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Classic collection Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 274 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 303 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 338 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 35 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 375 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 52 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 523 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 577Summary: 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 HONSummary: 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 MSummary: Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PICSummary: During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VANSummary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAKSummary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TROSummary: In the impoverished town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women scrape out a living under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes, four workers must go on a suicide mission that is their only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAGSummary: A distinguished plastic surgeon's reckless driving is responsible for disfiguring his beautiful daughter's face; so he kidnaps young women intending to graft their features to make her a new face.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EYESummary: 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 LASSummary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1990
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY REBSummary: A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SILSummary: British comedy thriller about a racketeer who attempts to transform the London dockyards into a potential Olympics site.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LONSummary: Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGSummary: The story is simple: a quartet of college kids head out to a cabin in the woods and stumble across a dusty old manuscript that conjures demons. "Equinox" is noteworthy as a missing link of sorts between the fantastic cinema of "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Star Wars," marking the transition from artisans like Harryhausen to a new breed of special effects artist. Made by in 1967 for a mere...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR EQUSummary: In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alex is a cold, distant, fiercely intellectual research psychiatrist from New York, teaching in Vienna. Milena, an Army brat, has wandered back through the countries she was raised in to find herself there, too. They meet at a party, are immediately attracted to each other, and fall quickly into a sexually obsessive relationship. Milena has a husband across the border named Stefan, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CULSummary: A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007