Summary: A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Janus Films 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN Cri

Summary: A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling players.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Classic 1998

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEV

Summary: A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STE

Summary: A rock music group is catapulted into fame almost overnight when their signature song hits the top of the chart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THA

Summary: A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAL

Summary: Follows two aspiring novelists and lifelong friends journeying down different paths after one's first novel receives wild acclaim and the other a pile of rejection slips.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REP

Summary: Avery's sister has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000. Desperate, he and his buddies abduct a retired mob boss to try to force him to use his contacts to find the girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUI

Summary: A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KUN

Summary: A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY L.A.

Summary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAM

Summary: CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sum 2002

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SUM

Summary: Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment/Miramax Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAR

Summary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED R

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEF