Summary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPESummary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACSummary: "Widely considered to be the last of his solo plays, 'The Tempest' is Shakespeare's final masterpiece, a tale of 'forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment' in which Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, conjures up a storm to lure his perfidious brother to the enchanted island on which he and his daughter Miranda have spent 12 years in exile"--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNSummary: Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree to the terms with the village's leader, a far bigger question looms: what will they do...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reel Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR WAKSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: "Welcome to Wakaliwood, Uganda: home of "DA BEST OF DA BEST MOVIES!" and the vanguards of DIY commando cinema! Under the guidance of Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (IGG) and Alan Ssali Hofmanis, these self-taught filmmakers produce gonzo action films with budgets that rarely exceed $200 USD. AGFA is proud to bring the most reckless films in the Wakaliwood canon to home video for the first...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WAKSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BROSummary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HARSummary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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We have 6 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HISSummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren't going great for either of them. Iona struggles with her new friends, who act more like frenemies than friends, and a neighbor won't give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PINSummary: "Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021