Summary: "Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAMSummary: Saw: Would you kill someone to save your own life or the lives of your loved ones? For the victims of the psychopath known as the Jigsaw Killer, this isn't just a hypothetical question, and two men abducted and held in chains by the madman are faced with playing his gruesome game for their own survival. Gripping, spine-chilling shocker stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, and Leigh...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGSummary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SERSummary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVASummary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHRSummary: John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLASummary: The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JESSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: Our beloved band of misfits is looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHISummary: "In director Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their 'spiritual quest', however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Darjeeling 2007Summary: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANSummary: After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR ORPSummary: The complete story of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley's recurring battles with members of a parasitical extraterrestrial species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MICSummary: In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSummary: A retired officer must uncover the identity of a mass murderer who is killing off the potential heirs to a family fortune. The only clues are the names on the list of murdered heir Adrian Messenger. The tension builds as the final evil unfolds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017