Summary: A sixty-year-old fisherman raises a young girl on his boat in isolation from the world, with the expectation that she will marry him upon her approaching seventeenth birthday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2007

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

Teatro Alla Scala

Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRA

Summary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001

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

Summary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011

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

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

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

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

Summary: Night key: An ingenious inventor of a security system is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BOR

Summary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Fey, Tina

Summary: A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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

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

Summary: The story of a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show. She is distracted from her task when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday Ch

Summary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAV

Summary: In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discover that life can begin anew at any age. With the support of three loyal girlfriends, Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man, pursuing a new love interest, and reconnecting with her daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I'll 2015

Summary: "After jointly inheriting a struggling vineyard in southern New Zealand, Sydney socialite Daisy Monroe and ex-London lawyer Louis Oakley are now trying to run it." --

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UND

Summary: Months after saying goodbye to sentient synth Mia and her family, the Hawkinses search for some semblance of normalcy. But when Niska arrives at their home unannounced, the family is pulled back into the dangerous lives of the synths.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUM

Summary: When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love - proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHA
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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

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

Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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

Summary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.

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

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

Summary: Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER NO

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