- Catalog Home
- » My Account
- » List
1) jesus kid
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
2) Digger
Description
It is a thrilling psychological western set in the rich forests of Northern Greece. When his estranged son appears with a motorcycle and a grudge, an iconoclastic farmer at war with an encroaching industry must let nature decide the fate of this tumultuous relationship.
Description
Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car's Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and...
Formats:
On Shelf
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
DVD WORLD FRENCH LOST
1 available
DVD WORLD FRENCH LOST
1 available
Description
An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit in this sumptuous adaptation of Honore de Balzac's epic novel, Lost Illusions.
Description
While Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang, serves a prison sentence for a bungled hit, another family member attempts to seize power from the boss, leaving Miyoshi stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
Description
In the aftermath of a violent assault, Maria and Jonas flee to an isolated farm. But their peaceful escape is not as peaceful as they intended.
Description
Yu Tian Long is the best fighter to come out of his local martial arts school, but when he crosses the ruthless leader of a local crime syndicate, the big boss's brutal bevy of deadly killers make mincemeat out of the school and everyone inside. Now the only survivor of the massacre, and short of one appendage, Yu is gifted a powerful elixir that promises to give him the strength to take swift revenge on the army of assassins, each representing the...
Formats:
On Shelf
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
DVD WORLD FRENCH PARIS
1 available
DVD WORLD FRENCH PARIS
1 available
Description
Four young people fall in and out of love (and sex) with each other while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine.
Description
Running out of time: Expert hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-sang is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse when a criminal mastermind with weeks to live decides to take on the entire Hong Kong police force. There's more to his plan than meets the eye, but can Inspector Ho figure it out and catch him in time? He's got 72 hours to try. Running out of time 2: Inspector Ho pursues a sophisticated art thief with a taste for the theatrical.
Description
A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama, and idol movie, inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa's popular novel.
11) The spy
On Shelf
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
DVD WORLD NORWEGIAN SPY
1 available
DVD WORLD NORWEGIAN SPY
1 available
Description
Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process...
12) Zombie for sale
Description
When the illegal human experiments of Korea's biggest pharmaceutical company go wrong, one of their undead test subjects escapes and ends up in a shabby gas station owned by the Park family - a band of misfits spanning three generations who hustle passers-by to make ends meet.
13) Baby assassins
Formats:
On Shelf
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
DVD WORLD JAPANESE BABY
1 available
DVD WORLD JAPANESE BABY
1 available
Description
Two high school girls receive orders from upper management to get "real" jobs, become roommates and blend into normal society. They also happen to be highly skilled assassins who don₂t like each other. After an unfortunate run-in with the violent Yakuza, they quickly learn they must band together to survive an epic fight for their lives.
Description
Fierce gang boss Jang Dong-su is violently attacked after a fender bender on a rainy night. After fighting back, he barely escapes; however, his reputation as a feared leader is damaged beyond repair. The only way to restore his image is to find his attacker and exact revenge. Jang teams up with Detective Jung Tae-seok to find the assailant but soon discovers the attacker is a serial killer. Detective Jung is forced to use gang boss Jang's resources...
Formats:
On Shelf
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
DVD WORLD KOREAN SPIRITWALKER
1 available
DVD WORLD KOREAN SPIRITWALKER
1 available
Description
After waking up from a car crash unable to remember anything about his life, a man begins regaining consciousness in a new body every 12 hours. Now, he must piece together his identity, all while evading attacks from pursuing agents and dangerous criminals alike. But with no memory, and no allies, his time is running out.
Description
A family patriarch and all but two of his sons are brutally wiped out in a bloody battle with a rival family. One surviving son returns to his mother and two sisters, driven mad with grief; the other escapes and joins a nearby monastery while in hiding. Once he learns his sister has been captured by their enemies, however, the warrior-turned-monk realizes he must renounce his peaceful ideals in order to mount a rescue mission and avenge his family....
17) Da zui xia
Description
When the Governor's son is taken hostage by bandits, a mysterious swordsman named Golden Swallow is hot on their trail to ensure the son's release. What the bandits don't realize, however, is that Golden Swallow is actually a woman, and that the hostage is her brother. Determined to set him free, no matter how many goons she has to fight her way through in doing so, she is aided in her quest by a drunken beggar who may have a closer connection to...
Description
Daimajin: Japanese fantasy about a giant stone statue that comes to life and helps a prince and princess regain their throne. Majin, the vengeful warrior, causes an earthquake and kills a cruel warlord.
Return of Daimajin: A small group of children risk their lives to reach Majin, the stone statue known as the legendary god of vengeance, to plead for help on behalf of their village. An evil overlord has captured the men from the village and must...
Description
The big racket: Inspector Nico Palmieri is hot on the heels of a gang of ruthless racketeers hell-bent on extorting local business owners with intimidation and violent reprisals. Injured by the gang in the line of duty, Nico is determined to bring the crooks to justice, but his superiors warn him off the case. Realizing he's not going to get anywhere within the confines of the law, Nico recruits a crack squad of civilians who have themselves fallen...
Description
Two private detectives hired by an aging former actress to find her kidnapped daughter find themselves in a bizarre situation when their investigations lead them to the studios of the mysterious M. Pathe company.