Glenn Close
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 1
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again.
4) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Series
Criterion collection volume 720
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After the suicide of their friend, seven college friends who have drifted apart reunite at his funeral and reminisce about the past.
9) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
10) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
12) Hoodwinked
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2005-]
Language
English
Description
Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 34
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002,1999
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger appears at the Kansas farm of Jacob and Sarah Witting. The stranger is Jacob's father, John, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. Although John establishes relationships with Sarah and his grandchildren, he struggles to reconcile with his son. Third part of a trilogy.
16) 5 to 7
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan draws twenty-something aspiring writer Brian into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. But she's married, and can only meet him for hotel room trysts between the hours of five and seven. As Brian yearns for more than just two hours a day with the woman of his dreams, he learns hard won lessons about life and love.
17) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
18) Air Force One
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
19) Father figures
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.