Ciarán Hinds
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the brutal murder of a famous young actress brings DI Anna Travis face-to-face with her old boss, DCS James Langton, the two must find a killer and deal with their own sexually charged relationship. She's determined to get ahead; he's angry about being passed over for promotion and obsessed with finding the person on his team who betrayed him. Meanwhile, there are too many suspects, and the body count is rising.
"The best U.K police drama in...
2) Persuasion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about lost and found love. Anne is persuaded to reject a proposition of marriage from the man she loves due to his lack of fortune. Years later she meets him again. Can Anne win back his affections?
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Freshly promoted DI Anna Travis reunites with DCS James Langton to investigate the murder of a former police officer. The dead man was Langton's friend, and the detectives soon learn the case is much bigger than they first believed. A drug found at the scene has the chillingly accurate street name 'Drop Dead,' and the notorious criminal behind the drug might be someone who no longer exists."--Container.
4) Frozen
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a fearless optimist, teams up with extreme mountain man Kristoff and his sidekick reindeer Sven on an epic journey to find Anna's sister Elsa, the Snow Queen, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a funny snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction.
5) Miami vice
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
6) Ivanhoe
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adventure set in 12th century England, with the knight Ivanhoe, his lady Rowena, Richard the Lionhearted, and Robin Hood.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On her first day on the job, rookie detective Anna Travis throws up at a crime scene and faints at a postmortem. Does she have what it takes to succeed in what's still mostly a man's world? Above Suspicion (pilot): For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time.
8) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
10) December bride
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
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fiance? is woefully depressed and Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes at his every effort at reconciliation. Margot and...
12) The eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night. He isn't sure if he is having nightmares, or if he's experiencing a haunting. Working as a volunteer for an international literary festival, he is assigned to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural. Establishing a rapport with one another, Michael...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
15) The debt
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 character guide ([8] p. : color illustrations. color ports. ; 17 cm.)
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
20) Amazing grace
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce--his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century--and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.