Verdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED RSummary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1990
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY REBSummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ENCSummary: A computer operator at a bank is plunged into an exciting world of international intrigue, danger and romance when her terminal gets an S.O.S. from Jumpin' Jack Flash, a British spy stranded in Eastern Europe. She is soon matching wits with the deadliest members of the CIA to the KGB. A suspenseful, fast-paced and murderously funny comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jumpin' 2013Summary: Adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kordas legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOUSummary: It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIBSummary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004Summary: Spring fever runs wild when a snooty native son returns to his family farm in rural Australia and brings along his voluptous new wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie High 2008Summary: An anthology of 5 loosely connected and interwoven stories showing how women deal with the variety of problems that each faces in her life. A doctor looking after her invalid mother who realizes that her own life is passing her by. A wealthy bank manager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a workaholic boyfriend, and a street woman who dispenses advice that hits too close to the truth. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ThingsSummary: When Roger, a delinquent boy, is sent to live with his grandfather for the summer, he discovers his grandfather is secretly protecting a friendly, turtle-like creature named Mel. Because of Roger's reckless behavior, his grandfather is put in jail, and a greedy land developer captures Mel. To free his grandfather and save Mel, Roger has to take responsibility for his actions and find the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MELSummary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZELSummary: Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VAL RATED PG-13Summary: Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2009