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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
3) Leatherface
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A teenage leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
6) Urban cowboy
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm
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English
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By day, Bud Davis works at a Texas oil refinery but at night he trades in his hard hat for a Stetson and goes to Gilley's. There he meets Sissy, a pretty two-stepper, who believes he's a cowboy. Bud's got to prove it when a dangerous ex-con schemes to rob Gilley's and steal Sissy's heart.
8) Boyhood
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Criterion collection volume 839
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2 videodiscs (165 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
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2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields.' Despite his partner's warnings, Detective Heigh sets out to investigate the crimes.
11) Secondhand Lions
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
12) The lost husband
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After the death of her husband, a woman tries to overcome her grief and moves with her children into her aunt's goat farm in Texas.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the summer of 1973, four teenagers - Erin, Morgan, Kemper, and Andy - are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker who is on her way to Mexico to score some dope. But when they pass through a small town, they see a bloody and distraught girl wandering by the roadside. After stopping to help her, they realize she's been involved in something horribly traumatic. As they piece together the story, the 5 teens are drawn into...
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie is not about to retire quietly in a trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild adventure filled with guns, women and booze. It's just another night in Old Mexico.
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Criterion collection volume 940
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
16) Hope floats
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
17) True stories
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Criterion collection volume 951
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2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : color illustrations).
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English
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"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation ot what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic...
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again. This time to do battle with a gang of outlaw bikers that has invaded the town to pull off a brazen and violent heist.
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