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Criminal behavior United States Drama Criminal investigation Massachusetts Drama DVDs Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Mafia Massachusetts Boston Drama Police chiefs Massachusetts Drama Stone, Jesse (Fictitious character) Drama Thrillers (Motion pictures) Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)Summary: It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. The rules of the game and of engagement have fundamentally changed. Today drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government targeted killings occur in corners across the globe, killing untold numbers of civilians. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DIRSummary: Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLESummary: Mr. Brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband. He is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. He is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MR.Summary: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAG RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EAGSummary: Martin Hunter is a high profile laywer who has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist C.J. Nicholas begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney's perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEYSummary: Follow FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman as they try to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WATSummary: After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DISSummary: A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THUSummary: A case of mistaken identity lands down-on-his-luck Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin begins to be under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat. He finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get to them before they get him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LUCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LUCSummary: A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Premonition 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrSummary: Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPESummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISummary: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PELSummary: Shot over a ten-year period, this documentary follows the changing times in New York's East Village as seen through the eyes of Josh Pais who grew up on 7th Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Acres Productions 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVSummary: Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. To uncover the truth, he enlists a possible eyewitness, who may be in danger herself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLOSummary: In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FIC KNOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie KnowingSummary: Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INTSummary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Summary: A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POISummary: When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie State 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: Brendon Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006