Summary: Set in the 1820's. William Burke and William Hare luck into some easy money when they discover they can sell a fresh cadaver to Dr. Knox at Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. However, the next cadaver is not quite so easy to obtain, and when word gets out of how profitable the trade is, the duo find themselves blackmailed and in dire need of more bodies. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BURSummary: Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RIFSummary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years embark on a journey of reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADSummary: Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVSummary: Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPSummary: When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MITSummary: When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MITSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family façade begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAN
Summary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERSummary: Beloved dog Bailey is given an instruction by his boy Ethan -- no longer a boy -- to protect Ethan's granddaughter CJ at any cost. Again, Bailey takes this command to heart, through several lives, always finding his way home no matter what.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Two down-and-out Hollywood musicians stow away on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the vessel, the two fall for a young woman who is being forced into an arranged marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROASummary: Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLSummary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJSummary: The Garrisons, who raise dachshunds, are convinced by their vet to take in a Great Dane pup named Brutus, who thinks of himself as a dachshund, and whose identity confusion causes a series of humorous household crises.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UGLSummary: A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDSummary: A surreal farce about rival gypsy gangsters and clans living along a dilapidated stretch of the Danube, who get each other involved in train heists, arranged marriages, true love, and love of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A sizzling comedy about two lifelong friends whose romance is threatened by their parents' rival pizzerias.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018