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1) Angel
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
4) Affinity
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A socialite trying to gain purpose to her life by mentoring at a woman's prison during the late 19th century, becomes enamored with one inmate, and discovers a world of secrets, passion, and the supernatural.
5) Red road
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
6) High hopes
Publisher
distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril's sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mr. Neville, a young draughtsman, is persuaded to accept a very strange commission: 12 drawings of a country estate in exchange for money and sexual favours. This simple arrangement soon spirals out of control, and Mr. Neville finds himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery.
9) Last holiday
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his identity caught between upstairs and downstairs, the guest and the "help."
10) The full monty
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked. A hilarious, heartfelt comedy in which six friends discover the inner strength to overcome the problems in their personal lives.
11) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
12) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, with the help of a young aboriginal boy on his "walkabout", a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
13) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts Beatrix Potter's life from her early fascination with woodland creatures to her days as an independent woman pursuing a career in writing and illustrating.
14) Liam
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
15) The walker
Publisher
Distributed by Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers for her. Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3.4 in.
Description
A recreation of the dramatic 19th century train robbery masterminded by Edward Pierce. He was the first man in history to rob a moving train, and he and his accomplices got away with a fortune in gold.
17) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
19) The ghost writer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
20) Elizabeth
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
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