Helen Mirren
41) The Duke
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
43) Prime suspect 2
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This case involves a death in the Afro-Caribbean community that puts Detective Chief Inspector Tennison and the rest of the police force in the middle of racial controversy. Emmy Award Winner - Outstanding Miniseries.
44) Greenfingers
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When British convict Colin is placed in an experimental program to finish his prison sentence, all his wants is peace. But after his wise elderly roommate introduces him to gardening, Colin uncovers a surprising talent and passion for plants.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Long-term couple John and Ella Robina are experiencing the struggles of growing older. With John having Alzheimer's and Ella undergoing cancer treatment, they decide to abandon their disease-stricken lifestyles and embark on a journey from Boston to Key West in an attempt to fully live what's left of their lives. Their trusty RV, which they've dubbed "The Leisure Seeker", will be their mode of transportation as they enjoy what may be their last adventure...
47) Calendar girls
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memoralize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calender becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion. A moving tale of loss, determination, and the perils of...
48) The Queen
Series
Publisher
Miramx Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
49) The good liar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life." --
50) Gosford Park
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In search of a key to unlock a box from her late mother, Clara finds her way into a mysterious parallel world. She teams up with a soldier named Philip in order to brave the Fourth Realm to find the key and return harmony to the unstable world.
52) The clearing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Wayne and Eileen have raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. When Wayne is kidnapped by ordinary guy, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned upside down. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents and their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal...
54) Elizabeth I
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.
55) Coming through
Publisher
BFS Ltd
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the great love affair of writer D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley, who caused a major scandal when they eloped in 1912, because Frieda abandoned her husband and three children to be with Lawrence.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs featuring spy films, all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The man from U.N.C.L.E. : CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization. Their only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation, is he getting inside information?
58) The tempest
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Charts Catherine the Great's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea." --