Summary: 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: A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REDSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEVSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: Abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo, a young woman finds a job working for a tyrannical chef in a local ramen house and learns how to put excitement and enthusiasm back into her life as well as her cooking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: In the third installment of this new adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's novels, Anne Shirley, now a young adult, leaves Green Gables to attend Queen's College, preparing to be a teacher. Facing an difficult choice and being overwhelmed by loneliness, Anne finds a silver lining.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANNSummary: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOVSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: A love story in reverse: 'How I met your mother' is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall and Lily decide to tie the knot, it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney, a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild scemes for picking up women. Ted's sights are set on the charming and independent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSummary: Singapore (1947): In pre-war Singapore, Matt Gordon falls in love with the beautiful Linda Grahame, but loses contact with her when the Japanese attack. Five years later, he returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls and accidentally reconnects with Linda, now married to a rich planter Van Leyden and suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, the sinister Mauibus schemes to steal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: The Coupling gang are back for another hilarious helping of sexual exploration and social humiliation. The third series begins a hearbeat after the end of the last - with Steve and Susan splitting up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUSummary: Situation comedy featuring six thirty-something friends who are either involved, formerly involved, or looking to become involved with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUSummary: Featuring the gorgeous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin, this tells the impassioned story of art, friendship, and love between American GI, Jerry Mulligan, and Lise, a beautiful young dancer in the 'City of Light'.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS AMESummary: A situation comedy involving six thirty-something friends, involved, formerly involved, or looking to become involved with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUSummary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: "This set includes the first three seasons of this Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winning series, bringing Downton Abbey from pre-war England through the storms of World War I and into the social upheaval of England in the 1920s as the lives of its inhabitants are shaped by romance and heartbreak, ambition and betrayal."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV DOWNSummary: Set in an Edwardian country house starting in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012