Richard E. Grant
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
It is the height of the French Revolution's reign of terror, and Sir Percy Balkeney, has a secret. By day, he is just another foppish British aristocrat. By night, he becomes the legendary Scarlet Pimperel, a "caped crusader" for the 18th century.
3) L.A. story
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Features four short films that were award winners and festival favorites.
Franz Kafka's it's a wonderful life: a powerful sustained joke on both the perceived image of Kafka and the powerful sentiment of Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life. (25 min.)
Seven gates: Brothers David and Daryl travel home to their family farm for Christmas. Along the way, they confront their understanding of family and loyalty. With humor, their anxieties and ambitions...
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, those who stand against him are a daring tomb robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a toy factory owner and his wife get an unexpected visit from a precocious 7-year-old boy, their world will be turned upside down! When they decide to take him in as a foster child, the new parents begin a miraculous journey that showcases the joy of family.
7) Nemesis
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple faces her greatest challenge yet when she receives a request from an old friend, the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel, to investigate a "possible crime." But to complicate the matter, his instructions don't tell her what the crime is. Instead, she has been told to look for clues on a mystery bus tour, a trip Mr. Rafiel's instructions say might be dangerous.
10) Penelope
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Penelope Wilhern is born to wealthy socialites. She is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry, but only until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter, wants a photograph of the mysterious...
11) Twelfth night
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's comedy of twin brother and sister and their mistaken identities.
12) Color me Kubrick
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story, John Malkovich stars as Alan Conway, an eccentric, gay outcast who convinced many that he was the reclusive director Stanley Kubrick during the production of his last film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1969, depicts the lives of Withnail and Marwood, two poor, unemployed actors. When Marwood is offered the lead role in a play it strains their friendship and they decide to spend a weekend at the cottage of Withnail's Uncle Monte to relax. Things go horribly wrong however, and the rift between them grows.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
For Tony Thompson third grade really bites. He's in a new school, in a new country, and he's having trouble fitting in. But things change when Tony befriends a young vampire named Rudolph. Soon Tony and Rudolph are going on flying adventures, eluding vampire hunters and driving the countryside of Scotland batty.
15) Queen & country
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
16) Hard times
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods and while practicing, he finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...