Brenda Blethyn
2) Vera: set 5
Description
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves. A cantankerous but brilliant detective solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England. Blethyn imbues DCI Vera Stanhope in this hit detective drama. Set Five includes four all new feature-length mysteries.
4) Saving Grace
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A recent widow joins with the caretaker of her estate on the Cornish coast to use her green thumb for fun and profit. All goes well until the business starts booming.
5) Vera: Set 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
6) Atonement
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
7) Vera: Set 3
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
8) Vera : Set 1
Description
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves, Vera stars two-time Oscar℗ʼ nominee Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice, Secrets & Lies) as a cantankerous but brilliant detective who solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England. Blethyn imbues DCI Vera Stanhope with "a monumental intelligence" (The Guardian, UK) in this hit detective drama.
9) Vera: Set 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Follows the solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator Vera Stanhope -- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
Pub. Date
2013, 1984.
Description
Tom Chance (Simon Callow) is a walking disaster area. Everywhere he goes, he leaves disaster in his wake. If an accident is even remotely possible, it will happen to him. When Tom meets shy librarian Alison Little (Brenda Blethyn), she quickly becomes involved in his daily disasters. The two become engaged, and in the finale episode (3rd season, 1986), are married.
11) Vera. Set 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
12) Vera: Set 9
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely, she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, gile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach each case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.
13) Ethel & Ernest
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A couple living in London share a variety of adventures as they go through life together during changing times.
14) Beyond the sea
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A look at the life and career of American singer-songwriter Bobby Darin, one of the most popular musicians of the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future, happiness, and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
16) Vera: Set 7
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
17) On a Clear Day
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
18) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
19) Anne Frank
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The story of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation.
20) Vera: Set 10
Series
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"The indomitable Vera and her trusted team unravel more complex cases, exploring stories of corporate corruption, organized crime and deeply buried personal guilt" --Container.
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