Kate Winslet
1) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
2) Flushed away
Publisher
Dreamworks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A high society pet mouse is flushed down the toilet and must learn to adapt to life in the sewers of London.
4) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
While traveling on the doomed Titanic with her mother and fiance, Rose falls in love with a poor artist.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stranded after their small plane crashes in a remote location high in the mountains, two strangers realize help is not coming so they set out across the wilderness trying to survive the elements and wild animals to save themselves.
8) The reader
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in post-World War II Germany, teenager Michael Berg and Hanna, a woman twice his age, have a secret affair, but she abruptly disappears; eight years later while observing the Nazi war crime trials, Michael is stunned to see Hanna as a defendant.
9) Ammonite
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1840s England, acclaimed fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
10) Little children
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An adulterous affair and the return of a sex offender wreak havoc on the lives of several suburban couples.
11) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mildred, a newly divorced woman living in Depression-era U.S., sacrifices her life for her greedy daughter while building a career as a restaurant owner.
12) A little chaos
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Landscape designer Sabine De Barra challenges gender and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at the new palace at Versailles.
13) Ammonite
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
15) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four people find their lives intersecting and changing during a busy 1950s summer at Coney Island.
16) The Reader
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man reunites with an older woman with whom he had a brief romance with when he was fifteen, only to discover, to his horror, that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes case.
17) Labor Day
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A lonely, divorced mother allows an escaped killer to stay with her and her thirteen-year-old son.
19) The dressmaker
Publisher
Broadgreen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her small Australian town after decades abroad mastering the art of dressmaking, a woman begins making articles of clothing that arouse competition and envy in town, but it soon becomes clear that her mind is set on revenge.
20) Carnage
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two parental couples meet one evening to discuss their sons' recent fight at a playground, but their polite conversation quickly turns chaotic.