Summary: The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: "It seemed simple. Just deliver the cash. But when Jimmy loses ten grand of dirty money, the underworld comes knocking. If there's no cash, there's no more Jimmy. Suddenly it comes down to one hour, one girl, one crazy idea and ten thousand reasons to risk it all."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWOSummary: Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOGSummary: A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BlSummary: A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MILSummary: Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul is his 'partner-against-crime' whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COPSummary: Cynthia Hawkins is the operatic superstar whose refusal to make a recording frustrates her adoring public. A young fan named Jules makes a secret tape and is stalked by thugs who plan to blackmail the diva. Jules also accidentally acquires a tape which tells of a top mobster's role in an international sex and drug ring. Two hired killers are out to get the tape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: Chronicles the bloody, single-minded climb of a crime lord to power. Enter the psyche of an unrepentant mobster who slugs, claws and kills his way to the top. But when he learns that a former mentor he put in prison is about to get out, this self-made mobster must now face a man whose life he ruined ... and confront the twisted remnants of his own demented conscience as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: Torn between the sinister yet seductive world of crime and the bonds of family loyalty, two brothers must risk their lives to make a stand in their brutal struggle for survival in the streets of New York.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LITSummary: Working as a hostess in a trendy bar, a young beauty finds herself mercilessly torn between two men: Hao-hao, her neurotic and jealous live-in boyfriend, and Jack, the mysterious and enterprising gangster who may be her undoing. Chronicles the fleeting, finite blooming of a young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILSummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAFSummary: "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GIRSummary: Leaving wife and child behind, Ferdinand takes off on a wild adventure with the babysitter Marianne. As they become entangled with murder and gangsters, mysterious events destroy their happiness and lead to an explosive finale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PIESummary: In New York City in the 1930s, a powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc LLC 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FUNSummary: John Wick uncovers a trail to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful associations across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Shortly after losing her job, Tum finds a mysterious noodle box full of money on her doorstep. The clever beauty attempts to hold on to the loot and soon finds herself at the center of a thrilling, high stakes caper between Thai boxing gangsters, corrupt executives and the bungling authorities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIXSummary: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes, mob-protected card game is heisted by some small-time crooks, Cogan is called in to track them down and restore order to the local criminal economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KILSummary: Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEVSummary: A typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what's theirs, at any cost, the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW in the biggest fight of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VFWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VFWSummary: "Corky (Gina Gershon), a tough ex-con and her lover Violet (Jennifer Tilly) concoct a scheme to steal $2 million of mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOUSummary: When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015