New DVDs for Adults
Hundreds of DVDs are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most recent DVDs for adults.
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SPACE: THE LONGEST GOODBYE (DVD)
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers.
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LA SYNDICALISTE (DVD)
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney, the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against government ministers and industry leaders, Maureen worked tirelessly to bring the scandal to light and defend thousands of jobs until she was violently sexually assaulted in her own home, seemingly targeted for her attempts to reveal the truth. As her attack is investigated, new elements create doubt in the minds of detectives and lawyers, and they begin to see Maureen not as a victim, but as a suspect. Surrounded by powerful enemies and unable to trust anyone, Maureen must fight to clear her name.
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PARIS POLICE 1905 (DVD)
It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris' secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must venture off the beaten track, but at what cost? Under pressure from journalists and politicians, Police Chief Lu00e9pine is forced to clean up the streets, a dirty job for the Parisian Vice Squad. Bereaved and worn out by his years in power, Lu00e9pine is considering resigning, while rumors are rife that he's having an affair. Despite her fading charms, Marguerite "Deadly Lips" Steinheil has continued to build her fortune with the help of her mysterious protectors. She now runs the city's most upscale gambling ring and highly secretive soiru00e9es under the guise of her husband's art shows. His latest work? A wintery, gothic series depicting the notorious u2026 Bois de Boulogne.
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INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (DVD)
Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It's a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school. With its drifting camera, evocative use of natural light, and gratifying perambulatory nature, this is a film with the power to readjust one's perceptions of the world around us.
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RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND (DVD)
In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is an award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history and its aftermath. It uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers who take their local community's case against the plant operator to the Supreme Court and a young female journalist who's caught in the radioactive crossfire.
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INSHALLAH A BOY (DVD)
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival is Jordan's Official Entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards.
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MURDER IN BIG HORN (DVD)
When three bodies are discovered in Big Horn County, Montana, an area known as "the most dangerous place in the country" for Native American women, local authorities first ignore each death before ruling them accidental, leaving the victims' loved ones to deal both with their loss and the indifference of local law enforcement. As sorrow turns to outrage, however, a vibrant and fearless movement is formed to search for the truth and bring attention to the thousands of missing or murdered cases among Native peoples in the US. Episodes 1-3.
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NIL BY MOUTH (DVD)
Against the dreary backdrop of Southeast London's concrete housing estates, the lives of three underclass Brits come crashing down. Gary Oldman's conversational, improvisatory script follows his characters' wretched lives in crowded council flats, tawdry Piccadilly strip joints, with truly outstanding acting and honesty.
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INTERNAL AFFAIRS (DVD)
A young Internal Affairs officer investigates a shady L.A. cop.
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THE DRESSER (DVD)
One fateful night in a small English regional theater during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stages a production of Shakespeare's King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour, but the actor/manager 'Sir,' who is playing Lear, is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive, but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night?
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