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Adult - Feature Films and Television
27 dresses
Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts heads with Kevin just as her younger sister, Tess, shows up in town. Now, Jane is prompted to reevaluate her priorities when her boss - with whom she is secretly in love - falls for her younger sister. As the bride-to-be makes plans to marry, she mistakenly assumes Jane will be happy to take part in the wedding. Jane finally comes to terms with her true feelings and her life begins to change in ways she never expected.
DVD TWENTY
10,000 B.C
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other tribes who have been attacked by the slave raiders. Soon the small band has turned into army. At a massive temple, the band will take their stand against a tyrannical god who has brutally enslaved their own. It is here that D'Leh finally comes to understand that he has been called to save not only Evolet but all of civilization.
DVD TEN
The Adams chronicles
Dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Going well beyond politics, this TV masterpiece portrays these men as husbands, fathers, and sons, as well as leaders.
DVD ADAMS
The air I breathe
Four very different people on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. Filled with surprising twists and turns, this suspenseful, action-filled drama employs both brutal violence and aching poetry in the search for happiness.
DVD AIR I
Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso
Nino is an auto-factory foreman who takes his proper, modern wife and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to the antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. Nino gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors and himself.
DVD MAFIOSO
August Rush
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
DVD A
Be kind rewind
Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy," turning the two town misfits into local celebrities.
DVD BE KIND
Beck, Mongolian chop squad. vol. 1
DVD ANIME BECK
Beck, Mongolian chop squad. vol. 2
DVD ANIME BECK
Beck, Mongolian chop squad. vol. 3
DVD ANIME BECK
Bella
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when a series of events unfold that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down-- until a simple gesture of kindness brings them both together, turning an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience.
DVD BELLA
Best of Chappelle's show uncensored top 25 sketches
Features twenty-five of the greatest uncensored skits from the three seasons of Chappelle's show.
DVD TV CHAPPELL Best of
Breaker Morant
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Based on a play and true story.
DVD BREAKER
The bucket list
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
DVD BUCKET
Canvas
A woman's mental health puts her family and her own life in jeopardy, and she is taken from the family. Now her husband must raise a family alone and deal with her schizophrenia.
DVD CANVAS
Catwoman
Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat.
DVD CATWOMAN
The Cecil B. DeMille collection
Experience the breathtaking dangers and delights of ancient Rome in "The sign of the cross"; trek through a perilous jungle with "Four frightened people"; thrill to the passion, suspense and intrigue of "Cleopatra"; journey back in time with the glorious story of "The crusades"; and see how the West was really won in the explosive "Union Pacific."
DVD CECIL B
Children of the corn
It began on a quiet Sunday in Gatlin, Nebraska. That was the day the children slaughtered all the grownups. Isaac, the boy preacher, told them that He Who Walks Behind the Rows was pleased, and three years later the children still follow Isaac and his evil teenage disciple, Malachai. When a young couple accidently drive into Gatlin, they begin to discover the town's terrible secrets and become part of the children's bloody mission.
DVD CHILDREN
Cinderella man
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept winning and suddenly, the ordinary working man became an icon who carried the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders. Eventually, he rose through the ranks and went on to fight the heavyweight champ, the unstoppable Max Baer. .
DVD CINDEREL
Cleaner
A former cop that cleans crime scenes innocently participates in a cover- up, and his own investigation leads him to corruption in the police department he once worked for. Includes commentary, deleted scenes, and digital copy of the film.
DVD CLEARNER
Death note. Vol. 1, episodes 1-4
Light Yagami is an ace high school student with great prospects, and he's bored out of his mind. But when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god, in which any human written in it will die, he vows to rid the world of evil.
DVD ANIME DEATH
Death note. Vol. 2, episodes 5-8
The net begins to tighten around Light Yagami when Detective L brings in FBI agents to assist on the case. Light meets a woman who may have information that could lead to his arrest so he needs to find out who she really is and eliminate her before she goes to the task force. Then L puts Light's household under surveillance ; will Light crack under this pressure?
DVD ANIME DEATH
DNAngel. Volume 7, The light breaks
Daisuke Niwa has had a hard life for a middle schooler. Unfortunately, it's about to get even tougher as Daisuke finally learns the truth about his family's fate and Dark's origins! In this last volume a foe becomes a friend for the good of all! C
DVD ANIME D
First Sunday
Best friends and criminals Durell Washington and LeeJohn are two thieves who haven't got a prayer. Sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service, Durell's life quickly goes from bad to worse. Realizing that the Lord helps those who help themselves, he eventually decides to help himself to the neighborhood church's building fund. Accompanied by LeeJohn, the two down-on- their-luck men are dismayed to discover the cash has already been stolen, so they hold the congregation hostage in a Hail Mary attempt to learn who amongst the righteous has already fun away with their loot.
DVD FIRST
Fool's gold
Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants to help him find the treasure. Moe is an old mentor of Finn's who also happens to be looking for the same treasure. Watching both is gangster rapper Bigg Bunny who Finn owes money to. Finn and Tess discover a clue as to where the fortune may lie. Now all Finn has to do is get the gold, get the girl, and get going before Bigg Bunny gets him.
DVD FOOLS
Getting played
Three smart and sexy friends enter into a wild contest of seduction to prove that any man can easily be seduced. But what the girls don't realize is that their mark is onto their game and the question soon becomes 'who's playing who?'
DVD GETTING
Ghost in the shell stand alone complex. The laughing man
New information is revealed to Japan's top homeland security force, drawing Major Kusanagi and Section 9 into the hunt for a suspect capable of hacking the eyes of every operative, leaving behind a trail of copycats and hacked cyborg citizens.
DVD ANIME GHOST IN
A good man is hard to find
Rachel and her girlfriends Charlene and Monica are realizing what they want in a man is not what they're getting in their men. Every woman at church loves Rachel's husband, Deacon Clarence-- especially the preacher's flirty daughter, Chantel. As Rachel's marriage is collapsing and their love grows apart, Rachel's new boss Damion Marshall is giving her reason to leave. Charlene struggles to hold on to what's left of her marriage, as her husband Bruce succumbs to life's temptations. Meanwhile, Monica is looking for the right guy in all the wrong places and her longtime friend, Jasper King is hoping for a chance. When a life-changing moment grabs Rachel by surprise, she and her friends finally see how strong their men really are.
DVD GOOD MAN
Grace is gone
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
DVD G
The great debaters
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
DVD GREAT
Gunslinger girl the complete series
Contains all 13 episodes of the Japanese television program in which 3 adolescent terminal patients receive cybernetic implants to save their lives, and conditioning to turn them into the perfect assassins.
DVD ANIME GUNSLING
Scaphandre et le papillon The diving bell and the butterfly
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
DVD DIVING
Hedda Gabler
An ambitious woman feels trapped in the stifiling environment of a 19th century marriage, when an old flame suddenly reappears in her life. Hedda uses her charms to manipulate and destroy him, leading to a tragic fate for herself and everyone she loves.
DVD H
Hell girl. Volume one, Butterfly
Rumor says that a website accessible only at midnight gives readers the ability to get revenge on anyone, simply by posting the grudge on the site. The Hell Girl will then go to work, transporting that person's soul to hell.
DVD HELL
Hell girl. Volume three, Cherry
A journalist fife with dirty dealing, a young girl isolated from the world. Vengeance from the past and vengeance blind to the truth, and a reporter who wants to stop the pointless. All will come within Hell Girl's domain ...
DVD HELL
Hell girl. Volume two, Puddle
A nightly stalker has left Ryoko no alternative but to seek assistance from HellCorrespondence.com. After a year's investigation, the police have finally uncovered a suspect, but the case could not be more complicated. He is one of their own.
DVD HELL
I want someone to eat cheese with
James is a struggling actor, living with his widowed mother in Chicago, who wants three things in life: someone to love, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses a title acting role, and he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth who quickly wins his heart, but will this cause James more problems than it solves? Or has he finally found someone to eat cheese with?
DVD I WANT
In living color. Season three
The third season of a comedy skit show with an urban and African American point of view.
DVD TV IN Seas.3
In the name of the king a Dungeon Siege tale
When a bloodthirsty legion of half-man/half-beast Krugs rampages through his village, one man picks up a sword and undertakes a quest of vengeance and honor. Haunted by the memory of his son's death and the kidnapping of his wife by the Krugs, Farmer ignites a duty-call for others to join his crusade to stop the campaign of terror waged by an evil sorcerer whose ruthless quest for the crown could spell doom for the entire Kingdom.
DVD IN THE
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
DVD INDIANA
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
DVD INDIANA
Jing : King of bandits - the complete collection
DVD ANIME JING
Jump in!
A young boxer, Izzy Daniels, trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend Mary asks him to substitute in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man discovers a hidden passion for jump roping.
DVD JUMP IN
Jumper
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
DVD JUMPER
The Kingdom. Series 1
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin to occur, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. At the urging of a spiritualist patient, the employees attempt to help the supernatural forces rest.
DVD KINGDOM Series 1
The kingdom. Series two
Delve deeper into the realm of the supernatural. Starting with the birth of 'Little Brother', the son of a diabolical murderer, and continuing with Doctor Helmer's plan to turn the staff into zombies, the forces of evil are once again alive and well.
DVD KINGDOM Series 2
Lost in Beijing
An-kun works washing the windows of the capital city's skyscrapers while his wife Ping-guo earns a decent wage as a masseuse at a popular parlor. The parlor is owned by Dong, a rich middle-aged businessman who epitomizes China's new money-obsessed society. Their worlds collide after Dong awkwardly forces himself on a vulnerable Ping-guo, not realizing that An-kun, atop his perch outside the office window, is witnessing everything. Seeing this as a moneymaking opportunity, An-kun decides to blackmail Dong. He either has to pay or he gets brought up on charges for rape. But when Ping-guo learns that she's pregnant, the stakes get even higher.
DVD LOST IN
Mad money
Bridget is a stay-at-home wife whose life as she knows it ends when her husband loses his cushy, high-paying job. Her college degree in literature does not help her find a substantial job, so she accepts a janitorial position at the Federal Reserve. There, she meets Nina and Jackie, who could use some spare scratch as well. Suddenly, it dawns on Bridget that the bank has plenty of what they need - money. The plan is to take the old bills that are headed for the shredder and recycle them back into the economy by spending it.
DVD MAD
Meet the Spartans
The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians, whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and Paris Hilton.
DVD MEET THE
Minutemen
In high school, everyone needs the occasional 'do-over.' To spare other kids from humiliating and totally un-cool high school experiences, seniors Virgil and his buddies, Charlie and Zeke, invent the ultimate time machine. But when they accidentally open a black hole, they learn that turning back the clock can create a massive mess.
DVD MINUTEME
La misma luna Under the same moon
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.
DVD SPANISH UNDER
Monster's ball
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
DVD MONSTERS
National treasure. Book of secrets
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. So, Ben kidnaps the president. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore. Now, Ben will have to clear his family's name so they will no longer be linked to the assassination.
DVD NATIONAL
A new day in old Sana'a
Handsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her.
DVD NEW DAY
No country for old men
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh. Chigurh's weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way. Just as Sheriff Bell, a World War II vet, is on Moss's trail, Chigurh's former colleague, Wells, is on his.
DVD N
One missed call
Beth Raymond is a college student who begins losing all her friends after one of her classmates is found dead. She doesn't understand why. All she knows is that each of her friends received a voicemail on their cell phones, one that told them when they would die and what they would say at the moment of their death. Each time a person gets a call, his or her phone plays a quiet music box lullaby instead of its normal ring tone. After ther person hears the message, they begin to see disturbing things. As soon as they die, they cough up a piece of hard candy, after which their cell phones dial another number, notifying the next person to die on the list. Beth eventually gets the call. With the help of Officer Jack Andrews, Beth hopes to solve this mystery before her time runs out.
DVD ONE
The other Boleyn girl
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for the advancement of men,' it is Anne who ultimately throws her slight weight around to bully Henry into doing her bidding.
DVD OTHER
Over her dead body
When Kate is killed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day, her fiancé Henry gives up on romance until he falls for the beautiful psychic who's supposed to be helping him move on. But Kate is not having any of it, and now she's making it her heavenly duty to send their budding relationship six- feet-under.
DVD OVER HER
P.S. I love you
Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life, a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry. So when his life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry, so it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake and a tape recording from Gerry. In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way - P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future.
DVD P.S. I
Pearl diver
The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
DVD PEARL
Raiders of the lost ark
Indiana Jones and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.
DVD RAIDERS
Rails & ties
Tom Stark is a train engineer unable to face his wife's illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and - step by step, moment by moment - learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening up his heart to a boy who desperately needs the security of a devoted family.
DVD RAILS
Rambo
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they find themselves part of a raid led by the sadistic Major Pa Tee Tint and his command. Some of the villagers and missionaries are murdered. The rest are held as captives. Concerned by their disappearance, the minister in charge of the mission gathers a group of mercenaries. Rambo, who knows the exact dropoff, transport them with his boat. Rambo joins the team and helps liberate the survivors in what may be one of his deadliest missions ever.
DVD RAMBO
Rock the paint
When Josh is forced to move his senior year, he's afraid his basketball dreams will be forgotten, until he meets Antwon. Together they try to win the high school state championship. Will their friendship survive a situation that threatens to divide them?
DVD ROCK THE
Saawariya
Destiny weaves its magical spell when a shy musician's chance encounter leads to four unforgettable nights filled with music, passion and romance.
DVD SAAWARIY
Semi-pro
In the 1976 ABA league, a wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA, the Flint Michigan Tropics are the worst team. When the ABA plans to merge with the NBA, to survive, the Tropics must do the seemingly impossible - win.
DVD SEMI-PRO
The signal
New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus. Chaos is this year's resolution. Imagine every cell phone, radio, and television suddenly broadcasting the same mysterious signal over and over. Now imagine these transmissions evoking violent, uncontrollable, psychotic chaos from everyone who comes in contact with them. The signal begins to invade the minds of everyday citizens. Suddenly struck by the power of the insidious transmissions, they are compelled to kill or be killed.
DVD SIGNAL
The Spiderwick chronicles
The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared is a curious, adventurous boy who quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved. He is the intellectual twin, but is rapidly drawn into the fantastical world of fairies and goblins. Older sister Mallory and their mom are harder to convince, but after the almighty and ruthless ogre leader Mulgarath begins to attack the home, the entire family must band together to combat the hordes of goblins and creatures that lurk just outside. .
DVD SPIDERWI
Stalker
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must face a room where the center of power and evil confronts them and the future of mankind.
DVD STALKER
Steel city
When Carl Lee is involved in a fatal car accident he finds himself behind bars, cut off from his life and alienated by his family. His youngest son, PJ, confused by life without his dad, is the only person to visit him. While PJ's girlfriend stays lovingly by his side and his Uncle Vic extends a helping hand, a belligerent older brother and the reality of being on his own force PJ to grow up faster than he'd like. It's not until a devastating secret is revealed that the family reunites and a regretful father learns that you can never take back the past, but you can let go of it.
DVD STEEL
Strange wilderness
Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke and his sidekick Fred Wolf host an ailing wildlife television show called Strange Wilderness. The program is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter devises an incredible scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot.
DVD STRANGE
Summer '04
Miriam has the perfect life, until her son invites his girlfriend home for the holidays. Jealous of the young girl's sensuality, Miriam starts an affair that could have devastating consequences.
DVD SUMMER
Summer palace
Yu Hong is a rebellious young woman from a small Chinese town transplanted to a politically charge Beijing University in the late 1980s. The country's social turmoil is witnessed through its disaffected youth, whose newfound sexuality and activism culminated in violent suppression. Spanning nearly 20 years of Chinese history. Projects the country's struggle for definition through the eyes and heart of a young woman ill-equipped to handle it. While drifting between the arms of two different men, her love fervent for both, Yu Hong's existential crisis mirrors that of her nation.
DVD SUMMER
There's something about Mary
In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Ted learns the truth but continues to encounter offbeat obstacles as he accelerates to Miami in hopes of finding happiness with his true love.
DVD THERES
Thieves and liars Ladrones y mentirosos
Follows the story of three different families affected by the giant underground illegal economy that emerged and continues to grow since Puerto Rico became the main port of entry for cocaine into the U.S. east coast. Together, the three stories represent the struggle of all Puerto Ricans to survive the ever-rising wave of corruption and crime that has infiltrated every level of Puerto Rican society.
DVD SPANISH THIEVES
This sporting life
Story of a coal miner's rise to become a professional rugby star. Includes commentary; interviews; documentary; booklet; and more.
DVD THIS
Torchwood the complete first season
"Separate from the government, outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. Led by the enigmatic, ever watchful Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible."--Container.
DVD TV TORCHWOO Seas.1
An Unsuitable job for a woman. series 1 & 2
After the owner commits suicide, Cordelia Gray takes over the running of the London detective agency. Her first case is investigating the suicide of the son of a scientist. For her second case, Cordelia goes undercover to investigate the adulterous wife of a wealthy hotel owner. In Series 2, Cordelia becomes unexpectedly pregnant as she struggles to make her down-at-heel detective agency succeed, while matching wits with a couple of murderous thugs and identifies a killer who has a connection to Scotland Yard.
DVD TV UNSUITAB Ser.1-2
Up in smoke
Two free-spirited bums, traveling in a van made of pot, experience sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
DVD UP IN
The violin
Disguised as a harmless violin player to get back lost ammunition stock after the military seizure of his village, Don Plutarco charms the army captian with his violin playing and is ordered to return daily.
DVD SPANISH VIOLIN
The walker
Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers for her, Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear his name.
DVD WALKER
The wallflower. Lesson 2, The shrewing of the timid
Four ridiculously beautiful boys must turn a horrible goth girl into a princess or lose everything.
DVD TV ANIME WALLFLOW
Welcome home Roscoe Jenkins
R.J. Stevens is a successful television talk show host who sets aside his perfect life with his sweet son and celebrity girlfriend to attend his parents' golden wedding anniversary back home in Georgia. From the moment he arrives, all the reasons R.J. left to reinvent himself on the West Coast become clear. His siblings and cousins quickly put him in his place, reminding him that his name is actually Roscoe Jenkins. His sweet mother watches impassively while R.J.'s dad does nothing to mask his disapproval. R.J. would be content to wait out the anniversary events and go home. The arrival of an old girlfriend he once loved but couldn't keep during his adolescence changes everything, bringing out the competitive survivor within.
DVD WELCOME
What would Jesus buy?
Follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they examine the commercialization of Christmas in America while following the group on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse - the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt. Delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America's mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture.
DVD WHAT
White noise 2
After barely escaping a near-death experience, Abe Dale discovers that he has been granted a mysterious ability. But using this dark gift means interfering with the natural order of life and death, a choice that comes with a heavy price.
DVD WHITE
Will & Grace. Season seven
The unique relationship between Will Truman, who is gay, and Grace Adler, who is straight, continues to evolve this season in the adult comedy about two best friends.
DVD TV WILL AND Seas.7
Wool 100%
Two old ladies who spend their days scavenging the local trashpiles, find a mysterious little girl in their home, knitting a sweater which will promptly be unraveled the moment it's done and knitted again-and again.
DVD WOOL
Youth without youth
Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge and the secrets of life until his secret is discovered. Now he must use his increased intelligence to keep his powerful secret safe from the wicked powers that would use it for evil.
DVD YOUTH
Adult - Nonfiction (In alphabetical order)
The 11th hour
Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
DVD 304.2 ELEVENTH
Albert Einstein
Explore the life of the scientist whose theories recast man's relationship with the universe.
DVD BIO EINSTEIN ALBERT
The American Dance Festival's dancing in the light six dances by African -American choreographers
The American Dance Festival presents Dancing in the Light presents a one- hour modern dance television program showcasing 6 historic dance compositions by African American choreographers. All of the dances were originally recorded for the Emmy Award-winning series Free to Dance, a three-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2001 as part of the Great Performances: Dance in America series. Dancing in the Light features six dances in their entirety or in the case of one work, a complete section. --Kultur web site (www.kulturfilms.com).
DVD 792.845 AMERICAN
Anne Rice vampires, witches and best sellers
The real life story of Anne Rice, a woman behind some of the most intriguing fiction of our time. Personal interviews held with close friends and relatives, including her now late husband, poet Stan Rice, and son Christopher.
DVD BIO RICE ANNE
Barack Obama
The democratic political star during the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and now a possible front runner for the candidacy for the President of the United States, in many ways, his story is a unique American tale of the 21st century. Biography travels from Obama's childhood in Honolulu and Indonesia, to his formative years at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, all the way to his current status as a leading political figure.
DVD BIO OBAMA BARACK
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80, 000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field.
DVD 940.54 BATTLE
The best of Nature 25 years
Outtakes of the past 25 years of the television program, Nature. CALL # = DVD 590 BEST OF.
DVD 590 BEST OF
Billy Blanks Tae Bo. Billy's favorite moves
Billy Blanks has incorporated his most effective fat-burning moves that deliver proven results for his celebrity and pro athlete clients. A must have for Tae Bo fans.
DVD 613.7148 TAE BO
Black history from civil war through today
Selection of documentaries, interviews, and other archival footage illustrating African American history.
DVD 973.0496 BLACK
Canadian Brass Inside brass
DVD 785.9 CANADIAN
Che Guevara, donde nunca jamás se lo imaginan Che Guevara, where you'd never imagine him
Using archival film and photo materials, Cuban director Manuel Perez paints a personal portrait of Che Guevara, the legend and symbol of revolution. NOTE = Usando películas y fotografías de los archivos, el director cubano Manuel Perez hace un bosquejo personal de Che Guevara, el legendario símbolo de la revolución.
DVD SPANISH BIO GUEVARA ERNESTO
Cleopatra destiny's queen
Cleopatra Thea Philopator was a woman no man could resist: strong, beautiful, and intelligent, she knew how to manipulate the patriarchal political system of Ancient Egypt to work in her favor. In many ways she seemed to have it all, so what could have driven her to take her own life at such a young age? From her noble birth to her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony to her legendary suicide by poisonous snake.
DVD BIO CLEOPATR 30 B.C
Dance with Lisa. Red hot salsa made simple
Presents an aerobic workout incorporating instruction in salsa dancing.
DVD 613.715 DANCE
Fat-burning kickboxing workout for dummies
The ultimate exercise for burning fat and calories while toning and firming the body. Includes a tutorial that covers the ten basic moves used in the workouts. Quick 15-minute segments.
DVD 613.71 FAT-BURN
Henry Ford. Tin Lizzy tycoon
The story behind the automobile giant whose foresight and vision ushered America into a period of epic change.
DVD BIO FORD HENRY
The life of Leonardo da Vinci
Biography of the versatile Renaissance artist in the context of his times, describing some of his achievements in painting, architecture, engineering, sculpture, and science.
DVD BIO LEONARDO DA VINCI
The medicated child
In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. "It's a gamble. And I tell parents there's no way to know what's going to work."
DVD 616.895 MEDICATE
Memory of the camps
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty years after the war ended, Frontline now re-broadcasts this powerful memorial in its entirety"--Container.
DVD 940.5317 MEMORY
Mexico, la revolucion congelada Mexico, the frozen revolution
Mexico, the frozen revolution: Using newsreel footage of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata to connect the betrayal of the 1910 Mexican Revolution with the failure of revolution in his own time. At risk to his own safety, he then exposes the PRI, the party that governed Mexico for almost 70 years, as corrupt. NOTE = The land burns: Exposes the inequities of land ownership in Brazil - where 2% of the population owns 80% of the usable land. Here Juan Amaro and his family struggle to survive in drought-plagued northeastern Brazil. NOTE = It happened in Hualfin: An emotionally moving examination of the generational cycle of poverty in Catamarca, Argentina.
DVD SPANISH 972.0816 MEXICO
Microsoft Word 2003
An interactive Spanish-language tutorial for those intrested in learning the ins and outs of Microsoft Word 2003 ord processor for their Windows-driven PC.
DVD SPANISH 005.52 WORD
The monastery Mr. Vig & the nun
A dream becomes reality when Jørgen Laursen Vig, an elderly bachelor wants to turn his castle into a monastery in Denmark, and a young nun, Sister Ambrosija, is sent to inspect the place. Will the man's dream come true, or will the church's ideas clash too much with his own?
DVD 281.947 MONASTER
More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 50 films
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials. Also contains newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.
DVD 791.43 MORE
Oprah unauthorized a tribute to the leading lady of television
A look at this respected figure, from her broken past to becoming one of the world's most powerful celebrities. Includes interviews with former employers, talk show hosts, and friends on her personal life, relationships, the Angel Network, and more.
DVD BIO WINFREY OPRAH
Sicko
Filmmaker Michael Moore critiques the American health care system, focusing especially on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who profit from the status quo. Also includes an analysis of the health care systems in Canada, England, France and Cuba, where free universal health care is the norm.
DVD 362.1 SICKO
Street dance a hip hop dance workout
This is a low impact dance routine followed by abs.
DVD 613.71 STREET
Thomas A. Edison. Father of invention
Without Thomas Edison's innovative and groundbreaking inventions, modern- day life as we know it would be unimaginable.
DVD BIO EDISON THOMAS
Ultimate tae bo
World renowned fitness expert Billy Blanks has developed a brand new workout featuring signature Tae Bo moves for maximum benefits and optimum results. Attain a toned and sculpted body, strengthen core, burn fat, and increase fitness levels.
DVD 613.7148 TAE BO
War dance
Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic journey is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time.
DVD 784.1886 WAR
Whoopi Goldberg
A look at the career of the comic and actress who took Hollywood by storm in Ghost and The Color Purple, but whose off-color language and liberal politics have drawn storms of protest. Whoopi talks in depth and with typical candor about her life.
DVD BIO GOLDBERG WHOOPI
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