Greta Scacchi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help-- only to...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One of America's greatest performers, Bobby Darin lived a rags-to-riches life. He worked his way from shady nightclubs to his dream destination, the Copacabana, where he wowed the crowds with his songs. He was a marvel at singing, songwriting and performing - stealing the hearts of fans everywhere despite the suffering in his own heart.
5) Persuasion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
6) Broken trail
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two lone strangers trekking on the road -- a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and a widowed English nurse -- meet each other and embark on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia. Joan is looking for answers about her husband's unusual death and Jack is just wandering to escape his past, but together they encounter mysteries in the dark corners of the isolated landscape.
8) Emma
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new proteg̈еee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the novel of the same name, this film follows the sudden disappearance of Anna Lou, a sixteen-year-old girl from a small mountain village in the Italian Alps. Called to investigate the mystery is Detective Vogel, who soon realizes that this case is far from simple. Working against the clock and amidst an unprecedented media frenzy, Vogel must make use of his unconventional methods to uncover the truth, in a town where motives are obscure,...
11) The falling
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lydia and Abbie are best friends experiencing a sexual awakening at an English girls' school. Following a tragedy, a mysterious fainting epidemic threatens the stability of all involved.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible.
Series
Language
English
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 504 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royal Corgi: Prince Edmond hopes to win his mother's love back with the gift of an adorable but unruly corgi. He hires American dog trainer Cecily to make the corgi presentable for the annual Christmas ball.
Fabled Holiday: Talia and her childhood best friend Anderson unexpectedly reunite in a familiar looking town full of Christmas spirit that restores its visitors during their times of deep turmoil.
Royal Nanny: MI5 agent Claire goes undercover...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (845 min.) : DVD video, sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jekyll & Hyde : Michael Caine battles forbidden love as Dr. Jekyll and its violent consequences as Mr. Hyde.
The leading man : In a London theatre, a hollywood heartthrob and a beautiful actress engage in a twisted love plot orchestrated by a cheating husband.
Love & Rage : Daniel Craig stars as a manipulative revolutionary whose charming ways turn vicious while courting the female owner of a large estate.
The serpent's kiss : When Thomas Smithers...
19) 3 movies
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (369 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three critically-acclaimed British romances featuring talented casts. In Becoming Jane, a dashing young man offends an emerging writer's sense and sensibility. In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder is invited to a charming aristocrat's estate where he is seduced by the opulent lifestyle. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds herself in a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Sleeping murder: Gwenda arrives in England, looking forward to her impending marriage and new life in a lovely old coastal estate. But she begins to experience visions and Miss Marple concludes that the bride-to-be witnessed a murder in that very house as a child. By the pricking of my thumbs: Miss Marple teams up with two detectives,...