Ian Holm
1) Soft Targets
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alexei's life as a minor Russian diplomat in London starts changing wildly one Sunday morning, as he is thrust into a new world of parties, society weddings and baffling women, and he becomes convinced he is the victim of a sinister Foreign Office plot. Stephen Poliakoff's subtle parody of the conventional spy-thriller genre presents a world where conspiracy and betrayal lurk around every corner.
2) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
3) Brazil (NR)
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
"Hailed for its groundbreaking visual effects and satirical story, Brazil is one of the most highly regarded films of all time and a bona fide cult classic. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry, a grey-suited government clerk who finds his life turned upside-down when he gets involved in...
Publisher
Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At the rise of what would become known as World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert the superiority of their nation, the young men endure a brutal training camp and soon find themselves face to face with the full horrors of war when they are sent to the front lines to fight, and likely die.
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1991, ℗2017.
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He is relentlessly pursued by a determined federal agent and his inner demons sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
History tells us that Napoleon died in exile on the Island of St. Helena. Or did he? In 1821, a secret network of Napoleonic loyalists hatch an ingenious plot: the Emperor will return to Paris and a double will take his place in exile.
10) Chariots of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
12) Garden State
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Andrew Largeman returns from self-imposed exile in Los Angeles to his hometown in New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Andrew has spent years cut off from his darker feelings with the aid of pharmaceuticals prescribed by his father, Gideon, a coldly formal psychiatrist. Afterward, he takes to tooling around on his antique motorcycle, finding old friends and making new ones. When he meets and begins to fall for Sam, he finds himself slowly awaking...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer ... Uses the stories of these fictional families to portray the atrocities against the Jewish people from the 1930s to 1945, and presents a heart-wrenching portrait of their struggle"--Container.
Series
The lord of the rings volume 1
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his...
15) Big night
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the perfectionist tendencies of chef Primo.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli and an all-star cast come together to deliver a powerful adaptation of the gospels in 1977's Jesus of Nazareth. From the Nativity to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the life of Jesus (played by Robert Powell) is presented with stunning depth, gravity, and emotion. Acclaimed by critics and viewers alike, Jesus of Nazareth remains one of the finest depictions of the story of Christ nearly forty years after its...
17) Ratatouille
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage...
19) Alien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discover a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
Author
Series
Lord of the rings volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes...