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(Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule Drama Charrière, Henri 1906-1973 Drama Escapes French Guiana Devil's Island Drama Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Drama Prisons French Guiana Devil's Island Drama Prisons French Guiana Drama Private investigators Private investigators DramaSummary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ENESummary: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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4 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuSummary: Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAUSummary: "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