Keira Knightley
2) Colette
Author
Language
English
Description
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as "Willy" (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success,...
3) Charlotte
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World War and defies incredible odds to create a timeless masterpiece.
4) Misbehaviour
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story. In a matter of hours, a global audience of more than 100 million viewers had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head. Starring Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Motherless Brooklyn), Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Keeley Hawes (High-Rise), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), and Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine),...
5) Begin Again
Author
Language
English
Description
From the writer-director of the Academy Award®-Winning movie ONCE. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who head to New York when he lands a major label deal. But the trappings of fame soon lead Dave astray and a lovelorn Gretta is left on her own. Her world takes a positive turn when disgraced record-label exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is captivated by her raw talent. An enchanting portrait emerges...
6) The Duchess
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristrocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, an ancestor of Princess Di.
8) King Arthur
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the void. Britain needs a king - someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into the new age....
Series
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
10) The aftermath
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has...
12) Misbehaviour
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
13) Official secrets
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world rush into war. Gun makes the decision to leak the memo to the press, igniting an international firestorm that would expose a vast political...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the key is. As she undertakes her journey she meets different...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. Follows a young Jack Ryan as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fianc,̌ Cathy.
17) Everest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, to follow your dreams...you've got to bend the rules! A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field
Language
English
Description
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation