Glenda Jackson
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers." --
2) Elizabeth R
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn. As a young woman, Elizabeth is faced with imprisonment and worse, but she prevails over vicious court intrigues and secures her claim to the throne. As Queen, she faces the continuing threat from Mary, Queen of Scots, an impending royal wedding that would unite England and France, and a palace insurrection involving a former court favorite.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A satire as modern psychotherapy about a confused, crazily neurotic couple and their not ant saner analysis. Prudence is a conservative and slightly mixed-up young woman who thinks Bruce is crazy. Bruce is a bi-sexual who lives with his male lover and is crazy about Prudence.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mary Stuart (Vanessa Redgrave), who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at he age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor (Glenda Jackson), the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting...
9) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection ; 163
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate - because he's having to much fun!
10) King of the wind
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion--known as the Godolphin Arabian--brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed-- and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
11) House calls
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A surgeon who has recently lost his wife becomes involved in a series of relationships that don't work out. Suddenly, a woman enters his life who instantly captures his heart.
13) Nasty habits
Publisher
WHAM! USA
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The ultimate Watergate parody. A subtle, delightful comedy set in the Abbey of Philadelphia. Glenda Jackson as Sister Alexandra fears defeat in ther election for head Abbas from Sister Felicity a young, rebellious candidate, so she bugs the Abbey. She arranges for two Jesuits to break in and steal love letters from Sister Felicity's work box. The break-in is foiled and the coverup begins. Alexandra wins by a landslide and Felicity is banished. Felicity...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve.
15) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Spain at the turn of this century, the scene is a cloistered household managed by a newly widowed mother of five daughters. Under the shadow of the church and the tyranny bred from a need to protect the reputation of the family, the matron (Bernarda Alba) represses her daughters by enforcing an eight year mourning period. The tensions build rapidly among the imprisoned women, with a demented grandmother playing a role resembling that...
17) The music lovers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"About two ill-matched lovers in this divine bio-pic of the great musician Peter Tchaikovsky, a lavish film filled with brilliant Tchaikovsky music selections." --
18) Madame Bovary
Author
Language
English
Description
Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life and the lives of those around her are wrecked.
This new translation by Francis Steegmuller was published as a part of the centenary celebration of the original publishing...
19) Little women
Author
Language
English
Description
"For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
