Claire Bloom
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy about to retire undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends to defect and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
9) Shadowlands
Publisher
BBC-TV
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, this film is about the agonizing spiritual crisis of C.S. Lewis when his wife died from cancer. The love, grief, pain, and sorrow were so shattering to Lewis that his basic Christian beliefs, magnificently communicated in his many books, were now called into serious doubt. But he picked up the pieces and moved out of the depressing "shadowlands, " realizing that "real life has not even begun yet."
10) Limelight
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In 17th century England an English aristocrat (Hugh Grant) is forced to become a highwayman and falls in love with a young girl (Emma Samms) he has sworn to protect after her brother is beheaded by Cromwell. He not only saves her from a brutal husband, but helps her at the court of Charles II.
13) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An aging vaudeville star saves a young ballerina from suicide and then helps make her a star.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 72
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a supposed deaf-mute overhears a scheme that could hurt the people he loves, he enlists the help of an unlikely ally -- the local trash hauler.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, a callous Russian officer; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexey; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in his own way.