Summary: Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABSummary: After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each in this tender and finely-textured saga.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BACSummary: 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: Antoine has just been transferred from Normandy to Paris. He is happy, but his wife prefers the country. Antoine loves her dearly, but he loves his job just as much. His co-workers include Inspector Vaudieu, veteran cop Mallet, and Muslim cop Solo. For the most part, they get along pretty well. This is especially so for Antoine and Vaudieu, who develops maternal feelings towards the rookie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating in a daring escape with his French comrades, who are commoners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRASummary: Charlie is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. Enter Sarah, a confident and charismatic new transfer student who brings with her an alluring air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, and through shared secrets, love interests and holiday getaways their relationship deepens to levels of unspoken intimacy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRESummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: When a newly commissioned SS Lieutenant witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews, he knows he must act. The only symphatic ear he finds is a young priest with ties to the Vatican. As the two unlikely allies fight to reveal the truth to the Church and world, they discover that a man of conscience can commit treason and a man of God...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICSummary: A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APRSummary: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Atonement 2008Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ATOSummary: A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF BLASummary: Nels Coxman is a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Blu-ray Movie Cold 2019Summary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COLSummary: A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ISummary: A thrilling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling characters, Macbeth is a dramatic re-imagining of the realities of war-torn times and a tale of all-consuming passion and ambition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MACSummary: When London transplant Mia moves with her family to a lion farm in South Africa, she forms a bond with the white lion cub Charlie, one that is tested when the two run away across-country, hoping to reach a lion sanctuary and life-long safety for Charlie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIASummary: Caye, a Madrid prostitute, comes to the aid of Zulema, a Dominican streetwalker beaten by a government official blackmailing her for free sex. They form a strong bond and imagine themselves as royalty, to offer them a glimpse of hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: During a visit to the cinema in West Berlin, high school students Theo and Kurt see dramatic newsreel footage of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest. Back at school in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously decide to hold a moment of silence in solidarity with the victims of the uprising. The gesture causes bigger ripples than expected.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SILSummary: At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tinker 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TIN RATED RSummary: During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TOUSummary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED RSummary: In an unidentified French-speaking West African country, chaos reigns as civil war erupts. For the rebels, it's time to banish the 'white material' -- white folk and the trappings of white life. Among these is the Vial coffee plantation inhabited by Maria, her ex-husband Andre, their son Manuel, and his grandfather Bernard, a white family of French origin. Their terrified workers have fled,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHISummary: As Britain and the world are shaken by volatile political, economic, and technological developments, members of the Manchester Lyons family unite on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next fifteen years, the twists and turns of their lives are explored as viewers find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020