Summary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOG

Summary: When seventeen year old J's mother dies of an overdose, he calls his grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, who invites him to come live with her. A Ma Barker camouflaged as a cheery suburban grandmother, she dotes on her roguish boys, and looks to add J to the mix. The oldest is Pope, a gunman off his meds, unhinged drug dealer Craig, and baby-faced youngest Darren. The brothers, along with Pope's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANI

Summary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWE

Summary: Set in a dreary, unforgiving mid-nineteenth century German village in Hunsruck, it captures the plight of hundreds of thousands of Europeans who immigrated to faraway South America to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Edgar Reitz's film is a heart-wrenching drama and love story set against the backdrop of this forgotten tragedy. Jakob, our protagonist, tries to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOM

Summary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MIC

Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICE

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIE

Summary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRI

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRI

Summary: A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RED

Summary: In an unidentified French-speaking West African country, chaos reigns as civil war erupts. For the rebels, it's time to banish the 'white material' -- white folk and the trappings of white life. Among these is the Vial coffee plantation inhabited by Maria, her ex-husband Andre, their son Manuel, and his grandfather Bernard, a white family of French origin. Their terrified workers have fled,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHI

Summary: The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author's alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper. Anna is too busy with schoolwork and friends to notice Hitler's face glaring from posters plastered all over 1933 Berlin. But when her father suddenly vanishes, the family is secretly hurried...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHE

Summary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED R

Summary: Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIL

Summary: Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAS

Summary: "Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SMO

Summary: Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWE

Rosendahl, Saskia

Summary: After her parents are arrested for war crimes after World War II, a fourteen-year-old girl leads her four siblings across war-torn Germany and encounters a Jewish man willing to help them complete their journey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOR

Summary: The Worth's are a family portrait of dysfunction, but when their matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, they must set aside their differences and come together. Chaos ensues as they soon discover that not only did Grandma Mabel keep secrets, so did everyone else. They begin to find their way back to each other and realize that while you can't choose your family, you can choose to be friends...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAM

Summary: Ex-convict trucker Don Barnes discovers that his daughter Cebe has grown into a rebellious teenager.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion Productions 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUT

Summary: A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief and finding hope in the darkest moments.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAR

Summary: For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY POL

Summary: In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR YOU