Summary: Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: 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: 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: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENBresson, Robert
Summary: Tells the story of Balthazar, a donkey whose grim life reflects the human nature around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Silas and Jamal are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of marijuana. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: A young man, who is sexually confused, falls in love with an older man. When his ex-fiance comes to see him he needs to decide who he loves more. Unable to cope, he decides to take drastic measures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WATSummary: AmGelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, AmGelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, AmGelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMESummary: Tells the story of Nana, a young mother who leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Budd Powell and Francis Paudras.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Milk 2009Summary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MiracleSummary: A group of four friends, all with different life goals, struggle to survive on one person's salary. After going into business together as thugs and assassins they find fame and fortune and at the same time strive to maintain their friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GANSummary: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: The '20s never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), then lost her to a rich boy. But now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy...and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back"--Container insert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012