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Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. An unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. Award-winning playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as Fleabag, an unfiltered woman trying to heal while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along
4) Repulsion
Publisher
Entertainment Programs International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium leads to dire circumstances.
Author
Series
Call the midwife volume 2
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When young, middle-class Jennifer Worth became a midwife in the direst section of postwar, East-End London, not only did she deliver babies but she became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here are the true stories of people she met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the 20th century. Second in the series.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott, penniless orphans, find employment and romance in the world of London fashion design during the roaring twenties. Changing times, cutthroat competition, and romance flavor the dramatic conclusion. As the Roaring Twenties close, the market for haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions. A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself....
12) Enchanted April
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
14) Bleak House
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (418 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle,...
15) 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...
17) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, 2027. It's been eighteen years since baby Diego was born and now he is dead. As humankind faces extinction, a disillusioned Theo becomes an unlikely champion when he is asked by his former lover to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.
18) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
20) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London...
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