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Academy Awards - Best Director
The Academy Award for Best Director is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry.
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Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PARASITE
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they...
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Call #: BLU DRAMA PARASITE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
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Summary: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SHAPE
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Summary: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of...
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Call #: BLU DRAMA SHAPE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
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Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
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Call #: BLU MUSICAL LA
Location: Blu-rays Musical
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Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
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Call #: DVD MUSICAL LA
Location: DVDs Musical
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Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a...
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Call #: BLU ACT/ADV REVENANT
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Summary: A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
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Call #: DVD COMEDY BIRDMAN
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Summary: Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran...
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV GRAVITY
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
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Summary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and...
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV GRAVITY
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
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Summary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Call #: BLU ACT/ADV LIFE
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
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Summary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV LIFE
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
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Summary: A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
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Call #: DVD COMEDY STiNG
Location: DVDs Comedy
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Summary: In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the...
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Call #: DVD COMEDY ARTIST
Location: DVDs Comedy
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Summary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA KING'S
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: "Judah Ben-Hur [is] a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ"--Container.
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Call #: DVD CLASSIC BEN-HUR
Location: DVDs Classics
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Summary: Follows the rocky and passionate relationship between a mother and daughter from birth to death.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA TERMS
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SLUMDOG
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: 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...
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV NO
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
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Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA GANDHI
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those...
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Call #: DVD CLASSIC GOING
Location: DVDs Classics
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Summary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SILENCE
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Bill Munny is who is a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer is flat broke. He is a widower with two young children to tend to and feels he has no choice but accept on last bounty hunter...
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Call #: DVD WESTERN UNFORGIVEN
Location: DVDs Western
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Summary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA DEPARTED
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Bonus features include all new interviews with Oliver Stone, over 10 minutes of never-before-seen deleted footage, interviews with Vietnam veterans, commentaries, documentaries, special collector's booklet and much more!
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PLATOON
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Summary: A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PATTON
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Forrest Gump is not a "smart" man. But the young Alabaman with an IQ of 75 is a thoroughly decent man, who manages to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them...
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Call #: DVD COMEDY FORREST
Location: DVDs Comedy
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Summary: The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA REDS
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA BROKEBACK
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Summary: A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA GRADUATE
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Summary: Detectives "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy Russo hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover the French connection.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA FRENCH
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV TITANIC
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
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Summary: Woody Allen's semi-autobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
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Call #: DVD COMEDY ANNIE
Location: DVDs Comedy
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Summary: Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA DANCES
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA ROCKY
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Summary: A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA RAIN
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Summary: Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. Best Picture, Best Director-Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Binoche. Includes exclusive bonus material and special packaging.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA ENGLISH
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SCHINDLER'S
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Summary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk....
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Call #: DVD CLASSIC MRS.
Location: DVDs Classics
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Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PIANIST
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