Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RUMSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HITBrando, Marlon
Summary: An ex-fighter gets caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: After having endured extremely different career paths, the lives of three disheartened Brooklyn police officers will collide with destiny when they all wind up at the same fatal crime scene.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Overture Films 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROSummary: A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSummary: Two crimes: one real, one fiction. Tadek is a detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman. To his and everyone's surprise the case is identical to a character's murder in a recently published novel by a man named Kozlow. While the crime appears to be an open and shut case, Tadek discovers a darker secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARSummary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hustle 2019Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: Alex is a teenage hooligan, in a near-future England, who gets jailed by the police. There, he volunteers for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually, nearly dying, he becomes a major government embarrassment and they arrange to cure him of his cure. He and his gang break into an author's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI CLOSummary: Jakob Eklund stars as tough Gothenburg cop, Johan Falk, in three films that introduced the character to audiences around the world --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet Film, MHz Networks 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHSummary: A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MILSummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY COMLust, Andreas
Summary: A man leads a double life as a championship runner and a bank robber.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROBSummary: The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer throughout twelve years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUSummary: The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, suffering from syphilis and dementia, comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Going 2017Summary: A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off one perfectly executed bank robbery after another. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind, and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSummary: Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019