Summary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: 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: Arriving in 1924, Pesachʹke Burstein, the dancing-singing comedian, quickly became a leading figure in the Golden Era of Yiddish theater. On stage, he would meet, fall in love with and eventually marry raising star Lillian Lux. Embarking together on triumphant overseas tours as a couple, they soon became the parents of twins. Before long the children, Mike and Susan, were given stage names and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KOMSummary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Following up on his masterfully told art house successes, The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise, Majid Majidi directs this quietly affecting tale about illegal Afghan immigrants living and working in Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage of American POW's, the station has revealed (and continues to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CONSummary: Amid the cultural upheaval of 1950s India, Lata is torn between romance and responsibility, while her wayward brother-in-law Maan has a perilous affair with a glamorous courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUISummary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After deadly terrorists abduct his niece at a soccer match, an ex-soldier with lethal fighting skills wages a one-man war to save her and prevent mass destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINSummary: "After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers ... take refuge in a fungus covered boat. While using ... mushrooms for sustenance, they find the ship's journal describing the mushrooms to be poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: Season Three takes a heart-racing turn when Red and Agent Keen, become fugitives on the run. With Assistant FBI Director Harold Cooper under investigation, Agent Donald Ressler leads the FBI Task Force on the manhunt. As Keen delves deeper into Red's underworld of covert operations, she continues to struggle with self-discovery and her indefinable relationship with Tom. Both Red and Keen are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: While the Task Force reels from Liz's resurrection and Red deals with the betrayal of those closest to him, Liz is targeted by a man claiming to be her father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BlSummary: Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD AQUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AQUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANSummary: In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsping 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANSummary: When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ICESummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBSummary: Tarantula: an experiment to create a growth formula that could end starvation. Mole people: three scientists stumble upon a tyrannical tribe of albinos who have enslaved a mutant race of mole people. Incredible shrinking man: an ordinary business man is exposed to a radioactive mist and finds his size diminishing .Monolith Monsters: a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008