Summary: The true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bridget Gregory makes her husband Clay steal more than half a million dollars, and then steals it from him. Hiding out in a small town, she grabs the first man she sees, Mike, to keep her cover. When Clay tracks her down, she stands to lose everything unless she can use her sexual power over Mike to lead him to murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LASSummary: A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancee's failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing one million dollars from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAVSummary: A gripping, stylish thriller that reveals the true story of one of the largest robberies in US history. While doing time for a botched heist, two small-time crooks cook up an ill-fated scheme to rip off a nearby vault for $30 million, money that belongs to the local Mafia!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VAUSummary: Veteran detective Hames Knight is dedicated to navigating the demanding streets of Los Angeles, in this thrilling first of a trilogy of films. As the city prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound Knight's partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective's dark past collides with his present...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DETSummary: When three suburban moms get tired of trying to make ends meet, they decide it's time to stick up for themselves by robbing the local grocery store. But when the manager catches a glimpse of one of them and the loot is far more than they expected, it doesn't take long for the three best friends to realise the perfect getaway will be harder than they think. From Executive Producer Jenna Bans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: Good Girls Season 2 opens with Beth (Christina Hendricks) dealing with her failed plan to get Rio (Manny Montana) arrested, while evidence about their crimes end up on Agent Turner's (James Lesure) desk. Throughout the season, Ruby (Retta) and Beth deal with the new status of their relationships with their husbands Stan (Reno Wilson) and Dean (Matthew Lillard), now aware of their secret...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: THE GANG (1977): In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small-time crooks unite to form a gang lead by the charismatic Alain Delon. After several bold robberies, they become notorious as 'the front-wheel drive gang.' The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last? THREE MEN TO KILL (1980): In this Gritty, violent, and suspenseful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GANSummary: At the end of the Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on, the troop seeks refuge in a stagecoach waystation. A feisty ex-Union army nurse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hangman's 2010Summary: A rich widow is trapped in her private elevator, nine feet from the floor, for ten terrifying hours. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a drunken derelict and his boozy prostitute friend, both bent on robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020