Alison Steadman
1) The switch
Author
Appears on list
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch ? Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen ? So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In the role that won her Broadway's acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it's never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she's back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with a handsome...
Publisher
distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
An ambitious couple and a V.I.P (Very Important Pig) collide in this outrageous comedy of manners! During a time of extreme food rationing in England following World War II, one town's upper class bends the rules by illegally fattening a prize pig for a feast to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding. When a timid foot doctor and his bossy wife get wind of the plan, they seize the chance to climb the social ladder by kidnapping the pig, which has...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Description
Independent Elizabeth Bennet is determined that she will wed only for love. Her parents have five unmarried daughters for whom the mother is determined to find advantageous marriages. The wealthy Mr. Bingley, his friend, the mysterious and proud Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Wickham, a charming, but "scandalous cad," come to visit the countryside and become interested in three of the Bennet daughters.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Returns for a second season of romance and more misunderstandings and run-ins between their hilarious families! Season Two finds Gavin and Stacey just returning from their honeymoon. The happy couple plans to live with Gavin's parents in Essex until they can get a place of their own. However, while Gavin won't even consider moving to Barry, Stacey feels bad for leaving her family and wants to be there to support her newly pregnant best friend Nessa....
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Follows society's elite through games of love and negotiations of marriage in the countryside of 19th century England. At the center of this intriguing dance is the lovely and rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, whose spirited wit and good sense keep her away from folly--most of the time.
Publisher
S'more Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In 1912, D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekly met, fell in love, and within weeks had eloped. In the process, Frieda abandoned her husband and three children. Their affair shocked society. Take a romantic journey with one of Britain's greatest writers framed against England's majestic beauty and history.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Gavin and Stacey along with their dysfunctional family and friends return for a Christmas special and a final season. Season Three finds Smithy feeling left out now that his best friend Gavin has moved to Wales with Stacey. Meanwhile, all seems to be happy with Nessa who has shacked up with her boyfriend Dave. In the Christmas special, Gavin and Stacey's families meet in Essex to celebrate the holiday, but an unexpected surprise announcement from...
11) Clockwise
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
John Cleese stars as Stimpson, the compulsively punctual headmaster of a British high school. On the day he is to give a major speech at a posh teachers conference, he finds himself in a frantic cross-country chase filled with missed trains, confused cops, strange monks odd old ladies and stolen clothes. Can Stimpson make up for precious lost time or is the entire world conspiring to make him late for the most important appointment of his life?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Gavin and Stacey speak every day on the phone at work, and yet they've never met... until now. Gavin is an ordinary boy from England. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Wales. When Gavin and Stacey finally meet, the peculiar personalities of their families and friends guarantee that there will be no such thing as 'ordinary' ever again.
13) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
15) Nuts in May
Series
Mike Leigh collection volume 2
Publisher
Water Bearer Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
"[This film] is about the hilarious and appalling things that happen to Keith and Candice-Marie, a pair of terrifically self-satisfied, middle-class vegans still high on the hippy philosophy of the 1960's"--Container.
18) Confetti
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Three couples compete to win the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year. The dueling couples include Matt and Sam, whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef and Isabelle; and the uninhibited nudists Micahel and Joanna. At stake is a million-dollar dream home.
19) Romance classics
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©1978, 1995, 2001
Description
Pride and Prejudice transports viewers to Georgian England, where affairs of the heart are an exquisite game and marriage the ultimate prize. Will Elizabeth Bennet's romantic sparring with the mysterious and arrogant Mr. Darcy end in misfortune, or will love's true nature prevail.
Victor and Albert follows the young queen of England as she begins to comprehend the enormity of her duties, becomes a powerful leader, and despite having sworn to never...
20) Topsy-turvy
Series
Criterion collection volume 558
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.