Summary: A heartwarming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. The story of a family facing hardships who must rely on their faith for miracles to happen during the holiday season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN USHSummary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJASummary: Charlie Crews is an eccentric detective returning to the force after being wrongfully imprisoned. Back on the beat with his determined partner, Dani Reese, and his unusually Zen-like outlook toward the cases he investigates, this unconventional crime solver tries to catch the LA wrongdoers who really belong behind bars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LIFSummary: Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEPSummary: In Kore-eda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: Behind the headline of a murder and a suicide, lies the story of a lonely man whose deep feelings of humiliation push him over the edge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsprings Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRISummary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: A young man's spiritual odyssey, filmed on location in Rishikesh and Bharatpur, and based on Hesse's novella.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIDSummary: "On the campus of a university in Tokyo, students are about to start shooting their movie...but the lead actor drops out suddenly and the team is forced to search for a replacement. The layered narrative explores the students' personal problems with life and love and the film unfolds as an Altman-esque ensemble piece, using the production of the student film as a tool to examine the modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOSummary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS OLISummary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OSummary: Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAGSummary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: Munich, 1923. Edward Elric has been separated from his brother for two years because of a sacrifice that ripped him out of his world and into ours. He is now allied with Alphons Heiderich, a fellow researcher who resembles his brother. When Ed saves a quiet Gypsy girl with the power to read minds, he is quickly pulled into a plot by the Thule Society and the Nazi Party. What will happen when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A family patriarch and all but two of his sons are brutally wiped out in a bloody battle with a rival family. One surviving son returns to his mother and two sisters, driven mad with grief; the other escapes and joins a nearby monastery while in hiding. Once he learns his sister has been captured by their enemies, however, the warrior-turned-monk realizes he must renounce his peaceful ideals in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED RSummary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRESummary: The extended families of Adita and Hemant are gathering in New Delhi for the couples arranged marriage ceremony. However, the realities of modern life make this traditional celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004