Summary: Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. A poignant ode to friendship, this breathless picaresque is performed with panache by an all-star cast.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GRASummary: After pulling off a bank robbery in series one, series two sees Jenny and Cecilia tackle another classic heist: art theft. Where banks were the target in series one, their focus has now shifted to the rich tax-evading men earning big money at the taxpayers' expense. This is Kalmar, Sweden's local aristocracy, who play bridge at the gentlemen's club and only watch out for each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIMSummary: In this delightful comedy romp, the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch's Italian girlfriend. Crime has never been...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRASummary: Hired to steal a rare painting from one of most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BURSummary: A former marine turned doorman must call upon all her lethal fighting skills to protect her sister's family and stop a group of vicious art thieves at a New York City high-rise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOOSummary: Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DUKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DukeSummary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012