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Peter Vaughan
1) Bleak House
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A stolen Hindu diamond, the Moonstone, works its curse after being stolen from it's shrine. Just before Rachel's birthday, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her to wear. The jewel goes missing and Rachel believes that Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue...
Publisher
Sinister Cinema
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
This ghost story concerns three fabled crowns buried on the Norfolk coast which, according to legend, protect England from invasion. When an amateur archaeologist goes treasure hunting and finds the crown, he invokes the avenging shade of William Ager, the recently deceased last guardian of the crowns.
5) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Publisher
Anchor Bay Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
An adventure-fantasy-comedy that takes the viewer on a wildly imaginative trip to a new dimension in time and space in which a young time traveller encounters many famous figures from history.
6) Albatross
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
17-year-old Emelia, who believes she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by pursuing a writing career, takes a job at a B&B owned by former writer Jonathan Fischer and run by his wife Joa. Sensing emerging talent in Emelia, Jonathan begins to tutor her, leading to a relationship that soon develops into a secret affair. Meanwhile, bookish daughter Beth Fishcher finds an unlikely friend in the free-spirited...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true crime story that shocked '20s Britain, this compelling story stars Michael Kitchen as Major Herbert Armstrong, a staid lawyer in a small Welsh town who was charged with poisoning his wife and a business rival with arsenic.
8) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy, they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoleon, Robinhood, Agamemnon, and others.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
While in rural England, Pat Carroll decides to pay a courtesy call on the mother of her dead fiancé Stephen, who was killed in an auto accident several years earlier. The overbearing Mrs. Trefoile is very controlling and presses Pat to stay overnight and go to church with her in the morning. In short order, her guest becomes her prisoner as the religious fanatic uses her servants to enforce her will. When Pat tells her that she wasn't going through...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The story of an extraordinary man who lives a remarkable life without setting foot on land. Dubbed 1900 for the year he was born, he was abandoned atop a piano and raised by a lowly crew member in the bowels of a luxurious cruise ship. As he grows up, he is drawn to the piano and discovers he has an amazing gift for creating music. His reputation spreads, but he refuses to leave the ship. Only when he spots a beautiful girl on-board does he try to...
12) Straw dogs
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A young American couple come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment until they are forced to respond.
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidiating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's...
14) King of the wind
Publisher
Echo Bridge
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A poor stable boy whose undying devotion to a magnificent colt named Sham takes him on a journey from the arid deserts of Northern Africa to the court of the King of France and on to England where a remarkable turn of events unfolds.
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After the shocking developments at the end of season 5 -- including Jon Snow's bloody fate at the hands of Castle Black mutineers, Daenerys' near-demise at the fighting pits of Meereen, and Cersei's public humiliation in the streets of King's Landing -- survivors from all parts of Westeros and Essos regroup to press forward, inexorably, towards their uncertain individual fates. Familiar faces will forge new alliances to bolster their strategic chances...