Summary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DANSummary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing, methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away, for a long time. His tightly wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite, an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing, methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away, for a long time. His tightly wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite, an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NOT RATEDSummary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BENSummary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CARSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ISummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Irene is with her elderly paramour, on the Riviera, to celebrate her birthday. When he falls asleep on her, she decides to slip down to the hotel bar. There, she mistakes barman Jean for a wealthy guest. He encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. The following year, the same thing happens. This time her lover finds out and disowns her. Knowing Jean is a barman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TORSummary: Julien, an ornery butterfly collector, is adopted as a surrogate grandfather by eight-year-old Elsa, who moves into the next-door apartment with her often-absent mother. When Julien hikes into the Alps in search of the exotic and elusive "Isabella" butterfly, he finds that Elsa has come along as an uninvited companion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTSummary: Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO
Summary: Interweaves multiple stories and is set inside a magically snowbound Paris. Six lonely souls converge and commingle in their search for lasting connections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment [distributor] 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Having survived the bombing of the Thames Barrier, Adam and Ros recover to find London facing an even greater threat. While attempting to thwart an attack that could jeopardize a historic peace accord, the team unwittingly unleashes a deadly virus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MI-5Summary: The BATAA-winning, international hit spy drama returns for a nail-biting tenth and final series. With the truth about Lucas North finally revealed, and following his rooftop showdown at the end of the last series, Harry is facing some complicated questions about the future of Section D as well as some skeletons from his own past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Warner Home Video, distributor] 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MI-5Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: "For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRESummary: Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHISummary: A surreal farce about rival gypsy gangsters and clans living along a dilapidated stretch of the Danube, who get each other involved in train heists, arranged marriages, true love, and love of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001