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Series
Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
2) The Limey
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program guide ([4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
"British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's 'accidental' death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge"--Container.
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stunning New York socialite and a down-to-earth city cop are caught in a deadly web of illicit passion and heart-stopping suspense in this taut, stylilsh thriller. A detective finds his life turned upside down when he is assigned to protect a beautiful eyewitness to a brutal murder.
4) The other
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The twisted story of 12-year-old twins whose devotion to one another is played out in a macabre game of murder.
5) The firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
8) Murder!
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 2
Description
"Diana Baring is an actress who is caught standing over the corpse of a fellow actress. Even worse, she has amnesia and remembers nothing about the murder, or herself. Though she desperately tries to recall anything that can help clear the fog from her mind, her amnesia is complete, as is the evidence against her. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die. Only one person believes she is innocent, but can he prove it in time to save her?"--Container....
9) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
11) Basic instinct
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Description
A woman becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered, a crime she had described in her latest novel. The detective investigating the murder soon becomes embroiled in the case that could cost him his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
13) Upper world
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy railroad magnate who is devoted to his family is neglected by his wife. He begins to spend time with a sympathetic showgirl. The showgirl's boyfriend tries to blackmail him; in the resulting melee, the showgirl is killed by the boyfriend, and the boyfriend is killed by the magnate, who then tries to cover up the crime.
14) Criss cross
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers, Vivian and Andrea, meet while drowning their sorrows in a bar. After trading stories about their chaotic and abusive relationships, they agree to help one another by killing each other's lovers.
16) Dead again
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer husband in 1948.
17) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder, ' their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality."--Container.
18) Compulsion
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After two wealthy law students commit a murder to demonstrate that they could get away with it, they stand trial for their crime without aiding their attorney as he presents his defense.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danny, a young woman, has murdered a man who was the latest lover of her mother. Danny's father, Luke Miller, describes the events that led to the tragedy, causing many family secrets to be revealed.
Formats
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
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