Miranda Richardson
22) Fred Claus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fred Claus has lived in his little brother's shadow for most of his life. Fred is in jail and Nicholas has to bail him out on the condition he come to the North Pole and repay his debt.
23) Stronger
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
24) 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...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
27) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
28) The evening star
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The generations grow, but life still spins around Aurora like a cyclone: her rebellious granddaughter wants to run off with Mr. Wrong; a snooty rival has come up with new ways to meddle in Aurora's life; her longtime spinster housekeeper is ready to ditch domestic work for the domestic bliss of matrimony; her great-grandson is like a poison pill; and her shrink is more than eager to cross the line separating client relationships and romantic entanglement....
29) 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.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
31) Southland tales
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 2008, the United States is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films. He is currently trying to secure financing for a new...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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 woman's 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.
33) Made in Dagenham
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally.
34) Parade's end
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative...
35) Paris, je t'aime
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
36) Tom & Viv
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Author
Language
English
Description
Stephen Poliakoff-penned drama, which follows Gideon, a leading PR consultant, over a few months in 1997 as he is courted by the government to manage the millennium festivities. However, he finds that the hollowness of the high-profile public life is exposed by his relationships with his daughter, who is on the brink of leaving home for university, and Stella, a woman grieving the loss of her young son in a cycling accident.
38) Rams
Author
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war raising separate flocks of sheep. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
39) Damage
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award® -winners Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) and Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) are lovers locked in the grip of sexual obsession. Obsession so strong it drinks passion, breathes fire and consumes everything and everyone it touches. Academy Award® - nominated Director Louis Malle (Atlantic City) peels back the layers of one family's tragedy to reveal a middle-aged man (Irons) and his son's fiancée (Binoche) entangled in an...
40) The Crying Game
Author
Language
English
Description
The unpredictable, unconventional, multi-Oscar®-nominated masterpiece. Starring Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson as Irish terrorists, Forest Whitaker as their hostage, and Jaye Davidson as Whitaker's exotic girlfriend, the film is a haunting, humorous a