Summary: A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Janus Films 2001

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

Summary: Avery's sister has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000. Desperate, he and his buddies abduct a retired mob boss to try to force him to use his contacts to find the girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1998

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUI

Summary: A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998

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

Summary: A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY L.A.

Summary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED R

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