel on foot through the charred remains of North America, struggling to survive on a quest to reach the ocean. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "THE ROAD" by Cormac.
4) Young Adult
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron stars as Mavis Gary, former prom queen turned young adult novelist, who returns home to win back her high school sweetheart.
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From director Robert Redford comes a film that celebrates the power and potential of the human spirit. Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron star in this highly-acclaimed tale of a local hero with a promising future whose hopes are shattered on the battlefields of war. The disillusioned young man turns his back on the world – until a fateful visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, THE...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron light up the screen with megawatt charm in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Nelson Moss (Reeves) needs help—he just doesn't know it. But when the self-absorbed, emotionally isolated advertising executive meets Sara Deever (Theron), his single-minded professional drive gets detoured by her lust for life. Sara invites him into her world—but only for the month of November; however, neither expects to fall in love....
11) North country
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Description
Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear...
12) Tully
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not always such smooth sailing.
13) Prometheus
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
14) Bombshell
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
As a war between rival queen sisters Ravenna and Freya escalates, Eric and fellow warrior Sara, members of the Huntsmen army raised to protect Freya, try to conceal their forbidden love as they combat Ravenna's wicked intentions.
"...gorgeous special effects..."--Newsday
"...plenty entertaining...even charming."--Vanity Fair
"...superior to its predecessor in almost every way..."--AV Club
18) Dark places
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Libby Day was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were murdered and her brother Ben was jailed for the crime. Now, twenty-five years later, Libby discovers shocking evidence that Ben may be innocent, and the real killer still at large.
19) Men of honor
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen ed., special ed.
Description
The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible.
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen (1.85:1)
Description
The lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller.