Patrick Magee
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
Series
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When Catherine marries Charles Fengriffen and moves into the family's old mansion, they are unaware that they are to be the victims of a horrifying curse. They are tormented by a strange lifelike portrait, odd servants, and a disembodied hand.
8) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
O'Neal stars as an Irish scoundrel and gentleman who marries a countess and rises to the top of English aristocracy.
9) Galileo
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Screen version of Bertolt Brecht's play about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
Français
Description
In a remote English village, three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Bronte. Although compelled to take posts as governesses or private tutors, the four siblings nurture their artistic aspirations. Branwell's poems begin to interest other writers and each of the sisters publishes a successful novel. The family's good fortune, however, is short lived, and soon...
11) Chariots of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the Olympics. One used his faith in God, and the other his hatred of Anti-Semitism.
12) The monster club
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A trio of horror stories, all told by vampire Price.
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told.
13) Young Winston
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
14) The Criminal
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance to reveal its whereabouts to his gang. They spring him from jail all right, but make the fatal mistake of shooting him before he's given them the full story.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles 29 years in the life of Martin Luther, the 16th century religious leader and reformer, covering his intellectual battle with the church in Rome, the Peasant's Revolt, the Diet of Worms, the burning of the Papal Bull at Wittenberg Castle, and the final break away quarrel with Rome.
16) King Lear
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can...
17) Asylum
Series
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Inmates in the "House of Crazies" tell their personal horror stories to the facility's new, young administrator (Robert Powell), who must guess which one of the psychopaths was his predecessor.
19) Barry Lyndon
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Tales from the crypt (1972): When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimley, and unavoidable, deaths!
Vault of horror (1973): Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground....