Summary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGSummary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BROSummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUSummary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRISummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elegy 2008Summary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic PrideCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STESummary: Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralized and dateless - until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Must 2005Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAMSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Productions 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhSummary: "When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURSummary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015