Summary: "Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MR.Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSummary: Dealing with the loss of her fiancé, Mira Ray sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number...not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns' new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he's assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person...and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: The leading mercenary for the British East India Company, Will Reynolds has just been double-crossed and now is on the run in the American Colonies. Working to redeem his name and win back the affections of the woman with whom he's never been fully truthful, Will now hides behind a new mask in hopes of thwarting his former employer. As his past life closes in on him, Will must somehow gain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BEYSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: Shadows: Explores interracial friendships and relationships in the 1950's Beat-era New York City. Faces: Richard and Maria are attempting to escape the anguish of their dissolving marriage by falling in the arms of others. A woman under the influence: Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, but her madness proves to be a problem in their marriage. The killing of a Chinese bookie: To clear his debt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: "[H]andsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her. Before long, the young groom must choose between following his heart and protecting his family's honor."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NEWSummary: In Barcelona, Spain during the last decade of the Cold War, Ted Boynton, the Spanish representative for a Chicago electric engine firm, plays host to his cousin, Fred Boynton, a lieutenant in the Navy. Ted is earnest and ambitious, but not a typical American salesman. Fred is an advance man for the Sixth Fleet's upcoming shore leave. They are smart but somewhat naive white-collar workers, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BARSummary: A big box store worker, Maya, reinvents her life story to land a job in the corporate side of the company she works for. After the aid of a fabricated resume and social network profile, she is offered the position. She accepts the position to try to prove what street smarts can do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Second 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YeSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: Cleaver makes a bitter enemy of the powerful new Attorney General, Cal McGregor, when Cleaver is caught having an affair with his wife. Cleaver's paramour, Missy, causes a scandal with a memoir about her life as a prostitute, and his best friend's wife, Scarlet, can't forgive Cleaver for the damage he caused to her marriage. Cleaver's legal career is just as hectic as his personal life as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAKSummary: On any single day, Cleaver Greene is described as many things: to jurors he is hilarious, but to must judges he is an outrage. To the tax office, he is a defendant; to a certain brothel owner, a legend; and to his former cocaine dealer, a tragic loss. His favorite clients are those that appear to be hopelessly guilty. Despite his faults, Greene's wit and charm have won him hordes of female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017