Summary: A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: A seductive story of forbidden love and the unknowable mystery of coincidence as a young model meets an unusual stranger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COLSummary: "Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria."--IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14324296/plotsummary?ref_=ttfc_ql_stry_2, viewed 08/22/22.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHISummary: Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans, many whose parents died of AIDS. Alternately heartbreaking and optimistic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ABCSummary: The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PIASummary: Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOUSummary: A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices are seldom heard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: The story of a seemingly perfect family, whose distinguished facade starts to crack when the wife ventures into local politics. On the eve of the election, a corpse appears, and the long dormant seeds of past family crime begin to bloom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: After a young skateboarder accidentally kills a security guard in self-defense with his skateboard at Paranoid Park, he falls into a world of crime, guilt, and fear. He desperately attempts to get out as the investigation into the crime deepens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARSummary: Last in a trilogy of films (Trois couleurs = Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHISummary: On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant. A portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CODSummary: Pierre and Marcel are both celebrated concert violinists and lifelong friends, in spite of their differing temperaments. Pierre is modest, sensitive and content; Marcel is hungry, driven, and pursues a solo career that takes him to the four corners of the world. After years apart, the two friends reunite when Pierre invites Marcel to his home for dinner. It is then that Marcel first meets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MELSummary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHSummary: Krzysztof Kieślowski's trilogy of the human condition in contemporary French society, with each film drawing its theme from a color in the French flag: liberty (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and fraternity (Rouge).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001