Summary: Tae-Shik is an ex-special agent with a tragic past. He runs a small pawnshop, and So-Mi, the young girl who lives next door, is his only friend. When So-Mi's mother becomes involved in a major crime, mother and daughter are kidnapped. To save So-Mi, Tae-Shik makes a certain arrangement with the crime mob. With So-Mi missing, the police begin to chase Tae-Shik. With the police and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANSummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: When a mysterious beast ravages the countryside, two men are called in to fight the evil and end the reign of terror. The only way they can save the land from the unspeakable fright is to unearth a dark power, reveal a deadly secret and face their greatest fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage. He decides it is up to him to teach her a series of deadly lessons which will endanger everyone she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER UNHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISSummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KONSummary: Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanian gang members break into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taken 2009Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: A young Civil War veteran named Jackson wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits. With killers around every corner, the lines begin to blur between who the good and the bad are, including Jackson. As a final gunfight looms for our hero and he is asked to risk it all to save the woman he loves, this action-packed western takes twist and turns that will break...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Diablo 2016Summary: A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. He becomes involved in an automotive duel of epic proportions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ESCSummary: Following a volcanic eruption along the China-North Korea border that leaves the entire Korean peninsula in shambles, seismologists warn that an even greater eruption is forthcoming, one that could devastate the entire region. Enlisting the help of renowned Korean-American scientist Bong-rae, the government scrambles to find a way to stop the impending explosion. Bong-rae's plan calls for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ASHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ASHSummary: Rise of the planet of the apes: Caesar is a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence from an experimental drug. Raised by the drug's creator, Caesar ultimately finds himself imprisoned and taken from the humans he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Predator: Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth--because the Predator is not of this earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sleepless 2017Summary: Kristy, Ben and Liz are three friends in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. Trouble begins when they get back from their hike to find that their car won't start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a friendly local bushman named Mick Taylor, but what Mick has in mind for them has nothing to do with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Entertainment 2006