Olivia Colman
1) Nasrin
Author
Language
English
Description
In the courts and on the streets, Nasrin has long fought for the rights of women, children, LGBTQ, religious minorities, journalists, artists, and those facing the death penalty. She was arrested in June 2018 and sentenced to 38 years in prison, plus 148 lashes. Even from prison, she has continued to challenge the authorities. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman and secretly filmed by women and men who risked arrest, the film features acclaimed...
2) London Road
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2006, the murder of five prostitutes made one quiet Ipswich Street notorious. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and curb crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicenter of this tragedy.
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Series
Lost Prince volume 1
Language
English
Description
Through the prism of Young Prince Johnnie's eyes, the grandeur and pomp of Edwardian Britain are unfurled. Johnnie is a charming boy, loved for his frankness by his grandfather, King Edward VII, uninhibited and with an eccentric view of the world quite alien to his parents. He also suffers from epilepsy and so he and his devoted nanny, Lalla, are to be exiled to Sandringham in Norfolk. Distanced from his father, King George V, and his mother, Queen...
Author
Series
Lost Prince volume 2
Language
English
Description
As if by accident the Royal families of Europe find their countries plunged into conflict and the young children of the monarch, George V, watch with bemusement as their elders become weighed down by the effects of the conflagration that has enveloped the continent. Through this tragedy, the bright spirit of Johnnie remains undimmed.
5) Nasrin
Author
Language
Farsi
Description
Secretly filmed in Iran: an immersive portrait of the world's most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of the remarkably resilient Iranian women's rights movement. Featuring acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and journalist Ann Curry. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During the period between 1964 and 1977: the royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill; the United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy; survives the Aberfan disaster; observes the Apollo 11 moon landing; and plans for the Investiture of Prince Charles. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of...
9) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
10) Empire of light
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
11) Tyrannosaur
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
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Description
TYRANNOSAUR follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury...
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. This time around, she's coping with her father's upcoming nuptuals, and her attraction to the hot priest they've chosen to officiate, while the brother-in-law escalates everything around him.
13) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find Joy, in the back seat with her baby. Two loveable rogues go across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship and love they never knew they needed in each other.
14) Mr. Sloane
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bittersweet comedy-drama about a buttoned-down man in crisis. It's December 1969 and Jeremy Sloane is at the end of his rope - literally. He's been sacked from his accounting job, his wife Janet has left him to "find herself," and he is beginning to despair of his lot in life. Most evenings are now spent down the pub, drowning his sorrows with childhood mates Ross, Reggie and Beans. But with a potential job opportunity on the horizon and the phone...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman hurls herself at modern living in London. She often escapes into momentary fantasy asides -- letting an imaginary audience hear her unspoken gibes -- as she navigates her father's emotional distance, her godmother-turned-stepmother, her perfect sister and horrible brother-in-law as well as her seemingly-doomed love life.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet. The notorious PiB embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost life. But with only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner and nemesis: the captivating Kitty Soft Paws. In their quest,...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills and Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the witty and moving stories of three very different women affected by the brand's success: co-founder Charles Boon's wife Mary, daydreaming 1970s writer Janet and modern-day literature lecturer Kirstie.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the 70s, Charles is still unmarried and England's first female Prime Minister locks horns with the Queen, causing some unrest among the entire country. As Margaret Thatcher leads England into the Falklands war and a prince courts a "commoner", the Lady Diana Spencer, the country may unite under a fairytale ending but the royal family's division grows wider.
19) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
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.
20) Them That Follow
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As Mara, the devoted daughter of a snake-handling preacher (Walton Goggins), prepares for her wedding under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), she reveals a secret that threatens to shatter the entire community.