Emily Watson
1) Too close
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emma Roberston is assigned to work with Connie Mortensen, a wife, and mother accused of a despicable crime. Her assessment will determine whether Connie faces life in jail, life in a secure psychiatric hospital, or the chance of rehabilitation and release. Emma hopes that the high-profile case will make her career, but her sessions with Connie quickly become a complex psychological game of cat and mouse with confusing sexual undercurrents. Connie...
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Wishbones are a happy family-- but not all is perfect. Max and Fay are struggling with the pressures of growing up, while Mom and Dad have the demands of work and parenting; but their hum-drum life is about to change. Mila Starr, a monster hunter, has made it her mission to capture all spooky creatures including the Wishbones' friends King Conga, The Loch Ness Monster, and The Yeti. In order to save their friends, the Wishbones must transform...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
Publisher
Capri Releasing
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the first book in the Molly Moon series by Georgia Byng, the film tells the story of a young orphan who struggles through life alongside her friends (and enemies). Her life dramatically changes when one day she discovers an intriguing book in the local library. The book, Hypnotism: An Ancient Art Explained, written by a mysterious master hypnotist, starts her on an unstoppable journey of discovery and adventure.
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her monster family together and uncover the secret of their curse....
7) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
Publisher
A & E
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times best-seller, reveals the dark personal life the blonde bombshell hid from her adoring public. The riveting miniseries sheds new light on Marilyn's career, her three husbands, including Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and her obsession with President John F. Kennedy in a screen portrait as unforgettable as its iconic subject.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her in Germany during World War II. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
10) Wah-wah
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the experiences of actor/director Richard E. Grant during the late 1960s in the British colonial community in Swaziland as that country was becoming independent. Portrays a community occupied with booze and adultery in an attempt to stave off boredom. Follows the divorce of young Ralphie's parents and his adjustment when he returns from boarding school two years later to find that his alcoholic father has married an American stewardess. Shows...
11) On Chesil Beach
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving...
13) Red dragon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
14) Apple Tree Yard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael, is a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down when a chance meeting with Mark Costley leads to a passionate affair and a moment of shocking violence. Her only way out is to admit the truth, the truth that would destroy her...
15) Belle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Although Dido Elizabeth Belle ..., an 18th century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle ... and his wife ..., she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer ... who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine...
17) The boxer
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
19) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
20) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.