Michael Redgrave
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls in love with a London dance-hall girl and decides to marry her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with their unlikely union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A British woman vanishes from a train in Switzerland. Two of her fellow passengers, also Britishers, investigate and come upon a situation that is more than they expected.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
A Czech concentration camp escapee takes the identity of a dead British officer to avoid execution. In a German POW camp with other Englishmen, he is forced to keep up a correspondence with the officer's estranged wife, Celia. She notices a difference in her husband's letters but wants to believe that he has changed for the better. His fellow POWs begin to suspect him of being a German spy as he is a little too English but his conspicuous courage...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
The touching story of two older people (Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave) whose lives are linked when they become lodgers in the same seedy boarding house in London. Both are down on their luck. James has been wrongfully dismissed from his post at a British public school. Good-hearted Wanda is a cello player driven to busk on the streets. They find sympathy and understanding as they share their misfortunes. "*...a compelling and often heartbreaking...
Series
Criterion collection volume 294
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A strict English schoolteacher is forced into retirement and begins to doubt himself and his life.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
The theory that life is pre-ordained and that dreams are a glimpse into the future prompts Commander Lindsay to relate a dream he has experienced to his fellow dinner guests. The dream involves a Dakota carrying the Air Marshall, an attractive girl, a very important person and five other civilians, who, with a crew of five, number thirteen. The aircraft is lost over the sea, the radio fails, and fuel is running short when, through a break in the clouds,...
12) The dam busters
Series
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Tells the true World War II story of how the Royal Air Force 617 Squadron carried out a raid on three of the most important dams in Germany.
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Dead of night (1945): An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences. He finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. ;
Queen of spades (1949): Herman tries to learn the secret to winning money so he can afford to court Lisa. He fails tragically, and Herman, Lisa, and her mysterious grandmother all die.
15) The hill
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of an officer imprisoned for refusing to obey a suicidal order.
16) Mr. Arkadin
Publisher
Clever Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A reclusive billionaire fakes a case of amnesia and hires a young adventurer who has been seeing his daughter to investigate his own past. As the inquiries begin unraveling Arkadin's sordid history, the young man realizes he's being used to keep the truth from Arkadin's daughter and that his own life is in danger.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"This expressionistic work is Eugene O'Neill's classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide. Set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era, O'Neill's saga of family discord fueled by psychological undercurrents is from Aeschylus' "the Oresteia." The end result is one of the American theatre's most shattering epic works." --container. Each episode concludes with an after word by Erich Segal containing...
18) Heidi
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to care for an invalid girl in the city.
19) Dead of night
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of strangers mysteriously gathered at an isolated country estate, recount chilling tales of the supernatural. But even after these frightening tales are told, does one final nightmare await them all?
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent (1936): Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. Richard joins professional killer, the General to look for clues, which leads them to suspect the tourist Caypor. Elsa occupies Caypor's wife, Florence Kahn, while Richard and the General attempt to complete their mission during a climbing trip in the Alps. It turns out he was the wrong man, so the spies...