BBC Films
1) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow's life. The film highlights the beauty and challenges cows face, and their great service to us all.
2) One life
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a boozy dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident. The new friends suddenly find themselves at odds and are forced to question how well they know their neighbors, in this psychological thriller.
5) Jude
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for learning. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to his beloved scholars. There, he meets and falls totally in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a thoroughly modern young woman, whose wit and beauty captivate him. When they join in an illicit union that flouts society's conventions, fate takes...
7) Femme
Publisher
BBC Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jules' life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack. But when he re-encounters his attacker, the deeply-closeted Preston, in a gay sauna, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Unrecognizable out of his wig and make-up, Jules infiltrates Preston's life, and in doing so, discovers power in a different kind of drag..
8) Judy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
9) Monsoon
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kit ... returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American War. There he meets Lee, his estranged second sousin [i.e., cousin], Linh, a young Vietnamese student, and arranges an online date that turns into something more with Lewis ... an American clothing designer. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he's no longer familiar with, he embarks...
10) My old lady
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who "temporarily" parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
12) Mr. Holmes
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
13) Pride
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
14) Supernova
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Joann Hogg's moving and vibrantly funny story of young adulthood and young love, The souvenir and The souvenir, part II follow Julie, an ambitious film student in 1980s London, in a decade-spanning epic of creative and romantic entanglements. Presented here together, as they were meant to be seen, the films are an extraordinary portrait of the people who shape us and the art that defines us.
16) Tormented
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Can revenge reach beyond the grave? When Darren Mullet, an awkward, bullied boy commits suicide, few kids at his school can do anything but snicker, except for sweet Justine, who delivers a eulogy but admits she can't remember ever meeting the boy. But Mullet knew her, and remembered every humiliation he suffered at school. When his unrepentant tormentors begin getting weird and threatening text messages from the dead boy's phone, they believe they're...
17) A little chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
18) The lost king
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. For Philippa Langley, this was the culmination of years of obsessive research despite the doubts of her friends, family, experts, and academics.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
20) Woman in gold
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.