Helen McCrory
1) The Queen
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler are forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, and Sembene, unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray, the Creature and Brona are all waging battles of their own.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV₂s new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court₂s renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre"--adapted from container.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga that completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations.
Series
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death." --
6) Split second
Publisher
Indigo/BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In a moment of madness, a single act causes mayhem and destruction for corporate lawyer Michael Anderson (Clive Owen- Inside man, Closer, Sin city)-a man living on the edge. Always on the go and stressed out from the incessant pressures of work and family, Michael is a tightly-sprung bomb on the verge of exploding.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in the tradition of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Two very different women, one shy, one flamboyant, meet and discover a common bond, they are unhappily married. A plot is devised to eliminate the unwanted husbands.
8) Roadkill
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Peter Laurence is a political outsider who is very popular with the people. Fresh from a successful libel case against a journalist printing stories alleging corruption, he's a man on the rise. But Peter has plenty of skeletons in his closet. And soon he discovers another - an illegitimate daughter serving a prison sentence. It's a secret that could ruin him. And one, apparently, that his Prime Minister already knows." --
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The supernatural terror returns and unspeakable evil sets its sight on new prey when a group of orphaned children are forced to move into the abandoned Eel Marsh House with their caretakers, Eve and Jean. As the children begin to mysteriously disappear, Eve makes a shocking discovery; it may not be a coincidence that she has come to reside in a place inhabited by the murderous Woman in Black." --
11) Quiz
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a simplistic, 'question and answer' quiz show, 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?', goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning 1 million." --
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A powerful new look at the human side of iconic world leaders. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister, and began a 'special relationship' with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict, and personal scandal. The behind-the-scenes story of two world leaders who forged a loyal, if tempestuous, friendship out of the crucible of political necessity:
13) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the Second World War." --
14) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004, 2000.
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
15) 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.
16) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tolstoy's romantic saga of the passionate affair between a married aristocrat and a dashing count." --
17) The Queen
Series
Publisher
Miramx Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some sequences of intense action violence, frightening images and brief sensuality.
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction--the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their...
19) Motherfatherson
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Max owns an influential media empire where information is his trade: he has secrets on everyone and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden is the editor of Max's newspaper, but Caden is crumbling under the pressure. He is left like a helpless child after suffering a massive stroke. For Kathryn, Max's estranged wife, this is a chance to reconnect with the sensitive boy Max ripped away from her. Caden knows secrets that could bring Max's empire crashing...
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three critically-acclaimed British romances featuring talented casts. In Becoming Jane, a dashing young man offends an emerging writer's sense and sensibility. In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder is invited to a charming aristocrat's estate where he is seduced by the opulent lifestyle. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds herself in a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman.