Summary: Born on the same day, a young Polish singer and a French music teacher and aspiring singer share the same talents and the same sense that somewhere there exists another person with whom her life is intertwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by World Cinema Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOUSummary: During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUSummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANSummary: Following the brutal death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Harry Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers, attacks their camp, and has a captive executed. Other executions and deaths lead to the arrest and trial of Morant and two other lieutenants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESummary: In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CATSummary: Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding. However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Four 1999Summary: Rich and pampered sisters Sawmya and Meenakshi want for nothing except the true love their hearts crave. While Sowmya grudginly places family responsibilities ahead of romance, Meenakshi years for a white knight. Manohar, an aspiring filmmaker, falls for Sowmya but will wed her only after directing his first film. Commando Major Bala woos Meenakshi despite physical and emotional war wounds and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: Follows the lives of an aimless group of friends who spend their days outside their Munich apartment smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and sleeping with each other. Their lives take an interesting turn when a Greek immigrant moves in and evokes extremely hostile reactions from the men in the group who beat him up when he begins dating one of the German women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KATSummary: A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LACSummary: Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD ANIME MEMSummary: The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two small-time con men team up to pull off a big-time score involving a set of valuable conuterfeit stamps known as the Nine Queens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NINSummary: The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOWSummary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TSO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TSO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED RSummary: A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VODSummary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IKISummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003