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Series
Criterion collection volume 170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
2) Nightwork
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, emptyhomes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago-but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention-or get attached. Still, he can't...
3) Heartwishes
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years--and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
5) The code
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two thieves try to pull off a dangerous heist with FBI, NYPD, and KGB operatives on their trail, and try to escape with their loot and their lives.
6) Blood pact
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost. Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come...
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
Author
Series
Description
"Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from...
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect jewel heist. Then their simple robbery turns into a bloody ambush and they realize one of them is a police informant. But which one?
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 220 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Number seventeen] A comedy-thriller about an unsuspecting, innocent hobo who accidentally stumbles across the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.
[The Ring] A silent film with musical soundtrack. A carnival fighter trys to make it as a professional to please his girlfriend.
11) Bandit
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
A criminal who has recently escaped from prison assumes a new identity in Canada and robs fifty-nine banks and jewelry stores while in pursuit by a police task force.
13) American animals
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history
14) Anxious people
Author
Description
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
15) Made in U.S.A
Series
Criterion collection volume 481
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([13] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism rummages through an intricate plot for a former lover who might have been assassinated, and also points toward more political cinema.
Set in the near future, Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P.
16) Widows
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica, Alice, Linda and Belle take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
17) The partner
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Formats
Description
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they grabbed him. He was living alone in a modest house. No evidence was seen of the fortune they thought he had stolen. Danilo had a past. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young law partner. One cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car. All that was buried were his ashes. Patrick watched the funeral from a distance. He fled. Then a fortune was stolen from his firm. So he fled...
18) Fast and loose
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 2
Formats
Description
"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
19) The Italian job
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A group of thieves plan on stealing a gold shipment by creating a large traffic jam in Turin.
20) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
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