Summary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGSummary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VERSummary: An inspirational story of family, friendship, and redemption. After years of searching for his father, a young man, on the run from the law, finds his way into the life of a secluded old man in the woods. As the days go by and secrets about their past are revealed, they realize they may not have been looking for each other but they were brought together for a reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATSummary: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHASummary: Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SWESummary: Regarde la mer: "During a summer escape to the beautiful island of Yeu, Sasha's beginning to grow bored. She's been spending her days tending to her new baby daughter while awaiting the arrival of her husband from his office on the mainland. Her charming seaside cottage rests in perfect isolation for Tatiana, a brooding teen-aged backpacker in desperate need of a place to pitch her tent....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEESummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEASummary: Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to finally break the silence. But to be accepted, he must come to terms with his feelings first.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVJenkins, Richard
Summary: When an aging fast-food worker decides to retire after thirty-eight years on the job, he trains his replacement, a young African American man, and they learn about each other's lives as they work together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASSummary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGSummary: "Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GODSummary: Carl Allen signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything ... and anything. Unleashing the power of 'yes' transforms Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that embracing every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YES RATED PG-13Summary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAISummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered; and who killed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ICESummary: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Academy 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOTSummary: The film follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past, and collect the beauty supplies necessary for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWASummary: Julien, an ornery butterfly collector, is adopted as a surrogate grandfather by eight-year-old Elsa, who moves into the next-door apartment with her often-absent mother. When Julien hikes into the Alps in search of the exotic and elusive "Isabella" butterfly, he finds that Elsa has come along as an uninvited companion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTSummary: Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROB1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROB
Summary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPEWatts, Naomi
Summary: Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIA RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DIASummary: After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOTSummary: A pair of friends takes a road trip through wine country to celebrate Jack's final bachelor days. They indulge in a mid-life crisis consisting of wine, women and a yearning for the past, but they eventually collide with reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005