Summary: "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 KILLust, 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 Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARSummary: A career thief and a detective square off to make sure that the other does not succeed. Special features include: additional scenes; audio commentary; documentaries; and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HEASummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: 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: In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, is a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella's flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CRUSummary: Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRYSummary: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ARTSummary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: A crew of young environmental activists executes a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is a part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOWBale, Christian
Summary: The story of a con-artist and his British partner who are forced to work for an FBI agent, and together they become involved in a sting operation known as Abscam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AmCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2014 2014Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INBullock, Sandra
Summary: An uptight FBI Agent and laid back Boston police officer team up to take down a drug lord.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEA RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HEASummary: 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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHADean, Priscilla
Summary: In Shanghai, an American woman involved in opium smuggling gets caught between an undercover agent and a drug kingpin; a gang of thieves who steal jewels from the homes of the wealthy begin to distrust each other and fall apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRISummary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: 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 convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005