Summary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: A man who thinks he's God's gift to women reconsiders when he suddenly can hear what they're really thinking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Recounts one of the strangest legends of the First World War - the disappearance of the Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALLSummary: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUSSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach.This documentary shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Directed and written by João Vargas Penna, the film is a walk through the art and personality of Roberto Burle Marx,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANDavidov, Ilko
Summary: Explores the life and career of comic book publisher Todd Loren.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNASummary: Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BREJovovich, Milla
Summary: Lieutenant Artemis and her loyal soldiers fight for survival against deadly enemies when they are transported to a new world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MonsterSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUElba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THRSummary: A thrilling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling characters, Macbeth is a dramatic re-imagining of the realities of war-torn times and a tale of all-consuming passion and ambition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world, with glowing reviews, global press, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run, the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of a historic event. This fascinating documentary is a unique opportunity to discover what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CLO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Twelve-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An intimate glimpse into the harsh world of urban motherhood. Zelda is one of five "disreputable" women who meet in the late afternoon to throw back half-priced drink specials and complain uninhibitedly about life, libidos and lactation. When her best friend moves in after a near-fatal overdose, Zelda is forced to decide whether to change her lifestyle or remain trapped by the illusions of youth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPUFassbender, Michael
Summary: While exploring the memories of his ancestor Aguilar, Callum discovers he is a descendant of the secret Assassins society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AsCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ASSSummary: An ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime and the local priest find that family jewels were hidden in a chair, one in a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the rest of the fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: Features a trio of stories about sex, each starring Loren and Mastroianni). In the first vignette (Adelina of Naples), a woman avoids jail time by pumping out babies with a willing accomplice. In the second vignette (Anna of Milan), a pair of lovers are forced to work out their problems in a car. The third vignette (Mara of Rome) is the story of a prostitute who quits her best john for a man of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YESSummary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWOdenkirk, Bob
Summary: When a man beats up a gang of thugs, it turns out that one of them is the brother of a mob enforcer who now wants to avenge him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: PN1997.2 .N63 2021Summary: Poppy Valentine, a young circus performer who has grown up in her family's traveling circus, has never dreamed of what life would be like outside of its fences. However, now in her mid-20s and with more unwelcome responsibilities weighing her down, she's desperate to figure out if this life is for her. As she slowly begins to take time for herself, finding independence and even love, she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BALSummary: The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998