Explore: Movies
Learn to search for a list of the DVDs in CCPL's collection.
Databases
Biography Reference Bank: Search by name (last name first) or Browse for Actors or Directors in Profession/Activity to find detailed information about a performer’s early years, career highlights, home and family, hobbies and other interests, recordings, images, achievements, and awards with links to related websites.
Websites
Anime News Network: Serving anime fans' information needs with daily news, columns, reviews and the most extensive anime & manga database on the internet.
AnimeNfo.Com: Anime and manga online database with a search engine, general information, genre, Japanese studios, US distribution, cast and characters.
Based on the Book: An extensive list of movies and the books, short stories, or plays that inspired them.
Common Sense Media: Find family-oriented reviews of movies, games, websites, TV, books and music. Each review addresses issues such as: role models, messages, violence, sex, language, consumerism, drug use and age appropriateness.
IMDB: Features plot summaries, reviews, cast lists, and theatre schedules.
Kids-In-Mind: Movie Ratings That Actually Work: Reviews based on the amount of sex, nudity, violence, gore, and profanity in mainstream films. You search by title or by person or for any combination of ratings.
Metacritic: This website summarizes entertainment criticism about film, video, music, games, books and television. Uses “metascores” to combine all individual critic scores into an overall grade for each item.
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine: The Web's largest online directory of movie reviews.
Roger Ebert: Movie reviews, essays, interviews and the Movie Answer Man from film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Rotten Tomatoes: Movie trailers, reviews, and new movie news.
Print Resources
Use these links to search our catalog for print resources related to movies:
Reviews and advice:
- VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
- Motion pictures -- Reviews
- Motion pictures -- Reviews -- Periodicals
- Motion pictures -- Catalogs
Finding a movie: