Richard E. Grant
62) Garden of Eden
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English
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While on an extended honeymoon across Europe, a young American writer and his wife become players in a tantalizing game of seduction that threatens to destroy their relationship and change their lives forever.
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Scarlet pimpernel volume 3
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English
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In the outskirts of Paris, Louis Capet (the Dauphin), heir to the French throne and orphan of the ancient regime, is being indoctrinated into Republican sensibilities. When he is kidnapped by a masked intruder, once again, the only hope for the French aristocracy is another masked man, the Scarlet Pimpernel.
67) Wah-wah
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English
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Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
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English
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A series of interconnecting stories that expose what goes on at the Paris fashion shows. When a fashion industry hot-shot is found dead, the police comb the fashion industry for clues. While the dead man's mistress mourns him as she is putting together a showing of her couture house's line, the man's widow could care less and attends the season's shows without a care, not knowing that her ex-husband is following her. Three magazine editors are trying...
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English
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"France, 1792. It is the height of the French Revolution. The country is gripped by revolutionary fever and the evil Head of Secret Police, Chauvelin, keeps the guillotines busy executing innocent peasants, aristocrats and priests. Only the mysterious stranger known as the Scarlet Pimpernel constantly foils Chauvelin's plans with his heroic missions to save innocent lives"--Box
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English
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"This epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and culture to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer,...
73) The iron lady
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English
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A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
74) Henry & June
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English
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"Upon meeting American author Henry Miller in Paris, 1931, a young writer named Anaïs Nin embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, and faithfully records every experience in her diary. In their search for new truths, Anaïs and Henry are tantalized by Henry's tauntingly sensual wife, June. An unforgettable journey into the uncharted territory of human relationships, based on the suppressed sections of Anaïs Nin's diaries"--Container.
Series
Maggie Smith at the BBC volume Disc 3
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English
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BBC adaptation of Tennessee Williams' one-act play where a young woman is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the violent death of her cousin. Her rich aunt asks a brilliant young brain surgeon to operate on the girl in hopes of dispelling her 'hallucinations' about the tragedy but the doctor administers a truth serum and learns that her 'hallucinations ' are true.
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English
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The story of a family seeking help for an ailing daughter. When they cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, the family's faith is put to the test as the father is torn between allegiance to the king and the desperate need for the miraculous powers of God.
79) Withnail and I
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English
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Acerbic and irresistibly self-destructive Withnail and neurotic Marwood are down-at-the-heels actors in 1960s London, living in self-inflicted squalor and drowning their artistic frustrations with booze and any drugs they can get their hands on. Fleeing the doldrums - and unpaid bills - of the city, the pair finds themselves stuck in the less than idyllic country cottage of Withnail's lascivious uncle Monty. Features trailer.