Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: 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 POSCarell, Steve
Summary: As the end of the world approaches, a man's wife leaves him, and he sets out to reunite with an old high school flame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEESummary: Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius. You've never met a college student quite like 'Rancho.' From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down-along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for 'Virus, ' the school's uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRSummary: When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASummary: A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Edges 2005Summary: During the Mexican Revolution of 1866, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN VERSummary: Fassbinder directs and stars as a gay lower-class carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, who strikes it rich by winning a lottery. Then he has an ill-fated romance with an elegant upperclass lover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOXSummary: A talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams is changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEASummary: Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLESummary: Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the '50s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROY1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROY
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: Paige is a college student at a university in Wisconsin where she hopes to attend medical school. One day, Paige meets a new student on campus, Eddie, who is obviously attracted to her. Paige and Eddie strike up a friendship which slowly turns into romance. Paige learns that Eddie is actually Prince Edward, heir to the throne of Denmark, who has come to Wisconsin to chase girls and enjoy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrSummary: Streep stars as a British woman returning home from her work as a resistance fighter in France during the War. Her unconventional and strong-willed behavior soon begins to disrupt the lives of those around her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLESummary: Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: Prince Siegfried sees a swan on the lake who turns into the enchanted princess Odette. She can only be saved by the true love of another. This the Prince promises her, but he is tricked by a wicked magician who disguises his daughter as the swan-maiden. Siegfried and his love leap to their death thus destroying the evil power of the magician.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Fall under the glorious spell of Disney's Ultimate Princess Fairy Tale! Pageantry and power spin together as Maleficent, one of imagination's most spectacular villains, sends the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep. In a grand legend that transcends time, Good Fairies arm brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora. But success in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Movie Sleeping 2014Summary: Jamie is a preacher's daughter whose self-confidence doesn't depend on the opinions of others. Landon is skating through high school on looks and bravado. But when events thrust him into Jamie's world, he begins an unexpected journey he will never forget. The remarkable steps to a life changed involve trust, hope, goals, faith and unconditional love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Walk 2007Summary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Summary: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM-UA Home Video 1997