Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PATArtist Not Provided
Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSummary: Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHESummary: Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TONSummary: "[F]ilmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently-deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. ... Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history ... and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. ... The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLASummary: Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENSummary: Having defined the espionage genre with Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Fritz Lang returned to the genre with this surprisingly fast-paced and remarkably grim thriller. Rudolf Klein-Rogge starts as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple the diabolical king from his throne. Filled with the sexual intrigue and high-tech gadgetry that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SPISummary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, a beautiful young woman takes refuge in a remote farmhouse where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic odyssey of a mysterious family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, 'Black Moon' is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a post-apocalyptic world of shifting identities...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: Police inspector Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad investigate a cold case about a disappeared woman; when the murder of young twins implicates a group of students as the killers, Carl Mørck investigates; Department Q must catch a serial killer before time runs out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEPSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILSummary: "Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The threepenny opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. With a palpable evocation of corruption and dread, set to Weill's irresistible score, The threepenny opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema." -- container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THRSummary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CARSummary: In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign LandSummary: A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a doomed quest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHIMurnau, F.W.
Summary: The scholar Faust makes a pact with the forces of evil to gain higher truths, and must pay for what he has received.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAUWeine, Robert
Summary: After a train accident, the hands of a concert pianist are amputated and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer, triggering his slow descent into madness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008