Summary: "Set in Los Angeles in the slight future ... Theodore, a complex, soulful man ... makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA HERSummary: 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: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ARTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ArSummary: A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TIT RATED PG-13Summary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine. Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CARSummary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie La La 2017Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAFSummary: With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOTSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHSummary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk; they go to her workshop to look at her paintings; they have sushi and soju. More conversation and drinks follow, before an awkward get-together with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RIGSummary: The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuSummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017