Films with: Curtis, Simon

Cranford

DVD 7219

David Copperfield

The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.

DVD 3580

Five days

Leanne vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over the next three months, Leanne's husband and family soon learn that nobody is what they seem. Everyone is a suspect. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.

DVD 10478

Goodbye Christopher Robin

When author A.A. Milne creates the Winnie-the-Pooh books after World War I, their success comes at a price for the author and his family. Thematic elements, some bullying, war images and brief language.

DVD 12541

My week with Marilyn

In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.

DVD 8722

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: When Lizzie Holroyd falls in love with another man, she wishes her boorish husband dead, a wish that comes horribly true.

DVD 7256

Woman in gold

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.

DVD 11074