Summary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMSummary: Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation ... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Detective Salvo Montalbano solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: The Other End Of The Line - The Vigata police are working exhausting nights assisting immigrants arriving by boat to Sicily. Just as they get a break, a terrible local crime also comes to their attention. A Diary From 1943 - A long-hidden diary opens a window to tragic events from the Allies' occupation of Sicily during WWII. While Montalbano tries to decipher the diary's references, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: Farewell, Salvo! In this final episode of Detective Montalbano, we're back with the gang at Vigata's police station one last time, solving another confounding crime. Seeing them together has never looked so good bumbling Catarella, loyal Fazio, skirt-chasing Mimì, and the ever-pragmatic Salvo. What they have on their hands, discovered by Mimì while 'visiting' a lady friend, is an enigma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation; it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in Vigata, crossing paths with homemakers and priests, liars, saints and Mafia dons. He also wages a personal war with his own demons, which fight against his professional ideals and personal commitment to beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KITCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Movie Kitchen 2019Summary: A contemporary Australian detective drama about retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored, whether Alexa wants to or not, Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF BLASummary: Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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Summary: The son of an Italian professor forms a relationship with his father's summer research assistant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CALSummary: When two people are brought together from completely different walks of life, it can make for awkward circumstances, especially when they both have their secrets. Sacha, an introverted French ex-chef moves to London to begin his new life as a food critic. Moving into a rented room in a house belonging to Dan, a well-respected London stockbroker, the pair are forced into an unlikely friendship....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAKDandrea, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANMacchetto, August
Summary: Tiana dreams of opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans, but when she meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, her plans take a detour as a fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Summary: Seemingly unrelated stories attempt to recreate and identify the writer of a novel once read by the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014