Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010

Summary: London-based thirty-something Bridget Jones continues her romantic relationship with Mark Darcy, despite many humorous complications.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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

Summary: Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012

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

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

Summary: "Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse, and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

Summary: Jack tries to impress his boss, Drew, who is also the father of his girlfriend, Demi. Jack wants to propose to Demi at Drew's Christmas dance, but, while taking dance lessons, he starts falling for his instructor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment. 2013

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday C

Summary: A movie buff periodically receives tips from the spirit of Humphrey Bogart on how to make it with women.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

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

Summary: It tells the story of Bobbie and Jude, a young drug-addicted couple who exist somewhere between homelessness on the streets of Chicago and the fantasy life they imagine for themselves. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2015

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

Summary: Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jupiter 2015

McAdams, Rachel

Summary: After a car accident puts her in a coma Paige wakes up and cannot remember the last five years of her life, so her husband Leo works to make her fall in love with him again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VOW RATED PG-13

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

Summary: It is a poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage, and faith in life's infinite possibilities. Michal, blindsided by her fiance's decision to call off their wedding with only a month's notice, is unwilling to return to single life. Michal decides to put her trust in fate and continue with her wedding plans, believing Mr. Right will appear by her chosen date. As the day of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WED RATED PG

Summary: Lawnboy Brian Dunne joins an elite summer baseball league and falls for a vacationing Vassar grad. Her family, however, does not think him suitable.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

Summary: Carmen, a beautiful and sultry gypsy, woos the corporal Don José. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of smugglers. His jealousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads to murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2010

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA CAR

Summary: An epic portrait of late sixties America as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

Summary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALF

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HIT

Summary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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

Summary: An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2024

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

Beatty, Warren

Summary: When an aspiring actress is brought to Hollywood on a contract under Howard Hughes, she falls in love with her driver despite their employer's restrictions against relationships between his staff.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUL PG-13

Summary: Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY TOW

Summary: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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