Summary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: On a secluded farm, a man is bedridden and fighting through his final breaths while his wife slowly succumbs to overwhelming grief. Siblings Louise and Michael return home to help, but it doesn't take long for them to see that something's wrong with mom too. Gradually, they begin to suffer a darkness similar to their mother's, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that an evil entity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DARSummary: Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his trouble-making childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men₂s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Pictures 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLISummary: Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WACSummary: 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: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHISummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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3 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HISMarinca, Anamaria
Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: "Based on the international bestselling novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder, The Treatment is a gripping, unsettling story. A police inspector is assigned a case where a mother and father have been bound and beaten, and their young son is missing. As he investigates, the troubled cop uncovers other similar cases including a repressed episode from his own childhood. Grim and wholly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artsploitation Films 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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Summary: Examines the legal proceedings surrounding the 1977 case of Roman Polanski after he pleads guilty to having sex with a minor during a photo shoot in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFilm 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROMSummary: "Based on the international bestselling novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder, The Treatment is a gripping, unsettling story. A police inspector is assigned a case where a mother and father have been bound and beaten, and their young son is missing. As he investigates, the troubled cop uncovers other similar cases including a repressed episode from his own childhood. Grim and wholly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Documents the efforts of drug companies to find a cure for the phenomenon known as female sexual dysfunction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORGMarano, Laura
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairytale where modern-day Cinderella, an aspiring singer and songwriter, is prevented by her step mother and step sisters from going to the biggest performing event of the year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CINSummary: Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUDanner, Matt
Summary: Four racers join forces and become Team Hot Wheels to save their town from a mysterious black car that comes to town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEASummary: "An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first ... and are Kitty and Franziska next?"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDSummary: Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo, an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRAHemingway, Mariel
Summary: Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, searches for a greater understanding of her family history of mental illness and suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films And Entertainment 2014