Summary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLSummary: Set in 19th century Korea, this version also tells the tale of treachery, lust and sacrifice. Elegant, courtly and sexually voracious young Lord Jo-won's public life of idle nobility masks a not-so-private life of unending sexual conquest. Challenged by his equally debauched cousin Lady Cho to seduce a teenaged virgin threatens Cho's household kingdom. Jo-won accepts on condition that Cho...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNTSummary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Kim, Seung-Woo
Summary: A fickle filmmaker falls for a young woman and then leaves her, but when he tries to recreate the romance, he meets her again under awkward circumstances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSeong-Ha, Cho
Summary: A father tries to understand the reasons for his teenage son's suicide by seeking out the young man's friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bayview Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLESummary: After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADYSummary: Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mao 2011Summary: Ten years ago, Ja-yoon escaped from a secret government facility in the midst of an inexplicable incident. An old couple finds her alone near-death and takes her in. With no memory of who she is, she grows up to be a bright high school student and enters a nationally televised audition program to win the top prize and help her family. But as soon as she appears on TV, strange people start...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WITSummary: Follows the lives of Korean poet Young-Chan Cho, who is both deaf and blind, and his wife Soon Ho. Focuses on the couple's use of touch to communicate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLASummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FASSummary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alan's desire for success in music and love is hampered by one thing -- himself. He decides to leave his band and heads for New York City for a new musical adventure. There, he is only half-heartedly romancing radio DJ Sara and promoting his fledgling band, Mutual Appreciation. Alan tries to stay focused and manages to fend off some of his distractions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUTSummary: "When a young man notices several thefts of sought-after Tibetan mastiffs from local farms, he decides to sell his family's dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when he discovers their dog missing. His search to buy back his dog leads to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart, while showing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OLDSummary: "Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker ... meets Charlie ..., her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with India and her unstable mother..., both are drawn to his charming and calming demeanor. But it soon becomes clear that Charlie's arrival was no coincidence, and that the shocking secrets of his past could affect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stoker 2013Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STOSummary: Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unbroken 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNB RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Newly approved for adoption, Goran and Sven excitedly prepare for their baby's arrival. But after a mix-up, they instead find themselves the parents of a 15-year-old homophobe, who may have a criminal past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Here! 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PATSummary: In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIGSummary: Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMSummary: A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TARSummary: 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