Michael Sheen
Author
Description
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
2) Passengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
Author
Description
Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better"--IMDB.com.
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 1
Description
When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
7) Good omens
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
9) Home again
Formats
Description
A daughter of a famous filmmaker, who has just separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters into her childhood home in Los Angeles, meets three young aspiring filmmakers and lets them live in her home.
10) Blood diamond
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer - an ex mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in jail for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his...
11) Tron: legacy
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. It was sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA.
14) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
15) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 2
Formats
Description
Twenty-year-old college undergraduate Lyra is once again thrown together with Malcom Polstead, now a professor, after Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, receive secrets from a dying man about a daemon-haunted city and the origins of Dust.
17) The deal
Series
Miriam collection volume 6
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at Tony Blair's rise to power, and the rivalry he faced against his mentor and current Prime Minister to the U.K., Gordon Brown.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
Chronicles the lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters, a successful OB/GYN, is conducting a secret study of human sexuality. Soon, he meets Virginia Johnson, a former nightclub singer who is now part of the hospital secretarial staff. He enlists her help with his study, and she quickly proves to be an asset to Masters' work. Together, they delve deeper than anyone before them into the science of sex and later become...
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