Focus Features
1) Beginners
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A merry mashup of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
6) Boy erased
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jared, the son of a Baptist preacher, is forcibly outed by his parents and forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.
7) Tár
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her infatuation, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
12) Mr. Turner
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
13) Admission
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
14) Moonrise kingdom
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
15) In Bruges
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
16) Kajillionaire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
17) The beguiled
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
18) The Boxtrolls
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (1 hr., 37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family....
19) Belfast
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
20) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.