Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLESummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELSummary: A small-town family travels to the State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family State 2005Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STASummary: A Spanish revolutionary maintains his ideals even though he is warned he will be sold out. Aging, tired leftist Montand travels from Spain to Paris, reports to his political associates, and visits mistress Thulin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUESummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he doesn't stop there. Proving he's nobody to toy with, the demonic doll schemes to transfer his evil spirit out of its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. CGesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, CGesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPESummary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEPSummary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCSummary: It's the holiday of Hogswatch in the parallel universe of Discworld, the night when kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather. But someone--or something-- wants the Hogfather out of the way. Now it's up to the most unlikely of heroes to get the holiday back on track before humanity loses all hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOMSummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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Summary: A tight-knit team of officers working in the Child Protection Unit in Paris cope with the pressures of the job and their personal lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POLSummary: "Lost and alone, a young Indian boy travels through the wilds of the Old West. He finds shelter with a widowed horse trainer, who names him Frankie and teaches the outcast the tricks of the trade"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Gemstone Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Red 2003Viard, Karin
Summary: After losing her job in a factory, a woman finds a new job as a housekeeper for the man who was responsible for shutting down her previous employer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYSummary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIVSummary: CIA deputy intelligence director, Jack Ryan, finds recovering laundered drug money from the Colombian cartel isn't as dangerous as the power games in the nation's capitol.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Clear 1998Summary: A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUISummary: A successful businessman is forced to confront his troubled past as he isolates himself on a dilapidated sailboat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Film Co. 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HID RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIDSummary: Ryan: Creating a hand-animated three-dimensional world, Chris Landreth explores the life of Ryan Larkin, a pioneer in Canadian animation who now lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change. Alter egos: Incorporating the animated documentary Ryan, Laurence Green's film explores the paths of animators Ryan Larkin and Chris Landreth and the relationship that developed between the two men....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RYAGrant, Cary
Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOSummary: Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic - and the provincial life he represents. Includes bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011