Alan Bates
1) Butley
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A portrayal of the life of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship by the shy, future George VI (known as Bertie), the love story that followed and the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. This adaptation also covers the abdication crisis of Edward VIII, the Coronation of George VI as British King, and the King's broadcast to the nation announcing the end of the war in Europe.--From container.
3) Evelyn
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
4) The rose
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Rose, a successful rock star, attains stardom only to find insecurity, hard living and difficult decisions leading her to tragedy.
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith. After several years, he escapes back to England, where he joins a convent to prove his faith. His greatest desire is to return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. Years later, he is given the opportunity. Upon...
8) Georgy girl
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, WV. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie moth-like entity, an entity similiar to the one seen by his late wife.
10) Oliver's travels
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A professor forced into retirement and a policewoman suspended from the force team up for romance and crime-solving.
Looking for Aristotle: Oliver is an involuntarily retired professor with a yen for Beethoven, jazz, and puzzles of all kinds. Diane Priest is a WPC (Woman Police Constable) whose suspicions about a superior officer get her booted from the force. They team up on a journey that Oliver thinks will lead to love, since Diane's name is an...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
14) Zorba the Greek
Series
Studio classic volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
When he hires an eccentric stranger named Zorba to work in a mine he has inherited on Crete, Basil, a timid English writer, finds himself drawn into a world far more exciting and dangerous than any he has known.
15) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery as a young boy and sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffers an agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge. He attempts to right the long-ago wrong and sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction.
18) Hard times
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
19) Pack of lies
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A friendship between two women is threatened when one of them is accused of espionage.
20) Arabian nights
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A legendary heroine, Scheherazade, saves her kingdom and her own life by seducing her husband with the fantastical tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and other larger-than-life heroes, warriors and djinns.