Rupert Everett
2) Funny woman
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
3) She will
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a cheap Parisian hotel, Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and recalls his past with wit and irony. Was he once the most famous man in London? He reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the devotion of Robbie Ross, who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, Oscar is a penniless vagabond, shunned by his old...
7) Stage beauty
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and make a man of himself.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
10) Warning
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in the not too distant future, this intense sci-fi thriller explores the repercussions that mankind faces when their omniscient technology becomes a substitute for human contact. But life begins to unravel when a global storm causes electronics to go haywire, leading to terrifying, deadly consequences.
Publisher
20th Century Classics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
12) An ideal husband
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A womanizing bachelor attempts to keep a fortune-seeking seductress from revealing a scandalous secret from his past. Inspired by the classic Oscar Wilde play.
13) Shrek the third
Series
Shrek volume 3
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Fiona's father, the King, croaks, it's up to Shrek and his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to find a suitable heir to the throne before Shrek becomes King of Far Far Away.
Publisher
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
In the village of Monte Athena in Italy at the turn of the 19th century, necklines are high, parents are rigid, and marriage is seldom a matter of love. Thus, Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander, while her father wants only Demetrius for his son-in-law. Poor Helena burns hot for Demetrius, who avoids her like the plague. Meanwhile, fairy king Oberon is engaged in a battle of wits with his queen, Titania, and...
15) Hearts of Fire
Author
Language
English
Description
Molly McGuire is about to be seduced by the business of rock 'n' roll. She works in a Pennsylvania Turnpike tollbooth by day and sings in a bar by night. However, her life will soon change-drastically-when she meets former rock star Billy Parker in a small town bar. McGuire goes with him to England, where pop superstar James Colt decides to help her with her career. Now, thrust into the high-powered world of rock 'n' roll, Molly discovers the price...
16) 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.
19) Finding Altamira
Author
Language
English
Description
Antonio Banderas stars as a man whose astonishing discovery threatens to shake religious understanding and tear his family apart.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator Cathy Malkasian with a screenplay by Kate Boutilier (writer of Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris). The main character is 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry (voice of Lacey Chabert), a braces-and-glasses-wearing eccentric girl in an adventurous family of travelers. Due to an interaction with a shaman, she has been granted the special power...