Tom Courtenay
1) 45 Years
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Best Actress (R) Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling & Tom Courtenay are a couple celebrating their 45th anniversary when a revelation about an ex-lover upends their marriage.
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...
3) Quartet
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This crime drama focuses on a cold case reopened after 39 years. When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate. There are four suspects: a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what...
5) Unforgotten
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This crime drama focuses on a cold case reopened after 39 years. When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate. There are four suspects: a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what...
6) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
9) Summerland
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional...
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.
11) The North water
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
12) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
13) Billy Liar
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The murder of a prostitute, who is also a German agent, draws the attention of Major Grau of German Intelligence, who discovers that the evidence points to three top-ranking Nazi generals. After following leads, Grau winds up in Paris and discovers that two of the generals are deeply involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Grau's case will go unfinished for twenty years until the true killer is brought to justice.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Some war violence.
A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission may be compromised. Abort.