Sarah Miles
2) Blow-up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love -- the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"English widow Anne Osborne lives by the sea with her young son, Jonathan. The arrival of a rugged American sailor, Jim, brings Anne the joy and sensual fulfillment she thought had gone forever, but her son is disturbed by this new intruder and joins a perverse group of fellow students led by the charismatic Chief"--Container.
5) The Servant
Publisher
distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A tale of hypocrisy and hatred until a corrupt servant becomes the master.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A woman on the run from her husband witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by the robbers. As they ride into untamed territory trying to escape a posse led by a determined Wells Fargo agent, she comes to respect and love the leader of the robbers, a war hero with a mysterious past.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe returns in the 1978's version which transposes novelist Raymond Chandler's famous detective tale from the Los Angeles of the past to present day England. What appears to be a routine blackmail case for Marlowe soon spirals into murder and madness.
9) Venom
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The plot of a group of kidnappers is foiled by an escaped black mamba snake.
11) Hope and glory
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of ten-year-old Billy Rohan. While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring. Navigating difficult times are mother Grace, who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy's sister, Dawn, whose romance and...
12) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
15) Queenie
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Based on fictionalized events that mirrored the life of the late actress Merle Oberon, the story deals with an exotic young girl from Calcutta, India who rises up the ranks to international stardom but is held back by her haunted past. Set in the 1930s.
16) The servant
Series
Criterion collection volume 1182
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously...
Series
Shout select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...