Summary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLU

Summary: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIR

Summary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIS

Summary: A deeply religious Midwestern businessman enters the dark world of the pornography business in California in search of his young runaway daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HAR

Summary: Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan existence, unlocking...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAS

Summary: Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAG

Summary: When Major Charles Rane returns home to Texas, he is given a true hero's welcome. He and his friend Johnny Vohden have endured eight years of physical and mental torture in a POW camp. Charlie's big homecoming includes a Cadillac convertible and a couple of thousand dollars ... and the news that his wife has fallen in love with another man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Shout Factory LLC under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ROL

Summary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mosquito

Summary: De Niro stars as champion boxer Jake La Motta, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAG

Summary: Bob Crane became well known as the star of the comedy hit series "Hogan's Heroes." With fame and success, Crane drove headfirst into the darker, destructive side of celebrity life. He eventually teamed with a video technician who helped him document his numerous sexploits. But when his fast living got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of Hollywood's most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUT

Summary: William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAR

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAR

Summary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAS

Summary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAG

Summary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAX

Schroeder, Karl

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH