Colin Firth
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen 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, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
22) Empire of light
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a coastal town in England in the early 1980s, follows the interracial relationship between a manager at a local cinema who struggles with mental illness and a new employee."--
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told. When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before. There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production.
26) A single man
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
28) Devil's knot
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a gripping, heart-wrenching true story that shocked the nation. May 5, 1993. West Memphis, Arkansas. Three young boys playing in the nearby woods never come home for dinner. In the rush to find and convict the killers, police focus on a trio of teenagers suspected of devil worship. It is only when an investigator reveals that the evidence doesn't all add up, that the community is forced to face the reality that the true killer might still be out...
29) The last legion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and imprisoned in the forbidding Isle of Capri. Aurelius,...
30) Lost empires
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1913 young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Traveling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a precarious operation goes deadly wrong, and the head of British Intelligence wonders if a double agent is leaking vital secrets. Brought out of retirement to expose the potential mole, master spy George Smiley is the only one who can be trusted to expose one of their own. Or can he? As the emotional and physical tolls mount on the high-ranking suspects, Smiley will be forced into the ultimate international spy game...
32) Love actually
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague." --
33) Empire of light
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in a coastal town in England in the early 1980s, follows the interracial relationship between a manager at a local cinema who struggles with mental illness and a new employee.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
35) Arthur Newman
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Divorced, disconnected from his son and dissatisfied with his love life, Wallce Avery decides to make a radical change. He walks away from his old life, forges a new identity, and hits the road as Arthur Newman. A cross-country odyssey of self-discovery and renewal, Arthur Newman is a comic romance about two unlikely souls who fall in love and find out who they really are.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Three girlhood friends are reunited in college, ready to experience life to the fullest. It doesn't take long for them all to meet men and fall in love. Benny, unsure of herself and scared of rejection, follows her heart out on a limb for the brightest, best looking boy on campus.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Publisher
Revolver Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The true story behind the Oscar-winning feature film that tells the story of King George VI of England, the reluctant monarch who overcame personal limitations to lead his country through war. With contributions by Colin Firth, who portrayed George VI in the feature film, and Tom Hooper, the director of The King's speech, as well as the grandson of Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist.
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
40) The railway man
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...