Diarmuid Lawrence
1) Emma
Publisher
A & E
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
John Jasper is haunted and restless. Unhappily settled as choirmaster in the provincial cathedral town of Cloisterham, Jasper finds himself striving for the divine in his music even as he struggles against madness brought on by ennui and opiates. Aware of his unraveling, Jasper believes his salvation may be found in the arms of Rosa, his prized pupil. His only obstacle is her fiance, Edwin Drood - Jasper's nephew.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Description
Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a highly sensitive murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum. The circumstances of the case bear an unsettling similarity to the historical cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Amy Dorrit's (Claire Foy) gentle spirit has never been dampened by the confining walls of the Marshalsea Prison she's lived in her whole life. Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Chief Inspector Michael Jericho of Scotland Yard is a respected, uncompromising, and forward-thinking detective investigating high-profile murders in 1950s London. The series is set in a fascinating period of Britain's social history, when London saw an explosion of color, glamour, and shifting attitudes after the Second World War. Jericho is a man surveying a city changing beyond recognition in front of his eyes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue as she fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy-- and...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young charges as the children become possessed by ghostly spells;...
11) The hanging gale
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The four brothers of the Phelan family take different paths to weather the effects of the Great Famine of 1846 combined with the landholding system, enforced locally in Donegal, Ireland, by the English landowner's agent, Captain Townsend.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014], ©2014
Description
Jane Austen's Emma: beautiful, rich and infuriating emma woodhouse meddles in other's romantic lives with unexpected results.
Charlotte Bronte's jane eyre: a prim and principled governess falls in love with her brooding, mysterious employer.
The lady's not for burning: a beautiful woman accused of witchcraft and a world weary drifter are thrown together before their executions.
The death of the heart: in 1930's London, an awkward 16-year old struggles...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2009
Description
Oliver Twist: After escaping from a life of poverty and abuse that begins in a workhouse and making his way to London, orphaned Oliver Twist is recruited into a gang of young pickpockets, from which he is rescued by the elderly Mr. Brownlow.
The old curiosity shop: Follows the fortunes of young Nell Trent and her maternal grandfather, who gambles away what money they have in a mistaken attempt to secure Nell's future.
Bleak House: A complex tale...