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Arms and the Man
Series Title: Classics: The Shaw Collection
Call Number: DVD 2007- 2 v.1
Description: An uproarious comedy that looks at the misconceptions of love and war; with Helena Bonham Carter, Patsy Kensit
Keywords: Bernard Shaw

Auberge Espagnole
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 21
Description: Life of a French college student
Keywords: French/ Spanish

Belle Epoque [The Age of Beauty]
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Call Number: DVD 2007- 39
Description: Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter, faces a romantic dilemma when he must choose between a free-thinking artist and her four daughters
Keywords: Spanish; Romance

Black King
Series Title: African-American Film Heritage Video Series
Call Number: VCR 2000-246
Description: Satire about the Back-to-Africa movement (1935)
Keywords: Satire; Back-to-Africa movement

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Series Title: Audrey Hepburn Collection
Call Number: VCR 2007-191
Description: A romantic comedy featuring Holly Golightly, an eccentric New York City playgirl, and her neighbor; based on the novella by Truman Capote; starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard
Keywords: Capote, Truman; Hepburn, Audrey

Como era gostoso o meu france^s [How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman]
Series Title: International Cinema
Call Number: VCR 2004- 70
Description: French soldier captured by a tribe of man-eating Indians in the coastal wilds of Brazil
Keywords: Portuguese/ French

Cymbeline
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 62
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Cymbeline
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 84- 4
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Day for Night
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Call Number: VCR 98- 71
Description: Truffaut's 1973 "homage to movie-making;" dubbed in English
Keywords: French; Francois Truffaut

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Call Number: DVD 2006-142
Description: Stanley Kubrick's satire about nuclear holocaust; special edition including two documentaries and new interviews
Keywords: Satire; Peter Sellers

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Call Number: VCR 2002- 22
Description: Stanley Kubrick's satire about nuclear holocaust
Keywords: Satire; Peter Sellers

Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda [Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Wo
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Call Number: VCR 2005- 7
Description: Comedic history of a love replete with passion, aversion, machismo, and infidelity; based on the play by Sabina Berman
Keywords: Spanish (Mexico); Sabina Berman

Fargo
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Call Number: VCR 98- 42
Description: Directed by Joel Cohen; starring Francis McDormand
Keywords: Joel Cohen; Ethan Cohen

Firemen's Ball
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Call Number: VCR 86- 7
Description: Originally filmed in Czechoslovakia/Italy, 1967, with title"Hori, ma panenko"
Keywords: Czech

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf
Series Title: American Playhouse
Call Number: DVD 2004- 41
Description: The journey of six African-American women in America
Keywords: African-American Women

Graduate
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Call Number: VCR 2000- 37
Description: Stars Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft; based on Webb's novel
Keywords: Charles Webb; Mike Nichols

Guantanamera
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 2
Description: Romantic comedy-drama
Keywords: Spanish

Harold and Maude
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Call Number: VCR 2007-186
Description: A young man obsessed with death falls in love with a 79-year-old woman; starring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort
Keywords: Ruth Gordon; Bud Cort

Heartbreak House
Series Title: Classics: The Shaw Collection
Call Number: DVD 2007- 2 v.5
Description: Starring John Gielgud as Captain Shotover in Shaw's romp through the minefields of romantic entanglement
Keywords: Bernard Shaw

Importance of Being Earnest
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Call Number: VCR 93- 48
Description: Based on the play by Oscar Wilde
Keywords: Oscar Wilde

Impromptu
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Call Number: DVD 2006-222
Description: 1991 film about the romance between feminist author George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin; starring Hugh Grant, Judy Davis
Keywords: George Sand, Frederic Chopin

Invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions]
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 55
Description: A dying man tries to reconcile with family and friends
Keywords: French

Lage Raho Munna Bhai
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Call Number: DVD 2008-3
Description: The story revolves around the character of Munnabhai, who learns more about the life of Mahatma Gandhi and tries to apply the latter's concept of Satyagraha to modern life.
Keywords: India; Gandhi; Rajkumar Hirani

Latter Days
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Call Number: DVD 2007-127
Description: A promiscuous gay party animal develops a relationship with a young Mormon missionary
Keywords: Gay men: Relationships; Mormons

Marius and Jeannette
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Call Number: VCR 2003- 19
Description: Life in a small port outside Marseilles
Keywords: French; Romance

Measure for Measure
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 73
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Measure for Measure
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 18
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Memory of Two Mondays
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 37
Description: Life during the Great Depression
Keywords: Arthur Miller

Memory of Two Mondays
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Call Number: VCR 2005-119
Description: Miller's play about life during the Great Depression, starring Jack Warden, Harvey Keitel (1970)
Keywords: Arthur Miller; Great Depression

Merchant of Venice
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 5
Description: BBC Television Production; three parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Millionairess
Series Title: Classics: The Shaw Collection
Call Number: DVD 2007- 2 v.6
Description: Maggie Smith stars in Shaw's farce that reveals the relations between class, capital, power and labor; with Tom Baker
Keywords: Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Warren's Profession
Series Title: Classics: The Shaw Collection
Call Number: DVD 2007- 2 v.3
Description: A young woman discovers her mother's past careers as a prostitute and madam; starring Coral Browne and Penelope Wilton
Keywords: Bernard Shaw

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
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Call Number: DVD 2003- 18
Description: Story of a woman on verge of nervous breakdown; directed by Pedro Almodovar
Keywords: Spanish; Almodovar

Placard [The Closet]
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 22
Description: Man worries about being fired
Keywords: French

Pygmalion
Series Title: Classics: The Shaw Collection
Call Number: DVD 2007- 2 v.4
Description: Lynn Redgrave stars as Eliza Dolittle in this story of the complexities of human relationships in a social world
Keywords: Bernard Shaw

Que he hecho yo para merecer esto? [What Have I Done??]
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Call Number: DVD 2005- 17
Description: Black comedy about a housewife hooked on amphetamines; written and directed by Pedro Almodovar
Keywords: Spanish; Pedro Almodovar

Rules of the Game
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Call Number: VCR 84- 25
Description: Renoir?s satire on the decadence of pre-World War II French aristocracy
Keywords: French; Jean Renoir

Shakespeare in Love
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Call Number: VCR 2007-142
Description: Oscar winning story of a young Will Shakespeare, whose need to break a bad case of writer's block leads to romance with Lady Viola; starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes
Keywords: William Shakespeare

Taxi para 3 [A Cab for 3]
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Call Number: DVD 2007-135
Description: Black comedy telling the story of Ulises, a traxi driver who thinks that joining the gang that holds him up may just be the way out
Keywords: Spanish; Taxicab drivers

Tempest
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 83
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Tempest
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 97- 11
Description: Reissue of the version released by Time-Life Video; originally broadcast by the BBC in 1979
Keywords: Shakespeare

Tempest
Series Title: Shakespeare: From Page to Stage
Call Number: VCR 85- 3
Description: Helps to provide the student with a sense of the play as a script for performance
Keywords: Shakespeare

Tempest
Series Title: Showcase Theater
Call Number: VCR 90- 26
Description: Starring Maurice Evans, Richard Burton, Roddy McDowell, and Lee Remick
Keywords: Shakespeare

True West
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Call Number: VCR 90- 34
Description: Based on the play by Sam Shepard
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Tune in Tomorrow
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Call Number: DVD 2007- 94
Description: Pedro, an eccentric television writer, develops a number of schemes to help a fellow writer pursue a woman; too late they realize Pedro's using their affair to liven up the plot of his soap opera
Keywords: Radio and Television Writers

Winter's Tale
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 89
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Winter's Tale
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 11
Description: BBC Television Production; three parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Zero for Conduct
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Call Number: VCR 84- 11
Description: A touching and telling look at the French educational system that was banned in France until 1946
Keywords: French