Elizabeth McGovern
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Publisher
Distributed by Vestron Video
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
It all happened outside Terry Lambert's bedroom window-- an attempted murder. The only witness is Terry's lover-- his boss' wife. Terry decides to say that he is the witness, but the prosecuting attorney rips his story to shreds, and the attacker is freed. In order to clear his name Terry must trap the killer himself.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become. Written by Julian Fellowes and based on the beloved novel by Laura Moriarty.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the adventure stories written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy about a "caped crusader" who forms a secret league of followers which includes his wife, Lady Marguerite, to fight against the tyrants of the French Revolution and to save the innocent from Chauvelin, the bloodthirsty leader of the French Revolution and "Mademoiselle Guillotine."
7) Kick-Ass
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
8) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
10) The commuter
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the futuristic Republic of Gilead, where ecological disasters have ravaged the land, only a few women, called Handmaids, can still bear children. Handmaid Kate is sent to the home of the 'Commander' to bear his child for his infertile wife; but, revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the government plan to use Kate to assassinate the Commander. Kate risks her life to break free and strike a fatal blow for the revolution.
12) Angels Crest
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the small working-class town of Angels Crest a young father's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor, haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.
13) The Commuter
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home and works against the clock to stop a deadly attack to save the lives of his fellow train passengers.
14) Kick-ass
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the showdown between the forces of good and evil will force Kick-Ass...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall accidentally kills a street person and gets away with it. Suddenly the key to true success and happiness seems to be similarly getting rid of his nagging wife and arranging an "accident" for his boss.
17) Ragtime
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The lives and passions of a middle class, small town family are interwoven with the scandals and events of America in 1906.
18) Woman in Gold
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.