Kruger, Diane

Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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

Summary: "In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures."-- IMDb

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WAR

Summary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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

Summary: Eleventh century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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

Summary: Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEA

Summary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: An emotionally fragile pair of middle-aged siblings find themselves caring for each other after years apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROG

Summary: Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REV

Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO

Summary: Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Alaskan wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RUN

Summary: In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, sixteen-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

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

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

Summary: When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. They then embark on a trip to find his father whom he has never met.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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

Rouve, Jean-Paul

Summary: A crime novelist with writer's block investigates the apparent suicide of a small-town model who believed she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012

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

Summary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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

Summary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

Firth, Colin

Summary: The lives of several residents in a small southern town are changed when a stranger arrives with a controversial plan to save their town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

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