Jonathan Pryce
1) Taboo
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (7 hrs. 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He inherits his notorious father's shipping empire, as well as all of the enemies and debts his father's dubious dealings had picked up along with it.
Publisher
Aberle-Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a grim and gusty October day in Green Town, Illinois, two young boys encounter a distressed man who foretells of danger blowing their way. Soon after, the town is visited by a seductive stranger named Mr. Dark and his Pandemonium Carnival. Terrifying things begin to happen when the adventurous boys stumble onto the carnival's deadly and destructive secret!
3) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While traveling to Stockholm with her husband, where he'll be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a woman confronts the sacrifices she's made on his behalf.
Formats
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
5) De-Lovely
Formats
Description
In this exuberant cinematic ode to legendary composer Cole Porter, the lives of Cole (Kevin Kline) and Linda (Ashley Judd) Porter were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. Though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest songs of the 20th century. Featuring outstanding performances by some of today's greatest musical stars including Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w and some col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn' and like the novel itself, this film cannot be pigeonholed into any specific genre. It's all at...
8) The Healer
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A young man discovers that he has the family gift of healing. As he struggles to understand his new reality, a teenage girl with cancer unexpectedly inspires him to believe in himself, and by helping others, he will find his life purpose.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Toby is a disillusioned advertising executive that becomes pulled into a world of a time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Don Quixote and Toby to be Sancho Panza, gradually becoming unable to tell dreams from reality.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
11) Woman in Gold
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in the remarkable true story of one woman's battle against the establishment to recover her family possessions that had been seized by Nazis during WWII.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it – by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity and sexuality. Jeanne combines them all in a scheme to acquire a diamond necklace that will enable her to buy back the royal status taken from her. Academy Award® winner* Hilary Swank...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young girl grows a pine tree named Piney on her grandfather's Christmas tree farm, but he is accidentally taken from the farm with another shipment when he is ready, her dog Jackster tries to lead Piney home by Christmas Eve while she and her grandfather search for them.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Just as a media mogul unveils his new global news service, a British warship is attacked in Chinese territory. Agent James Bond teams with a beautiful Chinese spy to discover the truth before war breaks out.
16) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
17) Ronin
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Description
The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. Known as Ronin, these operatives are assembled in France for a seemingly routing mission to steal a top-secret briefcase. The simple task soon proves explosive as the underworld organizations vie for the same prize
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min. ea.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Kept isolated from the court by her domineering mother, Victoria seems unprepared for the throne when King William IV dies. But the teenage queen shows surprising strength and resolve, defying her mother's schemes to seize power, and puts her full faith in the political counsel of Lord Melbourne, the Prine Minister--an alliance that would prove troublesome in the future."--Container.
20) Hysteria
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1880 London, a young doctor who sets out to find a medical cure for "hysteria" in women invents the electro-mechanical vibrator.