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Film adaptations Human-alien encounters Drama Husband and wife Drama Life on other planets Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Pakistan Drama Pakistan Politics and government 1988- Drama Political prisoners Abuse of Pakistan Drama Prisoners Pakistan Death Drama Space colonies DramaSummary: Investigating the deaths of two monks, a visiting brother discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie NameSummary: American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOT RATED PG-13Summary: "A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF HIGSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GASSummary: Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married the man of her dreams. After the arrival of her daughter, Slim begins to see the hidden, abusive side of her husband. Terrified for her and her daughter's safety, Slim flees. But her husband's resources allow him to relentlessly pursue them. Finally Slim fights back, engaging her husband in a physical and psychological battle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enough 2002Summary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL
Summary: Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SORSummary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CANSummary: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLASummary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: Three are dead. Who is number four? John Smith is an extraordinary teen masking his true identity to elude a deadly enemy sent to destroy him. Living with his guardian in the small town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected life-changing events, his first love, powerful new abilities, and a secret connection to the others who share his incredible destiny. Complete with deleted scenes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the '50s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WHESummary: Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LADSummary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMOSummary: Revolves around an enigmatic smuggling ring's efforts to steal a priceless artifact and unfolds through the unique perspective of five characters, and shows how the choices of a single person can affect the outcome of things in a world where everything is interconnected.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE POWSummary: Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007