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Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Thom Andersen's landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, as seen entirely through the films themselves. From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it,...
22) Grownups
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps comes a hilarious urban comedy about a group of friends caught in that tricky place between their teens and 2.4 children. Michelle is 26 years old, living in Manchester with friend Claire, dating Dean who wants an open relationship and hurtling towards her thirties. When Michelle's brother Mike lands on her doorstep with his best friend Grant in tow, it all starts to get very complicated....
23) Hold the Sunset
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
24) Staged
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
25) Almost Royal
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This faux- reality series follows two clueless British aristocrats on a trip to the USA. George and Poppy Carlton enjoy privileged lives as distant descendants of the British royal family. The siblings - 50th and 51st in line to the throne - have agreed to a camera crew following them on their unconventional royal tour. But while the siblings are actually played by comedians, the unsuspecting public have no clue these two aren't for real. Cue bemusement...
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
English
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales." **Academy Award** nominee.
30) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
31) The Man Between
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
32) The Skin Game
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
In this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, follows The Hillcrests, a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as new money; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests believe themselves the moral leaders of the community, and upon learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...
34) The Ring
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
Jack 'One Round' Sanders is a young boxer traveling the country with a boxing booth in a fair. After his ex wife dumps him for the reigning champion, he falls in love with the beautiful cashier, his only goal being to beat all challengers, in and off the ring. *"Arguably the finest of Hitchcock's silent films." Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Professor Willingdon is a scientist engaged on highly secret Government research. When he sends a letter to 10 Downing Street threatening to blow up the Houses of Parliament within 7 days unless the Prime Minister agrees to his demands, it is at first dismissed as a hoax. When Willingdon disappears, however, alarm bells ring, and soon all of London is hunting for this modern day Guy Fawkes. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated...
36) Deep Red
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
37) If
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
The story of aviation exploration and of the human problems which beset those on earth who can only sit and wait. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound into a new world, where speeds of two thousand miles an hour may be commonplace. But his daughter, Susan, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavors as senseless ambition....
39) Champagne
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
In this silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock early in his career, the daughter of a millionaire disagrees with her father over a love affair, whereupon he pretends to have lost all his money, making it necessary for her to earn her own living. She gets work in cabaret, where her job is to sell the champagne out of which her father made his fortune.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a romance channel screenwriter, Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. When her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life; it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds actor Leo Vance, who played her husband, on her porch...
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