Hugh Grant
1) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Description
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, MAURICE is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. At a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
"Set sail for a fun-filled voyage and hilarious priate antics with the biggest Band of Misfits on the seven seas! When the infamous pirate captin is shunned once again by his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz, he sets his sights to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award! With his trusted dodo, Polly and rag-tag crew at his side, the Pirate Captain will need to battle a diabolical queen, save a young scientist and never lose sight of what a pirate...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide...
8) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
9) Paddington 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
10) Nine months
Formats
Description
Sam has it all: a wonderful girlfriend, a successful child psychology practice, and a red Porsche. But all that changes when his girlfriend tells him she's pregnant. Torn between advice from an overbearing couple and his bachelor buddy, Sam's got nine months to grow up or risk losing it all!
11) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
Based on the novel by David Mitchell. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives with diverse settings, from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
12) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
14) Love actually
Formats
Description
"Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England"--IMDb.
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
17) Love actually
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Appears on list
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
19) Wonka
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best-selling children's books of all time, "Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas...