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1) The master
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a naval veteran who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time, The Stranger mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best." -- Container.
Series
Criterion collection ; 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mike is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott is a wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called "home". A stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.
5) 3 iron
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Korean
Description
When a mysterious drifter breaks into a mansion, he discovers a lonely, beautiful woman trapped in an abusive marriage. When she escapes on the back of his motorcycle, their romantic adventures are just beginning.
7) Naked
Series
Criterion collection ; 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Series
Criterion collection ; 515
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
9) Picnic
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
10) The quarry
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A drifter kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief suspects foul play." --
11) Gold
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"While traveling through the desert, a drifter finds a valuable gold nugget, and must guard it from thieves amidst harsh conditions."--
12) Open road
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominees Andy Garcia and Juliette Lewis join Camilla Belle and Colin Egglesfield in a heartwarming coming-of-age story. Angie (Belle) is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter (Garcia), a handsome cop (Egglesfield), and his sister (Lewis), she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her.
13) Bad influence
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Michael Boll, an ambitious young businesman who seems to have everything, befriends Alex, the mysterious drifter, who takes him for a walk on the wild side and a run for his life.
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Roger, a Rasputin-like drifter, is in search of the ultimate indie-rock band, The Transcendents: A band that was on the brink of greatness before disappearing from the world. What he finds is less than transcendent: a band that has all but abandoned society, a host of unpleasant memories, and more questions than answers in his search." --
15) The void
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Officer Carter stumbles upon a crawling man in need of help in the forest. A trip to the desolate and nearly closed hospital kicks off the beginning of the end for several hospital patrons. Carter's estranged wife Allison is the head nurse along with Dr. Powell when Carter brings in the drifter. The father and son tracking the drifter burst onto the scene to demand that the man be handed over." --
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Joe Kidd: Gunslinger Joe Kidd is hired by a wealthy landowner to quell a range war with Mexican revolutionaries, but he soon finds his loyalties in question when he falls for a beautiful rebel.
Two mules for Sister Sara: A hard-hitting drifter and an unusual nun set off on an action-packed...
17) Prairie love
Series
Film Movement ; 10, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As a mysterious high plains drifter travels across the wintry North Dakota prairie, he finds a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road and stops to lend a hand. After defrosting, the man explains that he's on his way to meet his pen-pal girlfriend for the first time, as she's being released from prison. Desperate for a girlfriend of his own, the drifter sees this as an opportunity to change his lonely existence, and hatches a plan to steal...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this bold thriller peppered with dark humor and interlocking mystery, an eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows; where he has acquired the nickname "Buster" to rant about the impending Inversion at the turn of the millennium, he is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life...
19) 4 by Agnès Varda
Series
Criterion collection ; 418
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
A married couple has troubles in their small village; a singer awaits test results from a biopsy; a married man has an affair with a postal worker; follows the life of a drifter found frozen in a ditch through flashbacks.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang.
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