Films with: Townsend, Stanley

Happy-go-lucky

Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students.

DVD 6414

Libertine

John Wilmot, a 17th century poet, is the Earl of Rochester and from the beginning he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II. The king hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry. Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress of their time--and she, with some reluctance, submits to his teaching.

DVD 5405

Tunnel.

"Our investigative duo--pragmatic, meticulous and newly promoted Commander Elise Wasserman, and laconic but brilliant DCI Karl Roebuck--reunite to investigate the case of a French couple abducted from the Eurotunnel, leaving behind their traumatized daughter, Chloe Fournier. But the case is complicated when a plane carrying British and French passengers crashes into the Channel killing everyone on board"--pbs.org.

DVD 12749