Simon Callow
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Ace Ventura, when nature calls: Ace Ventura sets out on a mission to locate a sacred animal god for a primitive African tribe.
Ace Venture, pet detective: Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami dolphins and woos and wows the ladies.
Pub. Date
p2005, c2004
Description
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Pub. Date
p2000
Description
Lucy Honeychurch, like all proper young British ladies during the Edwardian Era, is compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone--in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett. While in Italy, the ladies make the acquaintance of a wide variety of personalities; the most fascinating of their fellow tourists--at least in Lucy's eyes--is free-spirited George Emerson. Aware that her cousin is becoming too familiar with Emerson,...
26) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt...
27) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt...
28) No man's land
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, a group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night. At daybreak, the fog lifts, and the Serbs open fire. Soon there is only one Bosnian survivor because he was able to dive into a trench in no man's land. He then watches as two Serbian soldiers use the body of a fallen Bosnian to bait a land mine. He fires on them, killing one, and taking the second hostage....
29) Amadeus
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Adapted from Shaffer's play, the film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, a mediocre 18th-century Viennese composer obsessed with and jealous of the musical genius of the age, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Four weddings and a funeral: Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding, However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect. A fish called Wanda: Sexy American diamond lovers Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want...
31) Maurice
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.