Sylvia Syms
1) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"--Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the...
2) Billie
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Billie Holiday had one of the greatest voices of all time. She was a woman of breathtaking talent and global popularity who was unafraid of stirring controversy. She started a notable rebellion singing 'Strange Fruit,' which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, 'Billie' is filled with incredible unheard testimonies from musical greats [and] showcases an American legend,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Will Graham is a former London gangster who moved out to the country. Will's younger brother, Davey, is enjoying his life as a man about town, and dabbling in drug dealing, when, one night, a man has him followed and brutally assaults him. Davey returns home and takes his own life. Will finds himself back in London where he learns of Davey's death. He investigates what happened that night with an old friend. As Will tries to piece together what happened,...
7) The jury
Publisher
Goldhil Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy is murdered and his schoolmate is arrested. But was he just arrested because he was Sikh, or is he really the killer? The jury must look through the racism and media attention behind the trial and seek the truth.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A sly, sleazy and unscrupulous music agent, Johnny Jackson, trolls the neon-streaked sidewalks of London's SoHo district in search of fresh meat to exploit. He finds it in a teen-packed coffee bar where a pompadoured rebel is dazzling his peers with his pouty, Presleyish voice and a talent for pounding the skins. Johnny renames the kid "Bongo" Herbert and with the help of his stripper girlfriend guides the potential teen idol to fame.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
May & June: May Thrace's resentment of her sister June runs very deep. Will the death of June's husband, and May's former beau, put it to rest? Or does May have a darker plot in mind?
The orchard walls: Sent by her mother to live in the country during the London blitz, sixteen-year-old Jenny senses unspoken secrets among her taciturn relatives, secrets that could turn deadly.
Series
Sylvester McCoy years 1987-1989 volume story no. 157
Publisher
BBC Video Ltd
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1983. An old house mysteriously burns to the ground. One hundred years earlier, the Doctor and Ace arrive at a sinister mansion in the rural hamlet of Perivale. Horrors old and new await the Doctor amongst the peculiar residents of Gabriel Chase, but it is Ace who must confront her own worst nightmares when she discovers that her past and the house's future are inextricably linked."
11) The quare fellow
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A rookie prison guard, and advocate of capital punishment, has a change of heart after he begins an affair with a condemned man's wife and discovers that key evidence was withheld from his trial.
12) Victim
Language
English
Description
"A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action"--Container.
13) Hostile witness
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Ray Milland plays a barrister whose daughter is killed in a 'hit-and-run' accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer. Did he do it? Is he insane? The trial begins..."--Container.
14) Ice cold in Alex
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must make its way across the desert in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
15) Expresso bongo
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cohen Film Collection introduces this Fifties British rock and rolls classic, a fast-paced story about a cheap, opportunistic Soho talent agent who always looks for the quick buck. He's glib and he's flashy, a bluffer with a ready talent for the quick double-cross. When he picks up an amateur singer and bongo player in a Soho espresso bar, he uses a little bit of luck and tons of chutzpah to transform the kid into a highly -regarded international...
Publisher
Paramount British
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
A struggling American artist who's down on his luck and a beautiful Chinese prostitute who captures his heart. The scenery is as spectacular as the colorful and exotic streets of Hong Kong in this wonderfully warm story about the strength of true love.
17) Asylum
Series
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Inmates in the "House of Crazies" tell their personal horror stories to the facility's new, young administrator (Robert Powell), who must guess which one of the psychopaths was his predecessor.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs featuring five royal-themed films into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The King's speech: This is the story of King George VI of Britian, his impromptu ascension to the throne, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Victoria & Abdul: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Mary Queen of Scots: Queen of France at sixteen,...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple during a chance encounter on a train. However, when Miss Pinkerton...