Summary: ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STYSummary: It follows Maryam, a determined young doctor who runs for city council after the make incumbent repeatedly ignores her request to fix the muddy road leading to her clinic. Despite her father and her community₂s struggle to accept her as their town₂s first female candidate, Maryam₂s creative and ambitious campaign builds momentum, becoming a symbol for a larger movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PERSummary: As big business takes hold of the rail industry, a local depot gang is forced to either adapt to the new managerial double-talk or take chances with receiving severance pay. Agreements set long ago are suddenly undermined by a new managing director who wipes the slate clean. Tensions mount when the men show up the the depot only to find there is no work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVSummary: Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Summary: High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SEXSummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STASummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: A top-secret robotic dog connects with a kind-hearted outsider, Miles, while on the run from the scientists who created him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Global Road Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AXLSummary: Season One: Based on the best-selling book series from CJ Box, Joe Pickett is the new game warden of a town as beautiful and charming as it is corrupt and dangerous. When a poacher turns up brutally murdered, Joe decides to investigate it to keep his wife and young daughters safe. This sets off a chain of events that uncovers lies and deceit from within the community, putting Joe and his family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in a wild and primitive world, The Beastmaster is the gripping tale of a mythical hero engaged in a life and death struggle with overwhelming forces of evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: Breaking out of maximum security at Fox River was the easy part. Now, Michael Scofield must fight to survive inside Sona, a hellish Panamanian prison where the only rule is brutal violence and the only way out is in a body bag. So, with time running out, Lincoln Burrows scrambles desperately to free his brother along with the only man who can deliver Lincoln's captive son from the sinister...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRISummary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRASummary: Niko is having a tough morning. He's broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly allowance, and was just declared "emotionally unstable" by a court-appointed psychologist. If only he could find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-life of a twenty-something law school dropout, A Coffee In Berlin follows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COFSummary: Three self-involved Edinburgh roommates take in a brooding boarder. When he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY SHASummary: Lambeau Fields is an out-of-luck coach trying to lead a ragtag team of fumbling footballers to victory before his long-suffering wife leaves him and his sexy gymnast daughter gets herself bent out of shape.
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 COMSummary: A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2003