Summary: Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SINSummary: Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Alec Guinness plays a timid bank clerk with a perfect scheme to steal a million pounds in gold from the Bank of England. What can possibly go wrong? Everything, in this hysterically funny, madcap masterpiece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LAVSummary: When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie State 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: Antoine has just been transferred from Normandy to Paris. He is happy, but his wife prefers the country. Antoine loves her dearly, but he loves his job just as much. His co-workers include Inspector Vaudieu, veteran cop Mallet, and Muslim cop Solo. For the most part, they get along pretty well. This is especially so for Antoine and Vaudieu, who develops maternal feelings towards the rookie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their "digs," proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her ... a task they find easier said than done.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TROSummary: Two cops are dispatched by the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) to protect and serve the living from increasingly destructive spirits hiding among the unsuspecting Earth. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork to restore the cosmic balance-or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD R.I.P.D. RATED PG-13Summary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED RSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanian gang members break into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taken 2009Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EIGSummary: Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BOBSummary: A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAMSummary: Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC TRASummary: Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005