Claire Bloom
1) Wakers
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Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
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Written for the five-year-old son of her former governess, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was Beatrix Potter's first literary offering. Immensely popular upon its release in 1902, The Tale of Peter Rabbit featured a mischievous bunny who encounters a cranky old gardener and his cat. Beatrix Potter's work was notable for its lively illustrations of animals and imaginative characterizations of rabbits, squirrels, cats and mice. Working with her future fiancé...
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
After his mother disappears, Sammy shuts himself off from the world pretending to neither hear nor speak. Taken in by a waitress and befriended by the bus station manager, he keeps his silence for twenty years until he discovers a plot that would harm the town and enlists the local trash hauler to turn the tables.
5) Shadowlands
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, this film is about the agonizing spiritual crisis of C.S. Lewis when his wife died from cancer. The love, grief, pain, and sorrow were so shattering to Lewis that his basic Christian beliefs, magnificently communicated in his many books, were now called into serious doubt. But he picked up the pieces and moved out of the depressing "shadowlands," realizing that "real life has not even begun yet."
6) Cymbeline
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Ambrose Video
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English
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This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Cymbeline, the King of Britain is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen the low-born Posthumus as her husband. As the Queen tries to force Imogen to marry her own...
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes that under the dominance of her husband she will never have an identity of her own, and leaves to find a new life for herself.
8) Limelight
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
9) Limelight
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,'...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
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A Caribbean mystery (1989): A tropical breeze blows an ill-wind upon the Golden Palm Hotel and when guest start turning up dead, Miss Marple begins gathering suspects.
The mirror crack'd from side to side (1992): Excitement abounds at the little village of St. Mary Mead when an American movie star arrives to shoot a new film. But when a poisoned cocktail revises the script, Miss Marple must quickly uncover hidden jealousies before the assailant acts...
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Ambrose Video
Language
English
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This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A sculptor's self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces: the visit of his sons and the outbreak of World War II. The film is touching in its details of a father's love and heroic in its defiance of tyranny.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
17) Charly
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation.
20) Mighty Aphrodite
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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
When a sportswriter tries to track down the mother of his adopted son, he discovers she is a prostitute and pornographic film star.