Granada Television.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
3) Lost empires
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1913 young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Traveling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.
4) The field
Series
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The crooked man: Servants for Colonel James Barclay hear arguing and then blood-curdling screams before finding their employer dead. The speckled band: Helen Stoner becomes concerned when she hears a mysterious whistle-a sound her sister complained about right before her death.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is known as the greatest detective who never lived. All the classic tales are here, as the great detective and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, tangle with the terrifying hound of the Baskervilles, the beautiful adventuress Irene Adler, and the dastardly villains Colonel Sebastian Moran, Charles Augustus Milverton, and the Napoleon of crime himself, Professor James Moriarty.
10) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Carol receives an anonymous e-mail regarding an affair between her husband and his secretary. Torn between loyalty to her husband and her desire for the truth, she confronts the mistress and discovers her murdered.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Second stain: Who stole the secret letter from the house of the Secretary for European Affairs? Sherlock Holmes is called to assist in getting the letter back, "to avert a great war". When the one person Holmes believes could have stolen the letter is found murdered, the great detective is led into a tangled web of international intrigue. The six Napoleons: Holmes and Watson are called upon to solve the mystery of why busts of Napoleon are being smashed...
13) Prime suspect
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is found brutally murdered, and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things. Series two includes episodes set in gardens on the French Riviera and Italy's Lugurian coast in addition to several fabulous gardens in England.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Having been demoted and transferred to the north, D.C.I. Tennison finds herself under-used until she gets a case where a 12-year-old boy confesses to murder. She becomes involved with trying to convict the local crime boss who has proved impossible to touch.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fitz is an addicted gambler, a heavy drinker, and a brilliant, if deeply flawed criminal psychologist. Follow Fitz as he investigates an accused commuter train killer with amnesia, a couple who share love and murder, and the killing of a young boy that shakes a community to its core.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation, is he getting inside information?
19) The Sign of four
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman seeks the help of Holmes and Watson when the mysterious benefactor who has been sending her a pearl each year since her father disappeared wants to meet her. Involved are a priceless hoard of Indian treasure and a murderer, whose trademark is "the sign of four."