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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Beset by the political tension of an unsettled year, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain-- a prized local landmark-- to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
7) The forgiven
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, a wealthy London couple is involved in a tragic accident with a local boy. But when they attempt to cover up the incident, the boy's father arrives seeking justice.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
British "comic genius, Stephen Fry, travels through each of America's states in his black London taxi to discover, in his own charismatic style, what makes the country unique and to get under the skin of American life"--Container.
11) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
12) Queen & country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Englishman as he joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
13) The Sea wolves
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In March of 1943, a group of Boer War veterans is recruited by British intelligence to destroy a Nazi spy ship in the harbor of Goa, India.
14) Press
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in the world of newspapers in London, it's past riven by hacking scandals, it's present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, it's future uncertain, this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas that journalists and editors face each day.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy about to retire undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends to defect and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
16) Revolver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jake Green is a grifter who vows revenge against Macha, the ferocious crime boss who sent him to prison. After taking Macha down in a game of chance, Macha puts out a hit on Jake. Caught between a gun and a hard place, Jake finds himself protected by two vicious loan sharks who make him an offer he can't refuse.
17) Mrs. Wilson
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
18) The Sheik
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In The Sheik, Lady Diana Mayo is bored by society, and plans a trek across the Algerian desert. She is carried further into the desert by an Arab chieftain, who takes one look at her and wants her, right then and there.
The son of the sheik believes he had been lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl and holds her captive before they fall in love and ride off into the sunset together.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein, " "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship.
20) To end all wars
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.