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Summary: A young man who was traumatized as a child by his family of circus performers escapes the mental hospital he is in to rejoin his armless mother and, with the son becoming his mother's arms, the two go on a murderous campaign of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SANSummary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDESummary: "Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRSummary: Family man Marlon Villar is the long-time driver of Manuel Chango, a corrupt Filipino politician. While he and his daughter accompany his boss' preteen daughter home, Marlon is ambushed and the wrong girl is kidnapped. The driver's life takes a sudden, terrifying turn which propels him into a horrifying downward spiral and, as events in his life unravel, Marlon, Changho, and their families...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Drafthouse Films 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRA
Summary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMSummary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010