David Lean
2) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn stars as a lonely secretary who travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love. She does, but with a very married man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an airplane manufacturer walks out of his life after her brother and husband are both killed in his quest to break the sound barrier. When he finally succeeds, she and her newborn child reconcile with him.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
12) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A film about the Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a doctor/poet. Doctor Zhivago sees his life torn apart by the Revolution and the alterations also affect the lives of many around him, including the gentle woman he marries and the fascinating other woman he cannot forget.
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the darkness of an English morning, a Wellington bomber flies home across the North Sea. In a blinding flash, it crashes into the high tension wires above the base. Forced to bail out, the six crewmen are wandering around occupied Holland. One of the six men is wounded, one is missing. With diehard courage they head toward the North Sea and freedom. After eluding enemy soldiers and quislings, they find themselves trapped inside Nazi headquarters,...
14) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A workhouse orphan is forced into criminal activities by Fagin, who leads the underground gang of pickpockets.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
17) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
18) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.