Ralph Richardson
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
3) Dragonslayer
Publisher
Paramount [Home Video
Pub. Date
2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fire-breathing dragon terrorizes the sixth-century British countryside. The only hope for the beleagured citizens is an aging sorcerer. But when he is killed before he can save the people, the task falls to his young apprentice.
4) The heiress
Series
Criterion collection volume 974
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler₂s film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
Description
Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened, a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside seeking a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver, they face huge challenges and use strength and cunning to survive, while gaining new allies, battling new enemies and always pursuing their dream
6) Silver fleet
Series
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd. b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during the occupation of Holland during World War II, the owner of a Dutch shipyard pretends to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect his employees and his family.
8) The heiress
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
9) Time bandits
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only six days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy, they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoleon, Robin Hood, Agamemnon, and others.
10) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
12) The wrong box
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A huge inheritance ignites a murderous family feud in this hilarious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale set in Victorian England.
13) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
14) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...
15) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
16) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing calvary officer.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tales of the crypt: When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely, and unavoidable deaths.
Vault of horror: Five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped with...
18) The 300 Spartans
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
19) Rollerball
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the perfectly controlled society of the 21st century, the only outlet for violence is a deadly spectator sport--Rollerball.
20) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (158 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.