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Feature Films

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Title:	08/15
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7623 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	The film tells the story of Private Asch during the second world war, based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst.
Title:	3groschenoper = The 3 penny opera
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2427 AV LIB
Subject:	Criminals England London History 19th century Drama. Poor England London History 19th century Drama. Social conflict Drama. Operas Film and video adaptations. Motion pictures, German. Foreign films Germany. Feature films.
Abstract:	"Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The threepenny opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. With a palpable evocation of corruption and dread, set to Weill's irresistible score, The threepenny opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema." -- container.
Title:	3 worlds of Gulliver
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7739 AV LIB
Subject:	Fantasy films. Action and adventure films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A doctor sets sail for the East Indies but finds adventure, romance and danger in the infamous lands of the great and small. Loosely based on Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Title:	4 films de Otar Iosseliani = 4 films by Otar Iosseliani.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1971 AV LIB
Subject:	Apartment dwellers Drama. Vintners Drama. Musicians Drama. Traffic accident victims Drama. String quartets (Musical groups) Drama. Motion pictures Georgia (Republic) Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Aprili: A critique of materialism, the film is about a young couple who live in a rundown empty apartment. Their love is so strong that it makes the water flow and the electricity work, but when they start purchasing furniture and knickknacks, they fight and grow apart.
Title:	20 million miles to Earth
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7737 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Science fiction films.
Abstract:	An American rocketship returns from a flight to Venus but crashes in Italy, leaving behind a harmless little creature from Venus. Unfortunately, the little creature doesn't stay little for long and threatens to tear apart the Colosseum.
Title:	30 days of night
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2097 AV LIB
Subject:	Vampires Alaska Drama. Sheriffs Alaska Drama. Vampire films. Horror films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films.
Abstract:	An isolated Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
Title:	39 steps
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1795 AV LIB
Subject:	Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) Drama. Intelligence service Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Title:	42nd Street
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0347 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Musicals
Abstract:	A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, promotes the understudy and has a successful opening night. Chiefly memorable for the incredible musical dance numbers.
Title:	300
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1745 AV LIB
Subject:	Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C. Drama. Tactics Drama. Feature films. Epic films. War films. Historical films. Action and adventure films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw. When the Greeks did not leave, Xerxes was left with no option and he moved forward. The battle lasted for about 3 days and after which all 300 Spartans were killed. The Spartan defeat would not have happened if not for a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, who defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks.
Title:	3:10 to Yuma
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1877 AV LIB
Subject:	Outlaws West (U.S.) Drama. Prisoners Transportation Drama. Ranchers West (U.S.) Drama. Feature films. Western films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.
Title:	3:10 to Yuma
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2086 AV LIB
Subject:	Outlaws Southwestern States Drama. Criminal behavior Southwestern States Drama. Trials (Murder) Southwestern States Drama. Feature films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail, and dangers at every turn, the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man's destiny.
Title:	8 1/2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2432 AV LIB
Subject:	Motion pictures Production and direction Drama. Motion picture producers and directors Drama. Inspiration Drama. Feature films Italy. Motion pictures Italy. Comedy films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. An early working title for the film was La bella confusione = The beautiful confusion.
Title:	8 1/2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3164 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. Much of the story is told in flashback sequences.
Title:	1492: conquest of paradise.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2280 AV LIB
Subject:	Voyages and travels Drama. Feature films. Historical films.
Abstract:	Chronicles the first two landmark voyages of Christopher Columbus and takes it to the brink of his third and last voyage.
Title:	1492: conquest of paradise
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2434 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Historical films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Drama focusing on the voyages of Columbus, his personal tragedy and the colonization of the New World.
Title:	1984
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3673 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	George Orwell's classic novel of totalitarian dictatorship and mind control has been brilliantly adapted to the screen. This is a futuristic love story of two lonely people fighting "Big Brother" and the Thought Police.
Title:	2001: a space odyssey
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6289 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Science fiction films.
Abstract:	Obscure in its meaning and symbolism, 2001 explores man's investigation of a strange alien phenomenon on the moon and into outer space with award winning special effects and photography.
Title:	2001, a space odyssey
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0003 AV LIB
Subject:	Computers Drama. Human-computer interaction Drama. Science fiction films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Kubrick's classic science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
Title:	2001: a space odyssey
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2506 AV LIB
Subject:	Twenty-first century Drama. Computers Drama. Space vehicles Drama. Human-computer interaction Drama. Feature films. Science fiction films. Action and adventure films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A space voyage to Jupiter erupts in disaster when the ship's computer goes mad.
Title:	20,000 leagues under the sea
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0537 AV LIB
Subject:	Sailors Drama. Whaling ships Drama. Submarines (Ships) Drama. Feature films. Science fiction films.
Abstract:	A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Title:	Absence of malice
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0130 AV LIB
Subject:	Investigative reporting Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
Title:	Accattone
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7766 AV LIB
Subject:	Slums Italy Rome Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Presents a vivid picture of the Roman slums through a story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls.
Title:	Accidental tourist
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3328 AV LIB
Subject:	Comedy films. Feature films.
Abstract:	The narrow, orderly life of a travel guidebooks author (Hurt) is hilariously disrupted by his estranged wife (Turner) and an eccentric dog trainer (Davis).
Title:	Adam's rib
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8250 AV LIB
Subject:	Women Russia Moscow Social conditions Drama. Feature films. Comedy films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Three generations of women share a small, crowded apartment with Nina at the center of it all. Twice married and divorced, with two sexually active daughters, one from each failed marriage, she is also at the beck and call of her mute mother who rings her bedside bell whenever she craves attention. Trying to cope with the men that exist in their lives and the troubles they bring, forms the cornerstone of this bittersweet, comic film.
Title:	Adam's rib
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0584 AV LIB
Subject:	Women lawyers Drama. Dual-career families Drama. Man-woman relationships United States Drama. Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Title:	Adam's rib
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3934 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse, with the lawyer-husband as the prosecutor.
Title:	Adoption = Örökbefogadás
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7478 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Women Hungary Social conditions. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Approaching 43, Kati wants a child, but her married lover won't agree. So it falls to young Anna, her newfound friend, to help Kati make the decision to adopt a child and learn to love and survive.
Title:	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6409 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	Mark Twain's classic adventures of a boy and a runaway slave on a raft on the Mississippi River in pre-Civil War America.
Title:	Adversary
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1346 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:
Title:	Advise & consent
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0948 AV LIB
Subject:	Secretaries of State Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State.
Title:	Aelita
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2007 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Silent films.
Abstract:	An engineer living in Moscow dreams of the Queen of Mars and builds a spaceship to take him to her.
Title:	Affair to remember
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1813 AV LIB
Subject:	Man-woman relationships Drama. Love Drama. Traffic accidents Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
Title:	African Queen
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6970 AV LIB
Subject:	Action and adventure films. Feature films.
Abstract:	In this classic John Huston adventure film, opposites attract as missionary Hepburn and river trader Bogart find themselves battling nature, a World War I German gunboat and each other while keeping afloat on the "African Queen" in the jungle of 1914 Africa.
Title:	Afrique, je te plumerai = Africa, I'm going to fleece you
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4263 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry.
Title:	Age d'or
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0721 AV LIB
Subject:	Man-woman relationships Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, French. Surrealism in motion pictures.
Abstract:	Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.
Title:	Age of innocence
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2496 AV LIB
Subject:	Upper class New York (State) New York Drama. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
Title:	Age of innocence
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD158 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
Title:	Age of innocence
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4917 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's.
Title:	Agony and the ecstasy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1977 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Biographical films. Historical films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
Title:	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes = Aguirre, wrath of God
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4413 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Historical films.
Abstract:	A band of Spanish conquistadors led by Aguirre, self-styled "Wrath of God," go up the Amazon in search of gold, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
Title:	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1041 AV LIB
Subject:	El Dorado Drama. Spaniards Amazon River Region Drama. Insanity (Law) Drama. Feature films Germany. Motion pictures Germany. Feature films. Foreign films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
Title:	Aida
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3373 AV LIB
Subject:	Operas. Feature films.
Abstract:	The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Title:	Aigle à deux têtes: the two-headed eagle
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6622 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	One night an anarchist breaks into the palace to kill the young Austrian queen. He falls in love with her instead and remains for three days in her apartment while she nurses him back to health.
Title:	Aimée & Jaguar
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7505 AV LIB
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Berlin Drama. Lesbians Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Its the Battle of Berlin, during World War 2, two women find each other. One is single, Aimée, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with four children. In war torn Nazi Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to Aimée, trouble is the result.
Title:	Akai tenshi = Red angel
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1592 AV LIB
Subject:	Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Drama. Military nursing Japan Drama. Drug addiction Japan Drama. Surgeons Japan Drama. Nurses Japan Drama. Man-woman relationships Japan Drama. Feature films. Feature films Japan. Foreign films.
Abstract:	"A fresh young army nurse on the front finds herself the nighttime prey of hungry soldiers and awash in a sea of blood and torn bodies. Despite the hell around her she struggles to maintain her strength and compassion, but her attempts at salvation, with an amputee soldier and a morphine-addicted surgeon, could lead to her own sexual and spiritual martyrdom."--Container.
Title:	Akira Kurasawa's The hidden fortress.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0097 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A princess must escape across enemy lines with the royal treasure, guarded only by a loyal general and two greedy peasants.
Title:	Alain Delon 5-film collection.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2363 AV LIB
Subject:	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Feature films France. Foreign films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Five films from one of France's best known and most beloved actors, Alain Delon.
Title:	Albero degli zoccoli = The tree of wooden clogs
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0540 AV LIB
Subject:	Peasants Italy Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Details the life of three peasant families in 19th century Italy. Evokes the time and place rather than telling a narrative.
Title:	Alexander Nevsky
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0310 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. War films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Semi-biographical, pre-war, Soviet propaganda film of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
Title:	Alexander Nevsky
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6223 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Lake Peipus, Battle of, 1242 Drama.
Abstract:	Eisenstein's Historical drama set in 1242, deals with the defense of Russia by prince Alexander Nevsky from an invasion by Teutonic crusaders.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Family plot
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0042 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A cabbie and a psychic work together to search for a missing heir. They become involved with a larcenous jewel merchant and his "Woman in Black" while discovering the family plot.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0050 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	In their hunt for a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer, the London police suspect an innocent man, who eludes them and proves his innocence by finding the real murderer.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0053 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	Marnie (Tippi Hedren), an impulsive thief and liar, is caught defrauding her employer. Her rich handsome captor (Sean Connery) impulsively marries the beautiful, but frigid girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0048 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Bates, Norman (Fictitious character) Drama. Murderers Drama. Hotelkeepers Drama. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0048 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Bates, Norman (Fictitious character) Drama.
Abstract:	Hitchcock's classic horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother?
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0047 AV LIB
Subject:	Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.
Abstract:	As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0044 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0051 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Spy films.
Abstract:	Wartime thriller about a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0043 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A beguiling murderer, Joseph Cotton, charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret. This was Hitchcock's personal favorite among his many films.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's strangers on a train
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6117 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A tennis star is harassed on a train by a psychotic who wants to swap murders, and who then proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's the birds
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0056 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's The man who knew too much.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0046 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Story of an American doctor, Jimmy Stewart, touring Morocco with his wife, Doris Day, and child who accidentally becomes involved in a foreign plot to assassinate a diplomat in London.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's The trouble with Harry
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0052 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	Harry's corpse is found in the autumnal New England woods. While no one mourns his death, several people feel responsible for it. The body is unearthed several times, humorous situations occur, and love affairs develop before the real cause of Harry's death is revealed. Alfred Hitchcock's only comedy film.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's the wrong man
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0534 AV LIB
Subject:	Mistaken identity Drama. Judicial error Drama. Robbery Drama. Feature films.
Abstract:	The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's To catch a thief
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1815 AV LIB
Subject:	Jewel thieves Drama. Impersonation Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0045 AV LIB
Subject:	Action and adventure films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Hitchcock's spy thriller is about an American CIA agent who learns of Cuban missiles and a covert NATO spy by the code name of TOPAZ from a defecting Russian.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Torn curtain
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0054 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Spy films.
Abstract:	Scientist Michael Armstrong becomes involved in an action thriller when he attends a congress in Copenhagen.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0055 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo stars Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot involving a woman who is apparently being driven to suicide by one of her ancestors.
Title:	Alice doesn't live here anymore
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7418 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	Alice Hyatt's husband dies accidentally, leaving her to care for their son, Tommy. Unskilled, Alice decides to return to Monterey, California, where she was once a singer. Because she is short of funds, she must work her way there. They encounter difficult situations along the way and a rancher, David Barrie.
Title:	Alice in den Städten
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3749 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films Foreign films.
Abstract:	Phillip, a footloose 31-year old journalist on the road from the United States to Europe, suddenly finds himself with a new traveling companion: a 9-year old girl named Alice.
Title:	All about Eve
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4896 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	This classic story features Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, a young starry-eyed theater fan who dreams for a chance in the spotlight. She is befriended by a playwright's wife (Celeste Holm), and her best friend, Legendary actress, Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis. Relationships turn sour as Eve relentlessly pursues her goal. This superb film won six Academy Awards in 1950, including Best Picture.
Title:	All about Eve
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1958 AV LIB
Subject:	Actresses United States Drama. Theater United States Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Title:	Allah Tantou = God's will
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4262 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Prisoners Guinea Drama.
Abstract:	Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and discusses its relevance to the new political order on the continent.
Title:	Alles auf Zucker = Go for Zucker
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1796 AV LIB
Subject:	Jews Germany Drama. Orthodox Judaism Relations Nontraditional Jews Drama. Pool (Game) Drama. Inheritance and succession Drama. Brothers Drama. Motion pictures Germany. Comedy films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Pool shark and hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt. In a stroke of luck, his mother dies and leaves an inheritance. Before he can cash in, his mother has requested the difficult task of reconciling with his estranged Orthodox brother Samuel.
Title:	All my sons
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4193 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	Set during World War II, a troubled father and son know that a second son will never return from the war, even though the mother believes her missing boy will soon come home. But such turmoil only conceals greater anguish as suspicion falls on the father for hiding a devastating secret.
Title:	All of me
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD174 AV LIB
Subject:	Comedy films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin make the perfect couple of comedy in this hilariously concocted plot in which the couple share one body.
Title:	All quiet on the western front
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0277 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1914-1918 Drama. Feature films. War films.
Abstract:	A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.
Title:	All quiet on the Western front
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2743 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	An updated version of Erich Maria Remarque's famous anti-war novel of World War One. A realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers facing the violence and boredom of war.
Title:	All's well that ends well
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2753 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chicanery to win the respect and affection of her husband.
Title:	All's well that ends well
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0162 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	William Shakespeare's comedy about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chichanery to win the respect and affection of her husband.
Title:	All the king's men
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3250 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A political demagogue governor of a Southern State believes that every man has his price and that the end justifies the means.
Title:	All the king's men
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0357 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A Southern lawyer battles his way to the governorship, with the help of his secretary. Once elected, he becomes a dictator. Loosely based on the career of Huey Long.
Title:	All the president's men
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7436 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	The true story of how investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered White House involvement in the Watergate break in and coverup.
Title:	Alphaville: une étrange adventure de Lemmy Caution
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3696 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Science fiction films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
Title:	Altered states
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2594 AV LIB
Subject:	Research Drama. Scientists Drama. Consciousness Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Science fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	The incredible terrifying tale of a research scientist experimenting with altered states of consciousness, and the horrors he finds in secret landscapes of the mind.
Title:	Alte und der junge König: Friedricks des Grossen Jugend
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6583 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films Germany. Feature films Germany.
Abstract:	"In 18th century Prussia, the young Frederick the Great fights with and tries to escape from his domineering father, King Frederick William the First"--Container.
Title:	Amadeus
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6969 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	A fictional account of the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as viewed through the memories of an envious musical rival, Salieri.
Title:	Amadeus
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0142 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films.
Abstract:	Fictionalized account of the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart viewed through the memories of an envious rival, Antonio Salieri.
Title:	Amarcord
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0926 AV LIB
Subject:	Cities and towns Italy Drama. Feature films Italy. Motion pictures Italy. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Title:	Amelie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0209 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about in her own way. When Amelie falls in love herself, she realizes that making neat solutions is not as easy as it seems.
Title:	America America
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4449 AV LIB
Subject:	Armenians United States History 20th century Drama. Immigrants United States History 20th century Greek Americans History 20th century Drama. Feature films.
Abstract:	This masterful movie chronicles the heroic and painful immigration of Elia Kazan's Greek uncle from Turkey to the United States.
Title:	American beauty
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0525 AV LIB
Subject:	Midlife crisis Drama. Suburban life Drama. Feature films.
Abstract:	An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
Title:	American friend
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0986 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.
Title:	American gangster
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2207 AV LIB
Subject:	Heroin industry Drama. Drug traffic New York (State) New York Drama. Gangsters New York (State) New York Drama. Detectives New York (State) New York Drama. Criminal behavior Drama. Historical films. Biographical films. Police films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia, and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. Richie Roberts is a dedicated and honest policeman who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government and is determined to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Based on a true story.
Title:	American in Paris
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0702 AV LIB
Subject:	Americans France Paris Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Musical films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Presents the romantic adventures of a carefree young artist in post-WWII Paris.
Title:	Americanization of Emily
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0949 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 England Drama. Feature films. War films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A cynical American naval officer (Garner) is assigned a lovely young English widow (Andrews) as his driver in this comedy set in London during World War II. Despite their differences they fall in love, but his superiors seem to have nasty plans for him involving D-day!
Title:	American splendor
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1710 AV LIB
Subject:	Comic books, strips, etc. Drama. Illustrators United States Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Title:	Ami de mon amie = My girlfriend's boyfriend
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8214 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	The story follows the lives and loves of two very different young women.
Title:	Amistad
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0850 AV LIB
Subject:	Slave insurrections United States Drama. Trials (Mutiny) United States Drama. Historical films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Title:	Amor brujo
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1961 AV LIB
Subject:	Widows Spain Drama. Ghosts Spain Drama. Flamenco Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Feature films Spain.
Abstract:	"A modern take on composer Manuel de Falla's gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. Set in a dusty Andalusian village, El amor brujo (Love the Magician) is a seductive melodrama of a man whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another."--Container.