Summary: A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY ONESummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WaSummary: Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SCASummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER SILSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FIVSummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. To uncover the truth, he enlists a possible eyewitness, who may be in danger herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher's quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official's wife. When Gallagher learns that the woman's secret lover was a seductive federal agent, he finds himself under fire. But from whom, his own cops, a vengeful drug lord, the CIA, or someone even more ruthless?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BENSummary: In her spectacular film debut, Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, hear her, touch her. But one wants to kill her - and that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel's glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BODSummary: In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets, but especially Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY TWISummary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: WIN RATED RSummary: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPASummary: "Jennifer Shannon loves scouring garage sales to look for items to sell in her resell shop. But when she realizes a series of burglaries and a friend's murder may have a connection to the sales, she not only helps the cops, but does some undercover sleuthing of her own. As she gets closer to the truth, she becomes the murderer's next target. Now she must fight for her own survival in order to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GARSummary: The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 2002Summary: Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of local girl Laura Palmer, special agents Chester Desmond and Dale Cooper try to unravel the bizzarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings in Twin Peaks. Essentially a prequel for the televison series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWISummary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MANSummary: Billionaire Thomas Crown loves courting disaster and winning! But when he meets his match in an intelligent, cunning, lady insurance investigator, a game of cat and mouse ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Thomas 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THOSummary: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019