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1) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A magical English nanny takes over the household of a proper London banker, changing the lives of everyone, especially his two naughty children.
2) Forgotten
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Charming, likeable Ben Turner is living an idyllic life in the sleepy English countryside. Things couldn't be better...until a dark reminder from his past turns up in the morning mail: "What have you done with her body?" Soon after that unsettling incident, the mysterious Rachel Monro checks into the country inn run by Ben and his wife, Natalie. Ben is unsettled by their new guest, but can't quite place from where he might know her. Meanwhile, Rachel...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
5) Fallen angel
Publisher
Force Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A family saga spread over 3 films.They tell the story of Rosemary and her English vicar father and of murder and intrigue. Based on Andrew Taylor's internationally acclaimed crime novels.
6) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A famous movie star and a travel bookstore owner meet for the first time and wonder if they can fall in love while the whole world is watching.
7) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
9) Croupier
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
10) Simisola
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Akande, daughter of Inspector Wexford's Nigerian-born physician, goes missing, the family brace themselves for a case of abduction-- maybe murder. Melanie had an appointment to see Annette Bystock the day she disappeared, and Annette is found strangled to death in her apartment. During the hunt for Annette's killers, the body of a young black girl is found buried in the Sussex countryside. Wexford must battle through the prejudices of...
12) The tide of life
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001], 1996
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emily Kennedy faces her future with a glad smile and an ever-hopeful philosophy. Her only worry is her delicate younger sister, Lucy. When a tragic set of circumstances force the sisters from their home, Emily is quickly forced to grow into womanhood and take on the responsibilities of an adult. Needing all her strength of will and character to see her through the difficult road she travels, Emily manages to cling bravely to her never-say-die...
13) Oliver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When Oliver leaves a workhouse and ends up in London an abandoned orphan, he falls in with Fagin who teaches him to steal for a living.
14) A knight's tale
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When his knight dies unexpectedly, a young squire assumes his identity in order to enter jousting competitions.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
He's gentle, old-fashioned, and decent; nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies (Peter Davison) the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, accident prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with the help of his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the...
17) Strong poison
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
18) Have his carcass
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or a political...
19) Gaudy night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of...
Language
English
Description
A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
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