Summary: Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUS RATED RSummary: After Newt Scamander helps to capture Gellert Grindelwald, the criminal soon escapes custody and begins gathering followers under his ideology of keeping magic for pure-blood wizards only. Albus Dumbledore, Grindelwald's truest friend, has no choice but to resist the charismatic leader and ask Newt to help thwart the plans for (wizarding) world domination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY FANSummary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: 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 VISSummary: Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNSummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPDamon, Matt
Summary: A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO RATED RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GoodSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: A bandleader scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse, a sexy would-be singer with a dark past who meets the bandleader at a party. When she joins his band, the two fall deeply in love, but their world comes crumbling down after the leader and his band are involved in a bar fight and he is overcome by fear and is unable to fight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOOSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE WHISummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRU
Summary: Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alamo Drafthouse Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF FoSummary: Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIUSummary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Born and raised on a sheep ranch, Tommy dreams of becoming a great musician, but finds himself doing community service when his antics to impress a new classmate backfire. Given a second chance, he finds a way to beat the odds, win her affection, and conduct the concert of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON RATED PGSummary: Alex Winston is young, beautiful and talented. She comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her and convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IStreep, Meryl
Summary: Dramatized profile of Great Britain's controversial prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Iron 2012Summary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022