Steven Mackintosh
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Having been demoted and transferred to the north, D.C.I. Tennison finds herself under-used until she gets a case where a 12-year-old boy confesses to murder. She becomes involved with trying to convict the local crime boss who has proved impossible to touch.
Series
Publisher
Family Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A young beauty who feels trapped living in the country with her grandfather plots her escape with a dashing suitor. But her plans are shaken when a handsome local man returns from Paris, hoping to make her his bride. Torn by her passion for two men, and a dream she will never abandon, Eustacia Vye learns that fate holds all the answers.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet – tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss – who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the 50s. In the face of his wilder excesses in the Big Apple, John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights...
5) Good
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1930s Germany. Literature professor John Halder (Viggo Mortensen) channels his personal troubles into a novel that advocates compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. But the changes in Halder’s fortunes correspond to an increasingly turbulent change in the political...
7) Urban Hymn
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A redemptive coming of age story about a wayward teen Jamie (Letitia Wright), who is encouraged by Kate, an inspiring and unconventional social worker to use singing as an escape from her troubled background. Jamie's loyalties soon become torn between Kate and her possessive and volatile best friend, Leann. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the **British Independent Film Awards**....
8) The escapist
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Frank Perry is a tough lifer determined to bust out of a London penitentiary to see his terminally ill daughter before she dies. But first he'll have to assemble a hardcore crew, battle the brutal prison kingpin, and pull off one of the most daring and suspenseful escapes in movie history.
9) Luther: [1]
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A highly intelligent and emotionally impulsive murder detective solves crimes, although he is often inclined to follow his own moral convictions as much as the law.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Ros Pritchard is a charming and honest woman who becomes Prime Minister. She wants to relocate Parliament to make it more accessible to the masses. She introduces "No cars Wednesday" to trackle global warming. At the same time, she juggles the needs and demands of her increasingly frustrated family, which she fears is slipping away from her. With humor and charm, she takes a bold unflinching look at the modern political process, and the toll it can...
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Contains violence, strong language, sexual situations, and brief nudity"--
"Based on PD James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel ... as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
15) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Vampire heroine Selene continues the saga of war between the aristocratic Death Dealers and the barbaric Lycans. The film traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes. Selene and her love Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. The tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
17) Good
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future, John must decide whether to do nothing and keep his fame or risk losing everything.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, Lucian is a young Lycan who emerges as a powerful leader and rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, whose the daughter of Viktor, in his battle against the Vampire army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.
20) The snow goose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.