International Films

• The Piano teacher = La pianiste

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  Call Number: MOVIES & TV PIANO TEACHER

  Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter, a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.

• Broken Circle Breakdown

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BROKEN CIRCLE

  Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested.
  Language: Flemish, with optional English subtitles.
• Lumumba

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LUMUMBA

  Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Rosetta

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ROSETTA

  Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Deux Jours, Une Nuit = Two Days, One Night

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TWO DAYS ONE

  Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.

• Kolya

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV KOLYA

  A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires, setting off a wild set of circumstances and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate.
  Language: Czech or dubbed French, with optional English subtitles.

• Hævnen: In a Better World

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IN A BETTER

  The lives of two Danish families will become entwined when their sons develop an extraordinary but risky friendship. Unfortunately, loneliness, frailty, and sorrow lie in wait.
  Language: Danish or French, with optional English or French subtitles.

• Mandariinid = Tangerines

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TANGERINES

  An older ethnic Estonian man cares for two wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the 1990s-era war in Georgia. The story of awakening humanity in the midst of violence.
  Language: Russian, Estonian, and Georgian dialogue, with optional English subtitles.

• Nuit et brouillard = Night and Fog

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  Call Number: MEDIA D805.A2N84 2003

  Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Entre les Murs = The Class

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CLASS

  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 trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France.
  Language: French, dubbed English, or dubbed Spanish, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Les Quatre Cents Coups = The 400 Blows

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV 400 BLOWS

  Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Amour

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMOUR

  Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain = Amélie from Montmartre

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMÉLIE

  A whimsical girl decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Angel-A

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ANGEL-A

  When a down-on-his-luck gambler tries to drown himself, he winds up rescuing a gorgeous and mysterious blonde. As they set out on a mission across Paris, he discovers that his smart, spontaneous, sexy companion may really be Heaven-sent.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Artemisia

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ARTEMESIA

  Artemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting. She convinces a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Les Invasions Barbares = The Barbarian Invasions

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BARBARIAN INV.

  A terminally ill middle-aged man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• La Belle et la Bête = Beauty and the Beast

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEAUTY AND

  Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Quand on a 17 Ans = Being 17

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEING 17

  Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
  French dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• La Belle Noiseuse

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BELLE NOISEUSE

  An artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Black and White in Color

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BLACK AND WH

  An irrepressible and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a group of French colonials learn that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up the river.
  Language: French, German, and English dialogue, with optional English subtitles.
• Blue is the Warmest Color

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BLUE IS THE

  A high schooler, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• A Bout de Souffle = Breathless

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BREATHLESS

  A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Café au Lait

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CAFÉ AU LAIT

  An interracial romantic trio come to grips with joint parenthood when a pregnant woman has two lovers and refuses to reveal which of them is the father.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Café de Flore

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CAFÉ DE FLORE

  A single father from 2011 and a single mother from 1969 share a special connection.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Camille Claudel

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CAMILLE CLAUDEL

  A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Un Chien Andalou = Andalusian Dog

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CHIEN ANDALOU

  Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke.
  Language: French intertitles, with optional English subtitles.
• Les Choristes = The Chorus

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CHORUS

  Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Christmas Tale = Un Conte de Noël

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CHRISTMAS TALE

  The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• La Conquête = The Conquest

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CONQUEST

  Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to the French presidency through the lens of his unraveling marriage to then-wife Cecilia. This lampoon depicts the future president as a bold and unashamed virtuoso of political combat, whose inattention to his disintegrating domestic partnership emerges as his chief vulnerability.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Les Diaboliques = The Devils

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DIABOLIQUE

  The story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• La Femme Nikita

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FEMME NIKITA

  Thriller about a street junkie who is picked up and recruited against her will for training as a killer.
  Language: French or dubbed English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Caché = Hidden

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV HIDDEN

  A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Hiroshima Mon Amour

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV HIROSHIMA MY

  A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JEAN DE FLOR.

  Jean de Florette: A man inherits a farm from his mother, but his powerful neighbor plots to steal it from him. Manon of the Spring: 10 years after his death, Jean's daughter finds out about their neighbor's treachery, and determines to take revenge.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Jeanne la Pucelle = Joan the Maid

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JOAN THE MAID

  Film tells the story of Joan of Arc.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Jules et Jim

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JULES AND JIM

  The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Le Gamin au Vélo = Kid with a Bike

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV KID WITH A BIKE

  Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Année Dernière à Marienbad = Last Year at Marienbad

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LAST YEAR AT

  Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Comme une Image = Look at Me

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LOOK AT ME

  Celebrity status has unexpected consequences for everyone who lives in its shadow, as the family, friends and hangers-on of a famous writer discover.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Madame Bovary

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MADAME BOV

  Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Starring Isabelle Huppert, 1991.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Mon Oncle

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MON ONCLE

  A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• La Gloire de Mon Père = My Father's Glory

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MY FATHER'S

  Based on the autobiography of Marcel Pagnol, this film is the story of a very special summer that 11 year-old Marcel spent with his family in the Provençe countryside.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Paris, Je T'aime = Paris I Love You

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PARIS, I LOVE

  The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
  Language: Filmed in English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• La Pasión de Juana de Arco = La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PASSION OF JOAN

  A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
  Language: French intertitles, with optional Spanish subtitles.
• Le Retour de Martin Guerre = The Return of Martin Guerre

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RETURN OF MAR.

  Based on a true medieval story, the film revolves around the suspenseful unraveling of the identity of the title character, Martin Guerre, who has disappeared as a young husband and resumes his marriage years later.
  Language: French, with optional English and Korean subtitles.
• La Régle du Jeu = The Rules of the Game

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RULES OF THE

  Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
  Language: French, with optional English, Spanish, or German subtitles.
• L'auberge Espagnole = Spanish Apartment

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SPANISH APART.

  Straight-laced French college senior Xavier moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange programme, much to the dismay of his girlfriend Martine. Sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos.
  Language: French and Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Cet Obscur Objet du Désir = That Obscure Object of Desire

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV THAT OBSCURE

  Middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire of sexual obsession.
  Language: French or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.
• Timbuktu

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TIMBUKTU

  A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
  Language: In French, Arabic, and other languages, with optional English subtitles.
• Tomboy

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TOMBOY

  Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Belleville Rendez-Vous = Triplets of Belleville

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TRIPLETS OF

  An inept musical trio tries to rescue a kidnapped bicyclist. Animated.
  Language: Mostly without dialogue; French, with optional English subtitles.
• La Vie en Rose

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV VIE EN ROSE

  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 who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness.
  Language: French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
• Z

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV Z

  A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.
• Zou-Zou

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ZOU ZOU

  A star walks out on her sugardaddy producer for true love, and a talented Cinderella takes her place, saves the show and is hailed as a new sensation opening night.
  Language: French, with optional English subtitles.

• The Blue Angel

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BLUE ANGEL

  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.
  Language: English; no subtitles available
• Das Boot

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BOOT

  Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves."
  Language: German or English, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Die Fälscher = The Counterfeiters

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV COUNTERFEITERS

  Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog.
  Language: German or dubbed French, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
• Götterdämmerung = The Damned

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DAMNED

  The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.
  Language: Dubbed English, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
• Das Leben der Anderen = The Lives of Others

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LIVES OF OTHERS

  East Berlin, 1984. Capt. Gerd Wiesler, Stasi officer and surveillance specialist has a simple assignment: keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland.
  Language: German, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
• M

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV M

  A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who Is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert closes in on little Elsie Beckmann.
  Language: German, with optional English subtitles.
• Nosferatu

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NOSFERATU

  The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. (1922)
  Language: German intertitles, with optional English subtitles.
• Nigendwo Akfria = Nowhere in Africa

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NOWHERE IN

  True tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
  Language: German and Swahili, with optional English subtitles.
• Lola Rennt = Run Lola Run

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RUN LOLA RUN

  A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives.
  Language: German or dubbed English, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Stalingrad

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV STALINGRAD

  This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare—the legendary battle of Stalingrad.
  Language: German or English, with optional English subtitles.

• Antigone

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ANTIGONE

  The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creon orders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire.
  Language: Greek, with optional English subtitles.

• Saul Fia = Son of Saul

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SON OF SAUL

  During World War II, a Jewish worker (Géza Röhrig) at the Auschwitz concentration camp tries to find a rabbi to give a child a proper burial.
  Language: Hungarian, with optional English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French subtitles.

• 8½

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV 8 1/2

  Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Bellisima

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BELLISSIMA

  Dreaming of a better life for her family, a star struck mother invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Berlinguer, I Love You

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BERLINGUER

  The story of Mario Cioni and his strange relationship with his mother.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Ladri di Biciclette = The Bicycle Thief

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BICYCLE THIEF

  Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• I soliti ignoti = Big Deal on Madonna Street

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BIG DEAL ON

  Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Pane e cioccolata = Bread & Chocolate

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BREAD AND CHOC.

  A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Cristo si e' Fermato a Eboli = Christ Stopped at Eboli

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CHRIST STOPPED

  Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Ciao Professore!

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CIAO, PROFESS

  The story of an upper-class teacher from conservative Northern Italy who, due to a computer error, finds himself teaching third-grade truants at a ramshackle school to the south.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Nuovo Cinema Paradiso = Cinema Paradiso

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CINEMA PARAD

  A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso.
  Language: Italian or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GARDEN OF THE

  Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• La Grande Bellezza = The Great Beauty

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GREAT BEAUTY

  For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Giulietta degli spiriti = Juliet of the Spirits

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JULIET OF THE

  When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• La vita è bella = Life is Beautiful

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LIFE IS BEAUT

  A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• La Pivellina = Little Girl

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LITTLE GIRL

  In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two-year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Roma, Città Aperta = Rome, Open City

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV OPEN CITY

  The loyalties of an impoverished mother-to-be and a parish priest are tested by the German forces which occupy their homeland during World War II.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Il Cappotto = The Overcoat

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV OVERCOAT

  Based on Nikolai Gogol's story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk whose only desire is for a new overcoat.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Il Postino = The Postman

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV POSTMAN

  The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.
  Language: Italian or dubbed French, with optional English subtitles.
• Il Sorpasso

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SORPASSO

  A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.
• Two Women

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TWO WOMEN

  Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II.
  Language: Italian, with optional English subtitles.

• Before the Rain (A Tale in Three Parts)

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEFORE THE RAIN

  Told in three parts, a mysterious incident in the Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, eventually threatening a full-blown civil war.
  Language: Macedonian, English and Albanian, with optional English subtitles.

• Antonia's Line

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ANTONIA'S LINE

  A portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman.
  Language: Dutch, with optional English subtitles.

• Jeg er Din = I Am Yours

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV I AM YOURS

  Single mom, Mina, a Pakistani ex-pat in Norway, is determined to be an actress, although she routinely fails auditions and the rest of her life is crumbling. When she meets a dashing director who may change her life, it is overshadowed by her mother, who disapproves of Mina's every move.
  Language: Norwegian, Urdu and Swedish, with optional English subtitles.

• Ida

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IDA

  Poland 1962. On the eve of her vows, 18 year old Anna meets her estranged Aunt Wanda, a cynical Communist judge who shocks the naive Anna with a stunning revelation: Anna is Jewish and her real name is Ida. Ida and Wanda embark on a revelatory journey to their old family house to discover the fate of Ida's birth parents and unearth dark secrets dating back to the Nazi occupation.
  Language: Polish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Nóż w Wodzie = Knife in the Water

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV KNIFE IN THE

  When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention ... and a storm forces the small crew below deck.
  Language: Polish, with optional English subtitles.

• Ate que a $orte Nos Separe

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ATÉ QUE A SORTE

  The story of Tino and Jane, a young couple who win the lottery and then lose everything fifteen years later.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.
• Carandiru

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CARANDIRU

  Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English, French, Chinese, Korean, or Thai subtitles.
• Letters from Fontainhas

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LETTERS FROM

  Three films from Portuguese director Pedro Costa. Ossos - after a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. Vanda's Room: centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. Colossal youth: many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda's Room return. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in Lisbon.
  Language: Portuguese, with optional English subtitles.

• Aferim!

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AFERIM

  Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
  Language: Romanian, Czech or Bulgarian dialogue, with optional English, Turkish, or Romanian subtitles

• Battleship Potemkin

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BATTLESHIP

  Silent film dramatizing 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.
  Language: Russian intertitles, with optional English subtitles.
• Elena

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ELENA

  The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple.
  Language: Russian, with optional English subtitles.
• Est-ouest = East/West

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV EAST/WEST

  Follows the story of an expatriate Russian and his French wife as they return to the Soviet Union in 1946 and learn to live in the post-war Soviet Union. The story eventually revolves around the struggle of Marie to decide if she should stay or leave Russia.
  Language: French and Russian, with optional subtitles in English or French.
• Idi I Smotri = Viens et Vois = Come and See

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  Call Number: MEDIA D743.23.I35 2001

  The horrific and harrowing experiences of a young boy coming of age during the brutal German occupation of Byelorussia during the 2nd World War.
  Language: Russian, English, or French dialogue, with 13 subtitled languages.

• Todo Sobre Mi Madre = All About My Mother

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ALL ABOUT MY

  Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Biutiful

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BIUTIFUL

  Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Canibal

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CANNIBAL

  Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Cria Cuervos

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CRÍA CUERVOS

  Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of her mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. Evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of Fascism.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• El Espinazo del Diablo = The Devil's Backbone

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DEVIL'S BACK.

  Twelve-year-old Carlos is the latest arrival to Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. Carlos gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school: hidden riches, sexual intrigue and the restless ghost of a murdered student.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• También la Lluvia = Even the Rain

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV EVEN THE RAIN

  Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus’ conquest of the Americas.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• El Abuelo = The Grandfather

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GRANDFATHER

  When news of his son's death returns proud, old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he's pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But he also carries the burden of a newly discovered family secret: one of the girls is not his son's daughter, and therefore not his true heir.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Juana la Loca = Joan the Mad

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JOAN THE MAD

  Historical drama about the life of Juana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the politics, passion, and power struggle that enveloped her life.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Nueve Reinas = Nine Queens

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NINE QUEENS

  Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Abre los ojos = Open Your Eyes

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV OPEN YOUR EYES

  Handsome womanizer César is disfigured in a car wreck, and as he attempts to pick up the pieces of his life, bizarre situations and events seem to occur as a result of his accident.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Mar Adentro = Sea Inside

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SEA INSIDE

  Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years before that turned him into a quadriplegic.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Espíritu de la colmena = Spirit of the Beehive

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SPIRIT OF THE

  A moving and poetic journey into the haunted world of a child's inner life.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Atame! = Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TIE ME UP

  A comedy in which an orphaned mental patient kidnaps a porn star in an irrationally inspired bid for love.
  Language: Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
• Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios = Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WOMEN ON THE

  Comedy about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who is in love with a terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife. Mix them all together and you end up with women on the verge of a nervous breakdown!
  Language: Spanish, with optional English or French subtitles.

• The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV 100 YEAR-OLD

  When Allan lands in a nursing home, he refuses to celebrate his 100th birthday and instead escapes out a window to embark on a journey that involves a suitcase of cash and a gang of criminals. Flashbacks reveal that Allan played a key role in 20th century history when he was pals with U.S. presidents and Russian tyrants.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.
• Den goda viljan = The Best Intentions

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEST INTENTIONS

  The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English or French subtitles.
• Fanny och Alexander

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FANNY AND ALEX

  Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.
• Ansiktet = The Magician

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MAGICIAN

  A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MILLENNIUM / GIRL .. DRAGON

  Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
  Language: Swedish or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.
• Mitt Liv Som Hund = My Life as a Dog

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MY LIFE AS A DOG

  Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.
• Persona

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PERSONA

  An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.
• Sjunde inseglet = Seventh Seal

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SEVENTH SEAL

  A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
  Language: Swedish, with optional English subtitles.

• Tito and Me

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TITO AND ME

  The story of a ten year old boy who, as most of the children in Yugoslavia of the fifties can hardly imagine his life without the great national leader - marshal Tito. In his school, he wins the contest for the best Tito's composition. His reward is the participation in "Tito's native land" march. He claims in his work that he loves Tito more than his Dad and Mom, which makes them desperate.
  Language: Serbo-Croatian, with optional English subtitles.
• Underground

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  Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV UNDERGROUND

  The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter"—only to convince themselves that the guy was right: the war is still going on.
  Language: Serbo-Croatian, with optional English subtitles.