Film Four International.
1) High hopes
Publisher
distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril's sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
2) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash, but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time. Sarah and the brothers risk happiness, reputation, and safety for their daring love.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000], c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash- but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
9) Alice
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alice: A little girl follows an elusive White Rabbit and so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, combining techniques of animation, puppet theatre, and live action in Švankmajer's surreal version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland. DVD format.
Darkness light darkness: A man literally constructs himself within the confines of a very small room--a potent allegory of Švankmajer's life in Eastern Europe.
10) Stormy Monday
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brendan, a young loafer is taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney, who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown.
12) Into the West
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young brothers living in the Dublin slums run away with a magical horse, trying to recapture their family's traditional life as tinkers and to find the wild west of their imaginations, while their desperate father and the law search for them.
13) Stormy Monday
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brendan, a young loafer is taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney, who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown.
14) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
15) Howards End
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], p1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters, each find different ways to deal with the constrainsts of society.
16) The deceivers
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
Set in early nineteenth century India, tells the story of the infamous cult of Kali and the daring Englishman who posed as a "Thug" to penetrate its dark secret.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
18) This is England
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
School is out for the summer and twelve-year-old Shaun is about to find a dangerous new group of friends. Having lost his father in the Fakland War, life has been lonely in this grim coastal town in northern England. But when Shaun meets the local skinheads, their companionship, and even their violence, appeal to Shaun's hurt and rage. Combo is an older volatile skinhead whom Shaun finds to be like a big brother and under his leadership, the gang...