![Roberto Rossellini's War trilogy [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109909@2x.jpg)
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Summary: With their stripped-down aesthetic, largely nonprofessional casts, and unorthodox approaches to storytelling, these intensely emotional works were international sensations and came to define the...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA ROBERTO
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![The way home [DVD] = Jibeuro](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14581@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA WAY
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![Persepolis [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/33875@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PERSEPOLIS
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![Seven samurai [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11250@2x.jpg)
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Summary: This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SEVEN
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![Short films [DVD]. A collection of 2007 Academy Award nominated short films.](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/102887@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A collection of short films nominated for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Included are the winning live action short and the winning animated short.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SHORT
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![Short films [DVD]. A collection of 2006 Academy Award nominated short films](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/114060@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A collection of short films nominated for the 79th annual Academy Awards, including the winning live action short and the winning animated short.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SHORT
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![European short films [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/156133@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The second collection of European short films from Cinema16. This specially compiled two-disc edition of classic, cult and award winning shorts from European filmmakers marks the launch of Cinema16...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA EUROPEAN
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![The girl who kicked the hornet's nest [DVD] = Luftslottet som sprängdes rnet's nest](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53335@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA GIRL
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![The girl who played with fire [DVD] = Flickan som lekte med elden](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Summary: "In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal 'Millennium' trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA GIRL
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![The motorcycle diaries [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/15850@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA MOTORCYCLE
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![No [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/74102@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA NO
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![The story of Qiu Ju [DVD] = Qiuju da guan si](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/110117@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In a small Chinese village a farmer (Qing Lai) and his chief quarrel over land. When Qing Lai is injured by the chief, who kicks him in the groin, Qing's wife Qiu Ju begins a quixotic odyssey that...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA STORY
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![L'enfant [DVD] = The child](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27587@2x.jpg)
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Summary: When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA ENFANT
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![Farewell, my queen [DVD] = Les adieux a la reine](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68401@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA FAREWELL
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Amores perros [DVD] = Love's a bitch](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100951@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA AMORES
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![Drug war [DVD] = Du zhan](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100961@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi just got caught making tons. Now he's in the custody of Captain Zhang, and has one chance to avoid execution...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA DRUG
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![In darkness [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/65404@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA IN
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![Tsotsi [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22772@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA TSOTSI
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Renoir [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/116244@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home in the summer of 1915 to Southern France after being wounded in World War I and meets a young woman who inspires both himself and his father.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA RENOIR
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Leviathan [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/129726@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA LEVIATHAN
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![The diving bell and the butterfly [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/32912@2x.jpg)
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Summary: 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,...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA DIVING
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![The past [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/105700@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PAST
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Wolf children [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109725@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Hana was a student before she was a mother. Then she met a man, who turned out to be a wolf, and together they built a family. Hana loved her mate fiercely, but fate took him from her, leaving her...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA WOLF
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![Gloria [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/105496@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A story about a middle aged woman who gets caught up in a passionate whirlwind romance with a retired naval officer, whom she meets at a dance club for singles. But when she discovers the truth of...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA GLORIA
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![Rust and bone [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/70764@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA RUST
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![Let the right one in [DVD] = Lat den rätte komma in](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104227@2x.jpg)
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Summary: 12-year-old Oskar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oskar does not know...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA LET
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![La vie en rose [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31656@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father, so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA VIE
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![Amour [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/74328@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA AMOUR
Location: DVDs Drama
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![A prophet [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109748@2x.jpg)
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Summary: El Djebena, Malik. #35-114T. How a does a timid boy become a violent gangster? Like this. Sentenced to six years in prison, 19-year-old Malik has his sneakers stolen right off his feet during his...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PROPHET
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![To live [DVD] = Huo zhe](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/114647@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In a smoky gambling den in 1940s China, a drunken young man runs through his family's fortune, losing their ancestral home and all their possessions. This staggering loss proves to be their salvation...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA TO
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![Phoenix [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/149526@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed,...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PHOENIX
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![Fill the void [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/98657@2x.jpg)
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Summary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA FILL
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![Letters from Iwo Jima [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27802@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA LETTERS
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![The fast runner [DVD] : Atanarjuat](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31241@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA FAST
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![The class [DVD] = Entre les murs](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43335@2x.jpg)
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Summary: François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA CLASS
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![Shogun's samurai [DVD] : the Yagyu clan conspiracy](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44224@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Following the death of the Shogunate, it became evident that his death was no accident. He was poisoned because he wanted his eldest son to be heir to his throne. A war between the eldest and his...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SHOGUN'S
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Joyeux noel [DVD] = Merry Christmas](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/24724@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA JOY
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![Water [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25975@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A Hindu widow in 1938 could throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, marry her husband's younger brother or live in poverty and self-denial from then on. When eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed,...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA WATER
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![The passion of the Christ [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/13457@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA PASSION
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![Russian ark [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/15127@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA RUSSIAN
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