Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Summary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FAR

Summary: Showcases some of the best musicians and comedians of the 70s and early 80s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MID

Contents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAC

Summary: After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRI

Summary: Born to dance: "A break-a-leg tale of an understudy turned Broadway star"--Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BOR

Cole, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Editions 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.531 COL

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TOD

Frantzis, Bruce Kumar.

Summary: "Bruce Frantzis' comprehensive guide reveals why tai chi is effective at helping millions improve their health, relieve stress and reverse the effects of aging, and helps advanced students upgrade their practice and beginners choose the appropriate style and teacher"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Snake Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7148 FRA

Summary: Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Cole, Brock.

Summary: In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE COL

Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Price, Frances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 PRI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Food Cook Price

Summary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIG

Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Contents: Disc 1: Being with you / Smokey Robinson. -- Get closer / Seals and Crofts. -- There'll be sad songs (to make you cry) / Billy Ocean. -- Precious and few / Climax. -- Joanna / Kool and the Gang. -- Lost in love / Air Supply. -- You don't have to be a star (to be in my show) / Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. -- I get weak / Belinda Carlisle. -- Crazy love / Poco. -- Hey there lonely girl /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOD

Summary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003

Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVE HER

Summary: The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. A surreal cinematic Rubik's cube that examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Kane, Grace Franks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Letter Press 1972

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 398.2 KAN
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 398.2 KAN

Summary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AU

Summary: After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each in this tender and finely-textured saga.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAC

Back to Top