Colin Firth
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy.
5) Genius
Publisher
Elevation Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins, who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Daphne is an irrepressible American teen who impulsively jets over "the pond" to meet the aristocratic father she never knew. Determined to fit into dad's world, Daphne stifles her vibrant personality to be the perfect debutante while plunging into a whirl of garden parties, fashion shows and more.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer ; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush ; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper ; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband ; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
11) The railway man
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime...
13) The last legion
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In the year 470 A.D., a young emperor must find a group of fighters to join him in protecting the Roman Empire.
15) Relative values
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A man returns home with his bride-to-be, an actress, who turns out to be the sister of his family's maid.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...
18) Apartment zero
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When two roommates move in together, suspicion rises between the two as one may be crazy and the other a killer.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cecily has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cecily.
20) A thousand acres
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
When an aging father retires, he passes the family farm on to his three daughters. This generous gift ignites an explosive series of events that threaten to tear the family apart forever.