Can Miyuki and Natsume save both themselves and Tokyo? The fastest and wildest policewomen in Japan are up against their greatest challenge ever!
He was dashing debonair and daring. He had pledged to fight evil to undertake any dangerous or delicate mission on behalf of his sovereign. He was fin de siecle gentleman Adam Adamant. Was and is - for Adam Adamant Lives! A Vintage Year for Scoundrels: Lured from an opulent ballroom to the rat-ridden streets of Edwardian Stepney Adam Adamant confronts his most deadly enemy - the Face an evil genius who condemns him to a state of suspended animation entombed in a block of ice. When he awakens sixty-four years later in the sordid swinging sixties streets of Soho the bemused and befuddled adventurer is befriended by Georgina Jones and is quickly plunged into the twilight world of gangsters and protection rackets. Death Has a Thousand Faces: Why does death lie in wait for the man with the stick of rock? What does the coded cipher hidden inside it mean? To find out Adam and Georgina drive to Blackpool where they're enmeshed in a world of drama and danger where fear lurks in every fairground and the executioner's block in the Horror Museum awaits another noble neck. As the seconds tick away it looks as if Blackpool's Golden Mile will be reduced to a pile of dust-swirling debris - can Adam prevent it from becoming a mere golden memory?
A group of young environmental activists have boarded an abandoned North Sea oil rig and prepare to broadcast to the world in a protest against the rigs pending destruction. But the rig is not as empty as they first thought. The rig workers had summoned up an evil entity which inhabits the bodies of the living moving from person to person at it's will leaving the previous host dead. Locked in a battle for survival the group are forced to confront the evil. Can they work out who is possessed and deliver the final few to safety or will this evil entity escape and be released upon an unsuspecting world? Find out in 'Ghost Rig'!
This major two-part documentary film on the life and work of Giuseppe Verdi is presented by Mark Elder former Music Director of English National Opera and a renowned conductor of Verdi's music. Stunning location film from Italy and other elements including quotations from Verdi's own correspondence are interspersed with highlights from some of Verdi's most popular operas sung in Italian and specially staged by American director David Alden. The film made in 1994 features actors Bob Peck as the voice of Giuseppe Verdi and Juliet Stevenson as the voice of Giuseppina Strepponi. Operatic extracts are from: Luisa Miller Attila Macbeth Rigoletto Il Trovatore La Traviata The Force of Destiny Don Carlos Simon Boccanegra Otello Falstaff
The complete classic BBC TV series about the struggles of the Low Countries population during their occupation by the Nazi's during World War II.
In the first quarter of the 20th century Paris was the undisputed cultural capital of the world. It was also the meeting place for a new generation of independent women who flocked to the West Bank and made it their home. Together they created a now legendary community of respected artists: authors Colette Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein; painters Romaine Brookes and Marie Laurencin; photographers Bernice Abbott and Gilsele Freund; publishers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier; and journalist Janet Flanner. Using groundbreaking research and recently uncovered home movies combined with other visual sources this intimate documentary entwines interviews and anecdotes to recreate the ambience of an exceptional group of women in Paris during its most magical era.
Mona Lisa Smile (Dir. Mike Newell 2003): Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2003): She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community. Closer (Dir. Mike Nichols 2004): If you believe in love at first sight you'll never stop looking... Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love...
Haunted Echoes
From the great storyteller Jules Verne comes the sweeping tale of a remarkable trip around the globe. Adventurous and dapper Phileas Fogg sails off with his loyal manservant Passepartout spanning the continents visiting the world's greatest cities crossing oceans mountains and deserts while a Scotland Yard detective follows in hot pursuit every step of the way. From England to Cairo Bombay to Hong Kong this splendid delightful story has an international flair that makes for quite an unforgettable journey.
Two close families' lives are shattered when it appears that the daughter of one family is shot dead by the son of the other. The two families search for the answer and ask themselves if they really knew their children. As the trial begins the families grow further apart but the accused is the only one who knows the truth of that night and of the pact that he made with the dead girl...
Titles Comprise: Pierrot Le Fou (1965) Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961) La Chinoise (1967) Le Petit Soldat (1963) Detective (1985)
See Tom Jones perform with some of the leading ladies of the music and movie world including Tina Turner Gladys Knight Brooke Shields and more. Track list: Gladys Knight - Guilty Gladys Knight Solo - Love On The Rocks Dionne Warwick - Endless Love Dionne Warwick Solo - Long Road Ahead Of Us Marie Osmond - The Way You Do The Things You Do Marie Osmond Solo - I'll Take you Back Chaka Khan - We Can Work It Out Chaka Khan Solo - See You In The Morning Tina Turner - Hot Legs Tina Turner Solo - Pain Rita Coolidge - Somethin' Bout You Baby I like Rita Coolidge Solo - Words Cybil Shepherd - Our Day Will Come Cybil Shepherd Solo - Stardust Dusty Springfield - Upside Down Dusty Springfield Solo - Quiet Please There's A Lady On Stage Deniece Williams - Too Much Too Little Too Late Deniece Williams Solo - What Two Can Do Brooke Shields - Little Quennie Brooke Shields Solo - You're The Only One Lola Falana - I Love The Night Life Lola Falana Solo - Come In From The Rain Susan Anton - Somethin's Burnin' Susan Anton Solo - Dream' My Dreams Sondra Locke - Again Sondra Locke Solo - Wheel Of Fortune Audrey Landers - Reunited Audrey Landers Solo - Love Me tonight Juliet Prowse - I Get A Kick Out Of You Juliet Prowse Solo - Satin Doll Stephanie Mills - The Closer I get To You Stephanie Mills Solo - I Never Knew Love Like This Before Lynn Anderson - Whenever I Call You Friend Lynn Anderson Solo - Queen Of Hearts Marisa Berenson - He's So Shy Marisa Berenson Solo - They Can't Take That Away From Me Tanya Tucker - I'm Leaving It Up To You Tanya Tucker Solo - Love Knows We Tried
Betrayal. Revenge. Murder. A crime of passion or a state of mind? Grace Hazlett reeling from the brutal discovery of her husbands adultery takes their young son Adam to move back to her old family home. Her mother Isabel now widowed is a busy GP and set in her own ways. Home as Grace discovers is not always so sweet...In the midst of this emotional turmoil Grace who is an experienced criminal psycologist is asked by the police to determine the guilt or innocence of Julian
Veteran western director Andrew V. McLaglen puts his brand on this exciting story based on America's acquisition of English Hereford cattle (which would phase out Texas longhorns). In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the woman hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes - and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ranch even greater obstacles force them to summon up extraordinary courage if they and the prize bull are to survive.
A complete collection of the filmed adaptations of Catherine Cookson novels. Includes: The Mallen Secret / The Mallen Curse / The Mallen Girls / The Mallen Streak / The Fifteen Streets / The Wingless Bird / The Round Tower / The Black Velvet Gown / The Black Candle / The Rag Nymph / The Moth / The Girl / The Tide Of Life / The Glass Virgin / The Gambling Man / The Man Who Cried / The Cinder Path / The Dwelling Place / The Colour Blind / The Tilly Trotter / The Storyteller / The Secret / Dinner Of Herbs
Jesus Christ is one of the most pivotal individuals in all of history. Certainly no single figure has had greater influence on global art and culture during the last 2000 years. This DVD traces the dramatically different ways in which Jesus has been represented in art by people throughout history and around the world. The Face takes viewers from ancient Rome to 20th-century America from Europe to the Middle East to illuminate the most beautiful and spectacular representations of
New to Los Angeles, Nell (Angela Bettis) and Steven Barrow (Brent Roam) rent an apartment in the Lusman Building. Built in the 1940s, this luxurious art deco hotel was a playground for the rich and famous in Hollywood's heyday. Later it fell on bad times...but now the old building is being restored to its former glory.
What no one knows, however, is that the Lusman should never have been tampered with. Renovating the building has brought out a supernatural horror - someone or something ...
A hired assassin working for the C.I.A. is assigned one more case. But the girl he's required to take out proves to be nothing more than a pawn in the game. Now he must protect her....
Black White And Gray is a documentary which documents the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith. Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth Wagstaff became Mapplethorpe's lover during the heady years of the 1970s and 19980s in New York City. The city was abuzz with a new spirit and Mapplethorpe would be at the centre of it. Wagstaff's death from AIDS In 1987 and later Mapplethorpe's in 1989 marked the end of an era. Black White And Gray reveals the the truth behind this powerful relationship and the influence their collective work continues to have over present-day art and culture.
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