Stephen Warbeck
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
4) Proof
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Barry is a working-class cop assigned to protect the queen's youngest son, a new student at Cambridge University. Grace is an American exchange student both men fall in love with. When the prince proves as inept at love as he is at learning, the macho bodyguard becomes tutor as well as protector, ghostwriting sweet nothings and academic assignments, all while repressing his own feelings for Grace.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Nederlands
Description
International hit man Angelo decides to retire after he begins to suffer from Alzheimer's. He takes one last offer, but when learning one target is a teenage girl, he breaks the deal. Angelo then tries to discover who would want a young girl dead.
11) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
12) Birthday girl
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia. At first, things seem perfect even though Nadia doesn't speak much English. But when Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption...
13) Quills
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.
14) Two brothers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Two mischievious twin tiger cubs are born in the jungle but are soon seperated and taken into captivity. One is sold off to the circus and the other becomes the pampered pet of the governor's son. They are reunited years later by an explorer who trains them to be sport fighters and inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
16) Oyster farmer
Publisher
HomeVision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An enterprising young man robs a fish market and mails the cash to a secluded, close-knit community of oyster farmers. When it goes missing, he suspects it was found by one of his neighbors.
18) Charlotte Gray
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Its World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
20) As you like it
Series
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
c2010 +
Language
English
Description
Rosalind, in love with the naive Orlando, disguises herself as the male Ganymede to counsel him about courting Rosalind. This staging was performed at Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the open-air theater designed in 1599.