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Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a powerhouse performance as the title character English aristocrat based on the novels by Edward St Aubyn. Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.
3) Mary Poppins
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
4) Mary Poppins
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him.
9) Easy virtue
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A newly married couple visits the husband's family in England where the wife faces disapproval from her mother-in-law over her free-spirited American ways.
12) The Forsyte saga
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
The fabled Forsyte family saga continues. Fluer, the daughter of Soames and Annette, and Jon, the son of Irene and Jolyon, meet by chance as youngsters. A decade later, they meet again and fall instantly - and disasterously - in love. This era in the saga of the privileged Forsytes unfolds amid the gaiety and social upheaval of the 1920's, the dawn of the modern age.
17) How I live now
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An American teenager is sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, but soon they begin to struggle as war breaks out.
18) Sons & lovers
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After the death of her oldest son, Gertrude Morel pours all of her love and frustrated ambition into her relationship with he youngest son, Paul. Struggling to find his own way in the world, Paul is torn between putting his mother's wishes before his own and finding happiness on his own terms.