John Barrymore
2) Grand hotel
Language
English
Formats
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion...
7) Midnight
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl impersonates a Hungarian countess, and with the help of an aristocrat, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man?
8) Tempest
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, 1927
Language
English
Description
Markov, a peasant soldier, becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in love with Princess Tamara. She scorns him and has him stripped of his rank and thrown in prison. Markov becomes an important Red official with the advent of the Revolution and saves Tamara from execution. Together, they escape from Russia.
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After fifteen years in a mental asylum, Hilary Fairfield has suddenly regained his sanity, escaped from the institution and come home. But a few things have changed in his absence. For one, his strong-willed daughter Sydney has grown up and is planning to marry. For another, his wife has divorced him and is planning to re-marry. It₂s enough to drive a man crazy, or a woman, for that matter.
10) Sherlock Holmes
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Homes comes to the aid of a young prince accused of murder and uncovers a plot to destroy Western civilization.
12) Topaze
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After years of dedicated service, Professor Topaze is summarily fired for flunking his worst student, who happens to be the son of the powerful Baron, a wealthy businessman who stands to make a fortune by peddling a worthless health tonic. All the Baron needs is one man with lots of academic credentials and few scruples to endorse his sparkling water.
13) Svengali
Series
Horror classics volume 10
Publisher
Distributed by Troma Team Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"The sinister Svengali ... uses mind control over others to advance his own musical career. He convinces one young woman to fake her own death in order to tour Europe with him, but they are followed by a young man who has fallen in love with the young singer"--Publisher's website.
14) Romeo and Juliet
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c1936
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of the Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers.
15) Tempest
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Markov, a peasant soldier, becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in love with Princess Tamara, who scorns him and has him stripped of his rank and thrown in prison. Markov becomes an important Red official with the advent of the Revolution and saves Tamara from execution. Together, they escape from Russia.
16) Marie Antoinette
Series
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Marie Antoinette and the chaos of the French Revolution.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
18) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
19) Night flight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As a worried mother comforts her desperately ill son in Rio de Janeiro, the child's physician, Dr. Decosta, assures her that, thanks to the new night flying schedule of the Trans-Andean European Air Mail, which is being inaugurated that evening, they will receive a life-saving serum the next day. Makes its DVD debut with a remastered feature!
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Pickwick Papers: Dickens' classic of middleaged bumblers on an adventure-filled tour of Britain. Tom Brown's Schooldays: Tom goes to Rugby, where he is confronted by the sadistic bully, Flashman. Svengali: beautiful Trilby can't sing, until mesmerizing Svengali gets control of her life.