Summary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Mrs

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

Summary: Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GUN

Summary: Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer both deliver exceptional performances as two people - he from England, she from Russia - caught up in a world of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya, a beautiful Russian book editor attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair a manuscript written by "DANTE", a noted Soviet scientist, she unwittingly involves him in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: A hypnotic tale of love at the roulette wheel as a compulsive gambler falls in love with a bank clerk on holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003

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

Summary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Carmen, a beautiful and sultry gypsy, woos the corporal Don José. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of smugglers. His jealousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads to murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2010

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA CAR

Summary: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

Bornedal, Ole

Summary: When an ordinary family man is involved a car accident that causes the other driver, a woman, to have amnesia, he visits her in the hospital and both she and her family believe that he is her boyfriend until the real boyfriend comes looking for him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009

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

Summary: Vowing to move to Canada if John Kerry loses the 2004 election, fervent liberal John Logue suddenly finds himself with no job, no girlfriend and no country. Making good on his "campaign promise," Logue finds a traveling companion--a sexy, mysterious woman named Chloe--and heads north. But Chloe is not all that she seems, and their journey takes more twists and turns than either could have...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLU

Summary: Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002

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

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

Summary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American war correspondent stationed in Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair, but when the journalist is transferred to Korea where war has broken out, tragedy strikes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOV

Murphy, Eddie

Summary: When leaves start falling from a magical tree in his yard, a fast-talking literary agent discovers that he has to let his actions speak louder than his words.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2012

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

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

Summary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MON