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Richard Burton
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love,' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts and crush his soul.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Novelist John Morlar claims to possess a terrifying power. When Morlar is savagely attacked in his London flat, Detective Brunel investigates and the trail leads him to Morlar's psychiatrist for answers. He learns that Morlar believes that he has telekinetic power, including the ability to make planes crash and buildings crumble. As Brunel digs into the case his worst fear may soon be realized: that Morlar's power is real and that he can wreak havoc...
9) The robe
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
This is the inspiring story of the robe that Jesus wore on the cross and the Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, who wins the robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
10) Under milk wood
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of several colorful characters living in a small Welsh town. Throughout, a background voice (native Welshman Richard Burton), narrates the day-in-the-life action.
11) The desert rats
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A courageous band of Australian soldiers stops Rommel's march to the Suez Canal in this stirring blend of action and history.
Series
Criterion collection volume 984
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
13) The sandpiper
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
16) The comedians
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
18) Cleopatra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Story of the life of Cleopatra, Queen of ancient Egypt from her ascension to the throne through her struggle for power and her loves and entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony.
19) Cleopatra
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the epic spectacle-its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen on Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Mark Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
20) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?