Summary: Superman, the movie: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal Lex Luthor and his cohorts as they attempt to destroy California by activating the San...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUP RATED PGSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENSummary: Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An untested American submarine captain teams with US Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HUNSummary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEG RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Megan 2017Summary: Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Season 7: Laure and Gilou are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant, and the tragic loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Josp̌hine struggles with life in prison as she awaits trial and Judge Roban faces forced retirement. All of them will have to deal with unexpected hurdles and the ultimate dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: Recounting the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds. Includes never before seen interviews, archival footage, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RICSummary: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUSSummary: Two years after Agatha Fyfle kidnapped her baby, explosive secrets will spin Meghan Shaughnessy onto a catastrophic and ultimately fatal course, while Agatha's new obsession sees them collide in a way that no one will anticipate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SECSummary: Falsely accused of murder, Balthazar is on the run, while his colleagues at the police and the Forensic Institute have been suspended. When a diabolical killer emerges, Balthazar comes out of hiding to set things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APRSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019