Jodhi May
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
3) Defiance
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Based on the true story of a community of refugees and fighters, presents an account of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II.
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Set in South Africa in 1963, this docudrama tells the true story of idealistic journalist Ruth First Slovo who defies the government and becomes the first woman arrested under the 90-day Detention Act-- both a story of government abuse and a look at one mother's neglect of her family because of her involvement with a larger cause.
Pub. Date
2001
Description
The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a...
10) I, Anna
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The lives of a beautiful divorcee and a troubled detective intersect during the investigation of a vicious murder on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of London, sparking a tangled web of passion, intrigue and deceit. An absorbing film noir told from the perspective of an intriguing woman, a key suspect in a murder case, who becomes an obsession for the detective in charge of the investigation.