Summary: "The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pl̀mason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's Southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GODSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: A comatose five-year-old girl travels through a darkly surreal industrial wonderland, haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears. Through her fear, she must follow her mother's voice -- staticky and cutting out -- to find her way back to consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A remarkable portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman. Earthy, sexy, romantic, filled with laughter and warmth, it's a joyous celebration of simple pleasures and enduring passions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANTSummary: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EIGSummary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHOSummary: Three self-involved Edinburgh roommates take in a brooding boarder. When he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RUNSummary: On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high-end' establishment' as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PACSummary: 1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MARSummary: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MEDSummary: A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EXPSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNDSummary: A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KILSummary: "Two teenage girls--Ginger (Fanning) and Rosa (Engler)-- are inseparable: they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GINSummary: "Another illuminating performance by Rachel Weisz and a brilliant screenplay by the distinguished British playwright David Hare make Denial one of the most powerful and riveting courtroom dramas ever made."--Rex Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA DENSummary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sequel to the popular Korean action-thriller The Witch: Subversion: After a mysterious girl emerges as the sole survivor of a bloody raid on the research facility behind the top-secret Witch Program, she is rescued by a couple who understands the grave danger the girl now faces. However, as the assassins tasked with locating and silencing the girl move ever closer, the lives of all three fall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022