Anthony Minghella
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jim Henson's The Storyteller features nine folktales based on Henson's Emmy-award winning television series, beautifully told by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella. Before writing the Academy Award-winning classic The English Patient and being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Talented Mr. Ripley, the late Anthony Minghella worked alongside Jim Henson to bring forgotten tales of European folklore to...
4) Heaven
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Philippa is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell victim to a drug overdose. Vendice is a powerful local drug dealer who sold the dope which killed Philippa's husband. Disgusted with the inability of the police to bring Vendice to justice, Philippa takes the law into her own hands, planting a bomb which is intended to kill the dealer. Instead the bomb kills four innocent bystanders. Now with the help of her multilingual translator,...
5) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Pub. Date
2008, c1989.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Philippa, a teacher living in Turin, Italy, has watched helplessly as her husband and friends have fallen victim to drug overdoses. The police - who are complicit in the actions of Turin's biggest drug dealer - have completely ignored Philippa's repeated offers of information. So, with the unexpected help of a police officer, she feels she has nothing to lose by taking justice into her own hands!
10) Mr. Wonderful
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A man tries to marry off his ex-wife so he can stop paying alimony, only to discover he wants her back.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, 138 min.): A calculating young man believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody as he worms into the idyllic lives of others in a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Ripley's game (2002, 110 min.): Mr. Ripley emerges from retirement to preside over one last deadly game but can he persuade an innocent man to commit murder?
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
13) Madama Butterfly
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Description
Bonus features (all on disc 2): Backstage at the Met with host Renée Fleming: interviews with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Maria Zifchak and Carolyn Choa; Anthony Minghella talks about Madama Butterfly.