Summary: A grown woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNASummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: The epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRESummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: A sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives, and their loves. Captures the uncertainty and angst of what it is to be young, vulnerable, and desperate to find out who you are - or, perhaps more importantly, who you want to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Aria, Max
Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ThSummary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: It is an uplifting comedy about Martha, a woman who moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents, Sheryl, Olive, and Alice, proving that it's never too late to follow their dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poms 2019Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUNSummary: [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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world one sentence at a time by recording her story on the fortunes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRE2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRESummary: In this terrifying, action-fueled film based on the Marvel comic series, five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five ₁patients₂ come to understand that they are in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeSummary: 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: Rhino Home Video 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA
Summary: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GHOSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED RSummary: A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HULSummary: Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNBrie, Alison
Summary: A headhunter struggles to balance his career with his family life when his ten-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017