Summary: Two friends meet after being apart for years- one in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMFehling, Alexander
Summary: After an aspiring poet fails his law exams, he is sent to work in the countryside where he falls in love with a woman who is promised to another man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUSummary: From the creators of cult hit The Mighty Boosh comes Bunny and the Bull, a road movie set entirely within a flat. Stephen Turnbull hasn't left the house in months. When an infestation of mice wreaks havoc on his precious routine, he finds his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek round Europe he undertook the previous year with his best friend, Bunny. In an attempt to shake Stephen's life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUNSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PETSummary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: A pair of lovers, Rumpoey and Dum, who first met as children when Rumpoey's family evacuated Bangkok during World War II to stay with Dum's family in the countryside of Supanburi. Ten years later, they meet again, but they have to overcome parental disapproval and rampaging bandits to stay together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEASummary: Eleven-year-old David Wiseman lives with the singular dream of being a cricket star, but much to the dismay and ridicule of his classmates, he is all passion and no skill. The son of a traditional Jewish family living in the racial and cultural turbulence of 1960s South London, David and his world are shaken by the unexpected arrival of the Samuels, a lively and big-hearted Jamaican family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WONSummary: Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Dramatization of the life of a half caste torn between his Aboriginal roots and his desire to be part of white society. When he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule, he and his full blood Aborigine brother embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites before he is captured, tried, and executed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: Tells four stories about recent immigrants to New York City: a group of day-laborers scavenging for bricks; two teenagers from the same hometown who meet and fall in love; a homeless father who tries to enroll his daughter in school; and a garment worker who seeks justice in the sweatshops.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CITYSummary: Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FATSummary: Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LEM
Summary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: Athol Fugard's searing coming of age masterpiece set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother's tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black servants, share idyllic memories of their lifelong friendship. But when Hally learns that his invalid alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, he unleashes his resentment and rage on Sam...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011