Claire Bloom
Publisher
UK Film Council
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
Publisher
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.
10) Charly
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation. Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon.
11) The haunting
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one lives in the 90-year-old Hill House. Or so it seems. But come in. Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve each viewer.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Based on the obscenity trial of D.H. Lawrence's book "Lady Chatterley's lover." The book was banned in England for 30 years for its graphic language and depictions of illicit sex. The case finally came before a jury of ordinary citizens in October 1960. Two jurors have their passion inflamed by Lawrence's prose. After weighing in the evidence in court each day, they explore new erotic frontiers by night. In the end, they must decide whether the novel...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the lush hills and cobbled streets of the Amalfi Coast, Jane is searching for something more from her life. She loves her husband, but the silence between them is growing. Her work, writing her grandmother's memoir, immerses her in the quiet beauty of the town, its islands and finally, in the romantic embrace of a younger man. Jane must decide where her passions will take her, and who she really wants to be, as she documents her discoveries....
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.
Language
English
Description
Charles is from a family with little money. Sebastian's family is wealthy. The two become friends at Oxford. When Sebastian invites his friend to dinner, Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family. After Charles becomes an officer in the British Army he and his company are moved to an English country house that he realizes is Sebastian's family home. Here he discovers memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of...
18) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Porter is a university graduate who rejects middle class dreams and operates a candy stall in a local flea market. His wife, Allison, endures his anger and frustration because of his intense love. But when an actress friend of Allison's temporarily moves in with them, Jimmy becomes a twisted figure of bitterness and pain as disillusionment and anger overtake him.
Language
English
Description
Perseus is the mortal son of Zeus, who sets out to fulfill his destiny by rescuing beloved Andromeda from the wrath the goddess Thetis. Perils await Perseus time and again. In order to fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles.