Summary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Ophuls, Max

Summary: After selling jewelry to surreptitiously pay down her debt, a woman's lies to her husband initiate a chain reaction of tragic misunderstandings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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

Summary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015

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

Summary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015

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

Summary: The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Binoche, Juliette

Summary: A British author on a book tour in Tuscany and a French art-gallery owner get to know each other over the course of an afternoon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

March, Fredric

Summary: When a painter and a playwright fall for the same woman and she is unable to choose between them, the three move in together as friends in a Paris apartment.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

Ophuls, Max

Summary: Using a mask to hide his age, a man atttends balls and romances young women; the madame of a brothel brings her employees to her niece's confirmation; the affair between an artist and his model has dire consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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

Summary: The final day in the life of a British consul in Mexico just before WWII, and how he alienates himself while trying to reconnect with his estranged wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007

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

Gere, Richard

Summary: In the early 20th century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007

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

Kent, Barbara

Summary: Two lonely people from New York City meet on Coney Island on the Fourth of July only to lose each other in the crowd at the end of the day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Sandler, Adam

Summary: A psychologically troubled businessman falls in love with a mysterious woman while he is being blackmailed by the operator of a phone-sex line.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Shearer, Moira

Summary: A rising star ballerina is torn between an idealistic composer who she loves and a perfectionist impresario to whom she owes her career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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

Summary: A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME