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Feature films Fujisawa, Shūhei 1927-1997 Film and video adaptations Japan History Restoration, 1853-1870 Drama Monsters Drama Scientists Drama September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Soldiers Conduct of life Drama Terrorism New York (State) New York Video recordings World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)Filter By Subjects
Feature films Fujisawa, Shūhei 1927-1997 Film and video adaptations Japan History Restoration, 1853-1870 Drama Monsters Drama Scientists Drama September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Soldiers Conduct of life Drama Terrorism New York (State) New York Video recordings World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)Summary: What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man and a married woman turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: Adam Farmer is 14 and seeks to uncover a secret lost in his subconscious that will help him to locate his parents, who mysteriously disappeared. Adam pieces together fragments of the story that uncovers government corruption and espionage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: When scientists create a 'resonator' to stimulate the pineal gland, which controls the sixth sense, it opens the doors to a parallel and hostile universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FROSummary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: After busting out of jail and on the run, 2 bank robbers devise the perfect crime with imperfect partners. Not wanting to hurt anyone during their robberies, they go to the homes of bank personnel and end up staying the night with the families so that they can all go to the bank in the morning, hence becoming the "sleepover bandits".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BANSummary: Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2002