Saskia Reeves
1) Dracula
Author
Language
English
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Description
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
2) Luther
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A self-destructive near-genius, Luther might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts. Luther follows his own moral code as much as the rules of criminal law. But he quickly becomes locked in a lethal battle of wits with Alicea, a beautiful, highly intelligent mass murderer, and his decision-making process becomes increasingly murky. Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
4) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Carol receives an anonymous e-mail regarding an affair between her husband and his secretary. Torn between loyalty to her husband and her desire for the truth, she confronts the mistress and discovers her murdered.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrrell as they are on the run across Europe, with MI5 hard on their heels. But life in exile is proving much harder than either of them expected. Worricker knows that his only chance of resolving both his personal and his professional lives is if he returns home to confront the powerful prime minister, Alec Beasley. In a duel of wits between the two men, there will be only one winner.
6) Wallander: 3
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In An Event in autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection. In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. And in Before the frost, a childhood friend of...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance." --
9) Us
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Three weeks, six countries and one divorce? What was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime becomes a desperate quest for Douglas Petersen to save his marriage. From the bestselling novel by David Nicholls." --
10) Page eight
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his identity to find out the truth.
13) The tesseract
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four people's paths mysteriously cross at a dilapidated Bangkok hotel. A drug mule falls into an intensive state of paranoia while he is holding a package from a local mafia boss. In the hotel lobby, a British psychologist suffering from the trauma of losing her son, checks in. A rising mafia boss, having plundered drugs from a rival crime family, races in a car to meet the drug mule in his hotel room. Showered by a barrage of bullets, a female assassin...
14) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge." --
16) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.