Summary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHSummary: "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
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: "Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FORSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INNSummary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: "Michael Roemer's groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Nothing But A Man reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GIRSummary: Twelve-year-old Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a beauty. Elena meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anais bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FATSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: "Set in Los Angeles in the slight future ... Theodore, a complex, soulful man ... makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA HERSummary: How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHASummary: "Leshka, a 15-year-old boy, lives in an isolated village on the Bering Strait, like most men in his village, he is a whale hunter. When Internet arrives in the village, everything changes in the life. The appearance of an unusual girl on a webcam site fascinates him. The protagonist's state of being in love with an image so far away ... leads him to the most courageous act in his life: to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHASummary: While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Licorice 2022Summary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancée on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into something real, but can their love survive the limelight?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Marry 2022Summary: Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin have grown fond of one another for over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie's reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011