Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SUMSummary: Maddie (Jen Lilley), a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval officer (Trevor Donovan) and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship's archive room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROUSummary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEVSummary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Anastasia has broken off her relationship with the troubled Christian to pursue a new career in a Seattle publishing house. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIF RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIFSummary: Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and the dead-end job she has. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Good 2002Summary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real-life TV chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye, and taste buds, of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton, and they soon both write a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Love's 2011Summary: Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 1999Summary: Tillie's Punctured Romance (71 min.) : Charlie, the dapper city guy, woos Tillie, the farmer's daughter, to get her father's money. However he just can't seem to get the money away from Tillie to enjoy time with his other girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapevine Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TILOphuls, Max
Summary: After selling jewelry to surreptitiously pay down her debt, a woman's lies to her husband initiate a chain reaction of tragic misunderstandings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARSummary: Life as a teenager is hard. Life gets even harder when you're a teenager suffering from a life-threatening illness. Compound illness, adolescence, and the fact that you're spending most of your time in the hospital; life can get very lonely. The only person who could possibly understand may be a teenager living a similar life. When two critically ill teens met at a hospital, only time will tell...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019