Summary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEPCaron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CREViard, Karin
Summary: A tight-knit team of officers working in the Child Protection Unit in Paris cope with the pressures of the job and their personal lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POLDee, Janie
Summary: When Helena performs a miraculous deed for the King of France, she claims the conceited Bertram as her husband in payment, but Bertram agrees only if she fulfills two conditions that he thinks are impossible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ALLSummary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPSummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUSSummary: 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: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: Untamed love: "The inspiring story of Caitlin, a lost child, Maggie, a dedicated teacher, and the unexpected miracles that happen when Caitlin is finally given the chance to shine"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Includes the English/Italian hybrid cut of the film, the International version, and the U.S. release version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY PHEViard, Karin
Summary: After losing her job in a factory, a woman finds a new job as a housekeeper for the man who was responsible for shutting down her previous employer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYSummary: Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on an inter-rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Yash Raj Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DILSummary: "Growing up in rural Laos, Ahlo ... is a mischievous 10-year-old who lives without a care in the world. After a family tragedy, his grandmother declares that Ahlo is cursed, and as they are forcibly moved from their land and fall deeper into poverty, he starts to believe it. Only the friendship of an orphaned girl and her eccentric James Brown-loving uncle restore joy in his life. Traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Kino Lorber 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED NRSummary: "Sleepless night tells the story of Vincent, a respected and dedicated police officer--or so it seems. After he and a colleague are recognized while stealing a massive bag of cocaine from drug dealers employed by local mob boss Marciano, Vincent quickly finds himself trapped in a situation that no parent would envy: his son had been kidnapped with the promise of execution if he doesn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tribeca Film 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLESummary: John and Emma, father and daughter, are thrust into a fantastical dream world battle between forces of good and evil, where they are forced to fight for John's soul and to save Emma from an eternal nightmare. They encounter unusual characters that exist only in their subconscious- or are they real?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Double Edge Films 2009
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY INKSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SONEakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONSummary: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Academy 2020