Vanessa Redgrave
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and in the process forms a desire to build bridges with his...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For over a decade Greg Mortenson has been on a mission to build schools in the region that gave rise to the Taliban and provided safety for Al Qaeda. The challenges he has faced on his mission, including death threats and a kidnapping, are chronicled in one amazing true life adventure.
4) Yanks
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This beautifully filmed drama follows three American soldiers stationed in England during WWII and the relationships that they form with three local women: Jean, Helen, and Mollie. The relationships that blossom would affect their lives forever.
5) Agatha
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rose McNulty, a once vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Grene arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Rose, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.
8) Foxcatcher
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
The dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Series
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the experiences of lesbians in the United States in three different decades. 1961 tells the story of an older lesbian who is left out of the decision-making process in the wake of her partner's sudden death. 1972 looks at the role of lesbians in the feminist movement of the 1970's through the eyes of a college-age couple. 2000 features a lesbian couple trying to conceive a child.
10) Venus
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in...
12) The locket
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The story of a wise woman who teaches a troubled young man an invaluable lesson about not giving up easily in the quest for both real love and a fulfilling life.
13) The thief lord
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
14) Camelot
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The oft-told tales of Arthurian legend have always been fertile ground for art. With countless books, films, and songs on the subject, there have been many interpretations of Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, the glories of the kingdom of Camelot, and the doomed love triangle of King Arthur, Lady Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot du Lac. The musical Camelot, however, remains the most iconic. Camelot coincided with the presidency of JFK, and as such,...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A month by the lake: At a luxurious Lake Como restor, Miss Bentley, an attractive older guest has her eye on a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous Miss Bentley goes to outrageous lengths to reel in her wealthy catch.
My life so far: Young Fraser Pettigrew has always been an adventurous child. But with the arrival of his sexy French aunt, Heloise, Fraser enters a truly eye-opening...
17) Good boy!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission, Hubble enlists the help of Owen to get them all into shape...
18) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
19) Anonymous
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, this program speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds...who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? This program poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when clock-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for power were exposed in the most unlikely of places:...
20) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay.
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
"In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for...