Michael Gambon
1) Quirke
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A consultant pathologist in the Dublin city morgue in the 1950s, Quirke is a powerful character more at ease among the cold silent slabs than the company of his fellow men. But in truth, his profession provides his greatest pleasure: inquisitive by nature, he is fascinated with unlocking the secret to these cadavers' deaths. After a body vanishes from his mortuary one night Quirke's curiosity is piqued by the lengths his brother is prepared to go...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreaking romantic epic, Evelyn Waugh's classic novel inspires this evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence in Oxford, 1925. The unworldly undergraduate Charles Ryde is befriended by the flamboyant and aristocratic Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord and Lady Marchmain, and is thrilled by an invitation to Brideshead, the Marchmains' magnificent ancestral home.
Author
Series
Restless volume 2
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling spy novel by William Boyd and boasting a "fabulous British cast" (Los Angeles Times), this Emmy®-nominated BBC drama is a tale of passion, duplicity, and betrayal. Ruth Gilmartin (Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey) is stunned to learn that her mother, Sally (Charlotte Rampling, Broadchurch), has been living a double life. Her real name is Eva Delectorskaya (Hayley Atwell, Captain America: The First Avenger), she worked as a...
Author
Series
Restless volume 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling spy novel by William Boyd and boasting a "fabulous British cast" (Los Angeles Times), this Emmy®-nominated BBC drama is a tale of passion, duplicity, and betrayal. Ruth Gilmartin (Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey) is stunned to learn that her mother, Sally (Charlotte Rampling, Broadchurch), has been living a double life. Her real name is Eva Delectorskaya (Hayley Atwell, Captain America: The First Avenger), she worked as a...
8) The Actors
Author
Language
English
Description
Two failed actors decide to try to con a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting drama of forbidden love, power and betrayal, inspired by the best-selling novel. When charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder to his family's estate, Charles becomes seduced by the family's opulent lifestyle, and by Sebastian's sister Julia. As their romance deepens, repercussions follow, and Charles discovers that at Brideshead, love, money and power come at a price.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Emperor’s Club. Dead Poets Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics...