Summary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HON

Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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

Summary: Over a period of two days, a young student/prostitute and a grandfatherly widower develop an unexpected connection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN LIK

Summary: On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998

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

Summary: The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHA

Summary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMA

Summary: Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BET

Summary: In Ozu's first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EQU

Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEA

Summary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998

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

Summary: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIR

Summary: An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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

Summary: A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RIF

Summary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002

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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROY

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

Summary: Story of a group of seven samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th century Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SEV

Summary: Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lover's jealousy by seducing his best friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOM

Summary: Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, chronicling middle-aged father, NJ's tenuous flirtation with an old flame and precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YI

Summary: This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAL

Summary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAN

Summary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVI

Summary: Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEA

Summary: A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMP