Olivia Colman
1) Nasrin
Author
Language
English
Description
In the courts and on the streets, Nasrin has long fought for the rights of women, children, LGBTQ, religious minorities, journalists, artists, and those facing the death penalty. She was arrested in June 2018 and sentenced to 38 years in prison, plus 148 lashes. Even from prison, she has continued to challenge the authorities. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman and secretly filmed by women and men who risked arrest, the film features acclaimed...
2) London Road
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2006, the murder of five prostitutes made one quiet Ipswich Street notorious. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and curb crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicenter of this tragedy.
Author
Series
Lost Prince volume 1
Language
English
Description
Through the prism of Young Prince Johnnie's eyes, the grandeur and pomp of Edwardian Britain are unfurled. Johnnie is a charming boy, loved for his frankness by his grandfather, King Edward VII, uninhibited and with an eccentric view of the world quite alien to his parents. He also suffers from epilepsy and so he and his devoted nanny, Lalla, are to be exiled to Sandringham in Norfolk. Distanced from his father, King George V, and his mother, Queen...
Author
Series
Lost Prince volume 2
Language
English
Description
As if by accident the Royal families of Europe find their countries plunged into conflict and the young children of the monarch, George V, watch with bemusement as their elders become weighed down by the effects of the conflagration that has enveloped the continent. Through this tragedy, the bright spirit of Johnnie remains undimmed.
5) Nasrin
Author
Language
Farsi
Description
Secretly filmed in Iran: an immersive portrait of the world's most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of the remarkably resilient Iranian women's rights movement. Featuring acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and journalist Ann Curry. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman.
7) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find Joy, in the back seat with her baby. Two loveable rogues go across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship and love they never knew they needed in each other.
8) Tyrannosaur
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
TYRANNOSAUR follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury...
9) Mr. Sloane
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bittersweet comedy-drama about a buttoned-down man in crisis. It's December 1969 and Jeremy Sloane is at the end of his rope - literally. He's been sacked from his accounting job, his wife Janet has left him to "find herself," and he is beginning to despair of his lot in life. Most evenings are now spent down the pub, drowning his sorrows with childhood mates Ross, Reggie and Beans. But with a potential job opportunity on the horizon and the phone...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one.
"Funny,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Night Manager, the thrilling miniseries based on John le Carr���s best-selling spy novel, follows hotel manager Jonathan Pine in his quest to bring down international arms dealer Richard Roper. After being recruited by a British intelligence officer to infiltrate Roper�s inner circle, Pine is thrust into a world of international intrigue � but in his quest to do the right thing, Pine must first become a criminal himself.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills and Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the witty and moving stories of three very different women affected by the brand's success: co-founder Charles Boon's wife Mary, daydreaming 1970s writer Janet and modern-day literature lecturer Kirstie.
13) Them That Follow
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As Mara, the devoted daughter of a snake-handling preacher (Walton Goggins), prepares for her wedding under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), she reveals a secret that threatens to shatter the entire community.
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The final season in the trilogy starts three years on from the last season, and five years on from the start. There is a bold, new crime story, which forces residents to ask themselves whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimerb2ss death, is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment? The central characters must contend with this possibility as they battle to make hope, friendship, and love triumph...
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of Harold Wilson, asks them to make a side trip to Washington, D.C. to ask President Johnson for financial assistance for the United Kingdom.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Having left the Metropolitan Police under a cloud, Whicher's days as a detective are behind him. However, when he saves a respectable country lady from a violent robbery in a dangerous part of London, she hires him to investigate the savage murder of her 16-year-old niece. The investigation pits Whicher against wealthy and powerful figures, as well his former colleagues in the Met, and leads to a psychiatric institution where he must confront his...
17) The favourite
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...
18) The Father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
19) Locke
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
20) The lobster
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.