Summary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesus Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Producciones Iguana 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROSummary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brooklyn 2016Summary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBSummary: In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUESummary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AROSummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RIDSummary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TORSummary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUSummary: When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordion. But her solo journey does not sit well with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After their plane crashes 48 people are stranded on an island that holds many secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: A 'rescue team' lands on the island and the survivors gear up to go home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SORSummary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012