Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: While on the run trying to clear himself of murder and a former colleague of treason, itinerant former U.S. Army Major Jack Reacher discovers both a conspiracy involving the murder of soldier and a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: It is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds Angelique, a young Ojibway, and Charlie, her voyageur husband, are left stranded throughout a brutal winter on Lake Superior's Isle Royale where Angelique is ultimately forced to face her inner demons and beliefs as the unbelievably beautiful, yet treacherous wilderness...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ABASummary: Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BlacklightSummary: New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIESummary: Intense shark attacks including some bloody images, language, brief partial nudity/sexual references and drug use.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JAWSummary: Ten years ago, Ja-yoon escaped from a secret government facility in the midst of an inexplicable incident. An old couple finds her alone near-death and takes her in. With no memory of who she is, she grows up to be a bright high school student and enters a nationally televised audition program to win the top prize and help her family. But as soon as she appears on TV, strange people start...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WITSummary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American woman in Paris finds her husband murdered and soon is pursued by three strange men, with only a handsome, suspicious stranger to help her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.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 Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: An action-packed thriller about how far one man will go to protect his family. Widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker retires to a quiet Southern town with his ten-year-old daughter and discovers that the idyllic setting is riddled with drugs and violence. When a riveting chain of events forces him to face off with psychotic local drug lord Gator Bodine, Broker must retaliate using the fearsome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOMSummary: "All the Bond films are gathered together in this one-of-a-kind boxed set-- every gorgeous girl, nefarious villain and charismatic star from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig. Experience BOND with this fitting tribute to the most iconic and enduring secret agent in movie history."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE JAMSummary: Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY LIVSummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The explosive origin story of Tom Clancys action hero John Kelly, an elite Navy SEAL whose life is changed forever after uncovering an international conspiracy. Torn between personal honor and loyalty to his country, he fights his enemies without remorse if he hopes to avert disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROCSummary: Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY RETCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RETSummary: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EQUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EQU2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD