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Ford, GlennSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bullitt (McQueen) needs to keep a trial's star witness, Johnny Ross, out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours. However, before the night is out, the witness is dying of gunshot wounds in a San Francisco hospital.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER BULSummary: A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Bullitt 1997Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BulSummary: Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VERSummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELFord, Glenn
Summary: An aging apple-seller pretends to be rich in order to help her daughter marry into a wealthy family, assisted by an assortment of gangsters in her comic charade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY POCSummary: Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Conspirator 2011Summary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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3 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RIPSummary: Sinister Dr. Mabuse maintains his wealth through counterfeiting, manipulating the stock exchange and bending weaker minds to his will. In part 1, Mabuse builds his empire and casually ruins Count Told while entrancing the thrill-seeking Countess. In part 2, Mabuse turns from criminal to villain, murdering the Count and kidnapping the Countess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRSummary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOSummary: The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOSummary: A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOPSummary: Set in 1930's Chicago, this story deals with two con men who seek revenge on a big-time gangster who was responsible for the murder of their friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STISummary: It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ICESummary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED RSummary: A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOR RATED RFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sherlock 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG-13Summary: Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POISummary: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008