Summary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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

Summary: Eight of director Pedro Almodóvar's original films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2007

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

Summary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

Summary: When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WOM

Summary: A reclusive hearing-impaired woman forced to take a vacation finds a temporary job caring for an injured oil rig worker burned and blinded by an accident, over time the two develop an emotinal relathionship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Shortly after the civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: A man accidentally finds a time machine and travels back in time where he is involved in a mystery filled with murders, terror, and another version of himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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

Velasco, Manuela

Summary: When a reporter and her cameraman follow firemen into an apartment building in response to a distress call, local authorities quarantine the building and the reporter, her cameraman, the firemen and the residents are trapped inside to face a lethal threat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL

Summary: With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIE

Summary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003

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

Summary: A live performance of Holst's The Planets accompanied by state-of-the-art high definition images from NASA's exploration of the solar system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Houston Symphony Orchestra 2010

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS PLA

Summary: Angela is a university student in Madrid writing her thesis about violence in the media. During her research, she comes across a shocking 'snuff' film (a film where a murder is actually committed for the camera) that has apparently been shot on the campus. Investigating further, she uncovers clues that the university's administrators may be involved in an unexplained series of student...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

Summary: Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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

Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995

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

Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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

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 FRA

Summary: In an unidentified French-speaking West African country, chaos reigns as civil war erupts. For the rebels, it's time to banish the 'white material' -- white folk and the trappings of white life. Among these is the Vial coffee plantation inhabited by Maria, her ex-husband Andre, their son Manuel, and his grandfather Bernard, a white family of French origin. Their terrified workers have fled,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

Summary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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