British Screen.
1) Sirens
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1994
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!
2) Richard III
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's immortal tale is brilliantly updated in this riveting masterpiece. In 1930's Britain, a savage civil war between two royal families has just concluded. But even as the newly installed King Edward (John Wood) takes the reins of power, his ruthless, younger brother Richard (Ian McKellen) sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the crown for himself. The all-star cast includes Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin...
3) High hopes
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2009
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 The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Set in Bombay India in 1971, this is the story of Gustad Noble, a hard-working bank clerk and devoted family man, who gradually sees his modest life unraveling when he agrees to do a clandestine favor for an old friend and is soon drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous network of deception.
7) High season
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A talented photographer would otherwise be living an idyllic life on a beautiful Greek island, except that she has to cope with being broke, an ex-husband with whom she fights over art and blondes, her art historian best friend and her eccentric neighbor.
8) 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.
9) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
11) A world apart
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.
12) The trench
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
France, July 1916. Amidst the heat and stench of the front lines, a group of young men - boys, really - nervously await the signal that will send them straight into Hell. This tense, wartime drama takes place in the hours leading up to the catastrophic Battle of the Somme, when British soldiers rushed the German army.
Language
English
Description
Set in County Cork, Ireland, in 1920, the drama unfolds at Danielstown, the home of Anglo-Irish aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra. As the war for Irish independence escalates around them, Sir Richard's nineteen-year-old niece, Lois, struggles with her longings for love and the yearning for freedom. She is being courted by a British Army captain who is deeply in love with her. But when she discovers an old childhood friend who...
15) The governess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A young woman loses her identity and her innocence in an all-consuming love affair.
17) Waterland
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A history teacher, Tom Crick, inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. Through many extraordinary stories, he takes them on an unforgettable journey into the past that changes their lives forever.
19) Bread & roses
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them.
20) Camilla
Publisher
Distributed by Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely pair, Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda, set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.