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Action and Adventure 
The African Queen.
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows determined to assist in the British war effort and presses Charlie until he finally agrees and together they steam up the Ulana encountering an enemy fort, raging rapids, bloodthirsty parasites and an endlessly branching stream which always seems to lead them to what appears to be impenetrable swamps. Despite their opposing personalities, the two grow closer to each other and ultimately carry out their plan to take out a German warship.
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Surf Nazis must die.
Set on the beaches of Los Angeles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, this film chronicles the bloody struggle between a sadistic, neo- Nazi surfer gang and Eleanor "Mama" Washington, the ultimate post-apocalyptic vigilante killer.
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Children's
An all dogs Christmas carol.
Christmas is shaping up to be wonderful for all the pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe. But the festivities and good will don't mean anything to Carface, a big bully of a bulldog who doesn't like Christmas-- in fact he hates it so he's come up with a plan to ruin it for everybody! But Charlie and Itchy step in and with a litle divine intervention come up with a plan to save Christmas and transform Carface from a holiday humbug to a yuletide hero.
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Comedy
Dumb & dumber.
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.
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Duck soup.
In this political satire, Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the dictator of mythical Freedonia, while Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by his political rival.
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Horse feathers.
Parody of college life with the fun-loving president of Huxley College wooing a floozie who is secretly trying to rig the big football game between Huxley and archrival Darwin U.
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Monkey business.
Running from the authorities the Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury liner where they encounter and become bodyguards for rival gangsters.
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Animal crackers.
Comedy classic that loosely centers around a painting stolen during a house party held by a wealthy society woman. This film introduces Groucho's most famous character, Captain Spaulding.
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The cocoanuts.
Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron.
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After sex.
What do we talk about when sex is over? Meet eight couples as they deal with the pleasure, anger, confusion, regret, laughter and other sensations that make physical intimacy an emotional ride.
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Entourage. The complete fourth season.
Eric and Vince have taken on new roles as producers. Will their film be hailed as a critical masterpiece, or will it end up on the trash heap of broken Tinseltown dreams?
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Entourage. The complete fifth season.
After a disastrous screening of his latest movie at the Cannes Film Festival, Vince Chase must find a way to rejuvenate his career. His best friend and manager Eric is determined to get Vince back to the top, while struggling with his expanding management company. Ari, meanwhile, is having a few career conflicts of his own, and fights to deliver for Vince. Turtle is forced to reexamine his contribution to it all.
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Step brothers.
Brennan and Dale are two middle-aged loafers who are forced to live together when their parents get married. When their immature antics over TV privileges and personal property take their toll on their parents' marriage, the devious duo hatch a scheme to reunite the couple.
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Detective and Crime
Panic room.
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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Documentary
The hero's journey.
The story of how Campbell discovered his own bliss and followed it, becoming one of the most influential thinkers of our time.
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The American revolution.
Revisit the birth of a nation in this truly definitive look at America's fight for independence and its world-changing rise to glory. From the Declaration of Independence to the Treaty of Paris, these are the stories and events surrounding history.
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Legal and ethical issues for mental health professionals understanding confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and duty to warn.
"What's the difference between privilege and confidentiality? When are therapists allowed to break confidentiality and when are they required to? When can progress notes or confidential psychotherapy notes be subpoenaed as evidence in a trial? How does a therapist know when to break confidentiality to warn someone of potential danger? What exactly does "reasonable cause to suspect" mean when deciding whether to report child abuse? Is failing to report child abuse an ethical violation, or is it actually a crime? This informative, comprehensive and entertaining DVD course will answer all these questions and more..."--Container.
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Man vs. Wild. Season 2 with Bear Grylls.
Dropping into a viper pit in Panama's Camino Real; navigating a crevasse of one of the world's largest glaciers; battling extreme conditions in frozen Siberia; it's all in a day's work for adventurer Bear Grylls. Bear is a former British Special Forces soldier who shares ingenious and often shocking techniques for surviving in some of the world's most treacherous environments.
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Man vs. wild. Season 3.
"From the rugged west coast of Ireland to the lush jungles of Belize, Bear Grylls shows us how to survive tough environments all over the planet in these 10 exciting episodes. Using his background as a British Special Forces soldier to find his way out of these wildernesses, Bear encounters dangerous animals, navigates treacherous white water, climbs sheer cliffs and much more in another action-filled season of adventure!"--Container.
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Teamwork in the workplace.
"Teamwork in the Workplace demonstrates practical ways for building and maintaining a positive, collaborative team culture in hospitals and other challenging work environments. This series explores the variables that make up effective teams, along with specific methods for resolving problems that commonly arise in the workplace. It also discusses the important tasks and qualities necessary for effective leadership."--Publisher's website (www.conceptmedia.com viewed 10/11/05).
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Effective communication the helping interview.
This 3-part series illustrates effective communication techniques necessary for nursing professionals. Program 1 includes teaching skills such as body position, eye contact, observation and active listening. Program 2 presents techniques for handling both the client-initiated interview and the professional -initiated interview, as well as opening, questioning and the use of silence. Program 3 discusses ways to summarize, respond to, and close a patient interview effectively.
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Man vs. wild. Collection 1.
"Grylls faces sweltering desert temperatures, icy, raging rivers and hungry predators as he fights for survival using techniques he learned as a British Special Forces soldier. You'll never look at the great outdoors the same way again!" -- container.
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Loose change, final cut.
"What if ... we have not been told the truth regarding the attacks of September 11, 2001? Loose Change Final Cut is the third installment of the documentary that asks the tough questions about the 9/11 attacks and related events"--Container.
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The First World War the complete series.
This definitive ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative of the first World War.
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Everything you need to know about behavior management.
The purpose of this DVD set and manual (CD-ROM) is to teach staff working with young children effective methods of behavioral intervention.
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Pediatric tips & tricks.
Demonstrates, with real patients at Children's Hospital of Orange County in Calif., how to prepare patients and their families for selected medical procedures. Includes scenario-based teaching demonstrations of distraction techniques that can be used to make the procedures less upsetting and more positive for the children and their parents.
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Drama
The life before her eyes.
Diana is a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life, and perhaps her sanity, on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that killed her bestfriend. Diana was a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, cut class, fantasized about boys and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. Now, however, Diana is haunted by the increasingly strained relationships she had with Maureen as the day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she now has with her professor husband Paul and their daughter Emma. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.
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Mad men. Season two.
Returning for its second season, the award-winning series continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
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Mad men. Season three.
At the office, the firings continue; Don is brought in to save the day on a PR campaign only to have the rug pulled out from under him; Peggy and Paul get stoned while working on an ad campaign; Sally steals money from her grandfather; Don had reservations about a misguided potential client; Betty has hallucinations of her dead father as she delivers her baby; Don and Betty renew their love affair while on a business trip.
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One Tree Hill. The complete sixth season.
Everyone is looking for their dreams to come true. Nathan dreams of a basketball comeback; Haley is looking for musical success; Peyton is hoping for happiness; Mouth needs to find a decent job; Jamie wants to be like his hero Q; Brooke is hoping to save the Clothes Over Bro's brand from her nasty mom; Lucas is hoping to find the right girl to marry. What isn't a dream: Dan learning what it's like to be on the other side of a sadist-victim relationship and Deb's hookup threatening to come undone.
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Mad men. Season two.
Returning for its second season, the award-winning series continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
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One Tree Hill. The complete sixth season.
Everyone is looking for their dreams to come true. Nathan dreams of a basketball comeback; Haley is looking for musical success; Peyton is hoping for happiness; Mouth needs to find a decent job; Jamie wants to be like his hero Q; Brooke is hoping to save the Clothes Over Bro's brand from her nasty mom; Lucas is hoping to find the right girl to marry. What isn't a dream: Dan learning what it's like to be on the other side of a sadist-victim relationship and Deb's hookup threatening to come undone.
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Personal best.
A promising hurdler finds needed emotional and athletic seasoning with a caring mentor. After the two fall in love, their relationship is threatened as both vie for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
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Jimmy and Judy.
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde, the film traces the journey of social misfits Jimmy and Judy, spirited young lovers who leave their comfortably numb suburban community in search of a better life in rural Kentucky.
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Normal adolescent behavior havoc 2.
Wendy and a group of close high school friends take adolescent bonding to a whole new level. Shunning ramdom hook ups, these friends vow to be only with each other -- no apologies and no regrets. But when one of them falls for an outsider, the group's cold and calculating leader takes it personally and decides that if anyone tries to leave her clique, she'll show them just how dangerous it is to make enemies out of friends.
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Call me the rise and fall of Heidi Fleiss.
Lured into an illicit lifestyle by an older film director, Heidi Fleiss turns sex into success when she inherits a call-girl business from Madame Alex. A high-class call-girl business that caters to Hollywood's biggest celebrities. Eventually betrayed, Heidi's world of lust and greed comes crashing down around her.
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Fierce people.
Fierce people takes an inside look at the upper classes, examining the darkness that lurks beneath the surface of good manners. This unflinching drama exposes the trappings of wealth and privilege, and their overwhelming power to seduce and corrupt.
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Dreamland.
A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
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Undertow.
John Munn and his two sons live on a solitary farm in rural Georgia. When John's ex-convict brother stops in for a visit, their lives all change for the worst.
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Hounddog.
Set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, Lewellen lives with her stern grandmother, Grammie, but spends most of her time with her much-adored Daddy in his dilapidated shack. Daddy's wild side is tempered by his beautiful but troubled girlfriend, Ellen, who has a mysterious history but calming influence on the lonely, young girl. Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis Presley. When Elvis Presley comes to town for a concert, Lewellen is desperate to go but has no money for a ticket. In a naïve attempt to get a ticket, Lewellen falls into a compromising situation that steals her innocence and leaves her feeling even more alone and hopeless. It is up to the caretaker, Charles, to help Lewellen overcome the wounding of her spirit and save her soul. He teaches her to use the Blues to turn her tragedy into a gift-- bringing light out of darkness and hope out of adversity.
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Foreign films
Le voyage du ballon rouge.
Simon is dealing with the increased fragility of his loving yet preoccupied mother, Suzanne. When a Taiwanese film student, Song, is hired to help care for Simon, a unique extended family is formed. The two become completely dependent on each other, yet both are lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.
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4 by Agnès Varda.
La Ponté Courté: A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life. NOTE = Cléo from 5 to 7: Precisely ninety minutes in the life of a young popular singer, Corinne Marchand, as she waits for the results of a medical test for cancer. Paris, with its places and people, is the backdrop to this story of many moods. Because of the intense anticipation, each incident takes on a greater significance, leading to her meeting a soldier about to leave for the Algerian war, and finally, the diagnosis. NOTE = Le bonheur: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. NOTE = Vogabond: Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.
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8 films de Jean Paul Civeyrac 8 films by Jean Paul Civeyrac.
"Jean Paul Civeyrac's films are like chamber films -in the sense of a chamber music: there are very few instruments that are played, there is no orchestration; mere themes (love, the disappearance of a loved one, the mingling of bodies ...) are played by a few interpreters. It is not a repetition because it does not say the same thing: it is a kind of variation, in the musical sense of the term ... As a compliment to those 8 films, multimedia artist and plastician Gregory Chatonsky presents his own multi-media variation by revisiting the interstices of Jean Paul Civeyrac's world: a variable and infinite experience to be discovered on a DVD-ROM." -- container.
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La bataille d'Alger The battle of Algiers.
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.
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Louis Malle collection.
[Disc 1.] (Ascenseur pour lJeann'echafaud = Lift to the scaffold) A pair of lovers who conspire to murder Florence's husband in the most ingenious manner. However, not everything goes quite as planned. [Disc 2.] (Le feu follet = The fire within) Charts the downward spiral Alain, a recovering alcoholic who sees no future for himself. He leaves rehab to visit to visit some old friends, but will they provide the connection he is looking for? [Disc 3.] (Les amants = The lovers) A middle class woman and mother who is bored with her life. But she is awakened when she meets Bernard, a younger man with whom she embarks on an affair. [Disc 4.] (Zazie dans le métro) About a twelve year old girl's adventures around Paris. Zazie is dumped on hapless Uncle Gabriel so her mother can spend thirty-six hours with her lover. However, Zazie manages to escape from her Uncle and sets off to explore Paris by herself.
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Spring symphony.
19th century pianist Clara Wieck has an unsurmountable passion for music and her father until she falls in love with his student, Robert Schumann. Clara must decide whether her passion for Robert is greater than her love for music and her father.
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La pêril jeune.
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teens, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... Through the pasts of the five main characters, a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies is revealed.
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Le grand jeu.
When scandalous Parisian playboy Pierre Martel is forced by his family to leave France and his adored lover Florence, he begins a new life in the Foreign Legion as Pierre Muller. Drowning his regrets in camaraderie, whores and hell- raising, he is astonished at meeting Irma, a prostitute with an uncanny resemblance to his beloved, and begins a fitful scheme to allow her escape.
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Horror
Angel. Season 3.
Even as Angel mourns the death of Buffy, Darla makes her way to L.A. with a mysterious new life growing within her. Now thrust into a role he never imagined, Angel needs the assistance of the Angel Investigations team more than ever. But while Cordelia, Gun and Fred rally round the new dad, an ancient and deadly prophecy convinces Wesley to commit the ultimate betrayal.
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Army of darkness.
Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites", Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series. Demonic forces time-warp him into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of undead beasts.
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The last house on the left.
Two young girls on their way to a concert end up as captives of three escaped convicts. Chilling drama of kidnap, torture and revenge.
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Cat people.
A young woman is victim of a heritage that transforms her into a deadly panther when she makes love.
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The messengers.
A troubled family moves into an old farmhouse where a triple homicide has occured. Only Ben, the little toddler of the family, can see the supernatural presences in the house, and he appears more delighted with them than afraid. When his teenage sister, Jess, also starts encountering unusual occurences - this time of an apparantly non-benevolent nature - she also begins noticing Ben's unusual behavior as well and realizes that he too is experiencing something out of the ordinary. The hardest part for Jess is getting anybody else to take her seriously.
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Lifeforce.
When a space exploration team travels to examine Halley's Comet, they find an alien spacecraft whose occupants carry a deadly secret. Spacelings take over the bodies of the humans and return to earth.
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Musicals
Honey.
Honey is a girl from the streets who works in a record store, teaches the occasional dance class at a community center, and treks downtown every weekend to hit the clubs and try out some new hip-hop dance moves. There, she meets a music video producer who offers her a chance to be a choreographer. But Honey decides that she is unwilling to pay his price. Determined to pick herself back up, Honey goes back to the inner-city of her youth with plans of starting a dance school.
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Westerns
84 Charlie Mopic.
A unique dramatized look at the Vietnam War in 1969 revealed through the subjective lens of an army motion picture (MoPic) cameraman who accompanies a 6 man reconnaissance patrol of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Central Highlands in order to make a "lessons learned" training film.
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