Romola Garai
2) One day
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After one day together, July 15th, 1988, their college graduation, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that lasts a lifetime. She's a working-class girl who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who thinks the world is his playground. Somewhere over the next two decades, these two very different people realize that the love they've been hoping for has been there for them all along.
3) Vanity fair
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
4) Emma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2010.
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever and rich, has very little to concern her. When her governess marries advantageously, Emma congratulates herself on her great success as a matchmaker. So when she meets the pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet, Emma is ready to practice her skills again - ignoring warnings of the harm she could cause from friend and neighbour Mr. Knightley.
5) Renaissance
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
Set in the near future in Paris, an honest cop goes up against an evil corporation to rescue a beautiful geneticist who has been kidnapped.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a classic English story, Cassandra Mortmain chronicles in her diary what happens to her eccentric family when a young American man inherits the local estate. The bittersweet love story that ensues is far more complicated than she ever imagines.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...
10) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the relationship between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, childhood friends home from Cambridge. So when her young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in to her hyperactive imagination and blames the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible decision that alters lives and fills Briony with an everlasting sense of guilt.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An outstanding cast of acclaimed British actors bring the First World War to life in this stirring documentary created to commemorate the conflict's centennial in 2014. This unique four-part series mixes archival footage with reenactments by actors playing real participants in the war and performing excerpts from their original letters, memoirs, and diaries of the time.
12) One life
Publisher
Decal Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker, who, along with Trevor Chadwick, and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England, always blaming himself for not doing more. It's not until a...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1956. At Lime Grove Studios, the BBC has just launched 'The Hour,' a topical news program. At the heart of the show are three contrasting journalists: enigmatic producer Bel Rowley, a spirited woman in a man's world; her best friend, Freddie Lyon, a brilliant and passionate reporter; and charming, well-connected front man Hector Madden. As Freddie moves to cover a significant but controversial story, the trio becomes entangled in an intense...
15) The miniaturist
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband and his sister in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
16) King Lear
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
17) The critic
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set against the decedent glamour and escalating danger of revolution-era Cuba. A young American woman and her family move to Cuba, where she discovers love, sensuality and independence. She persuades a young Cuban dancer to partner her in a prestigious national dance competition at Havana's Glittering Palace. They secretly meet to practice their dance moves at a steamy night club, where the dancing is hotter than the temperature outside. As the competition...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1956. At Lime Grove Studios, the BBC has just launched 'The Hour,' a topical news program. At the heart of the show are three contrasting journalists: enigmatic producer Bel Rowley, a spirited woman in a man's world; her best friend, Freddie Lyon, a brilliant and passionate reporter; and charming, well-connected front man Hector Madden. As Freddie moves to cover a significant but controversial story, the trio becomes entangled in an intense...
20) Renaissance
Pub. Date
© 2007
Language
English
Description
Paris in 2054 lives in the shadow of a corporate giant selling 'ageless beauty', and the sudden kidnapping of a young scientist draws a cop into an underworld of corporate espionage, genetic research and organized crime.