Summary: A few days after Christmas, half-sisters Ida and Tuva set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline. Toward the end of the dive, a rockslide traps Tuva underwater. As Ida surfaces to call for help, she discovers that the rockslide has struck above water as well, burying their equipment, phones, and car keys; they are completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRESummary: A small-town crime thriller set in rural Missouri, about two estranged half-brothers who kidnap the lead witness testifying against their incarcerated father to prove his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HUNSummary: The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIVSummary: Based on a true story, Nitram is an isolated young man living with his parents in Australia until he meets an eccentric heiress. What follows is a gripping portrait of nihilism and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NITCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NITSummary: Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ROGSummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: 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: While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in 1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American ex-pat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TWOSummary: In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While on vacation, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to prevent the apocalypse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR KNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KNOSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009