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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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	Adversary
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1346 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:
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:	Afrique, je te plumerai = Africa, I will fleece you
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2738 AV LIB
Subject:	French language Films for English speakers. Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. 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:	Afrique noire francophone. Unit 1, Geographie politique
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4480 AV LIB
Subject:	French language Films for foreign speakers.
Abstract:	Presents an overview of life in large urban centers and rural areas of four African countries, focusing on daily occupations, religion, and education. Designed to aid in the study of the French language.
Title:	Afrique noire francophone. Unit 2, Aspects divers
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4648 AV LIB
Subject:	French language Films for foreign speakers.
Abstract:	Takes a look at the terrain and climate of four French-speaking African countries. Features the economic life-styles based on agriculture and crafts, and focuses on education and training for employment. Designed to aid in the study of the French language.
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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	Alʹto vai︠a︡ sonata: Dmitriĭ Shostakovich = Sonata for viola = Sonate pour alto
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2378 AV LIB
Subject:	Composers Russia Biography. Documentary films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Documentary portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich.
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:	American culture in modern contexts. Video book 1.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2462 AV LIB
Subject:	English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers.
Abstract:	Demonstrates social situations that commonly confront foreign visitors and students. Designed for English as a second language programs.
Title:	American culture in modern contexts video book 3.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2259 AV LIB
Subject:	English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers.
Abstract:	Contains six titles that demonstrate social situations that commonly confront foreign visitors and students. Designed for English as a second language programs.
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:	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.
Title:	Amores perros
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7856 AV LIB
Subject:	Dogs Mexico Drama. Foreign films. Feature films
Abstract:	Three people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash. The teenager invovled in dog fighting, a middle-aged businessman who has moved in with his mistress, and an aging revolutionary turned assassin are transformed by a car crash in Mexico city.
Title:	Amores perros
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0208 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder for hire Mexico Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound. A trendy favorite at the Cannes Film Festival 2000
Title:	Amour en fuite
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6517 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	"In The 400 Blows we first met Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel, age 13. Now Doinel is in his thirties, newly divorced and renewing love affairs with several women from his past. But when his mother dies, he is forced to confront his emotional immaturity and inability to sustain a lasting relationship..."--External container.
Title:	Anatomy = Anatomie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0928 AV LIB
Subject:	Medical students Drama. Secret societies Drama. Feature films Germany. Foreign films. Motion pictures, German. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Paula, a brilliant, ambitious medical student, is accepted into a prestigious anatomy class taught by a legendary professor, it seems like a dream come true. But her school days soon turn to nightmares when several of her fellow classmates turn up dead in the university's morgue.
Title:	Andrei Roublev
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3735 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Describes the horrors of the Dante-like journey of 15th century monk and icon painter, Andrei Roublev, into medieval Russia.
Title:	Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v: strasti po Andrei︠u︡
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0065 AV LIB
Subject:	Icon painters Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Biographical films.
Abstract:	Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
Title:	Andrzej Wajda. [Disc 1], A generation: three war films
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1005 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Drama. Jews, Polish Nazi persecution Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Contains disc 1 of the three disc special ed. set from Andrzej Wajda.
Title:	Andrzej Wajda. [Disc 2], Kanal: three war films
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1006 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Drama. Jews, Polish Nazi persecution Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Contains disc 2 of the three disc special ed. set from Andrzej Wajda.
Title:	Andrzej Wajda. [Disc 3], Ashes + diamonds: three war films
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1007 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Drama. Jews, Polish Nazi persecution Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Contains disc 3 of the three disc special ed. set from Andrzej Wajda.
Title:	Angano-- Angano: nouvelles de Madagascar = Tales from Madagascar
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8273 AV LIB
Subject:	Documentary films Madagascar. Tales Madagascar. Creation. Foreign films. Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Venerable but unmistakably contemporary storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture: the creation of man and woman, the origin of rice cultivation, and the reason for animal sacrifice.
Title:	Ángel exterminador
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2798 AV LIB
Subject:	Upper class Drama. Social status Drama. Fantasy films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Foreign films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
Title:	Anglaise et le duc = Lady and the duke
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0493 AV LIB
Subject:	Aristocracy (Social class) France Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Duke of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendship unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates--including the possibility of her own.
Title:	Angst essen Seele auf = Fear eats the soul
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3777 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A Moroccan immigrant in Munich comes up against social and racial prejudice when he marries a sixty-year-old German charwoman.
Title:	Anna Karenina
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7460 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Soviet production of Tolstoy's classic tale of tragic passion and human morality, as revealed through the paths taken by two different Russian aristocrats, Anna and Levin.
Title:	Anne & Juliane = Die Bleierne Zeit
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4428 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Terrorists Germany Drama. Women Germany (West) Social conditions Drama.
Abstract:	Based on a true story, this moving film relates the emotional and psychological relationship between two sisters. The details of the personalities of the two main characters and their development parallels the personal history of the Ensslin sisters: Gudrun (Marianne in the film) was imprisoned as a terrorist in the Stammheim prison, where she died, supposedly a suicide, in the fall of 1977 ; Christiane (Julianne in the film) worked for some time as an editor of a women's magazine, "Emma", and was determined to prove that her sister did not kill herself.
Title:	Anoche soñé contigo = dreaming about you
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0217 AV LIB
Subject:	Teenagers Sexual behavior Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Comedy films.
Abstract:	During their summer break, Toto and Quique dream their life away by biking around the neighborhood. They want to discover something new to them ... women. But Toto didn't count on the unexpected visit of his cousin, Azucena, with whom he would have an unforgetable experience ... his sexual initiation.
Title:	Antonia's Line = Antonia
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7346 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A feminist classic, an intimate portrait of a post war Dutch family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman who held the family together.
Title:	Aparajito
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6456 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Apu and his family move to teeming Culcutta, but when tragedy strikes Apu's family, the boy becomes a man and must choose between the life his family wants for him or a life of his own.
Title:	Apur sansar = The world of Apu
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4971 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	In this final film of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, Apu marries and begins a new life as a husband and father. The tragic death of Apu's wife in childbirth leaves him disoriented, wandering the roads of India alone.
Title:	Argent de poche = small change
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4280 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A small boy finds a few coins in an amusement park, a shy girl sneaks a glance at a shy boy. These seem like small events, but not to a child. A child invents life.
Title:	Armée des ombres = Army of shadows
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1783 AV LIB
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Drama. Guerrillas France Drama. Feature films. War films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
Title:	Armour of God = Long xiong hu di.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7020 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films Foreign films.
Abstract:	A Jack Chan feature film from Hong Kong. Jackie Chan plays an ex-singer turned fortune-hunter, whose ex-girlfriend is kidnapped by an evil cult. Her fiancee, an old friend of Jackie's, turns to him for help as the kidnappers intended.
Title:	Arsenal: istoriko-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ ėpopei︠a︡ = The arsenal: a revolutionary epic
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1312 AV LIB
Subject:	Silent films. Feature films. Historical films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Based on an actual incident, this is a dramatic account of the Ukraine from the First World War through the February and October Revolutions, to the suppression of a workers' revolt in 1918. Dovzhenko presents harsh, realistic scenes of Czarist brutality and war's destruction, but his juxtapositions of the Russian workers and peasants are both impressionistic and symbolic.
Title:	Ascenseur pour l'echafaud = Elevator to the gallows
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2462 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder France Paris Drama. Mistaken identity France Paris Drama. Foreign films. Feature films. Film noir. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
Title:	Asoka
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0717 AV LIB
Subject:	Hand-to-hand fighting Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Traces the life of Emperor Asoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who assended the throne of Magadha in the 3rd century B.C. To extend the borders of his kingdom, he wages one of the bloodiest wars in history with the neighboring kingdom of Kalinga, leaving it ravaged and devastated. Confronted by the aftermath of his conquest, Asoka is overcome with remorse and renounces the path of war to dedicate his life to spreading the teachings of Buddhism.
Title:	Asphalt
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1341 AV LIB
Subject:	Silent films. Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A femme fatale steals jewels, and seduces the cop sent to bring her in.
Title:	Au hasard Balthazar = Balthazar
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1003 AV LIB
Subject:	Donkeys Drama. Human-animal relationships Drama. Animal welfare Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
Title:	Au revoir les enfants = Goodbye, children
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1706 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Title:	Au revoir les enfants = Goodbye, children
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT0754 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Biographical films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship even though Julien senses that there is something different about his new friend.
Title:	Aventurera
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0710 AV LIB
Subject:	Women Mexico Drama. Nightclubs Mexico Drama. Motion pictures, Mexican. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Elena tries to make a new life for herself after her mother leaves her alone, but she is drugged, seduced, and forced to work as a dancer/call girl in a nightclub. She soon rises to stardom as a dancer, but still plots revenge and escape.
Title:	Aventures de Rabbi Jacob = The mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0502 AV LIB
Subject:	Racism Drama. Antisemitism Drama. Comedy films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A racist, anti-Semitic French businessman on his way to his daughter's wedding unwittingly stumbles on a group of Arab terrorists. He is forced to disguise himself as a Hasidic Jewish rabbi, which leads to one crazy slapstick situation after another.
Title:	Avventura
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3003 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Story about the search for a girl lost on an island ; gradually the searchers become pre-occupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Title:	Awāra
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0311 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Judge Ragunath casts out his wife thinking her unborn child is not his. Now living in the streets she meets a man named Jagga who raises her son (Raj) as a thief. Raj accidentally kills Jagga defending his mother and is sentenced to prison by Judge Ragunath (his father). The Judge visits Raj in prison and confesses that he was also at fault by not providing for Raj and his mother. Classic "Bollywood" prototype musical movie.
Title:	Ay, Carmela!
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7474 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. War films.
Abstract:	Aragón, Spain, 1938. Carmela and her two companions quit their posts as entertainers for the Republican troops in search for a better fortune. By mistake, they cross over to the Nationalist zone, get arrested and are given the chance to perform for their freedom. Directed by Spanish director, Carlos Saura.
Title:	Ayneh = The mirror
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7662 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	When Mina's mother fails to pick her up after school, the little girl sets off by herself and is thrust into a perilous adventure in an adult world.
Title:	Bad guy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1040 AV LIB
Subject:	Prostitution Korea (South) Seoul Drama. Humiliation Drama. Undue influence Korea (South) Seoul Drama. Feature films. Foreign films Korea.
Abstract:	While strutting through Downtown Seoul, Han-gi, a local gang style pimp, spots young Sunhwa, a pretty, middle-class college student. He sits next to her as she waits on a park bench, she tries to ignore him, but finally sneers at his advances and rushes into the arms of her preppy boyfriend. Offended, he grabs her and forcefully kisses her. Sunhwa demands an apology, and when Han-gi refuses, he is beaten by a group of soldiers who had witnessed the assault. Soon after, Sunhwa takes a wallet filled with cash that had been left at a restroom. Forced to a pay a huge sum or be turned into the police, Sunhwa signs a contract that results in her being sold into prostitution to repay the debt. Han-gi watches her nightly humiliation from behind a two-way mirror, his obsessive desire consumes him. She in turn learns that no love is more complete than that given to her by her captive.
Title:	Ballad of a soldier
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD147 AV LIB
Subject:	War films. Foreign films. World War, 1939-1945.
Abstract:	A Russian soldier in World War II earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.
Title:	Ballad of Narayama
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4866 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A century ago, inhabitants from a remote mountain village lived in constant fear of starvation. Their lives were cruel, horrible, and at best, hopeless. To survive, a number of ruthless laws were passed. One of the most brutal was one requiring the elderly or the infirm to be taken to the distant peak of Narayama to die.
Title:	Baltic deputy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7482 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Biographical films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Soviet propaganda film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Title:	Bas-fonds = The lower depths
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0737 AV LIB
Subject:	Social status France Paris Drama. Thieves Japan Drama. Slums Japan Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Les bas-fonds (93 min.): A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Title:	Bataille d'Alger = The battle of Algiers
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0696 AV LIB
Subject:	Torture Algeria Drama. Terrorism Algeria Drama. Autonomy Drama. Feature films. Historical films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.
Title:	Battleship Potemkin
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1954 AV LIB
Subject:	Motion pictures, Russian. Feature films. Silent films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where the Czar's troops ruthlessly massacred hundreds of innocent civilians who had sympathized with the mutineers. The film is notable for its use of non-actors in roles.
Title:	Battleship Potemkin
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0066 AV LIB
Subject:	Revolutions in motion pictures. Feature films. Foreign films. Silent films. Motion pictures, Russian.
Abstract:	Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times.
Title:	Battleship Potemkin
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6870 AV LIB
Subject:	Silent films. Revolutions in motion pictures. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Eisenstein's partly fictitious account of the Naval mutiny at Odessa, an episode in the 1905 Russian revolution.
Title:	Bawang bie ji = Farewell to my concubine
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2803 AV LIB
Subject:	Operas, Chinese History Drama. Feature films China. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Story of two actors in the Beijing Opera, from their apprenticeship during the warlord era, to their success on stage in the opera "Bawang and Beiji", to the changes that come to their lives from World War II to the Cultural Revolution.
Title:	Bednyĭ, bednyĭ Pavel
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2062 AV LIB
Subject:	Historical films. Feature films. Foreign films.
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Title:	Before the rain
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6115 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
Abstract:	In a monastery in Macedonia, a young man must abandon his vows of silence to save a girl from a hate-filled mob. In London, a woman torn between a loveless marriage and a passionate affair with a war photographer finds fate dictates a choice she couldn't make on her own. And in Yugoslavia, the photographer returns to a nation divided by religious hatred and violence. His efforts to salvage some small portion of peace will have an impact no one could foresee, and bring all three stories full circle.
Title:	Belle de jour
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2800 AV LIB
Subject:	Prostitution France Paris Drama. Married women France Drama. Boredom France Drama. Film adaptations. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, French. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Severine is a repressed, bored housewife, afraid of intimacy. Her husband, Pierre is kind, devoted, and understanding. Severine is aroused by the idea of domination and debasement, and gentle Pierre is hardly the type of person who would treat her cruelly in order to receive sexual gratification. Following the example of an acquaintance, she begins a double life as the girl called Belle de Jour, in the brothel run by Madame Anais. Her otherwise placid domestic life is threatened when an obsessed client, unable to possess her completely, begins to stalk her.
Title:	Belle de jour
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6096 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
Title:	Belle époque
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0520 AV LIB
Subject:	Sex customs Spain Drama. Love Drama. Feature films. Comedy films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Spanish.
Abstract:	Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Title:	Belle et la bête = Beauty and the beast
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0241 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Cocteau's dramatized adaptation of the classic French fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such surrealistic visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Title:	Bend it like Beckham
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1793 AV LIB
Subject:	Women soccer players England Drama. East Indians Cultural assimilation Great Britain Drama. Soccer England Drama. Comedy films Great Britain. Sports films Great Britain. Feature films Great Britain. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Title:	Bete humaine
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2018 AV LIB
Subject:	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama. Murder Drama. Witnesses Drama. Bribery Drama. Motion pictures France. Feature films. Foreign films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Title:	Bhaji on the beach
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7021 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Comedy films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A comedy about a group of English women of Indian ancestry, living in the New Britain, who are brought together by a day at the beach. A humorous look at the new multicultural Great Britain.
Title:	Bian lian = The King of Masks
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0552 AV LIB
Subject:	Mask makers China Drama. Folk artists China Drama. Apprentices China Drama. Poor children China Drama. Sex discrimination China Drama. Feature films China. Motion pictures China. Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Desperate for his art to survive, the King of Masks finds an apprentice in a destitute child purchased on the black market. When the child reveals an unexpected secret, their relationship is suddenly tested by both the old man's stubborn sense of tradition and the established customs of China.
Title:	Bin ich = The rabbit is me
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1884 AV LIB
Subject:	German literature Film and video adaptations. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, German.
Abstract:	A 19-year-old East German girl named Maria Morzeck is denied university admission because her brother is in jail for political reasons. She later has an affair with the judge who passed the harsh sentence on her brother and eventually confronts him.
Title:	Bitter tears of Petra von Kant = Die bitteren Tranen der Petra Von Kant
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4424 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A tale of love and oppression, with women becoming the social focus for the oppression that love can create. A love triangle involves three women, who follow a kind of sadomasochistic course through a five-act drama which never leaves the space of a single room.
Title:	Blackmail
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7014 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A young woman kills a man who tries to rape her. She then finds herself caught between an investigating detective, who happens to be her boyfriend, and a blackmailer. First part of this film is silent with no dialog.
Title:	Black Orpheus = Orfeu negro
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3345 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Foreign films. Orpheus (Greek mythology)
Abstract:	Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero.
Title:	Black rain.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3776 AV LIB
Subject:	Atomic bomb victims Japan Hiroshima-shi. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	This is an unforgettable movie about the survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb blast that destroyed Hiroshima and changed the world forever.
Title:	Black sugar
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2893 AV LIB
Subject:	Sugar workers Dominican Republic. Foreign workers, Haitian Dominican Republic.
Abstract:	Examines the mistreatment of Haitian laborers hired to cut sugar cane on plantations owned by the Dominican Republic State Sugar Council. Describes fraudulent recruitment promises, the practice of confiscating workers' official papers, extremely low wages, and the squalor, disease, and hunger of the work camps.
Title:	Blaue Engel = The blue angel
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0551 AV LIB
Subject:	Singers Germany Drama. High school teachers Germany Drama. Unrequited love Germany Drama. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy cafe. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man, and dies.
Title:	Blechtrommel = The tin drum
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0539 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films Germany. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time.
Title:	Blind beast
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1857 AV LIB
Subject:	Artists' models Drama. Kidnapping victims Drama. Abduction Drama. Blind sculptors Drama. Paraphilias Drama. Sadism Drama. Erotic films. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese.
Abstract:	"A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio -- a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in a world where sight is replaced by touch."--Container.
Title:	Blizna
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1667 AV LIB
Subject:	Rural development Poland Drama. Fertilizer industry Environmental aspects Poland Drama. Environmental protection Poland Citizen participation Drama. Contracts Poland Drama. Socialism Poland Drama. Anarchism Poland Drama. Feature films. Foreign films Poland.
Abstract:	An ambitious small town Polish communist official prepares to receive a delegation from Warsaw. At stake is a large fertilizer factory contract that would mean hundreds of jobs for a dirt poor rural province. But winning the contract creates more problems than it solves as politicians, environmentalists, and displaced citizens alike inadvertently plumb the gap between socialism and the anarchy of human nature. The builder turned reluctant factory director's "quiet conscience" becomes the moral center of a sprawling, Altmanesque tapestry of greed, conspiracy and grudge holding.