Riz Ahmed
1) Nightcrawler
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
2) Venom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own." --
3) Rogue One
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.--
Publisher
GKids, Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses...
6) Trishna
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
9) Four lions
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart, slapstick comedy ... takes aim at Jihadi suicide bombers and illuminates the war on terror through satire and farce. Follow five inept aspiring terrorists on their quest to strike a blow, and how they demonstrate that terrorism may be about ideology, but it can also be about idiots"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A few decades before the gold rush in the 1870s, there are prospectors out in the Pacific Northwest trying to make a name for themselves. One of them suddenly finds himself in a world of trouble when a notorious pair of brothers marks him for death. The Sisters brothers are known all throughout the area for their wicked ways, and now they believe that he has crossed them. In order to escape their wrath, he'll need to draw upon resources he's not...
12) Closed circuit
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
13) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
14) Mogul mowgli
Author
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
Description
"A British-Pakistani rapper on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy."--
15) The sandman
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus -- the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination -- is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three "tools" that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence. As the multithreaded story unspools, The Sandman descends into Hell to...
Series
The Criterion Collection ; 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
In Sound of Metal, a tale of sound, fury, and self-discovery, Riz Ahmed delivers an intensely committed performance as the volatile Ruben, who has found new purpose as a drummer in a noise-metal duo, playing blistering live shows with...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
18) Wired
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced thriller which delves into the murky world of high-risk bank fraud. Louise is a young, fun-loving single mother who's been recently promoted. But unsuspecting Louise has been targeted as part of a conspiracy to coerce her into facilitating a 250million internet bank theft. At the heart of her troubles is best friend Anna, who has been seduced by the glamour of the criminal underworld and is persuaded to divulge the secrets of Louise's...
19) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An eight-part limited series that delves into the intricate story of a fictitious murder case in New York City involving a Pakistani-American college student who, after a night of partying with a female stranger, wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he finds himself charged with her murder. The series follows the police investigation and legal proceedings, all the while examining the criminal justice system and the purgatory of Rikers Island,...