Joely Richardson
1) Matilda
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Matilda, a young genius, must deal with her obnoxious parents as well as the evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull who threatens Matilda's beloved teacher Miss Honey.
3) Return to me
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
It took a lot of coaxing to get a recently widowed architect to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. But once there, he's smitten instantly ... not with his date, but with the sharp-witted waitress.
6) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
7) Loch Ness
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A skeptical American scientist attempts to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. He ruffles the feathers of the locals, but an innkeeper named Laura, and her young daughter, open his eyes and his heart.
Publisher
Sony Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.
10) Shining through
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
During World War II a secretary from Queens convinces her boss, a Colonel in American intelligence, to let her go undercover behind enemy lines in Germany.
11) I'll do anything
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A talented but unemployed actor (Nolte) unexpectedly gains custody of his six-year-old daughter (Wright).
12) Anonymous
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
13) Lady Chatterley
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Set in Venice in the late 19th century and based on Henry James' eponymous novella, THE ASPERN PAPERS is a story of obsession, grandeur lost, and dreams of Byronic adventures. Ambitious editor Morton Vint (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is fascinated by the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern and by his icon's short and wildly romantic life. Having traveled from America to Venice, he is determined to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful lover...
15) In Darkness
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
16) The Lost Girls
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An empowering look at four generations of the Darling women and how they evolve through the aftermath of their childhood adventures with Peter Pan while they embrace their natural yearnings for freedom and safety in a moving story of enchantment and growing up.
17) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
18) Fallen angel
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 49
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A high-powered Los Angeles lawyer learns a powerful lesson about second chances.
19) The patriot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
20) Endless love
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy share an instant desire that sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.