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1) Rope
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of local girl Laura Palmer, special agents Chester Desmond and Dale Cooper try to unravel the bizzarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings in Twin Peaks. Essentially a prequel for the television series.
3) Vertigo
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen edition, newly restored, collector's edition.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ben Matlock is a Georgia bred, Harvard educated defense attorney. His $100,000 fee is worth every penny as he defends his clients not only in Atlanta but all over the country. He is cantankerous and gruff and often uses colorful language, but beneath it all he has a heart of gold. He is assisted by his attorney-daughter Charlene, as well as his investigators Tyler Hudson, Conrad McMasters and Cliff Lewis. Ben is sweet on associate D.A. Julie March....
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Move over Miss Marple, there's a smart, stylish new detective in town - meet Miss Willoughby! Orphaned as a child, raised by a family friend (Kelsey Grammer), and skilled in strategy, literature, and martial arts, there's no case she can't solve. But even she is baffled when a longtime friend tells her that a ghost is haunting the bookstore she runs. Is someone playing a trick on the poor woman? Is it a hallucination? Or is something more sinister...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting-- an idyllic community, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting-- an idyllic community, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates...
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Agatha Christie's world famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of French TV movies, sexy, witty and definitely addictive! Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style. Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the young ambitious journalist Alice Avril, along with Laurence's ever loyal secretary, Marlene. Enjoy Agatha Christie mysteries with a decidedly French...
Language
English
Description
Emboldened by the return of Lord Voldemort, the Death Eaters are wreaking havoc in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Hogwarts, once thought to be a safe haven, may no longer be safe. Harry suspects that new dangers may lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Harry will have to help him uncover a vital key to unlocking Voldemort's defenses, a critical piece...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
12) Drive my car
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
14) Rust and bone
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the classic series, the gang captured twelve of the most terrifying ghosts the world has ever known. But whatever happened to number thirteen?? With their old partner Vincent Van Ghoul in trouble, Scooby and pals suit up to finish the job, catch the last ghost and seal the Chest of Demons once and for all.
16) Chinatown
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) 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....
17) Rebecca
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mystery 101: When a college student is found dead, English professor Amy uses her crime fiction expertise to unravel the case faster than detective Travis, who ends up working with Amy to catch the killer.
Playing dead: The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress' life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps.
Words can kill: When a guest at the college...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen/full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
20) Dark city
Series
Language
English
Description
When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal.
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