Summary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PANSummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANGSummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: Gypsy Esmerelda and malformed bellringer Quasimodo fall victim to the machinations of church and underworld leaders in medieval Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: Jack Martin is an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera. An impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran is so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife is fooled by it. When Duran's business interests compel him to be in London when he should be hosting a large soiree at his home, Martin is persuaded to impersonate Duran at the party. But matters threaten...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ONCruise, Tom
Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BELSummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSummary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELSummary: 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