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1) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
2) My fair lady
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2009, 1964.
Language
English
Description
"In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Hepburn plays a sassy, working-class London street vendor, whom an arrogant professor attempts to turn into a sophisticated lady through proper schooling. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
5) An education
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl must decide whether to pursue her education or to give it all up for the man she has fallen in love with.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Chinese woman moves to London to start a new life. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, and will their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is a love story told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Love blooms in the darkest days ... It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy - her job assisting the mayor and nights spent at the local pub with...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With her success riding on her ability to keep her real identity secret, Zillah, an orphan from the slums of London who has achieved theatrical fame as The Great Amazonia, "a savage queen from darkest Africa," finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men--a mysterious black gentleman and her boss's friend who offers her the world
11) Love actually
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The story of eight couples and their relationships during Christmas time in London.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minons. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
First wives club: Three longtime friends are dumped by their husbands for much younger women. Now its time to get even and justice can be both fun and sweet.
Sliding doors: What if you do or do not catch a morning train? Can it change your life? A young London woman slides between parallel storylines showing what happens with each possibility.
14) Scoop
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sondra Pransky is a lowly college newspaper reporter in London for the summer visiting friends. Brought onstage by magician Sid Waterman one night during his act, Sondra is visited by the spirit of famous journalist Joe Strombel while inside one of Sid's "magic" boxes. Given the scoop of a lifetime on the possible identity of the famous tarot card serial killer by the apparition, Sondra, with Sid in tow, tries to infiltrate the aristocratic life of...
15) Happy-go-lucky
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Poppy, a compulsively cheerful North London schoolteacher, lives with her best friend and is tested daily by her driving instructor with anger issues and a troublesome student.
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For documentary filmmaker and dating app addict Zoe Stevenson (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, much to the dismay of her eccentric mother, Cath (Emma Thompson). For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor, Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen...
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