Summary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: 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 JAMSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHISummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows five young Mexican-American caddies in 1955 who, fueled by their passion for golf, defy the odds by creating their own course in the South Texas desert. Despite facing outdated equipment and a lack of professional instruction, they triumph over wealthier, all-white teams to win the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARTSummary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASSummary: In order to explore whether or not they believe in ghosts, three friends break into an abandoned asylum called Greystone. Legend has it that anyone who ventures into the hospital will go mad. The trio will now have to suffer through a mysterious realm of escaped patients, ghosts, and demonic shadows. As they become more afraid and paranoid they discover that if they survive, it may be without...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: When a man murders his nagging wife because his affections have turned to her far-more-pleasant younger sister, it appears he has executed the perfect crime--until a minor slip-up arouses the suspicions of a family friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and the threat of war resurface again. --http://www.filmmovement.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIRSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BARSummary: 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: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSummary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: A recently fired father facing eviction agrees to take on an escalating series of insane challenges in exchange for cash payments from a rich couple with a twisted sense of humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHESummary: A sly, merciless thriller where a best-selling author and therapist wants to help a client by making restitution for the money he owes to a gambler. After she meets the attractive cardsharp, her own compulsions take hold as he lures her into his world of high-stakes deception. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROSummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD