Summary: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLASummary: Forget about the straight and narrow. Clever con Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) intends to go straight to the bank. Fresh from the slammer, he begins work on a heist that will either set him up for life or send him up forever. Croker and his unruly lot of thieves take on the mob, the police and the gridlocked traffic of Turin to rob a heavily armed shipment of gold bullion in The Italian job.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ITASummary: Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1996
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BladeSummary: An alien being comes to Earth to colonize its water riches but instead becomes head of a large corporation and is gradually destroyed by the pleasures, the technology and the richness of life on earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANSummary: An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANSummary: An uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Quintessentially British and with a documentary-style commitment towards accuracy, it mixes meticulously constructed, high-octane action sequences with taut suspense and gritty realism, making it the groundbreaking template for future crime dramas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019