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3) 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.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime"--Internet movie database summary by Sujit R. Varma, August 4, 2003.
7) Wimbledon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When a pro tennis player loses his ambition, he fortunately meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Wernham Hogg is a paper company located in a suburb of London. David, a petty, pathetic little man is worse than your boss. David's yes-man is Gareth, who is extremely irratating. Tim is the apathetic sales rep, who can be quite witty. Dawn, the lovely receptionist, is far more endearing than your back-sassying secretary. Work is a pain, but one man's misery is another man's entertainment.
11) The moonstone
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A priceless jewel disappears sending the women who inherited it, into turmoil. In a twisted plot that unfolds, the solution requires the service of a London detective.
13) Miss Potter
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
Publisher
Fremantle Media Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Britain's first hard-hitting, police-based television series delves deep into the gritty encounters of The Flying Squad (nicknamed "The Sweeney"), the elite investigation unit of London's Police Force and the seedy underworld of organized crime.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007], 2003
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman lives with the singular dream of being a cricket star, but much to the dismay and ridicule of his classmates, he is all passion and no skill. The son of a traditional Jewish family living in the racial and cultural turbulence of 1960s South London, David and his world are shaken by the unexpected arrival of the Samuels, a lively and big-hearted Jamaican family.
18) Flawless
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1960s London, Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation, finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, and is persuaded by Hobbs, a disgruntled janitor with detailed knowledge of the company's security, to help pull off a daring heist.
19) The missionary
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1982
Language
English
Description
Returning after ten years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortescue is sent to London's East End to run a mission to fallen women.
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.
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