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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Drama Criminals New York (State) New York Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Man-woman relationships New York (State) New York Drama New York (N.Y.) Drama New York (State) Long Island New York (State) New York New York (State) New York Brooklyn United StatesSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SATSummary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TAKSummary: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A 40-year-old father of two still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him, so he decides to move there as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHOSummary: "A young stockbroker [is] hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough. His name was Jordan Belfort"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA WOLSummary: A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: "A self-centered New York City publicist suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as [he] must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PHOSummary: The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DOGSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 21 BCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: George and Kathy Lutz are newlyweds who move into a large house that is located on Long Island. The couple move in with their three children into what they believe is their dream home. Despite full disclosure by the real estate agent of the home's history, George and Kathy buy the house. The couple turn to their family priest Father Delaney who comes to bless the house. The Father believes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008