Albert Finney
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. The brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom and at home. One student's act of kindness gives the proud academic the inspiration and courage to build his new life.
2) Loophole
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary crime thriller concerning plans to rob the world's largest holding bank, located in London.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two recently-widowed men come to terms with the deaths of their wives. Reggie Conyngham-Jervis is a wealthy ex-fighter pilot. Roy Southgate is a retired milkman. Both are widowed on the same night. Now this 'odd couple' decide to overlook their differences and move in together. At first the two become friends, until their unlikely relationship is threatened by the arrival of Liz Franks, an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
7) Annie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.
8) Looker
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
10) Two for the road
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, a couple explore their 12-year marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks. They reminisce about the glorious beginning of their love affair, the early years of marriage and the events that led to their subsequent infidelities. As they try to understand their relationship, they realize they must accept how they have changed if they are to rekindle their original love.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Catherine, a lonely young woman, is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend. Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, her father threatens to disown her if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes.
12) Wolfen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Scary tale of a series of grisly murders in Manhattan, and the rumpled cop who finally discovers who (or what) is responsible.
13) Tom Jones
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Tom Jones is an orphan raised by the village squire who grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Presents the classic movie about Little Orphan Annie, who finds happiness with the famous billionaire Daddy Warbucks, as well as "Annie: A Royal Adventure" in which Annie and her friends Hannah and Molly accompany Daddy Warbucks to England, where they must stop the evil Lady Edwina Hogbottom from taking over Buckingham Palace.
Series
Bourne trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Once again, Jason Bourne emerges from hiding and into chaos. His return this time prompted inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Ross's writing is unveiling Operation Blackbriar--an upgrade to Project Treadstone--in a series of newspaper columns which have woken, and profoundly disturbed, Bourne's former masters. Bourne must uncover and eradicate the sources of their paranoia, before they eradicate him. Clawing his way out of madness,...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Annie: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Annie, a royal adventure: Annie and Daddy Warbucks are going to England for Daddy's knighting. A diabolical Lady Hogbottom has plans to take over as queen, and it's up to Annie to stop her.
18) A good year
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but while spending time in Provence, Max "finds his soul when...
20) Tom Jones
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Birthed by a local woman but raised by the village squire, Tom Jones grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!