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Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
3) Alfie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Burbank, Calif
Language
English
Description
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its rightful owners.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1984
Language
English
Description
A working-class couple discovers a group of wealthy people in their post-war Yorkshire village secretly fattening a pig for their own use in violation of Britain's food rationing policy. The couple embarks on an elaborate attempt to liberate the bacon.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Alfred Jones, a London fisheries scientist with a satisfactory, if not exciting, life, scoffs when he is asked to participate in a project to create a salmon river in Yemen, but, pressured by the government, he agrees to meet with the fabulously wealth sheik sponsoring the plan and the sheik's lovely young real estate agent, and begins to believe the impossible project might just work.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1997
Language
English
Description
Hilarious high jinks from the Grace Brothers team as they troop off to sunny Spain for the staff trip of a laugh-time! Cheerfully they disgrace themselves on the Costa Planka. Mr. Humphries is free while Captain Peacock wants everything under the sun from Miss Brahms. Mrs. Slocombe only hopes her pussy survives as the comedy capers carry on abroad in the funniest film you will ever witness!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her...
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Aidan Mendle has a dream; he aspires to be an infamous serial killer. When struggling journalist Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he believes he has found the subject for the documentary that will transform his failing career.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Brittania Hospital attempts to put on its best face in preparation for a visit from the Queen Mother, despite the presence of dissatisfied patients, angry protesters, and a chief surgeon turned mad scientist. This very British black comedy mixes broad farce with pointed political satire and features a large ensemble cast including Malcolm McDowell (*A Clockwork Orange*). Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"...an outrageous...
11) Happy-Go-Lucky
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominee Mike Leigh delivers this delightfully fresh and cheerful comedy. Free-spirited and effervescent, Poppy is a schoolteacher whose unstoppable optimism guides her life. Bubbling forth with giggles, laughter and jokes, life's a bowl of cherries - even when she comes across a few pits. Whether it's a cranky driving teacher or a fiery flamenco instructor, Poppy embraces life on the sunny side of the street.
12) Daphne
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A vibrant character portrait of a young woman on the threshold of a much-needed change. Nominated for a **British Independent Film Award** for Best Actress (Emily Beecham). Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. "*Quickly develops into something pretty remarkable, thanks mostly to the stunning performance at its center.*" - Brian Tallerico, ***RogerEbert.com***
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Why would a healthy 25-year-old man choose to live and work in a care home for elderly and disabled people? This is the question that dejected Nurse Jen asks when she reluctantly joins the staff of the Easy Love Care Home. She is surprised to find James not only a live-in employee at this Scottish care home, with a group of dysfunctional, geriatric residents, but appearing to be actually enjoying himself there. Despite the incessant interference of...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition. With this follow-up to his acclaimed...
15) The Falls
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds,...
16) Orbit Ever After
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit, aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk-averse family imaginable, it isn't easy to follow your heart - especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way! Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best British Short Film.
17) Wittgenstein
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**....
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy discovers his unruly neighbor (Luke Perry) is really a disgraced Rock God who "died" 8 years ago, owing a fortune in unpaid taxes. The boy agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of Rock Guitar. Nominated for a Crystal Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*...it's about the nurture and realisation of an improbable dream, and it's very nicely done.*" - Brian Viner, ***Daily Mail (UK)***...
19) The Italian Job
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Charlie (Michael Caine) is out of jail and planning the heist of the century. Aided by top criminal mastermind Mr Bridger (Noël Coward), Charlie sets off with a team of villains and to lift {dollar}4,000,000 from under the noses of the Turin Police. Nominated for Best-English Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** "*A freewheeling, completely unpretentious chase comedy.*" - Eric Henderson, ***Slant Magazine***
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Barney Thomson, an awkward Glasgow barber lives a life of desperate mediocrity. His uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of serial killers. Winner of Best Actress and Best Feature Film at the **BAFTA Awards, Scotland**. "*Scottish actor Robert Carlyle makes a bold impression as a first-time director with Barney Thomson, a brash, dirty little film that's eager to please...
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