Summary: During World War II, 70,000 Finnish children were shipped off to Swedish families who had agreed to shelter them for their own protection until the end of the war. This is the story of one such boy, Eero. After the death her husband, grief stricken Kirsti agrees with great reluctance to send Eero to Sweden. His surrogate parents, Signe and Hjalmar, are grieving the recent loss of a daughter....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Matila Röhr Productions 2007

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOT

Summary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Contents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013

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

Summary: "Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determened to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyling takes Rudy on a bumy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams." -- container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CRO

Summary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KIL

Summary: Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Diehl, August

Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOU

Summary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOX

Summary: Generations of a family face adventure as they move West with dreams of land, gold and glory.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie How 2008

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOW

Summary: Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: A stellar ensemble cast celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances, and fresh starts in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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

Clooney, George

Summary: When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DES RATED R

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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

Aria, Max

Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THO

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

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

Summary: When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILL

Summary: When Brian, a hopelessly uncoordinated young fan, magically switches talents with his basketball hero, NBA superstar Kevin Durant, he becomes the star of his high school team, while Kevin suddenly can't make a shot to save his life. But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true winner involves working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THU

Summary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

Summary: When Rodney was a teenager his mother just dropped him off at the home of Connie Stevens and left him. Eventually he landed his first show-business job as a double for Davey Jones on "The Monkeys". Rodney ended up using his skills as a consummate hanger-on and his genuine enthusiasm for rock & roll to become a central figure in the L.A. music scene and is lauded for his good taste and good...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAY

Viard, Karin

Summary: A tight-knit team of officers working in the Child Protection Unit in Paris cope with the pressures of the job and their personal lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012

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