Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Months after saying goodbye to sentient synth Mia and her family, the Hawkinses search for some semblance of normalcy. But when Niska arrives at their home unannounced, the family is pulled back into the dangerous lives of the synths.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUMSummary: A stunningly shot meditation on love and loss, New York newlyweds peter and Chloe fall into marital crisis while on a research vessel en route to Antarctica. As romantic bliss sours, Chloe takes comfort in the company of the ship's captain, a man who has good reason for setting himself adrift. As they sail towards the end of the Earth, filmmaker Scott Cohen's astonishingly assured, elegantly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILCheung, Leslie
Summary: The story of doomed lovers on either side of warring clans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tai Seng Marketing 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRISummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family's past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CREContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MESummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGSummary: Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Intolerable 2004Summary: One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serious 2010Summary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that seperates temptation from sin, he finds himself...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003