Summary: Bob is an aging American thief is living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo casino comes along, Bob hopes for a score big enough to let him retire from his life of crime....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMISummary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRESummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHASummary: In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history -- Jack the Ripper -- before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FROSummary: Disc 1. The son of a murdered criminal is enlisted to steal a valuable serum for an AIDS-like disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: Police inspector Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad investigate a cold case about a disappeared woman; when the murder of young twins implicates a group of students as the killers, Carl Mørck investigates; Department Q must catch a serial killer before time runs out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEPSummary: Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DUKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DukeSummary: Don Ciro is a timid middleman, who distributes money to the families of imprisoned clan members. One day he is ambushed by two angry clan members with an obvious grudge against their fellows. He later offers to defect to their side and leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution. Tot ịs a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who observes some drug dealers ditching some...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOMSummary: Revolves around an enigmatic smuggling ring's efforts to steal a priceless artifact and unfolds through the unique perspective of five characters, and shows how the choices of a single person can affect the outcome of things in a world where everything is interconnected.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE POWSummary: When Chief Inspector Tanner arrives at the house of Lord and Lady Lebanon to investigate the murder of their chauffeur, he quickly notices a lot of strange things about the household; when a priceless Buddhist artefact is stolen from a Japanese temple, a popular radio personality accidentally becomes involved in the case; a gambler falls in love with a young woman and believes she is bringing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: 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 RSummary: "Corky (Gina Gershon), a tough ex-con and her lover Violet (Jennifer Tilly) concoct a scheme to steal $2 million of mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOUMeeker, Ralph
Summary: Private detective Mike Hammer thwarts the theft of radioactive material.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER KISSummary: In this delightful comedy romp, the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch's Italian girlfriend. Crime has never been...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: What happens when you throw together one fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, one just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and one recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That's the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! / Scream Factory 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOWHudson, Kate
Summary: When a young American couple in London fall in to debt while renovating their home, they discover $400,000 in cash in the ceiling of the apartment below them and think their troubles are over until the thief who hid it there comes for it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2014