Summary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHO

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Drafthouse Films 2012

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

Summary: When London transplant Mia moves with her family to a lion farm in South Africa, she forms a bond with the white lion cub Charlie, one that is tested when the two run away across-country, hoping to reach a lion sanctuary and life-long safety for Charlie.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIA

Summary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIG

Summary: Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

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

Summary: A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007

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

Summary: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MON

Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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

Summary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PG-13

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Independence 2016

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

Summary: Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BUT
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Butcher's

Summary: The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Lord

Summary: When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen, deemed 'unfit' by the State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back toward each other. The one-time house pet has learned much, not all good, in his journey through the streets and animal control centers, as he leads a pack of 'unfit' dogs to bite the hands that beat them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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

Summary: A night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve year old Bobby and his best friend, Kevin, when they are abducted on their way home from school. Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another stranger, whose mysterious arrangement with the kidnapper may spell certain...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BOY

Summary: When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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

Summary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023

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

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

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

Summary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: The Duc de Richleau and Rex Van Ryn are concerned when their young friend, Simon Aaron, is absent from their annual reunion. Upon visiting him, their suspicions are confirmed when they learn of Simon's new affiliation with a so-called 'astrological society' headed by the malevolent Mocata. Soon, the two men discover that Mocata's society is really a devil cult taking control of innocent people...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SAF