Jason Watkins
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English
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"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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During the period between 1964 and 1977: the royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill; the United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy; survives the Aberfan disaster; observes the Apollo 11 moon landing; and plans for the Investiture of Prince Charles. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of...
3) Des
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The story is about one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history: Dennis Nilsen. Known as the kindly killer, Nilsen was an unassuming civil servant who became Britain's most prolific serial killer of the time. The chilling true-crime series delves into Nilsen's emotionally elusive psyche after his arrest in 1983. Includes French SDH.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1872. One the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager -- to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance...
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English
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"These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for British newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. The stories have never been attributed to him until now, and might never have been found-were it not for the efforts of a few dedicated fans. As Neil Gaiman writes in his introduction, "through all of these stories we watch Terry Pratchett becoming Terry Pratchett." Though none of the short works are set in the Discworld,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
Publisher
BBC Archives
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Transferred to Bath from London and looking to make good, ambitious DCI Lauren McDonald found the first task handed her was to see if she couldn't gently nudge her new assistant -- aging, colorless desk jockey DS Dodds -- into retirement. The mismatched pair would prove surprisingly able in cracking the hardest cases, in this clever ITV offering.
9) Dirk Gently
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dirk Gently uses his unique perception of the interconnectedness of all things to solve baffling mysteries--while at the same time accumulating exorbitant expenses, from a new refrigerator to a trip to Bermuda, which he assures his clients are also interconnected with their problems.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He inherits his notorious father's shipping empire, as well as all of the enemies and debts his father's dubious dealings had picked up along with it.
12) The trick
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism.
13) Nativity!
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his arch rival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce"--Container.
15) Confetti
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three couples compete to win the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year. The dueling couples include Matt and Sam, whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef and Isabelle; and the uninhibited nudists Micahel and Joanna. At stake is a million-dollar dream home.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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An anxious teacher starts a new job at an under-achieving school and quickly finds himself struggling to cope with a wild classroom assistant, a group of under-performing kids and his own very pregnant wife. He soon becomes embroiled in a madcap plan to enter a National 'Song for Christmas' Competition and finds himself embarking on a disastrous road trip in search of the competition venue - the 'Christmas Castle'.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After leaving the police force, former officer Tom Brook lives an idyllic existence with his wife in the ruggedly beautiful northern coast of Wales. However, when a shocking crime breaks, Tom's life is turned upside down. This murder bears a shocking resemblance to a series of crimes he investigated years ago perpetrated by a serial killer called The Crow. Tom is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as he fights to track down the murderer...
Series
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Natasha finds a new life through an Internet marriage agency, but her dreams become shattered in an abusive household. Treated as a servant, Natasha escapes from her lonely drudgery after meeting charismatic houseguest Eddie. Locked in a torrid affair and desperate to be together, their overwhelming lust sets them on a path of deceit, murder and madness in this compelling tale of desire and haunting guilt.