Summary: When Victor's family moves into his grand-uncle's mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: forty years ago a girl, at the same age that he is now, mysteriously disappeared. With his detective instinct kindled, Victor makes it his mission to solve the case. But after he finds the girl's diary, filled with mysterious drawings showing that the mansion may...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VICSummary: 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: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That's what police brass and Craven himself think, but that's not what the investigation finds. Clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn't a target before, he, and anyone linked to his inquiry, now is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EDGSummary: Peter Falk plays a worldly, cynical gumshoe who takes on San Francisco, thugs, crooks, Nazis, femme fatales and the Golden Gate Bridge in this tribute to Bogie and the Hammett/Chandler school of hard-boiled detectives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHESummary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARBray, Robert
Summary: After private investigator Mike Hammer defends a prostitute from an attacker and later finds her dead, he sets out to find her killer and a mysterious ring she was wearing while alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MYSummary: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Dou RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DoubtSummary: "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 KILSummary: Valentine Wilmot, the owner of the popular Picadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles, has quit and that the public has judged Victor's partner Mabel as over the hill. Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PICSummary: Set amidst the Egyptian landscape, Hercule Poirot must unravel the web of treachery and guilt woven by the murderer of a beautiful young heiress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Summary: 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: A young Canadian man makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER THISummary: It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SCACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ScSummary: A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KNICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Knives 2020Summary: A beautiful place to die: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: When a couple in the fast lane to splitsville accidentally careens into a murder, they take off on a wild race to find the killer and clear their names.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY COMSummary: A radio host from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down south to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENSummary: Count Dracula transforms Shaggy into a fuzz-faced werewolf and there's only one way he will change him back. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must win a creepy cross-country race against a hot-rodding horde of sinister celebrity monsters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004