Tom Wilkinson
Author
Language
English
Description
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heaps expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickenss last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend...
2) Valkyrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true event, Colonel von Stauffenberg and his fellow officers attempt to assassinate the Führer.
3) Selma
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
4) Belle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
6) Rush hour
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Two cops from different worlds team up to catch kidnappers--and discover they can't stand each other.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of a 19 year-old college freshman. Told in terrifying flashbacks, it chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Middle-aged single lawyer defends Father Moore, a priest on trial for the negligent homicide of a young girl named Emily Rose.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cecily has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cecily.
10) The Lone Ranger
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tonto recounts the tale that transformed lawyer John Reid into the Lone Ranger.
12) The full monty
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending gloom surrounding Hitlers' Germany.
14) The Kennedys
Publisher
Kennedys Production (Ontario)
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.
15) Prime suspect: 1
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is found brutally murdered, and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.
16) Felony
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three male detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in a coma. One is guilty of a crime; one will try to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it. How far will these men go to both disguise and unravel the truth?
17) Rocknrolla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While London's seasoned criminals vie for cash from a real estate scam, a presumed-dead, drugged-out rock musician finds the money falling into his hands.
18) In the bedroom
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish; his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy...
19) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
20) The choice
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
Travis is a fun-loving, smooth-talking bachelor who's never considered a serious relationship--until he falls hard for his beautiful new neighbor, Gabby. But when fate threatens Travis and Gabby's love, Travis must make a choice that will alter their lives forever in this unforgettably moving romance.