BBC Films
1) Snapper
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about a close-knit, boisterous Irish family, and the commotion that follows the oldest daughter's announcement that she is pregnant. The whole town is thrown into a tizzy when she refuses to reveal the father's name.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
3) Red road
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a classic English story, Cassandra Mortmain chronicles in her diary what happens to her eccentric family when a young American man inherits the local estate. The bittersweet love story that ensues is far more complicated than she ever imagines.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They say, the boy was scared to death. When the death of a child at a boarding school is blamed on a ghost, hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is certain that science and reason can explain it. But the truth she discovers is more terrifying than she could ever imagine, and soon the ghost hunter becomes the hunted.
6) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
7) Match point
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
©2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly cozy lifestyle, Chris begins to consider a drastic solution....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates and has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.
10) Woman in gold
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
11) Conspiracy
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting was comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By the end of the meeting, the fate of six million lives...
12) A little chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
13) Broken
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
14) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
15) The first grader
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
17) Bright star
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005], c1976
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 781 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Through hard work, talent, and ambition, a servant girl rises from scullery maid to become the finest chef in London and Edwardian society's premier hostess. Along the way her beauty and spirit attract the attention of high-placed admirers.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Pip, an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice inherits a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, his future seems promising. But a bitter heiress is intent on preventing Pip from finding true love.