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1) Test pattern
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Formats
Description
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
2) Possessor
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Description
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to possess civilians and execute priority targets. But the tables turn when while on assignment, Vos is suddenly trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Formats
Description
Discovering that exiled Algerian OAS terrorist Sadiel (Gian Maria Volontè, For a Few Dollars More) is about to return to France, both the CIA and the French Secret Service go on red alert. They blackmail a journalist, François Darien (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist), into helping them to entice Sadiel to Paris, in order to assassinate him. Meanwhile Michael Howard (Roy Scheider, The Seven-Ups) discovers the double-cross, only to be warned...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 284 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Discusses how to design, draft, write, and revise a thriller novel or screenplay, with examples from books and movies, covering topics such as characters, opening scenes, how to maintain tension and create conflicts and obstacles, incorporate plot twists, and other related topics.
5) Nuts
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The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
6) Freaks
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Description
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat -- or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 inches.
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
8) Siberia
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When a diamond merchant from America travels to Siberia to find a buyer for a collection of blue diamonds with rare and mysterious origins, he becomes tangled in an affair with the owner of a small Siberian cafe. The more obsessive his affair becomes, the more the dangerous world of the Russian diamond trade intrudes upon his life, until eventually it seems there is no way out for either him or his lover. Both his relationship and the diamonds are...
10) The survivalist
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future ravaged by overpopulation, a lone survivor mercilessly protects his remote silver of property from intruders. When a mother and daughter in search of food and shelter show up at his doorstep, he's suspicious, but allows them in. Soon an uneasy alliance, borne of necessity, forms between the trio. But distrust and paranoia threaten to give way to violence at any moment.+
Publisher
distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Guido, a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia, a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn"--Container.
12) Masques: Masks
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man is hired to write the biography of a television game show host Christian Legagneur, but after meeting the man and his eccentric friend and family, he begins to feel threatened.
13) Arbitrage
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robert Miller is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all: money, power, a loving wife, and a devoted daughter working by his side. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is running on borrowed time, trying to unload his crippled trading company before his frauds are revealed. A deadly error throws Miller's life into a tailspin, raising the suspicions of a detective and threatening the future of his financial empire.
14) Master gardener
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan...
15) Ma
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Sue Ann, a loner in her quiet Ohio town, is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends. Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting younger friends. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home as long as they abide by the house rules. Her hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, and what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare....
16) Border
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.
17) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns ... to even the score"--Container.
19) The guilty
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Description
When an emergency dispatcher takes a call from a kidnapped woman, he starts racing against time to save her but soon realizes that the crime he is dealing with is much more complex than he originally thought.
20) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
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