Summary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI COC

Summary: A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2002

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

Summary: Drifter Frank Chambers comes to work for Cora and her husband in their California roadside diner. Frank eyes the pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Frank and Cora become lovers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

Summary: A beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SHA

Summary: A staid, dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to become a painter in the South Seas. Loosely inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a stock broker who, to follow his dream of becoming a painter, leaves his life behind and he becomes an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty. By W. Somerset Maugham.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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Summary: T. S. Garp is a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism, and eerie coincidences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOR

Summary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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

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Summary: An unscrupulous real estate developer sends thugs to a tenement to get rid of the last five tenants. The five are visited by tiny visitors from outer space who turn the tide with magical powers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Batteries 1999

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Summary: After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Amongst the survivors is a glamorous journalist, a tough seaman, a nurse and an injured sailor. Their problems are complicated further when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lifeboat 2005

Summary: When a prison guard who sadistically beats prisoners finally becomes unbearable, the inmates stage a vicious riot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Conrack 1974

Summary: "Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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