Arts Council of England.
2) Captain Jack
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack is an irascible sea captain with a strong antipathy for authority, a fondness for the ladies and an obsession with his predecessork Captain Scoresby, who sailed from England to the Arctic in 1791. Jack is determined to retrace Scoresby's 1300 mile voyage and install a plaque in his hero's honor.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The glittering yet treacherous world of New York high society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but, in a series of tragic events, winds up disgraced and discarded" -- Container.
4) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
7) Bent
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
Publisher
Koch Lorber
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Can Janice find a cure for her sick mother, save her company from industrial espionage, and find true love with the mailroom boy? Anything is possible! Winner of Best Feature at U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and the Audience Award at San Jose Cinequest.
9) The claim
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
10) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.