Eileen Atkins
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
In one tragic moment, two lives are destroyed in this riveting, true exploration of a dark moment in the British legal system--Let Him Have It. With those words uttered by a friend, a mentally handicapped young man shoots a policeman. But did the friend mean for him to hand over the gun or commit murder? This drama reveals the controversial postwar London murder trial that sent a mentally handicapped young man to the gallows for a murder he did not...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the Coronation, THE SCAPEGOAT tells the provocative story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face. A morally complex, darkly comic and suspenseful movie featuring compelling performances from the film’s ensemble cast.
6) Wild Target
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A hitman tries to retire, but a beautiful thief may change his plans.
7) Evening
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple visits her old school friend Lady Tressilian at the formidable aristocrat's Devon estate. Eyebrows arch higher when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive but high maintenance new wife. Nevile's first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and unresolved jealousies that lead to murder.
14) Mrs. Dalloway
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London on board the luxurious Orient Express. The thrill of riding the famous train ends abruptly when a ruthless businessman is discovered dead.
17) Cranford
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new 'downstairs' family to help run the elegance and finery of the...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.