Glenn Close
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo ... Shortly after the girls returned to the US for boarding school, Jessie first started to exhibit symptoms of severe bipolar disorder ... [embarking] on a series of destructive marriages as the condition worsened. Glenn was always by her side,...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Glenn Close stars in this story of a young Hungarian conductor's big break, a production of Wagner's masterpiece Tännhauser at the Opera Europa in Paris. But the diva is particularly difficult; the dancers go on strike; management is feuding; the sets are hideous; and the theater is picketed by environmentalists. And then the conductor falls in love. Now will Tännhauser be a success, or will the aspiring conducter return to Hungary in shame?
5) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
ALBERT NOBBS struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for three **Academy Awards**.
6) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
7) 5 to 7
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan draws twenty-something aspiring writer Brian into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. But she's married, and can only meet him for hotel room trysts between the hours of five and seven. As Brian yearns for more than just two hours a day with the woman of his dreams, he learns hard won lessons about life and love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Patty Hewes is the nation's most revered and most reviled litigator, and her bright, ambitious protégée Ellen Parsons become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher, one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney, Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
13) Hamlet
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
15) Fatal attraction
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dan Gallagher, a New York attorney, has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest while his wife is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. Even if it means destroying Dan2s family to keep him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel. When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Det. Vic Mackey's past actions have caught up with him and he finds himself working in a collapsing surveillance sting. Meanwhile Captain Monica Rawling prepares to take over the Barn and implement her controversial anti-gang policies.
20) Evening
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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...