Mike Nichols
3) Silkwood
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear reactor worker who might have been murdered to prevent her expose of wrongdoing at the power plant.
4) Working girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and charm to make it big. All she needs is the right haircut, clothes and job. The opportunity arises when her classy, seductive and treacherous boss breaks a leg skiing. Tess steps into her job, her apartment and her clothes, and all sorts of witty and romantic things follow.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star, is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
6) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A gay cabaret owner and his transvestite companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiance's right-wing moralistic parents.
7) Wolf
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Film version of the age-old legend of a man who turns into a wolf-like creature under the influence of the full moon.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing U.S. congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
11) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young man graduates with honors, meets and has an affair with one of his parents' friends, and is urged to date her daughter.
12) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
13) Carnal knowledge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
This film traces the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.
14) Closer
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
15) Primary colors
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife, Susan. Running against the odds, the Stantons need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.
16) The graduate
Publisher
MGM/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Directionless and living with his parents, recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock begins an affair with a married neighbor and then falls in love with her daughter.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
To save his planet of men, an alien named Harold is sent to Earth to procreate with a woman. But he's worlds away from understanding the opposite sex. As he hits on every female in sight, he runs into one technical difficulty - his 'member' buzzes when he's aroused. On top of that, his pick-up lines are bad and his social skills are worse. Mix in a suspicious FAA official and an underhanded co-worker, and Harold's mission seems next to impossible....
19) Zappa
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa, using materials from the Zappa Vault.
20) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.