Nicole Kidman
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This drama tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.
2) The hours
Author
Formats
Description
A trio of stories based around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In the second, in 1949 Los Angeles, Laura Brown can't seem to stop reading Woolf. In the present, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility.
3) The northman
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A viking prince avenges the murder of his father.
4) The upside
Formats
Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this 'funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.' From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
6) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
After being outed by his parents, the son of a Baptist preacher is forced to take part in a church-supported gay conversion program.
8) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After getting lost on the streets of Calcutta as a five-year-old, thirty-year-old Saroo sets out to find his lost family.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
10) The railway man
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime...
11) Far and away
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.
12) Destroyer
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While investigating a murder, an LAPD detective realizes that it is connected to a bank robbery that happened many years ago when she and her partner both worked as undercover agents.
13) Lion
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
14) The railway man
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Eric Lomax, a British officer who was captured by the Japanese and sent to a Thai POW camp during World War II.
15) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When parents go searching for their missing teenage children, they are faced with scrutiny of their past.
16) The undoing
Formats
Description
A thrilling mini-series from HBO about a successful New York therapist who's life begins to spin out of control just before her first book is published.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an accident leaves her with a serious head injury, a woman wakes up remembering nothing of her past. As secrets are revealed she starts to question the people closest to her.
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
20) The others
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman with two photosensitive children lives in a dark and eerie mansion on the Channel Islands in Jersey, and after three mysterious servants arrive, she becomes convinced that the house is haunted.