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Feature films Fernandez, Raymond Martinez 1914-1951 Drama Gamblers Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Moulin-Rouge (Night club : Paris, France) Drama Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1819-1901 Drama Queens Great Britain Drama Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 1864-1901 Drama United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 DramaFilter By Subjects
Feature films Fernandez, Raymond Martinez 1914-1951 Drama Gamblers Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Moulin-Rouge (Night club : Paris, France) Drama Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1819-1901 Drama Queens Great Britain Drama Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 1864-1901 Drama United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 DramaSummary: Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mao 2011Andrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoWatts, Naomi
Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DIASummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: When his spaceship crash-lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Commander "Kit" Draper must fight for survival, with a pet monkey his only companion until he meets "Friday," an alien.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROBSummary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Young 2010Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUSummary: Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOUSummary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRISummary: Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRISummary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Summary: Set in the 16th century, Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Gone 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: MOVIE DVD GONSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GON RATED GSummary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACRSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LHouten, Carice Van
Summary: In 1960s South Africa, Ingrid Jonker expresses herself through her poetry to the dismay of her father, a parliament censorship minister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLASummary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000