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Summary: A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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Summary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999

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

Summary: A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: In turn-of-the century Morocco, a sheik kidnaps a feisty American woman and her children, holding them hostage until President Roosevelt sends in the troops to free them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003

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

Summary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moby 2001

Summary: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2000

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

Summary: The final day in the life of a British consul in Mexico just before WWII, and how he alienates himself while trying to reconnect with his estranged wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007

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

Summary: Set in Stockton, a story of two boxers, one who is at the end of his career and the other who is just begining to learn to fight.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAN

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Summary: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANN

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Annie

Summary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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Summary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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

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

Summary: Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Proposition 2006

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN PRO

Summary: Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mirmax Films 2002

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Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEN

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