Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Almost a year after his son disappeared from his side during a Halloween parade, Mike Cole is suddenly haunted by strange visions and begins to follow a string of terrifying clues that he hopes will lead to finding his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAYSummary: Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SORSummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Kim, Hye-Ja
Summary: After her simple-minded son is tried and convicted for murder, a single mother, believing her son to be innocent, sets out to find the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI
Summary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASGrant, Cary
Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOSummary: A young Canadian man makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER THISummary: An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOUSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates--sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURSummary: This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains old, and why a secretive division of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CITCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: Crime boss Rex hires Frank and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash, but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a blow to the head, he wakes up to find the jewels are gone and no memory of his attacker. Now, Frank must confront his team members one by one to find the traitor before Rex covers his tracks by having Frank murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENBray, Robert
Summary: After private investigator Mike Hammer defends a prostitute from an attacker and later finds her dead, he sets out to find her killer and a mysterious ring she was wearing while alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MYSummary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EASSummary: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PRESummary: A famed mystery playwright with a recent string of flops may be planning to murder a talented former student in order to steal his work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RushSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006