Bill Nighy
Series
Pirates of the Caribbean volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.
3) The bookshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and...
5) About time
Language
English
Description
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life, so he decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.
6) Valkyrie
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tom Cruise stars as the leader of a group of German officers who hatched a plot to assassinate Hitler. The operation was code-named VALKYRIE, for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A polar bear of many words, Norm's greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do: he heads to New York City to stop it. With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the Big Apple, big business, and a big identity crisis to save the day.
11) Chalet girl
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Pretty tomboy Kim (Felicity Jones) used to be a champion skateboarder, but now she flips burgers to support herself and her dad. When she takes a winter-long catering job in one of the plushest ski chalets in the Alps, she discovers a natural talent for snowboarding with a chance to win major prize money. But before she can become a champion again, Kim needs to overcome her deepest fears and figure out what's going on with Jonny (Ed Westwick), her...
12) The wild robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot, Rozzum unit 7134-- 'Roz' for short-- that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
13) Wild Target
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When world-class assassin Victor spares the life of Rose, a free-spirited thief, he unwittingly becomes a mentor to her and Tony, who joins them as they must now outwit the hitman sent by Victor's unhappy client.
14) Rango
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rango, a kooky pet chameleon, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt, until he starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be.
15) Total recall
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
16) Living
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
17) Arthur Christmas
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
19) Hope Gap
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Grace lives an idyllic life until her 29-year marriage to Edward abruptly ends, leaving their only son to pick up the pieces. As life unravels, Grace discovers it's never too late to be happy.
20) Flushed away
Language
English
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he decides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, and it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...