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Chemical Wedding
on DVD (2008)
Starring: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden
Director: Julian Doyle
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The year 2000, Cambridge University, Dr Joshua Mathers' state-of-the-art virtual reality suit is being linked to the world's biggest super computer, the Z93. Local programmer, and occult obsessive Victor Neumann has been secretly uploading all of late Edwardian magician Aleister Crowley's black ..read more »
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45%
from 461 members
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Roman Mysteries - Series 1 - Complete
(2 discs)
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Simon Callow, Harry Stott, Natasha Barrero
Director: Paul Marcus
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ROMAN MYSTERIES follows the stories of Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan, and Lupus, four young friends growing up in Ancient Rome. As they try to get to grips with Roman society they also have to deal with the very modern issues of prejudice, violence and the environment. This excellent series informs and ..read more »
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71%
from 27 members
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Rag Tale
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bill Paterson
Director: Mary McGuckian
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An editor who's sleeping with his deputy, who also happens to be the boss' wife. A pack of hacks whose weekly battle cry is "Who are we going to get this week?". A photographer whose camera does lie and who will stop at nothing to destroy his chairman's dream of a knighthood. Welcome to the world ..read more »
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36%
from 1,330 members
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The Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices--and countless others--make every ..read more »
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68%
from 3,026 members
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Bright Young Things
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen, Fry
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Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
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63%
from 1,170 members
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Thunderpants
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Rupert Grint, Bruce Cook, Simon Callow
Director: Peter Hewitt
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Patrick, a ten year old boy, wants to become an astronaut. His claim to fame is his ability to break wind. With a friend's help Patrick travels to the US Space Centre where he has the chance to realise his ambition...
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58%
from 122 members
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The Mystery Of Charles Dickens
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Simon Callow
Director: Peter Garland
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Recorded at the Albery Theatre, London, this one-man play is the first piece of stage writing by Peter Ackroyd. It tells of the life and work of Charles Dickens.
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63%
from 107 members
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No Man's Land
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Branko Djuric, Simon Callow, Rene Bitorajac
Director: Danis Tanovic
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Dani Tanovic's debut film, about the futility of the Bosnian War, stars Branko Duric as Ciki, a Bosnian soldier with really bad luck. When he and a few other relief soldiers try to join their Bosnian comrades on the front, they get lost in fog, fall asleep, and are awakened at dawn by Serbian ..read more »
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73%
from 530 members
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The Scarlet Tunic
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Simon Callow, Jean-Marc Barr, Emma Fielding
Director: Stuart St. Paul
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A period drama and a adaption of a Thomas Hardy short story (THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR); THE SCARLET TUNIC is filmed against the backdrop of the stunning scenery of the Dorset countryside. A story of the forbidden love between a German hussar, Matthaus Singer, and the daughter of a well-to-do solicitor,..read more »
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53%
from 116 members
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The Woman in White
(1997)
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Justine Waddell, Andrew Lincoln
Director: Tim Fywell
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Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives
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54%
from 5 members
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James And The Giant Peach
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Henry Selick
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After James's parents are killed by a rogue rhinoceros, he is forced to live with his nasty aunts far from any kind of fun. But when a gigantic peach begins growing in the yard and James befriends the large insects who live inside, he sees a way to escape from his wicked aunts to New York City. ..read more »
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63%
from 1,264 members
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Jefferson In Paris
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton
Director: James Ivory
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Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
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51%
from 191 members
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Four Weddings And A Funeral
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott-Thomas
Director: Mike Newell
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Charles (Hugh Grant, in what would become career-defining performance) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colourful romantic background who meets the perfect woman, Carrie (Andie MacDowell), at a friend's wedding. However, Charles's hopes of romance are dashed when Carrie announces she must ..read more »
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71%
from 14,019 members
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Soft Top, Hard Shoulder
(1992)
Starring: Richard Wilson, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan
Director: Stefan Schwartz
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With his father's birthday looming, Gavin sets out to drive to Glasgow from London. This simple task turns into the journey from hell courtesy of a troublesome car and the exasperating presence of hitchhiker Yvonne. Together and under pressure, the pair encounter a series of eccentric characters in ..read more »
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57%
from 18 members
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Mr And Mrs Bridge
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: James Ivory
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Set in Kansas City in the late 1930s, MR & MRS BRIDGE tells the story of an upper class couple from the mid-west whose marriage is strained when their three grown-up children leave home. The Bridges are an affluent, conservative family whose lily-white lives revolve around the local country club. ..read more »
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55%
from 71 members
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Maurice
on DVD (1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
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At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
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71%
from 722 members
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A Room With A View
on DVD (1985)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: James Ivory
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.
E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James ..read more »
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73%
from 1,744 members
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Amadeus
(2 discs)
on DVD (1984)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Director: Milos Forman
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In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
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75%
from 2,872 members
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Surveillance
on DVD
Starring: Dawn Steele, Tom Harper, Sean Brendan Brosnan
Director: Paul Oremland
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Surveillance is a fast moving conspiracy thriller set in contemporary Britain. Adam is a teacher. He lives in the countryside and comes to London to club and pick-up guys on the net. But one of these men carries deadly information about an affair with a gay Royal. There are those who would stop at ..read more »
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42%
from 286 members
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5 August 2004
...pporting ones also. Many familar names to the British movie goer... Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Maggie Smith and Denholm Elliot to name a few. Helena Bonham Carter is superb ...
A Walk Back in Time 20 February 2005
No Man,s Land 25 February 2007
