Ian Bannen
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Ned Devine dies from shock after winning the lottery, two longtime friends, Michael and Jackie, discover the body and agree Ned would want them to benefit from his good luck. They embark upon an outrageous scheme to claim the ticket -- but first they have to get all the townsfolk to go along with their plan.
Language
English
Description
When the tabloids scream the news that Tory up-and-comer and arbiter of family values Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his devoted wife. As her husband and the party machinery behind him expect, Flora maintains a loyal façade. But in private, her anguish hardens into rage after erotic telephone tapes reveal the extent of her husband's duplicity. Employing strange sexual games and...
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.
7) Ghost dad
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Elliot Hopper, an overworked widower killed in a taxi accident, returns as a ghost and must learn how to be seen and heard so he can take care of his family.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Finlay survived World War II and now in the aftermath is has been serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returns to the small town of Tannochbrae in Scotland expecting to resume life as it was. However, while his irascible colleague Dr. Cameron is unchanged, everything else has been affected by the war. His fiancee has decided not to wait for him, he must deal with new colleagues and even the arrangements of the practice are overturned as...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of ten-year-old Billy Rohan. While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring. Navigating difficult times are mother Grace, who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy's sister, Dawn, whose romance and...
10) Hope and glory
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Story of a young boy and his family in London during World War II.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Five years have now passed since the end of the war and the Arden House medical team function with well-practiced efficiency. The free National Health Service keeps the team busy, kindly administering to the residents of Tannochbrae, who, for the most part, have gradually come to trust their doctors and follow their advice. Even so, as the post-war era unfolds, Dr. Finlay, Dr. Cameron and Dr. Napier face many soul-searching ethical dilemmas in cases...
13) Damage
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man and his son's fiancee are entangled in an intensely erotic affair that is as irrestible as it is destructive.
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Blu-ray; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Four WWII American soldiers have been condemned to a military prison for various offenses. While en route, a German attack allows them to escape. The group heads towards Switzerland, hoping to avoid fighting and prison. However, they wind up volunteering for a commando mission for the French Underground. Somehow, the team must sneak into the most heavily guarded base in German territory, steal the Nazi's warhead, and bring it back to the allies...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen format (1.66:first).
Language
English
Description
"When a tawdry sex scandal links a high-ranking British politician to a Russian KGB agent, ambitious newsman Nick Mullen swiftly gets the story on Page One. But when his scoop-of-the-decade begins to unravel the cover-up-of-the-century ... [Mullen finds himself] ensnared in a web of deadly intrigue" -- Container.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Eye of the needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Eye of the needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
Company business: Two spies--one American, one Soviet--form an unlikely alliance when the CIA and KGB unite to assassinate them....
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