Summary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIM

Summary: In her spectacular film debut, Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, hear her, touch her. But one wants to kill her - and that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel's glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOD

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

Summary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAM

Summary: Creature from the Black Lagoon: Members of a scientific expedition to the Amazon discover a gruesome half man/half fish creature. Revenge of the Creature: A monster, half man and half fish, kills two men and abducts a woman ichthyologist after escaping from the tank where it is chained. The creature walks among us: Despite the clear intention of enjoying his watery home deep in the Everglades,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014

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

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRE

Summary: The men of New Zealand march off to war, leaving behind cities and villages filled with women and loneliness. In time, new men come ashore: U.S. Marines facing uncertain futures in Pacific battles yet to come. And new loves, tender or tragic, transitory or lasting, begin to flower.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011

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

Summary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERA

Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRE

Summary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999

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

Summary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018

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

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

Summary: Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes with her brother. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni neglects her boxing, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and drills. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SAF

Summary: Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master. Son of Lassie: On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures. Courage of Lassie: Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011

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

Summary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002

Summary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KIL

Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRA

Summary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEA

Summary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CEL

Summary: A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NO

Summary: A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CHA

Summary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JES

Summary: Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media 2020

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OUT

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

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

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