UK Film Council
2) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend... enters the picture"--Container.
3) Vera Drake
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
4) Brick lane
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nazneem is a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London during the 1980s. She leaves behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. In a loveless marriage to the middle aged Chanu, she feels trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London. She begins to fear that her soul is quietly dying. Meanwhile, her sister Hasina, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle...
5) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gang of tough inner-city kids try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, which turns a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone.
8) Sylvia
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958....
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.
10) Nowhere boy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
12) Opal dream
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kellyanne has two of the best friends in the world. The only problem is that nobody sees them but her. When her father leaves them in an opal mine, it's up to Kellyanne's brother to rally the town to find these two imaginary friends.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
16) Happy-go-lucky
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.