Clint Eastwood
3) The Mule
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
Formats
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
"Gus Lobel...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper) mission is to protect his brothers in arms while being a prime target of insurgents. Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creed to "leave no one behind". But upon returning to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. -- From container.
10) Gran Torino
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, is pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's prize...
12) Unforgiven
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Two retired outlaws take up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes seeking revenge, and they run up against the sadistic sheriff of Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A fistful of dollars : An anonymous, but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain. Leone's new style of portraying Colonial America in a realistic style rather than the romanticised way that was characteristic of John Wayne and his contemporaries...
14) Sudden Impact
Series
Pub. Date
[1983]
Description
In the aftermath of a brutal rape, a beautiful woman has begun to hunt down her attackers. Harry has to find her and stop her before she kills again or her attackers find her.
15) Invictus
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
16) Bronco Billy
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Wild West show performer Bronco Billy meets a New York heiress stranded at a gas station. She becomes his assistant as Bronco Billy's show barnstorms the country.
18) Changeling
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
19) The Enforcer
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
When Detective Harry Callahan stops a liquor store hostage standoff in his own no-nonsense way, he gets busted back to personnel, but not for long. When terrorists rob an arms warehouse and go on a blood-soaked extortion spree, San Francisco's leaders quickly seek out Callahan. This is the third of five Dirty Harry films. Tyne Daly so-stars as Harry's new partner.
20) Dirty Harry
Series
Pub. Date
1971.
Description
Eastwood is detective Harry Callahan, who is attempting to track down a psychopathic rooftop killer before a kidnapped girl dies.