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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
3) Skinwalkers
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Officer Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn investigate a series of random murders that also seem to suggest the involvement of skinwalkers, spirits of the dead that seek revenge on the living.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Steve McTear, a top fencer on the verge of making the British World Championship team, finds himself on the run from both the police and East End gangsters. With nowhere to go, he lands a job at a girls' school in the Scottish Highlands.
5) The magician
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potentially massive threat to the stability of British society - counterfeit money. Unchecked, the tide of fake money could have destabilized the economy.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
11) Follow the river
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Eric Trapp and heroic ex-RAF pilot Eddie Wallis have very little in common except for their mutual dislike for one another and playing in the same big band orchestra. Their skirmishes with vicious gangsters and exploding bombs compel them to join forces.
13) Bad apple
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Two FBI agents try to topple a loan-shark business run by the mob.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Language
English
Description
A love triangle between two brothers and a woman creates a rivalry. One brother who works for the French government has to capture all pirates and bring them to justice. The other brother is the most notorious and feared pirate sailing the high seas. Fate brings the two brothers together again in a fight for honor, love and loyalty.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The moving finger: Miss Marple investigates a series of deaths related to a chain letter. At Bertram's Hotel: London's Bertram's Hotel is renowned for its high-class clientele and well-polished atmosphere of elegence--but Miss Marple uncover's the hotels sinister side when the doorman turns up dead.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Murder at the vicarage: Miss Marple has a hard time discerning suspects from innocents when Colonel Protheroe--a man whom the entire village hated--turns up dead. Nemesis: Miss Marple is drawn into strange and sinister circumstances when a recently deceased friend leaves a cryptic note for her asking her to right an injustice, but leaves no clues as to what it is or who is involved.
18) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
20) The guilty
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
London attorney Steven Vey has a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, and money to burn. To top it off, he's about to be named Britain's youngest-ever judge. But one night a celebration with his pretty secretary, Nicky, goes too far. He calls it a drunken indiscretion; she calls it rape. Meanwhile, Birmingham punk Eddy Doyle is fresh out of prison with no prospects. After learning that the stuffy vicar who raised him isn't his real dad, Eddie goes...
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