Jeremy Irons
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English
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"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world...
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After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts. Life there is no fun, until James receives some magical, tiny green things and accidentally drops them by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends-- Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug,...
4) Dead ringers
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle (both played by Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons) are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women - including unsuspecting Claire.
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Takes a critical look at the history of Western thought by examining the remains of Adolf Hitler’s private library. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16,000 books at the end of his life, 1,200 of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C today. The documentary follows American historian Timothy Ryback, who studied these books for almost a decade. While many still confine racism and antisemitism to the ideological extremes in...
6) Trashed
Publisher
Blenheim Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the risks to the food chain, environment, and health in various parts of the world through pollution of air, land, and water by the production and accumulation of solid waste.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Leonardo DiCaprio leads a phenomenal cast, including Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne in this thrilling tale of majesty and Musketeers. When the selfish excesses of France's arrogant King Louis XIV begin to threaten his subjects' very lives, the legendary Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan — must reunite to save their country once more. The key to their plan? A mysterious masked prisoner, who may...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Mike (Jeremy Irons) and Anna (Meryl Streep), two film actors involved in a turbulent affair, are portraying a pair of star-crossed Victorian lovers, Charles and Sarah. As the fictional Charles’ reputation is ruined by the enigmatic Sarah, Mike finds that he cannot accept the intangible affections of the wily Anna. The interweaving of the two love stories yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together...
11) Lolita
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov Classic, starring Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain, LOLITA tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert...
12) Gallipoli
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Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A look at the battle between the Ottoman Empire and the British, which became one of the most controversial and fiercest battles of the First World War. Includes newly uncovered diaries, photos, and interviews.
13) Assassin's creed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit production (also a recent Great Performances production), David Tennant meets fellow actors who've tackled this most iconic of roles, including superstar Jude Law, and compares notes on the role's titanic challenges. Tennant digs deep into the text about the doomed Danish Prince alongside the actors Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw. In this episode: He will give the devil his due. Jeremy...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, THE SULTAN AND THE SAINT tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.
17) Waterland
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Tom Crick faces the latest in a long series of disappointments that form his life when the British teacher of history is forced into early retirement by the American high school where he works.Challenged by one of his students to make his subject relevant, as his final lecture the fraying Crick tells the history of the English marshlands known as The Fens. He spins a tale that begins before World War I and encompasses his family history, his childhood...
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.
19) The Words
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this dramatic thriller, aspiring writer Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) finds an old manuscript and claims it as his own, skyrocketing to fame. As his success grows, his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana) supports him, unaware of the deception. But when an elderly man (Jeremy Irons) confronts Rory, revealing the true origins of the story, Rory’s life begins to spiral. With his secret exposed, can Rory face the consequences, or will his lie unravel everything...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons stars in an Academy Award-winning role with Glenn Close, Christine Baranski and a high-powered supporting cast as Claus vonBülow, an aristocratic, moral reprobate who's guilty of attempted murderbut found legally innocent in a stunning REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. In thisshocking, witty true story that reveals life in a wealthy American upperclass that shamelessly feels no guilt over the consequences of itsactions, a story that examines a legal...