Charles Dance
21) The king's man
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world on the brink of World War I is being manipulated by a cabal of political villains strategically placed to create conflict. One British lord and his son create a network of domestic worker spies in hopes of undermining the efforts, taking on the likes of Rasputin and Mata Hari with the crown's silent support. When the war happens anyway and takes the life of one of these men, the other must rise above his grief to bring an end to years of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. Academy Award®-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's SHERLOCK, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing. THE IMITATION GAME follows Turing as he leads a motley crew of scholars, linguists, chess champions, and intelligence officers in cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine, potentially saving millions...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
24) Rebecca
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife.
25) Lancaster
Publisher
Tall Boy Films, LTD
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans of the bombing campaign.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the 70s, Charles is still unmarried and England's first female Prime Minister locks horns with the Queen, causing some unrest among the entire country. As Margaret Thatcher leads England into the Falklands war and a prince courts a "commoner", the Lady Diana Spencer, the country may unite under a fairytale ending but the royal family's division grows wider.
Language
English
Description
Kings from across the continent of Westeros vie for the Iron Throne. As winter approaches, the cruel young Joffrey sits upon the Throne in King's Landing, counseled by his conniving mother Cersei and his uncle Tyrion, who has been appointed the new Hand of the King. But the Lannister hold on power is under assault on many fronts, with two Baratheons donning crowns, and Robb Stark fighting as the King in the North.
Author
Language
English
Description
Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly discover that he is a Polish Jew with a gift for music as an accomplished violinist, hoping to find his way to America. But the village isn't used to visitors...
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, the progress of the killings seems to correlate with an ominous nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Soldier Boys." Accusations fly, dark secrets are revealed, and the guests' mutual suspicion gives way to a sense of collective doom.
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 3
Language
English
Description
The number of guests has shrunk to five after yet another murder, and the remaining few have lost nearly all hope of survival. With further acts of terrible violence all but guaranteed, they decide to revel in their final hours. But will help from the mainland arrive at last?
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1939, as the world teeters on the brink of war, 10 strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When they are cut off from the mainland by a storm, the true reason for their presence soon becomes horribly clear.
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award Winner, Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioral manipulation, the surveillance...
33) Dark blue world
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Director Jan Sver�ak's Dark Blue World embraces sentimentality with such brio it is hard to resist. The film relays the little-known WWII story of Czech fighter pilots who escaped the Nazi occupation of their country to fight in Britain's Royal Air Force. Those who survived the battles were placed in work camps upon their return home by a then-entrenched, paranoid Communist regime. Sver�ak (Kolya) tacks back and forth between Franta (Ondrej Vetchy),...
34) Me before you
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for....
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
38) Alien3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, �1992
Language
English
Description
Lt. Ripley is the lone survivor when her spaceship crashes onto a planet inhabited by ex-cons. After she learns of the alien stowaway that made her ship crash, Ripley also learns of a horrifying link she has with the alien.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006], �2005
Language
English
Description
Something wicked this way comes to the Sunny Ridge Retirement Home for Ladies. Miss Marple teams up with detective duo Tommy and Tuppence to investigate the suspicious death of Tommy's Aunt Ada and sudden disappearance of Ada's friend, Mrs. Lancaster, both residents of Sunny Ridge. An oddly doctored painting and tantalizing crossword clues lead Tuppence and and Miss Marple to Farrell St. Edmund, a village that seems straight out of a fairy tale complete...