Summary: A terrified Pilar hastily flees from her husband Antonio's rage in the middle of the night with her young son as if her life depends on it. Reaching her sister Ana's house, Pilar breaks down in turmoil. Banging on Ana's front door is Pilar's husband, Antonio, who in a fit of rage screams for Pilar to return home. With ana's support, Pilar is determined to save herself from Antonio's rage. Yet...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAKBlavette, Charles
Summary: Set in 1920s Provence, follows the tempestuous affairs Italian migrant Toni has with two women and their tragic consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TONSummary: A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that seperates temptation from sin, he finds himself...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRISummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PANSummary: In season three, Velvet Galleries continues to be ground zero for money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, and counter-plots involving its owners, customers, and residential employees. Looming over all is the love story between Alberto and Ana. Torn between family obligations and the cry of his heart, Alberto resolves to leave his wife and commit to Ana. However, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VELCaron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008