Colin Firth
1) Born Equal
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Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
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The Italian town of Genova provides a fresh start for Joe and his two young daughters, a family seeking new lives after the sudden death of their mother. While Kelly, explores the underbelly of this mysterious new world, Mary, has just seen the ghost of her mother wandering the streets.
3) Supernova
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Sam and Tusker are traveling across England, making the most of their time left together as a serious diagnosis tests their love.
4) The Mercy
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The incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth) who competes in a historic race to sail around the world. Leaving behind a loving wife (Rachel Weisz), he embarks on a harrowing journey and risks everything.
5) Devil's Knot
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Three young boys playing in the nearby woods never come home for dinner. In the rush to find and convict the killers, police focus on a trio of teenagers suspected of devil worship. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, Devil's Knot is based on the true story of the West Memphis 3.
7) Mamma mia!
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
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1 videodisc (108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
9) Genius
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
12) Lost empires
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3 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1913 young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Traveling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.
13) Love actually
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
14) Devil's knot
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a gripping, heart-wrenching true story that shocked the nation. May 5, 1993. West Memphis, Arkansas. Three young boys playing in the nearby woods never come home for dinner. In the rush to find and convict the killers, police focus on a trio of teenagers suspected of devil worship. It is only when an investigator reveals that the evidence doesn't all add up, that the community is forced to face the reality that the true killer might still be out...
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age of...
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1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
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1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.
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