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English
Description
When two mismatched NYPD detectives stumble into a seemingly dull case that no other detective wants to bother with, it turns out to be New York City's biggest crime. The two seize the opportunity to step up like the city's top cops, whom they idolize. But do these two guys have the right stuff?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Ghostbusters team regroup when the infant son of single mother Dana Barrett becomes the target of a demonic force. They must put a stop to an enormous underground river of slime ready to rot the roots of the Big Apple.
"After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business--until an ancient tyrant, preparing to return to the Earthly domain through his portal at the Manhattan Museum of Art,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York City. He is suprised to find that Charlie does not remember him at all. Alan later learns that Charlie is suffering with grief over the loss of his family on 9/11. Flooded with grief, Charlie quits his job and isolates himself from everyone around him. Alan attempts to help Charlie get over his grief by rekindling their friendship. As Alan spends a lot of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. Many songs from The Beatles and the Vietnam War era figure on the film's sound-track.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
At her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wishes she were thirty and wakes up to discover that she has an apartment in New York City, a job at a fashion magazine, and a sexy boyfriend, but inside she is still thirteen.
8) Austenland
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.
10) Bad education
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food restaurant.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Language
English
Description
Calling himself a cleaner, the mysterious Leon is New York's top hit man. When his next door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family's sole survivor, 12 year old Mathilda. But Mathilda doesn't want protection--she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of his trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ghostbusters: When Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department, they decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts, unappetizing apparitions and the occasional insolent succubae.
Ghostbusters II: The Ghostbusters team regroup when the infant son of single mother Dana Barrett becomes the target of a demonic force. They must put a stop to an enormous underground...
14) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
15) Taxi driver
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to take violence. While also trying to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. 40 years later and better than ever. Enjoy this special edition.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nick and Norah have nothing in common except their taste in music. A chance meeting and a crusade to find a legendary rock band's secret show ends up being a first date and a night that will change their lives forever.
18) The walk
Publisher
talking books
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
19) The walk
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.