Henshall
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
Series
[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 13
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Sharpe is back in England with his reputation fully restored. He is ordered to the north where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision--whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
11) The Salvation
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down. Exploding with eye-popping action, dazzlingly dramatic frontier landscapes, and a smoldering performance by Eva Green, The Salvation is a rip-roaring, blood-spattered saga of...
12) South Riding
Publisher
BBC Home Video
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
A woman serves as a headmistress in an all-girls school in Yorkshire, and attempts to create the best school that she possibly can in the midst of the Great Depression.
13) The Babadook
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this terrifying thriller, a mother must protect her son from an evil, supernatural entity that has escaped the pages of a children's book and is lurking in their home.
14) Acute Misfortune
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Naïve artist Kingdom Swann begins a new career in photography after a leading gallery rejects his paintings. His unscrupulous assistant, Cromwell Marsh encourages Swann to take pictures of nudes in classical settings and behind his back Marsh sells the most risqué sections of the photos to specialist men's magazine, Gentlemen's Relish.
16) The babadook
Publisher
Causeway Films
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. Making it all worse is the arrival of a monsterous children's book that won't be ignored.
18) Collision
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After a major road accident, Detective Inspector Tolin uncovers the events that led the victims to be on this road at the same time and he finds himself drawn into government cover-ups, smuggling, torn relationships and murder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance: Anne of Cleves: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable...