Paramount Pictures (Firm)
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Neil Young will play three nights at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the original home of The Grand Ole Opry, performing songs from his new album, as well as six of his all-time greatest hits. All of the songs for this album were written while Neil was recuperating from a brain aneurysm that he suffered in April of this year. The film will be a compilation of these three shows - a true concert film. Performers will wear costumes evoking the rural extravagance...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
From director Steven Spielberg comes an animated epic action-adventure based on Hergé’s comic book series. Intrepid young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his loyal dog Snowy are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, he teams up with Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) to search for the treasure of the Unicorn, while facing dangerous pursuit by Ivan...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer despite having a hilariously awful singing voice. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth, but when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance...
5) Wonder Boys
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000
Description
In this comedy, a middle-aged man juggles his problems with women, literature, and a career, while a younger man chases the artifact of his dreams. Pittsburgh college professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is currently single following his divorce from his third wife; after publishing an acclaimed first novel, Grady has been working on a follow-up, but he's been sidelined by a severe case of writer's block. Grady has more than his writing career...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Katy Perry is living proof that if you just be yourself, you can be anything. Get an inside look into the real Katy Perry and find out how this regular California girl with big dreams became one of the biggest stars in the world. Including never-before-seen content, with full song performances, behind the scenes interviews and personal moments.
Series
Criterion collection volume 404
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Spun from Daniel DeFoe's tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe — but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. Draper, Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West), and a test monkey look as if they are going to collide with a meteor. Draper and the chimp are able to eject themselves from the vessel, but...
8) The Bellboy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2004, c1960
Description
Stanley’s a bellboy at the popular Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, quietly performing his duties with the occasional blunder. Then one day, a big star of the screen resembling the bumbling bellboy, arrives at the hotel. In this comedy classic (the directorial debut of Jerry Lewis) not a single word of dialogue is spoken by the main character until the very end of the film, paying a brilliant tribute to the silent clowns of early cinema.
10) Election
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Appears on list
Description
Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent...
11) Overlord
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
12) Mad hot ballroom
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The award-winning documentary that follows New York City fourth and fifth graders as they journey into the world of competitive ballroom dance. Winner of the Celebrate New York Award at the **Gotham Awards.** Winner of Best Documentary at the **Philadelphia Film Festival.** *"It will sweep you off your feet." - Joe Morgenstern, **The Wall Street Journal***
13) Rounders
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this gripping drama, Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), a talented poker player, quits gambling after a tough loss, focusing on law school and his relationship. However, when his childhood friend Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison and buried in debt, Mike is drawn back to the tables in a game he cannot afford to lose.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Paige is a college student at a university in Wisconsin where she hopes to attend medical school. One day, Paige meets a new student on campus, Eddie, who is obviously attracted to her. Paige and Eddie strike up a friendship which slowly turns into romance. Paige learns that Eddie is actually Prince Edward, heir to the throne of Denmark, who has come to Wisconsin to chase girls and enjoy himself away from the eye of the European press. Now Paige must...
15) The Saint
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Want someone to infiltrate a top-secret organiz ation or steal a scientific formula that could change the world? For the right price, The Saint’s your man.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Allan Felix is a film critic who gets dumped by his wife. Now, his married friends Dick and Linda try in vain to fix him up. His dating skills are less than stellar, even with the advice from a recurring hallucination of the cool, charismatic film noir star Humphrey Bogart. Winner of Best Foreign Movie Performer (Woody Allen) at **Fotogramas de Plata**. *"... As comedies go, this is a very funny one. Woody Allen is one of those rare comedians who...
17) The weather man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad’s (Michael Caine) illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife’s edge between...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
19) If
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
With her dad in the hospital, Bea finds herself staying at her grandmother's apartment the same way she did the summer before her mother died. As she avoids her fears about the situation, she discovers she can see imaginary friends, and they enlist her to help them get reassigned to new children after their people have grown up and moved on, thinking they no longer need their old emotional supports. The more she tries, the more she realizes that...
20) Frankie & Johnny
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Description
From the acclaimed director, Gary Marshall, comes a story of unlikely romance. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Frankie, a waitress at an N.Y.C. coffee shop. After a series of hurtful relationships, the last thing Frankie’s looking for is a new man…until he comes looking for her.