Douglas Hodge
Series
Masterpiece theatre collection volume Season 31
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
2) Diana
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.
4) Middlemarch
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
In the provincial town of Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke develops an instant connection with a man that she meets on her honeymoon, while Doctor Lydgate falls in love with a troubled and privileged woman. As Dorothea and Lydgate are drawn into the lives and intrigues of Middlemarch, the seeds are sown for an epic tale of passion and disillusionment.
5) Wanderland
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To escape his isolated life in New York City, Alex impulsively accepts an email invitation to house-sit a picturesque “Enchanted Cottage" on Long Island in the off-season. Left with a broken USB cord and no cellphone coverage, he ventures out to find a working charger, only to end up hopelessly lost on a surreal all-night odyssey of misadventures. Forced to finally connect face to face with the eccentric characters he encounters, Alex discovers...
6) Gemini man
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just as he is about to retire, middle-aged assassin Henry Brogan discovers he is a target and the person hunting him is a younger clone of himself that can anticipate his thoughts and actions.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan face an impossible cold case. A lawyer. A nurse. A schoolteacher. A police officer. These four suspects are the pieces of the puzzle. But as Cassie and Sunny put this picture together, the more blurred it becomes. The investigation will question their assumptions about the most damaged and destructive in society. When a victim becomes a criminal, is punishment the same as justice? Seen on Masterpiece Mystery!
10) The undoing
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they've always wanted: she's a successful therapist, he's an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight with a violent death and a missing husband.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world’' first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious...
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world’' first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious...
13) The Bet
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman makes a bet with her husband that she can get the next man she sees to propose in this delightful, touching comedy about love and marriage.