Kenneth Branagh
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After serving in Afghanistan, a young Jack Ryan becomes an analyst in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the CIA under the guardianship of his handler, Harper. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from analyst to spy, fighting to save his own life and those of countless others. Meanwhile, he is also trying to protect his relationship with his fiancee Cathy.
A global action thriller set in...
3) Wallander: 4
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The third season of the award-winning British detective drama Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. The three episodes in this season are An Event in Autumn, The Dogs of Riga, and Before the Frost. Special features include an audio commentary and 'The Making Of.'
In An Event in autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection....
5) Cinderella
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Ella's merchant father remarries after the death of her mother. Ella welcomes her new stepmother and her daughters into the family home. But, when Ella's father unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to 'have courage and be kind.'.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
8) Pirate radio
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1960s, rebellious DJs decide to live on a boat and broadcast rock music over the airwaves against the wishes of the British government.
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIMENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!“The murderer is with uson the train now . . .”Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander, brooding and disillusioned, struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Three crime dramas based on the best-selling novels by Henning Mankell--Faceless killers, The man who smiled, and The fifth woman--follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.