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(0)Deborah Kerr
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English
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Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
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Criterion collection volume 727
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in nineteenth-century England, a governess caring for two orphans becomes fearful when apparitions appear and the children begin behaving oddly.
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[2000]
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English
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The setting is war-torn England, 1939. Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) is married to Henry (Stephen Rea), a man she loves but with whom she shares no intimacy. When she meets Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes), the two have an immediate attraction to each other and embark on a torrid affair. Their passion is as earth-shattering as the bombs that explode around them, until the day Sarah mysteriously and abruptly walks out of Maurice's life. Two years later,...
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Woman of substance trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
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Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
11) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.
13) Julius Caesar
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Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
One of the best movie adaptations of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
14) Quo vadis
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway....
15) The King and I
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English
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An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King of Siam when she is hired as the teacher at the royal court in the 1860s.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Although each is engaged to someone else, when Nickie and Terry meet aboard an ocean liner, they fall in love. After they agree to rendezvous six months later atop the Empire State Building, tragedy strikes, and the lovers' future takes an uncertain turn"--Container.
17) The King and I
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but challenges the country's traditions during her work.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.
19) Casino Royale
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sir James Bond is persuaded to rejoin Her Majesty's secret service and head an operation to smash SMERSH.
20) The journey
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A group of westerners try to leave the city when the Soviets occupy the country.
