Summary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLOSummary: A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JINSummary: Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty - a voyage filled with revenge and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THR1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THR
Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MysticSummary: Commander Dalgliesh is asked by Sir Alfred Treeves, a successful businessman, to investigate the death of his son, one of the young ordinands of the theological college of St. Anselm's in East Anglia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after the brutal murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter and Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MysSummary: Affable Jim Williams is hosting one of the most important parties of the Savannah Christmas season. John Kelso is a magazine reporter who finds himself amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on the party. His curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDSummary: 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: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POISummary: Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when Jimmy's estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY RUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUNSummary: Mark Sway (Renfro), an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor (Jones) will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1994
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLISummary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY InCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 2001Summary: 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