Gemma Arterton
Author
Series
Inside Number Nine volume 3
Description
Tom is a primary school teacher with ambitious ideas of becoming an author. When he tries to repay a good deed from a late-night caller, he gradually becomes the victim of his own generosity.
Author
Description
On a suburban street, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton of PRINCE OF PERSIA), daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic (Eddie Marsan of SHERLOCK HOLMES) and his younger accomplice Danny (Martin Compston of A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS), have worked out a meticulous plan, but Alice is not going to play...
3) Gemma Bovery
Publication Date
2014.
Description
In this cheeky literary mash-up of Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery and her husband move to the Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier.
5) Byzantium
Publication Date
2022.
Description
An insatiable thirst for blood thrusts a beautiful young woman into an exhilarating and deadly new world of dark mysticism and hauntingly intoxicating vampire legends.
6) The Escape
Publication Date
2022.
Description
A struggling housewife sets out to reclaim her life in this stirring, emotionally rich look at what it means to become yourself. Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper star.
7) My Zoe
Publication Date
2021.
Description
After an unexpected tragedy strikes, a divorced geneticist looks to protect her daughter by taking the young girl’s fate into her own hands.
Publication Date
2014
Description
A Princeton graduate student, Richie, believes he has been tricked online by a fellow gambler. He travels to Costa Rica to meet Ivan Block, an online gambling tycoon. When the FBI tries to pressure Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever.
9) 100 Streets
Publication Date
2016.
Description
This powerful ensemble drama follows three contrasting and interwoven stories as they play out in one square mile of modern-day London. A former rugby player, Max (Golden Globe Winner, Idris Elba - THE WIRE, PACIFIC RIM), struggles to find a life off the field while fighting to save his marriage to former actress Emily (Gemma Arterton - QUANTUM OF SOLACE, CLASH OF THE TITANS). Kingsley (Franz Drameh) is a small time drug dealer desperately seeking...
10) Rogue Agent
Publication Date
2022.
Description
The true story of conman Robert Freegard, who posed as an undercover MI5 agent kidnapping countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt until the woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
11) Summerland
Publication Date
2020.
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional...
14) Lost in Austen
Publication Date
c2009
Description
Amanda Price gets propelled into the scheming 19th century world of Pride and Prejudice while the book's Elizabeth Bennet is hurled into hers. As the plot unfolds, Amanda triggers new romantic twists and turns as she tries to help the Bennet sisters nab husbands and even manages to captivate the tantalizing Mr. Darcy. But what about Elizabeth, and what will become of one of the world's greatest love stories?
15) The king's man
Publication Date
[2022]
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Description
The world on the brink of World War I is being manipulated by a cabal of political villains strategically placed to create conflict. One British lord and his son create a network of domestic worker spies in hopes of undermining the efforts, taking on the likes of Rasputin and Mata Hari with the crown's silent support. When the war happens anyway and takes the life of one of these men, the other must rise above his grief to bring an end to years of...
16) Pirate radio
Publication Date
c2010
Description
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, prefers jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs that include: Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who...
17) Rogue agent
Publication Date
[2023]
Description
Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
School of rock (PG-13) (2003) (109 min.): After being fired by his band, a musician takes a job substitute teaching a fourth-grade class at a presigious school. He is note really prepared to teach, so he does what he knows best, he starts a band with his students.
The blues brothers (R) (1980) (138 min.): Jake and Elwood set off on a music-filled mission 'from...
19) Their finest
Publication Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
20) Voices
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Description
A likable guy pursues his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.