Summary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003

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

Summary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Set during Gandhi's rise to power, Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.

Format: moving image

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

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

Summary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

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

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

Summary: When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAN RATED PG-13

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

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: While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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

Summary: Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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

Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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

Summary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POC

Summary: Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married the man of her dreams. After the arrival of her daughter, Slim begins to see the hidden, abusive side of her husband. Terrified for her and her daughter's safety, Slim flees. But her husband's resources allow him to relentlessly pursue them. Finally Slim fights back, engaging her husband in a physical and psychological battle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enough 2002

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: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLA

Summary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LON RATED PG-13

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

Watts, Naomi

Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13

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

Summary: Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2010

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

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

Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COC

Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUL

Pinto, Freida

Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012

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