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
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMBSummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHASummary: A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: The story of a con-artist and his British partner who are forced to work for an FBI agent, and together they become involved in a sting operation known as Abscam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2014 2014Summary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RETCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Summary: As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HURSummary: After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BanditSummary: After the British Prime Minister passes away under mysterious circumstances, his funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the western world. However, what starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GAMFranco, James
Summary: After losing several people and places close to him, a man turns to living in the mountains as his life descends into a disturbing and primitive existence of a cave dweller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Inc 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHISummary: When Wall Street banker Martin is sent to a bank branch in upstate New York, he uncovers suspicious cash flow through a local gallery selling million-dollar paintings. As Martin traces links to a violent global mob, he realizes he's put his nearby family in grave danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CrSummary: After he reuniites with an old school pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Central 2016Summary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INSummary: After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hustle 2019Summary: An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILSummary: A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009