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1) Woyzeck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of the theatre's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end. A remarkable piece of theatre, Woyzeck is not bound by strictures of conventional space and time. It is a tiny play, but an epic."--Jacket.
2) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In a world where superheroes are largely the property of the military-industrial complex - and answerable to no one - the job of keeping them in line by any means necessary is gleefully accepted by black-ops contracter Billy Butcher and his cadre of operatives known as " The Boys."
4) Baal
Series
Criterion collection volume 914
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourgeois society has rejected him and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support...
6) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark₂s surprising decision to...
10) X-Men 1.5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launchs a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Our antihero is on the path to redemption with his own detective agency in Los Angeles. Cordelia is gal Friday to the psychic gumshoes, whose prophetic visions are spawned by the half demon Doyle. Comely Kate Lockley is his inside gal at the LAPD. And the series finale resurrects Darla, whose love-bite first marked Angel centuries ago.
13) Black Adam: DVD
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and imprisoned just as quickly-Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
14) Logan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Language
English
Description
In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
15) X-Men
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Second-disc Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Outcasts since birth, the X-Men are the next step of human evolution. Born with unique genetic mutations that give them extraordinary powers, they battle on the side of good. Now they must use their powers to save the people that fear them.
16) Logan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray; theatrical and noir versions.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
17) Logan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark₂s surprising decision to...
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