Summary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmf┬⌐╞´hrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Summary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRASummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Working as a hostess in a trendy bar, a young beauty finds herself mercilessly torn between two men: Hao-hao, her neurotic and jealous live-in boyfriend, and Jack, the mysterious and enterprising gangster who may be her undoing. Chronicles the fleeting, finite blooming of a young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILSummary: An American artist couple, drawn by desire to the Sahara, travel there shortly after World War II in order to follow their passionate obsessions in an attempt to recapture the love they once shared.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHESummary: Dissatisfied with his temp position at a well-known law firm, attorney Tae-su takes an unexpected assignment to help revitalize a failing zoo. Seeing this as a chance to prove himself and move up in the firm, Tae-su discovers instead that the zoo has no real animals. What's worse, he only has three months to turn around a seemingly lost cause into a golden opportunity. Enlisting the help of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECSummary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Summary: After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADYSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNHung, Tran Anh
Summary: In 1960s Tokyo, the death of Kizuki has an influence on the relationship of his best friend Toru, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NORSummary: Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RIGPacino, Al
Summary: A young man and woman try to maintain their relationship as their heroin addiction threatens to destroy them both.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PANSummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: During WWII, nurse Eliska is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Zelary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZELSummary: Presents the true stories of three Iraqi people who endured life in a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad during the Iraq War and then were in the streets after their hospital is decimated. The film was shot in Baghdad in 2004. The Iraqi filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot by insurgents, the 14-year old boom boy was shot in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AHLSummary: The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OLISummary: After a Mongolian desert herder hurts her back, she realizes that to support her family she must legally divorce her husband while looking for a man who will agree to take care of all of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TUYSummary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023