British Screen
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa in 1963, the story concerns an idealistic journalist Diana Roth who defies the government and becomes the first woman arrested under the 90-day Detention Act-- both a story of government abuse and a look at one mother's neglect of her family because of her involvement with a larger cause. Based on a true story.
2) Sirens
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.
4) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnny is a charming and eloquent, but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances, Mike Leigh's picture of England's underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Shocked by the death of a friend, three men decide to take their lives in hand. But under the influence of three beguiling women, how far can they go? Take a journey with friends facing life, death, sex and misadventure.
6) High hopes
Publisher
distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril's sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
7) Orlando
Series
Language
English
Description
"Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations that humorously, hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes."--Container.
8) Richard III
Language
English
Description
In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale.
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
12) The trench
Language
English
Description
A group of young British soldiers are on the eve of the Battle of the Somme, the worst defeat in British military history. At the center of the troops is 17-year-old Billy Macfarlane with his older brother Eddie who have volunteered for service. Like their fellow squad members, they are boys dressed as men. Their survival is in the hands of war-hardened Sergeant Winter and bookish Lieutenant Harte. When word comes the squad will join the first wave...
13) Gangster no. 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the bloody, single-minded climb of a crime lord to power. Enter the psyche of an unrepentant mobster who slugs, claws and kills his way to the top. But when he learns that a former mentor he put in prison is about to get out, this self-made mobster must now face a man whose life he ruined ... and confront the twisted remnants of his own demented conscience as well.
15) The crying game
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
17) December bride
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time. Sarah and the brothers risk happiness, reputation, and safety for their daring love.
18) Scandal
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the Profumo Affair, a famous sex scandal in Great Britain in 1963, when it was learned that a government minister and a Russian spy were both having an affair with playgirl Christine Keeler, the houseguest of society doctor Stephen Ward.
19) The warrior
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hindi
Description
Follows the visually stunning and emotionally exhilarating journey of a warrior who travels from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snowcapped peaks of the Himalaya in search of peace, only to be chased by the forces of violence.
20) Let him have it
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films.