Summary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An unemployed Texan walks into a tavern in Red Rock, Wyoming, and is mistaken for a professional hit-man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Reservoir dogs: After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BLOCruise, Tom
Summary: A contract killer takes a cab driver hostage to ferry him around from hit to hit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A violent story of a down-and-out piano player in search of the severed head of a gigolo for which there is a million dollar bounty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a prominent drug dealer is murdered, Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) and Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) lead the investigation, but the trail goes immediately cold. What they discover is a conspiracy of massive scale. The killers (Joel Torre and Gerald Anderson) are inmates, temporarily released from jail as assassins before returning to incarceration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONSummary: All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PANSummary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMOSummary: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track suspicious cases that may be attributed to the supernatural or involve interplanetary activity. Memorable moments from this season include Mulder's appearance on Jerry Springer's talk show and Scully working with her partner to fake Mulder's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, join forces to solve cases the FBI has labeled X-files. Both are determined to uncover the hidden truths--one searching for otherwordly answers, the other for more earthbound scientific explanations. Together they will make discoveries neither could have ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005