Summary: Pathological liar Dave Firpo and his kleptomaniac brother Alvin are two small-time crooks who lure their good-hearted brother Bill into robbing a bank in the small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania. Pulling off the heist is a snap compared to getting out of town after a snowstorm hits.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: Deliriously mean-spirited free-for-all about the demise of a marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2001

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

Summary: During prohibition two gangland bosses struggle for control over a city, with one of the boss's lieutenants caught in the middle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MIL

Summary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HEL

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HEL

Summary: Cave men battle a host of prehistoric creatures in this original dinosaur movie.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: A handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago, 'perhaps at Marienbad, ' but she claims not to remember him. He haunts her mind with images by mixing memory and fantasy, fear and desire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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

Summary: A small-time casanova with no political convictions and fewer brains shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, volunteers for the Italian army and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp, where he learns to survive at any cost.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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

Summary: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997

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

Summary: "A stylish and poignant film about Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who is forced to hide in the basement of his theater during the Nazi occupation while his wife (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount when she and her leading man (Gérard Depardieu) begin to fall in love with each other. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theater critic ensconces...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Leaving wife and child behind, Ferdinand takes off on a wild adventure with the babysitter Marianne. As they become entangled with murder and gangsters, mysterious events destroy their happiness and lead to an explosive finale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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

Summary: Tells the story of Nana, a young mother who leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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

Summary: All she wanted was a room with a view on her first trip to Florence. Little did she realize that her wish would lead her into impropriety, confusion, and passion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century 2005

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROO

Summary: An old man's unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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

Summary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005

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

Summary: In this dark comedy first released during WWII, Henri Vedoux, played by Charlie Chaplin, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows. On another level the film is an indictment of war in which mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/FoxVideo 2000

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

Summary: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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

Summary: Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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