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 KIL

Summary: 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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOV

Summary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AN

Summary: Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIL

Summary: In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former enslaved person who calls himself Cicero. But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy must stand up to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MUR

Summary: 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 RED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPA

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RED

Summary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IND

Summary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAS

Summary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI BLA

Summary: When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI

Summary: Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ROP

Summary: Trying to put their mystery-solving days behind them, the Scooby gang go on an all-expense-paid trip to a mysterious (and strangely familiar) tropical island where their vacation is cut short by an army of marauding zombies and creepy cat people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sc

Summary: Ex-G.I Rip Murdock tries to find out who framed his pal Johnny and then killed him. While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, Rip becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his friend's sweetheart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEA

Summary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Bl

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blade 2018

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLA

Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom potboiler, Anatomy of a Murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANA

Summary: The Scooby-Doo gang comes to the aid of their old friend Vincent Van Ghoul to capture the thirteenth ghost and break a curse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCO

Summary: 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 2002

Summary: Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LON