Jodhi May
1) Emma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever and rich, has very little to concern her. When her governess marries advantageously, Emma congratulates herself on her great success as a matchmaker. So when she meets the pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet, Emma is ready to practice her skills again - ignoring warnings of the harm she could cause from friend and neighbour Mr. Knightley.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rousing, kinetic update of the Cooper classic, replete with 1990s sensibilities, potent depiction of violence, and a charismatic central performance by Day-Lewis as Hawkeye. Wavers between sweep of historical fiction and smaller canvas of its love story, but never fails to entertain.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A naive, young governess is hired by a charming bachelor to look after his two young children in a grand mansion in rural England. She is determined to make the most of her situation, despite the Master's strange stipulation that she never contact him.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa in 1963, the story concerns an idealistic journalist Diana Roth who defies the government and becomes the first woman arrested under the 90-day Detention Act-- both a story of government abuse and a look at one mother's neglect of her family because of her involvement with a larger cause. Based on a true story.
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...
12) A quiet passion
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
13) Aristocrats
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true story of the four daughters of the Duke of Richmond, great-granddaughters of King Charles II, whose triumphs and scandals rocked England for nearly a century.
Part 1: Looking back on her childhood, Emily Lennox remembers how devastated she was when her adored older sister Caroline was banished from the family for marrying Mr. Fox. When Emily meets the man she wants to marry, she pleads her case with more subtlety and more success....
14) Ginger & Rosa
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Two teenage girls--Ginger (Fanning) and Rosa (Engler)-- are inseparable: they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the determination to grow up"--Container.