Weekly DVD Picks

WPL has a great selection of DVDs for movie night! We have the latest blockbusters as well as the classics you can't get enough of. Watch the trailers for the films below. If you like what you see, click on the title. You'll be directed to our catalog where you can place a hold. 

If you don't want to wait for a specific title to be available, try our Grab and Go DVD service. Each DVD bundle has a theme. You can grab these to go at the circulation desk at the Main Library. Bundles cannot be requested in advance. The titles will be a surprise. If you would rather request specific titles, please do so through our catalog at mywpl.org.

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How to Build a Girl (R)

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Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and offbeat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.

Deerskin (Not Rated)

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Language: French 

In this dark comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee becomes obsessed with a vintage-fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, he falls into the guise of an independent filmmaker and befriends a trusting bartender who becomes his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself.

The Wretched (R)

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Following his parents' separation, a rebellious teenage boy is sent to live with his father for the summer in an idyllic tourist town. The quiet town offers him little solace, and his problems become more disturbing when he makes a chilling discovery about the family renting the house next door.

Sometimes Always Never (PG-13)

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Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

Enter the Forbidden City (Not Rated)

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Language: Mandarin

Yue Jiu, the most famous opera singer in all of Imperial China, is expelled from the capital city for vulgarity. He heads south, where he encounters Wang Runsheng, a promising young opera singer for the Chuntai Troupe. When the Emperor invites all of China’s opera troupes back to the capital city for a celebration, Yue Jiu and Runsheng are forced to choose between their reputations, their safety, and their love of opera.