Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINSummary: Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOMBening, Annette
Summary: Follows the lives of three women living in Southern California during the late 1970s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. As each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENSummary: Two apparent strangers at a New York City wedding reception become entangled in a sexually charged battle of wits. As the night carries on, however, the passion of their two-decades-past love affair is revealed. Unfolds entirely in split-screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hart Sharp Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONLuchini, Fabrice
Summary: A married stockbroker living in 1960's Paris has his world turned upside-down when he hires a Spanish maid who introduces him to a different reality up on the sixth floor servants' quarters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOM
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED NRSummary: The story of Bertrand Morane, a bachelor who is obsessed with women. Bertrand is no Don Juan-he is an intelligent and sensitive man who adores women of all ages, shapes and sizes. In an effort to understand his obsession, Bertrand writes his memoirs and remembers all the women he has loved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WOMSummary: When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SWESummary: Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Holiday 2007Summary: Story of a woman rebuilding her life socially and emotionally after her divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNM
Summary: Ainbo was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened. With the help of her spirit guides "Dillo," a cute and humorous armadillo, and "Vaca" a heavy-set tapir, Ainbo embarks on a journey to save her homeland. As she fights to save her paradise against the greed and exploitation by illegal miners, she struggles to reverse this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY AINSummary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BecauseSummary: Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Westlake Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRS. RATED PGSummary: Rainbow is the daughter of Alma, the no-nonsense owner of a popular beauty parlor. Ruby, Alma's free-spirited sister, unexpectedy arrives after a ten year absence, causing Rainbow to confront her own sexual awakening and provoking Alma to reconsider her own self-inflicted repression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALMSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias 'The Woman of the Mountain,' Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman, until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. She's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living with a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PROSummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANSummary: Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ALISummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMSummary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007