BBC Films
2) The Duchess
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Critically-Acclaimed Romance set in 1930's England featuring Rose Byrne, Henry Cavill and Bill Nighy. The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Salvation comes in the form of their American landlord Simon Cotton and his brother Neil. Although initially repelled by Simon, Rose is determined to make him fall in love with her and succeeds. A wedding...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85 1) presentation Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. 1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ;
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
7) Denial
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biographical drama recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team, led by Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Nominated...
8) Breathe
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robin (Andrew Garfield) is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of his wife Diana (Claire Foy) and her twin brothers, Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together — raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients. BREATHE is a heartwarming celebration of love and...
9) Broken
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
10) Becoming Jane
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first, the young Jane Austen finds the mischevious Thomas Lefroy ignorant and self-centered, but they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Both of their families disagree with the match, but Thomas tries to convince Jane to runaway with him. Instead, Jane stays with her family and ends her affair with Thomas. She begins to write some of her greatest works of all time, with Lefroy becoming the inspiration for Mr. Darcy in the novel "Pride...
11) Woman in gold
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to build relationships with others, a teenage math prodigy (Asa Butterfield, *Hugo, Enders Game*) develops a budding friendship with a young girl while competing at the International Mathematics Olympiad. Nominated for Best Actor (Asa Butterfield), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Hawkins), and Best Supporting Actor (Rafe Spall) at the **British Independent Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto Independent Film Festival**. *"It...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. The King picks Mary as his mistress and Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen.
14) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
15) The iron claw
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Author
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman₂s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
19) Jane Eyre
Language
English
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
20) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eight years after her romance with Wentworth is thwarted by a scheming socialite, Anne, now considered an old maid, has another chance with her former love when Wentworth returns.