Summary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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

Damon, Matt

Summary: A man buys a struggling zoo in Southern California and along with his family and employees, works to bring it back to life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2012

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WE RATED PG

Summary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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

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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SOU

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

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: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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

Summary: London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Croupier 2004

Summary: Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007

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

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

Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CON

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

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

Summary: A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012

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

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

Summary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014

Summary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MIS

Summary: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EMP

Summary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PAR

Summary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAP

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

Summary: Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poetry 2010

Les Sins

Contents: Toy -- Why / ft. Nate Salman -- Bother -- Minato -- Bellow -- Sticky -- Call -- Drop -- Do right.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Company Records 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SIN

Summary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: Arresting killers is Manhattan detective LaMarca's job. This time is different, the fugitive suspect LaMarca is tracking ends up being his own son. LaMarca must bring the accused to justice. But as a father, he must put his job on the line to find a way to save his own son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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

Dee, Janie

Summary: When Helena performs a miraculous deed for the King of France, she claims the conceited Bertram as her husband in payment, but Bertram agrees only if she fulfills two conditions that he thinks are impossible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2013

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ALL