Peter Mullan
1) Escape
Author
Language
English
Description
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.
2) Tyrannosaur
Author
Language
English
Description
Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem and a violent temper. When he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman), a devout Christian who works at a charity shop, the two form an unlikely bond where secrets are revealed and salvation is found in dark places. With striking performances and a deeply moving story, actor-turned-writer/director Paddy Considine's film is a stunning debut about the emergence of grace and redemption from the...
3) War horse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
4) War horse
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
6) Sunset song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War. The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
7) Hostiles
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
8) Boy A
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of a 14-year prison sentence, 24-year-old Jack is looking for a new start. Guided by his caseworker, he attempts to start a new life. But what happiness he finds is challenged when his true identity seeps through the cracks of his new facade.
Publisher
HBO Home Video/Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.
10) NEDS
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The stage is set in 1970s Glasgow. On the brink of adolescence, John is a bright and sensitive boy, eager to learn and full of promises. But the cards are stacked against him. Most of the adults in his life fail him in one way or another. His father, drunken, violent bully and his teachers, punishing him for the sins of his older brothers. John takes to the savage life of the streets with a vengeance. It is not only a story of lost hope, it is a story...
11) On a clear day
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The inspirational and triumphant story of a man who defies great odds and takes on a monumental challenge. This heartwarming tale of determination is an uplifting and humorous film.
12) Hercules
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a terrifying new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules and his fearless team of warriors must lead their army in a battle against overwhelming odds"--Container.
13) Tyrannosaur
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Joseph is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah 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 and offer him warmth, kindness, and acceptance. As their story develops, Hannah's own secrets are revealed and Joseph becomes...
14) The liability
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When teenager Adam agrees to drive around Roy, one of his mother's gangster boyfriend's associates, he is exposed to the criminal activities of the hitman, and discovers he may be Roy's next target.
Publisher
Ifc Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky physically and emotionally scarred. When a failed heist puts Sternwood's son in a hospital, the fugitive is forced to come out of hiding, giving Max his second chance to get the one criminal who got away. But as Max returns to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis, he begins to uncover evidence of a vast conspiracy that may put him in...
16) The claim
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
17) Young Adam
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A drifter enters the lives of a barge operator and his wife.
18) Mum: Season 1
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
19) The last legion
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and imprisoned in the forbidding Isle of Capri. Aurelius,...
20) The vanishing
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After three lighthouse keepers arrive for work on a remote Scottish isle, they make a fateful discovery: a wrecked rowboat, with a chest full of gold. As a mysterious boat heads toward the island, the three men make a choice that will change their lives forever, ensnaring them in a web of greed, paranoia, and murder.