Summary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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

Summary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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4 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHA

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chaperone 2019

Summary: 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 PUB

Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIL

Summary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: George and Kathy Lutz are newlyweds who move into a large house that is located on Long Island. The couple move in with their three children into what they believe is their dream home. Despite full disclosure by the real estate agent of the home's history, George and Kathy buy the house. The couple turn to their family priest Father Delaney who comes to bless the house. The Father believes the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR AMI

Summary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHE

Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007

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

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

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Summary: A woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in nineteenth-century Ireland finds her livelihood threatened when a painter arrives at the hotel where she works and discovers her secret.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Albert 2012

Summary: Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War. The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLA

Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Based on the true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012

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

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

Summary: Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lionsgate 2011

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

Summary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Martin 2005

Summary: "Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 1999

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

Summary: Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

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

Summary: Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017

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

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

Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011

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