Albert Finney
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Language
English
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Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, and Marty Ingels star in this drama based on a Ray Bradbury story. Enchanted by the works of Pablo Picasso, a vacationing couple treks through the length and breadth of Europe to meet the great artist himself. Their odyssey concludes on a melancholy note. Engaging animated sequences bring Picasso's paintings to life.
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English
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Albert Finney stars as a stern father unable to express his love for his only son. Through tremendous loss and wrenching humiliation, the boy becomes a man, learns how to make his own decisions and finally reconciles with his father in this heartwarming Irish tale. Based on the novel by Shane Connaughton.
3) Scrooge
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Language
English
Description
The spirit of Christmas becomes a musical celebration of life in this rousing Oscar nominated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Emperor’s Club. Dead Poets Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics...
6) A good year
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Max Skinner is a highly successful investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his estranged uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in France where he grew up. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but after spending unexpected time at the vineyar, he discovers a part of himself that he thought he had lost and experiences romance and a blossoming new love affir with a beautiful French woman...
9) Tom Jones
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Tom Jones is an orphan raised by the village squire who grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
11) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII.
12) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
13) Big fish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his yourth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
14) The Duellists
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, THE DUELLISTS explores the themes of obsession, honor and violence. This visually breathtaking film weaves a compelling...
15) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1981
Language
English
Description
A plucky girl leaves behind a depression-era orphanage when she's adopted by the famous billionaire Daddy Warbucks.
16) Amazing grace
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
18) Skyfall
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust - Bond. 007 aided only by field agent Eve, follows a trail that leads to Silva, whose...
19) Delivering Milo
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Language
English
Description
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
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English
Description
Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a debt-ridden broker, needs some quick cash. He ropes his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a scheme to commit the perfect crime: to rob their parents' (Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris) jewelry store. The scheme goes horribly awry, and the family patriarch takes justice into his own hands, unaware that the criminals he is hunting are his own sons.