Summary: 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 FAR

Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TOD

Cole, Brock.

Summary: In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE COL

Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIE

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 GAB

Summary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAC

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 CHE

Summary: 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

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Summary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003

Summary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMA

Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HER

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVE HER

Basso, Annalise

Summary: A young boy and girl escape their summer camp after being victims of a vicious prank and go on various adventures trying to find their way back home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anderson Merchandisers Lp 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD St

Summary: 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 BAC

Summary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AU

Summary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAM

Summary: The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOB

Summary: DSI Stella Gibson continues her game of cat and mouse with serial killer Paul Spector in the third series of this smart psychological thriller. She has arrested Spector, but will he survive the gunshot wounds? Will he ever face justice?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FAL

Summary: Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROS

Summary: 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 TRI

Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEL

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DEL

Summary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROM

Summary: A young FBI agent, Johnny Utah, infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes, led by the charismatic Bodhi. The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways. Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POI