Rachel Portman
2) Ratcatcher
Series
Criterion collection volume 162
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
"In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, 'Ratcatcher' explores the experiences of a poor addolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid performances, and unexpected humor, 'Ratcatcher' deftly contrasts...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
20111, 2005
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming 'tail' of a young girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch she names Winn-Dixie. The special bond between them works magic on her reserved dad and the eccentric townspeople they meet during one unforgettable summer.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they're living two years apart, they try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Even though Carla has grown into a very capable young woman, her nervous mother still has a major meltdown when Carla and her new boyfriend set out to experience all of life's great adventures, they're also out to prove that Carla has earned her independence--Container.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love. Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Series
A Dog's Purpose volume 1
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c1992
Language
English
Description
Insightful, funny, and sometimes tragic look at the collision of two different cultures featuring astonishingly beautiful scenery, a haunting score by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and a memorable supporting turn by Judy Davis.
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Forte, a grumpy pipe organ, has threatened to ruin the holiday festivities! But with a little bit of Christmas magic, Belle and her loyal friends deck the halls of the castle, melt the Beast's heart with love and wonder, and give this enchanted tale a holly-jolly ending.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Edward Scissorhands: A fairy tale about an inventor's greatest creation, a man with scissors for hands, who's taken in by a strange family in Suburbia and gives his new neighbors a lesson in what it truly means to be human.
Benny & Joon: A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton. An offbeat romantic comedy.
13) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
14) Never let me go
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightly co-star with talented newcomer Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) in this poignant and powerful film. Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley), and Tommy (Garfield) are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth -- that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors -- they embrace their fleeting chance...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Edward Scissorhands: A fairy tale about an inventor's greatest creation, a man with scissors for hands, who's taken in by a strange family in Suburbia and gives his new neighbors a lesson in what it truly means to be human.
Benny & Joon: A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton. An offbeat romantic comedy.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie.
17) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA 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.
18) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
19) Race
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
20) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.