Summary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: For years, Marie and Jean have spent their vacations at their country home. One day at the beach, Marie falls asleep while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Marie notifies the authorities and even after an extensive search, no body is found. Did he drown or did he just run off?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDSummary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRSummary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MANSummary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: A deeply moving tale of tradition, love and deception. Three sisters, a brother, two husbands and a child are living and loving in a supportive clan that they have forged since the death of their parents. However, there are deep secrets that are threatening to disrupt the harmony and balance of their daily existence. Life is much more tenuous and complicated then it seems on the surface.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VERSummary: Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces" his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WITSummary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001