Michael Gough
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret
In 'Maigret's Little Joke', Maigret and his wife take a secret holiday in Paris. When a murder occurs, Maigret must get his information from the press and radio. How can he leave Janvier to solve the crime alone?
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Language
English
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Description
Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once? Especially when one wants to be mayor and the other is romantically attracted to Gotham's hero?
Series
Criterion collection ; 913
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America." --
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
During the Napoleonic wars in France, the Count of St. Ives, a French nobleman, is taken prisoner by the British and taken to a prison in Scotland. Thinking that his entire family was murdered during the uprising, St. Ives finds that his brother and grandfather are still alive. His grandfather finds out St. Ives is alive. St. Ives escapes from prison and his grandfather proclaims his entire estate and fortune to St. Ives. But St. Ives's brother has...
Series
Criterion collection ; 913
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel set in the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer(Daniel Day-Lewis), whoses engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his...
7) Batman
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Language
English
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Description
"After a young boy witnesses the murder of his parents on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become a mysterious figure in the eyes of Gotham City's citizens, known as Batman. He takes crime-fighting within the city into his own hands. Jack Napier becomes horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory, and becomes known as the Joker. Now, the Joker is out for revenge on his former employer." --
9) The dresser
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
As a wave casually laps onto the Cornwall beach, the Ramsay family and friends settle in for an enjoyable warm Edwardian summer. Presided over by the gentle power and irresistible charisma of their mother, their story evolves with the textures, romance and conflicting dreams that draw a family together and simultaneously pull it apart.
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Batman: A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
Beetlejuice: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Corpse Bride: When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young...
12) Batman
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Batman begins his protection of Gotham City. He battles against a corrupt police force, mob gangsters and the worst villian of all ... The Joker.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
With three grown children and a lifetime of memories, Penelope Keeling realizes that something is missing: the simple joy she knew as a child playing on the beach. So she embarks on a journey to discover the secret of happiness for her friends, her family and herself.
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is called in to investigate one of the most puzzling murder cases yet. Someone is selling examination secrets at Oxford and making a killing in more ways than one. Nicholas Quinn is the hard-of-hearing member of an examinations board until one day he is found dead at home. Can Morse match up the clues with the killer?--Container.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker travels to Count Dracula's castle to act his librarian. Harker--actually there to try to kill Dracula--is first attacked by Dracula's female companion, then killed by the Count himself. Harker's friend, Dr Van Helsing, arrives to investigate his disappearance and swears to track the vampire down and to kill him by whatever means necessary. Voyaging to London, Dracula pursues Harker's fiancée Lucy and her sister Mina. Mina's husband...
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
17) Caravaggio
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jarman's gorgeously sensual re-imagining of the volatile life of the 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his rampant flirtations with the underworld.
18) Top secret!
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An American rock star teams up with the daughter of a scientist to find the scientist before he creates the ultimate weapon, in this spoof of war epics and Elvis films.
19) Batman forever
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Robin has teamed up with Batman, and this time evil is in the guise of The Riddler and Harvey 'Two Face' Dent. Batman has added tension as psychologist Chase Meridian is anxious to find out who Batman is.
20) Trog
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A wild half-man, half-ape emerges from his countryside cave. People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller called a troglodyte. To anthropologist Dr. Brockton, he's the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he's walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped--all after local resident Sam Murdock prods the brute into a blind rampage.