Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREFehling, Alexander
Summary: After an aspiring poet fails his law exams, he is sent to work in the countryside where he falls in love with a woman who is promised to another man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUSummary: Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: During the busy Christmas period, Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company owner Cate meets a mysterious man and assumes he is the man her determined mother is trying to set her up with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MERSummary: In a nineteenth-century Estonian village, a peasant girl recruits the help of a witch to win the love of a boy, but the process proves to be incredibly complicated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOVSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOAndrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLASummary: A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY RESSummary: A sizzling comedy about two lifelong friends whose romance is threatened by their parents' rival pizzerias.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LITSummary: "It is the 21st century and society's lust for violence is satisfied by 'The big hunt', an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watchers, the hunt is on. Who will become the 10th victim"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: A successful film director leaves his pregnant wife at home when he attends the annual festival for advertising awards, and begins an affair with a young British woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLOSummary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YeBeatty, Warren
Summary: When an aspiring actress is brought to Hollywood on a contract under Howard Hughes, she falls in love with her driver despite their employer's restrictions against relationships between his staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Widower Andrew Shepherd decides it's time to get back into the dating game, but there is one slight problem, he is the President of the United States. He falls for an environmental lobbyist and is lofted even more into the public eye.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE AMESummary: Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once-famous novelist Calvin creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to life, it also brings Ruby to life, literally. Face-to-face with an actual relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether to pen this love story or let it write itself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012