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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Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005

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Summary: An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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Summary: A prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: Private eye Rigby Reardon is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the mysterious death of her father--a wealthy scientist, philanthropist, and chessemaker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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Borde, Raymond.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2002

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Summary: The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Dickos, Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2002

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Summary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distribued by Warner Home Video 2005

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Summary: Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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Summary: An example of film noir which recounts the story of a man whose pursuit of the woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Licensed thru Corinth Films 2000

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Summary: Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: ClassicMedia 2005

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Summary: A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery --but their well-laid plans go awry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999

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Summary: "A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her unconscious mind."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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Robertson, Robin

Summary: A D-Day vet with post-traumatic stress disorder roams the United States and eventually finds work as a journalist during a time of social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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Silver, Alain

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1999

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Summary: Four "film noir" movies on 2 DVDs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Entertainment 2005

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Jason

Contents: Emily says hello -- Low moon -- & -- Proto film noir -- You are here.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2009

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Summary: Collection of five film noir features, originally released 1951-1956.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: 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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Joel, Billy.

Contents: Reverie -- Waltz #1 -- Aria -- Invention in C minor -- Soliloquy (on a separation) -- Suite for piano (star-crossed). Innamorato ; Sorbetto ; Delusion -- Waltz #2 (Steinway Hall) -- Waltz #3 (for Lola) -- Fantasy (film noir) -- Air (Dublinesque).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2001

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Bombay Rickey

Summary: "Electric Bhairavi continues Bombay Rickey's journey through psychedelic operatic imaginary film noir scores, with heavy doses of surf rock, Bollywood, Hindustani and Yma Sumac." -- Bandcamp.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Cowboys & Indians

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Summary: Harry the dirty dog: Harry runs away before bath time. When he returns home covered in mud, his family doesn't recognize him. Officer Buckle and Gloria: When Officer Buckle tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens - until he's partnered with a police dog named Gloria. Angus and the ducks: A curious Scotch terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hed

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2002

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