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Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, a brilliant biochemistry student but also a notorious prostitute. When her distraught fiance leads police to a naked, bludgeoned corpse he helped her bury, it sets in motion an investigation that uncovers a sordid world of blackmail, lust, and deception.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], �2003
Language
English
Description
The saga of El Mariachi continues when a corrupt CIA agent forces him out of hiding to help sabotage an assassination attempt on the president of Mexico by an evil cartel kingpin. El Mariachi has his own reason for helping - he is doing it for revenge.
5) Frank & Lola
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he is instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge.
6) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
7) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
8) Gun crazy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot.
10) The seven ups
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows a rogue squad of New York City cops, who name themselves after the minimum sentence of their targeted street hoods. Often as violent as the vicious thugs they pursue, these cops will stop at nothing to get justice in the courts--but more often--in the streets.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that the bad guys are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.
12) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
13) The last victim
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A group of outlaws and their sociopathic leader are pursued by a sheriff trying to solve the worst case his town has ever seen. When a young couple crosses paths with them, they are drawn into a cycle of violence where survival is the only option.
The Last Victim is a Neo Western thriller set in the American southwest, following Sheriff Hickey trying to solve the worst case he has seen in his small town, likely caused by a violent local gang led...
14) Marlowe
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light.
15) Body heat
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
16) Sunset Boulevard
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
17) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
18) Knox goes away
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
John Knox is a hit man attempting to make amends before his recently discovered dementia takes over. Aided by a trusted friend with his own shady past, Knox races against the police and his own rapidly deteriorating mind to save his estranged son from a vengeance-fueled mistake and "cash out" before it's too late.
19) Banlieue 13
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Language
Français
Description
Set in Paris in 2010, an isolation wall surrounds the ghetto District B13 where, without effective law enforcement, gang rule is absolute. An undercover cop and ex-thug have 24 hours to infiltrate a street gang in order to gain access to a neutron bomb and defuse it.
Paris, 2010. Damien est l'�elite de la police. Officier d'une unit�e sp�eciale d'intervention, expert en arts martiaux, il est pass�e ma�itre dans l'art de l'infiltration et...
20) High Sierra
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side, a side that will ultimately be his downfall.
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