Summary: When Robin Walker returns home for her father's funeral, she's forced to confront the damaged family she left behind, as well as her own personal demons; resulting in the reveal of an unsettling secret.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOL

Summary: Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to finally break the silence. But to be accepted, he must come to terms with his feelings first.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOV

Summary: Wallflower Lennon Gates yearns for access to the inner sanctum of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, Lennon discovers her musical ambitions, develops a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten, and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon's aspirations, with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POS

Summary: Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little strength has to do with heroism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUN

Summary: A down-and-out singer finds a home with a financially-troubled traveling carnival.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROU

Summary: After completing the Statue of Liberty, celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel is on top of the world. Now, the French government is pressuring him to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Eiffel₂s design plans suddenly change when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their long-lost, forbidden passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EIF

Summary: A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BON

Summary: "In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALI

Summary: A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Searchlight Pictures 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMP

Camp, Anna

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIV

Summary: On the streets of Hollywood, a retired NFL player is saved from scandal by a homeless veteran suffering from PTSD. With their glory days behind them, the two men bond in search of true purpose and identity. Inspired by true events, it dramatizes the formation of Merging Vets & Players, and the film features veterans and former professional athletes both in front of and behind the camera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MVP

Summary: In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INS

Summary: A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARM

Summary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHE

Summary: A rising but troubled musician spends his days and nights searching endlessly for the inspiration to record his next song. His assistant wants to save him, his collaborators want him in the studio, and his dealer and his ex push him deeper into the void.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAU

Summary: Bunny King is a mother of two and a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to try and reunite with her children, a confrontation leads Bunny to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against them both, Bunny's battle has just begun.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUS

Summary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WAL

Summary: Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth". Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother although his practical father has doubts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FAB

Summary: Two brothers reconnect with their indigenous Mi'kmaq heritage and find a new friend while on a search for their birth mother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIL

Summary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIC

Summary: At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls-- including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs-- search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. One of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EXO

Summary: In the international world of classical music, Lydia Tár is widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. As her accolades grow, so does her hubris, bleeding into her personal life where it eventually brings reprecussions into her career and reputation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA TAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAR

Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIN