Shirley Henderson
1) Intermission
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways. When the desperately insecure and emotionally inarticulate John breaks up with Deirdre to 'give her a little test' his plan backfires leaving her broken-hearted and him alone and miserable. Through chance and coincidence, their break-up triggers a roller coaster ride of interweaving escapades in the lives of everyone around...
Series
Masterpiece theatre collection volume Season 31
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert. Over the coming days, lost in the heat, the settlers face hunger, thirst and a lack of faith in each person's instincts for survival. Four-time Oscar nominee, Michelle Williams leads...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While traveling on a train to London, Miss Marple is told by a woman she has never met, Lavinia Pinkerton, that she is certain there have been two murders in her village of Wychwood. When Lavinia dies in what is purported to be an accident - she fell, or was pushed, down the escalator in a tube station - Miss Marple decides to visit Wychwood and see what she can find.
7) Topsy-turvy
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny, quirky, and poignant story of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome negotiating his way through divorce, his friend's matchmaking efforts, and a woman who introduces him to therapy, filth, and unconditional love.
11) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
12) Close your eyes
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Strother has a dangerous gift. He gets visions from the inside of his patient's minds. While trying to help a detective stop smoking, he sees in her subconscious an eerie image of a young girl floating below the surface of a stream. Soon he is caught up in the detective's pursuit of a ritualistic killer who had kidnapped a young girl, Heather. Although Heather escaped, she hasn't spoken a word since. Now, only Michael can...
13) Yes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon living in exile in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
15) Tale of tales
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales unleases a barrage of mind-bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the misadventures of three kings"--Container.
16) Stan & Ollie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One of the world's great comedy teams set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shine through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. The tour becomes a hit, but Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the specter of Laurel and Hardy's past.
17) T2 trainspotting
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
First there was an opportunity; then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he's promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records and partying like a rock star. From his speedy rise to Factory's hedonistic fall, this is the story of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to Manchester, England, and then to the world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 574
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her ex-husband Bill a convicted pedophile and in jail, Trish is happy to remarry and provide a normal father figure for her two sons, but when Bill is released, Trish and the boys must decide whether or not to forgive him.