What kinds of DVDs are you in the mood for? We’ve picked the best movies in each genre to get you started.

Movies are also also available to stream for free on the Hoopla and Kanopy apps. Learn more about the Library's streaming services here.

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A silhouette of a person jumping in midair while riding a bicycle Action / Adventure
Disaster, martial arts, spies, superheroes, war movies, and Westerns
An Icelandic horse with cream-colored fur laughs with a prominent underbite. Comedy
Classic comedies, dark comedies, funny road movies, literary comedies, parenthood comedies, romantic comedies, stoner comedies, and teen comedies
A silhouette of a man with a hat standing in the shadows near the corner of a building Crime / Mystery
Buddy-cop movies, film noir, heist movies, Mafia, and mysteries
A camera operator stands in front of a scene with first responders wearing safety yellow vests Documentaries
Arts and Culture; Families; Humans Can Be Terrible; Humans Can Be Wonderful; Musicians; Nature and Us; Our Amazing Planet; Politics
A woman, crossing her arms unhappily, leans against a building in front of an urban canal Drama
G-rated dramas, dramatic literary adaptations, dramatic road movies, and romantic dramas;
animal tearjerkers, romantic tearjerkers, and other tearjerkers.
A hiker stands alone on top of the Pali Notches of the Koʻolau Mountain Range Epics
Biblical epics, historical epics, and literary epics
Four adults lean down affectionately to pose with three children in front of a red table. Family
Adventure movies, animated films, comedies, dramas, and live-action musicals for the whole family
A gray clown mask with alligator eyes and huge eyebrows leers with a toothy grin. Horror
Classic horror, monster movies, serial killer​/​slasher flicks, supernatural horror, vampires, and zombies
The Dyptik dance troupe performs on a stage in Ramallah, their bodies blurred in motion Musicals
Animated musicals from Disney and from other studios; live-action musicals for the whole family, older kids, and for teens and adults
A tilted parabolic antenna listens at dusk to the starry sky above France Sci-Fi
Action, alien invasion, comedy, cyberpunk, dystopian, end of the world, first contact, and survival science fiction movies
An athlete leans forward in his green racing wheelchair during the 2017 Chicago marathon as the background blurs with his speed Sports
Baseball, basketball, boxing, football, and other sports
An assortment of national flags hanging above a courtyard World Cinema
Movies in Cantonese and Mandarin, French, Japanese, Spanish, rare languages (fewer than 10 million native speakers), and other languages

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