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Americans Mexico Drama Infiltration (Military science) Drama Mexico Organized crime investigation Massachusetts Boston Drama Police Massachusetts Drama Refugiados Política gubernamental Sudáfrica Teatro Relocalización (Vivienda) Sudáfrica Teatro South Africa Drama South Boston (Boston, Mass.) Drama Undercover operations Massachusetts Boston DramaSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JOESummary: Based on true love, this decades spanning romance begins in Mexico between an aspiring chef and a teacher. Their lives restart in incredible ways as societal pressure propels them to embark on a treacherous journey to NYC with dreams, hopes, and memories in tow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDESummary: After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERSummary: Outlaws on the U.S.-Mexican border face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member as they plan to rob a U.S. Army train.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN WILSummary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TRESummary: A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GETSummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLESummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLESummary: It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE APOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Apollo 2005Summary: After being dumped by his girlfriend, Peter knows that he is a man stuck in a dead end life. He decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which then proceeds to wreak havoc upon his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up getting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KISSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KISSummary: Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KUNSummary: Po and Furious Five uncover tale of three legendary kung fu heroes Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2011
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KUNSummary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more important than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing thier virginity with the girls of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their friend Fogell gets a fake...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUPSummary: Episode I: In this first episode of the "Star Wars" saga young Anakin Skywalker, a slave with a gift for pod-racing, gains his freedom with help from Queen Amidala's Jedi Knights and then, in turn, helps the Queen defend her planet Naboo from the evil Sith Lords.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLSummary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011