Stephen Daldry
1) The hours
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three women (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) in different times are related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway". Winner of Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) at the **Academy Awards,** the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Winner of a Silver Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.
3) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
4) Together
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry’s new comedy, TOGETHER, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, is the story of a family, like so many, who found a way to survive - together. This hilarious and heartbreaking story intimately shows two partners forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of lockdown.
5) The Reader
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man reunites with an older woman with whom he had a brief romance with when he was fifteen, only to discover, to his horror, that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes case.
6) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A boy from a working class miner's family secretly begins taking ballet classes.
7) Together
Author
Language
English
Description
In an honest and hilarious depiction of life during lockdown from director Stephen Daldry, James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan play a couple who are forced to re-evaluate themselves when they're stuck indoors for more than a year.
8) The Hours
Author
Language
English
Description
Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".