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Bunuel, Luis Hung, Tran Anh Kulig, Joanna Kung, David T. Ruiz, Raul Tosar, Luis Wiig, KristenSummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOWiig, Kristen
Summary: After winning the lottery, a woman with borderline personality disorder buys her own television talk show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WELSummary: Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger that needs to go from Colorado to San Fransisco. Shortly after receiving the car, he takes a bet to get it there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol, they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul who is a blind DJ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VANSummary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KILTosar, Luis
Summary: A doorman who hates anyone who is happy, turns one of the building's resident's life into a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLESummary: An orphan boy is raised to seek vengeance on the clan leaders who murdered his parents. He takes lessons from an old Shaolin monk who is embedded in a boulder and sets out to find the killers. But before he can deliver justice, he must unite rival factions to fight a far greater evil plaguing the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beverly Wilshire Filmsworks Inc. 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LORHung, Tran Anh
Summary: In 1960s Tokyo, the death of Kizuki has an influence on the relationship of his best friend Toru, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NORSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Greeks bearing gifts) Oxford's closely knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSRuiz, Raul
Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYPSummary: Fernando, a respected university professor, and Lili, his devoted wife, have lived happily together in Buenos Aires for many years. Without warning, they find their comfortable life threatened when Fernando is forced into early retirement as a result of Argentina's economic crisis. Facing an uncertain future, the couple relocates to the countryside where they bravely set out on a new chapter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Luis, a homosexual, and Valentin, a political prisoner are mismatched cell mates in a South American prison. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. Eventually, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KISKung, David T.
Summary: "Understanding the connections between music and mathematics helps you appreciate both, even if you have no special ability in either field--from knowing the mathematics behind tuning an instrument to understanding the features that define your favorite pieces. By exploring the mathematics of music, you also learn why non-Western music sounds so different, gain insight into the technology of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HOWSummary: For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. With it being pitch black, they are disoriented. The only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can't remember who they are or what their mission is. With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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Summary: A group of high-society friends find themselves unable to leave their host's mansion after a lavish dinner party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EXTSummary: Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of homeless children through war-torn China in the 1930's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INNSummary: American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATSummary: Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004