Summary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN PISSummary: A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by twodifferent actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexualobsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: With an avant-garde sensibility and a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambťy paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s in his feature debut.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOUSummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVSummary: Before sunrise: An American man, Jesse, and a Paris woman, Celine, meet on a train bound for Vienna and decide to spend the day together before Jesse departs the next morning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the midst of epic violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GATSummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEXSummary: A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SOMSummary: Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WEESummary: Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman. So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015