Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TES

Summary: A pair of friends takes a road trip through wine country to celebrate Jack's final bachelor days. They indulge in a mid-life crisis consisting of wine, women and a yearning for the past, but they eventually collide with reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SID

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SID

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD F

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAM

Summary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008

Summary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDE

Summary: Two men in New York's Washington Heights district wrestle with ambition and identity. They fight to overcome the violence of their neighborhood and their struggle to find a better life is fueled with brutality and disappointment.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAS

Cruz, Penelope

Summary: After a woman enters into a relationship with her boss in order to get medical help for her father, she becomes an actress and finds herself attracted to a film director.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRO

Summary: Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COL

Summary: In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns to her home town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise reunion with her once beloved, Candido. Overjoyed with the rekindled memories of her first love, Yoyita's elated heart fizzles while in Candido's embrace. Joining Yoyita's funeral procession back to Havana are her sexy niece Gina, a former professor blacklisted...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUA