Summary: In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UGE
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC FOREIGN UGE

Summary: Alex is a cold, distant, fiercely intellectual research psychiatrist from New York, teaching in Vienna. Milena, an Army brat, has wandered back through the countries she was raised in to find herself there, too. They meet at a party, are immediately attracted to each other, and fall quickly into a sexually obsessive relationship. Milena has a husband across the border named Stefan, and a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BAD

Summary: A university student haunted by a dark alter ego and surrounded by a web of deaths is sent on a tour of hell in which he and innumerable other people suffer a variety of gruesome torments.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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

Summary: A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE M

Summary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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

Summary: In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAX

Summary: Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2003

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

Summary: A German child refuses to grow up in response to the Nazi presence. To vent his hostility, he pounds on a tin drum.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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

Summary: Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. -- Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EIG

Summary: An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then they dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004

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

Summary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: In 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The 3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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

Summary: A drama set in 19th-century Paris, about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHI

Summary: A candid portrait of one boy's journey from childhood to adulthood. A precocious fifteen-year-old boy's sexual maturation and unorthodox relationship with his free-spirited mother is both shocking and deeply poignant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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