Summary: A murderous womanizer and his latest paramour, herself unhinged by desire, embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy, and passionate forays into the dark arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANASummary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After 30 years in prison, Horcia discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: A young punk band on the road looks to earn enough money to get back home and gets an invitation to play at an isolated backwoods Oregon club. The gig turns sinister when the band accidentally witness a crime and discover that the club is run by neo-Nazis. Now trapped backstage, they must figure a way out or die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOVSummary: TV legend Angela Lansbury returns to her acclaimed and admired role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in all 21 entertaining episodes. Loaded with the shocking surprises and clever storylines that fans of this 41-time Primetime Emmy-nominated and 16-time Golden Globe-nominated series have come to expect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: Jazz musician Danny Parker becomes a drifter among the drug dealers and criminals of Los Angeles after the murder of his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020