Colin Firth
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
9) Dorian Gray
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When young, handsome Dorian Gray arrives in London and falls under the influence of the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton, he trades his soul for eternal youth, finding his thirst for pleasure leading to violence as he tries to protect his secret.
"Young Dorian Gray arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of corrupt, dev[i]lish Lord Henry Wotton who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. Desperate to protect the...
11) Devil's knot
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After three boys in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas, are murdered, the investigation focuses on three young men accused of satanic rituals.
12) Main Street
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The lives of several residents in a small southern town are changed when a stranger arrives with a controversial plan to save their town.
13) A single man
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
"Ms. Stone is entrancing, whether Sophie is in or out of her trance state, and so is the movie as a whole."--Wall Street Journal
"The cinematography is radiant, the vintage cars...
15) Gambit
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
16) Love actually
Language
English
Formats
Description
Love knows no boundaries and is causing chaos on Christmas Eve in London for everyone, from the new bachelor Prime Minister who found love at first sight to a schoolboy trying to get the attention of the most popular girl in school.
17) Eye in the sky
Language
English
Formats
Description
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
18) The happy prince
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Oscar Wilde, who observes his own failure and regards the difficulties that beset his life with humor and detachment.
19) Nanny McPhee
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
20) Empire of light
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.