Kerry Fox
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
Series
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge kilings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between Hollywood...
3) Downriver
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the path to redemption is paved in sin.. James, 18, has been released from juvenile detention after serving time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier. Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy's mother, James is set upon a journey of self discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy s death brim to the surface....
5) Little Joe
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe.
6) Bright star
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
7) Mayhem
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a corporate law office is quarantined after exposure to a dangerous virus that makes the infected lose their inhibitions, a recently fired employee and a wronged client must battle their way to the executive level before time runs out.
8) Storm
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 1
Publisher
Filmmovement
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Storm" : Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness' burial in Sarajevo and meets...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An American backpacking in rural England has her life taking a turn for the worse after a car accident. During recovery, she is befriended by a researcher studying a buried 1st Century church embedded with images of Christ's crucifixion. She begins to have horrific visions of the townspeople and their deaths.
10) A village affair
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for someone else: his wife Alice.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
12) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash- but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The provocative and darkly comic story of a young man's return, after a ten year absence, to his childhood home in rural Nova Scotia. Arriving on the day of his sister's wedding, he struggles to reclaim his place on the family tree and finally bury the ghosts of his past.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad--veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam, The Beiderbecke Affair), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong, Garrow's Law), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman, The Sweeney)--have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman, Sexy Beast)their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie....
15) Mr. Pip
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...
16) Falcón
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Falcón is a detective whose home and work life is compromised of secrets from his past.
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It the Bobblesberg Winter Games and Bob and his crew have been asked to come and build the mayor of Bobblesberg a log cabin for the up coming Winter Games. Wendy will be participating in the Games, so spirits are running high as the crew help to make the area ready for all the winter sport events. Meet Benny, a new machine who helps out the crew.
18) Cloudstreet
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two flawed families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in this acclaimed Australian miniseries. Adapted by Tim Winton from his award-winning novel, set around Perth from 1943-63, it's gripping, poignant, and gorgeous. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof.
19) Patrick's day
Publisher
BrinkVision
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Patrick is a warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother's protection means Patrick is no threat to himself or others. Until he falls in love. Maura is Patrick's obsessive mother and her need to control her son blinds her to the reality that something the only thing more damaging than hate is misguided love. Soon to be redundant, alcoholic air-hostess, Karen, books into an hotel to end her life unaware that the intimacy...
20) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three self-involved Edinburgh roommates take in a brooding boarder. When he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness.