Summary: Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAU RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUSummary: In the third installment of this new adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's novels, Anne Shirley, now a young adult, leaves Green Gables to attend Queen's College, preparing to be a teacher. Facing an difficult choice and being overwhelmed by loneliness, Anne finds a silver lining.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANNSummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACC RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ACCSummary: Two Japanese clans that are ancient enemies have been forbidden to fight. The heirs to these clans have fallen in love, to their families' horror. When tragedy strikes this love-struck couple, will a final battle make them stronger or pull them apart?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHISummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith), is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NEVSummary: Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMISummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: Nicole is adrift after college graduation, working a dead-end summer job and spending evenings with her best pal, Veronique. When her older brother Remi unexpectedly returns with his bandmates in tow, disrupting the girls' half-baked summer, it becomes clear to Nicole that something must and will change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUSummary: Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SWESummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLESummary: First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. His wife, the senior editor for the New York Times, relates the story of their relationship to their son as he grows up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOUSummary: When Wall Street banker Martin is sent to a bank branch in upstate New York, he uncovers suspicious cash flow through a local gallery selling million-dollar paintings. As Martin traces links to a violent global mob, he realizes he's put his nearby family in grave danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CrSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLESummary: Four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to their own countries end up in a dismal South American town where an American oil company is seeking out courageous drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin over miles of treacherous terrain. The four men have nothing to lose; and, besides, they'll be paid 10,000 dollars apiece, and be granted legal citizenship, if they survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SORSummary: Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEISummary: The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut: while dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MIGSummary: Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WONSummary: Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: A lovely gesture - a bouquet of roses - from husband to wife becomes the catalyst for a clash of long-repressed emotion. Their son has just come back from war, but is caught in the middle of their conflict.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUBSummary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends, announce they're separating. They immediately pair-up with younger, sexier paramours and enjoy again the pleasures of fresh passion. But smoldering resentments and unexpected jealousies soon rise to the surface, erupting in savage humor and hilariously unpredictable reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002