Richard Burton
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
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.
11) Cleopatra
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra, from her ascent to the throne at age seventeen to her downfall and suicide is the one of the most controversial figures in ancient history. A great love story woven around the establishment of the Roman Empire.
15) 1984
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by George Orwell which is the story of impossible love and tragic betrayal set in the twisted, horrific world of "1984"
Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love, he is placed at the...
Publisher
Onward Production Ltd. and Paul Brownstein Productions
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Staged in rehearsal room and modern dress conditions, this is Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet. This play opened on Broadway April 9, 1964. This recording is not derived from a film, but from an attempt to simply record the stage show for one cinematic showing by placing cameras in the stalls during an actual performance.
17) The sandpiper
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers sneak across enemy lines to steal a Nazi trove of art and gold; when an American general is captured by Nazis, a British commando team is sent in to find him before he reveals plans for D-Day; the army recruits twelve convicted murderers to assassinate a group of German officers; follows a group from the he 101st Airborne Division trapped in the city of Bastogne during the Battle...
20) Absolution
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Psychological drama about an uncompromising priest at an English boys' school who becomes the victim of his own tyrannical behavior. Based on a true story.