Summary: Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARSummary: With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIESummary: The TARDIS arrives in London in November 1963, where the Doctor and Ace discover that two rival factions of Daleks, one loyal to the Dalek Emperor and one to the Dalek Supreme, are seeking the Hand of Omega, a powerful Time Lord device that the first Doctor hid there during an earlier sojourn on Earth. The Doctor tries to keep Gilmore and his team out of harm's way while the two Dalek factions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Limited 2010
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN RUSSummary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIGSummary: In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATLSummary: Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation ... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Babylon 5 is an outer-space way station, a port-of-call for diplomats, entrepreneurs, and scalawags of all species. Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, aided by chief security officer Michael Garibaldi, Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, and resident telepath Talia Winters, tries to keep apprised of all the intrigues swirling around his little corner of the galaxy, but things invariably spiral out of control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BABSummary: "Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation."--IMDb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUSummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: During the busy Christmas period, Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company owner Cate meets a mysterious man and assumes he is the man her determined mother is trying to set her up with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MERSummary: In this prequel series to Detective Montalbano, watch the genesis of the friendships, the rivalries and the romance as the players arrive to take their places in the beautiful Sicilian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: In this prequel series to Detective Montalbano, watch the genesis of the friendships, the rivalries and the romance as the players arrive to take their places in the beautiful Sicilian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIRSummary: A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPUSummary: While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Under 2003Summary: After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ARTSummary: Six ordinary strangers awaken to find themselves in a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. Without food or water, they have only a few days to live. None of them knows how or why they've been imprisoned, but soon discover that each possesses a skill that could contribute to their escape. As they work together to extricate themselves from their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CUBSummary: Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unknown beknownst to Matthew, is an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WICSummary: A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017