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82) Back to the Wall
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Deceived by his wife, a man prepares to take revenge on her a terrible way.
83) The Third Man
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?
85) Double indemnity
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
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 insurance investigator who must sort things out.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
He had looks, charm, and killer instinct! Beneath his clean-cut looks...was a cold-blooded killer. Robert Wagner stars as Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he'd do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime...until the dead girl's sister begins to unravel Bud's...
87) Inherent vice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a bankroll ready for the taking. And it's too much to resist for racist ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan). He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with disgraced former cop Burke (Begley) - but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners (Belafonte) is Black. As tensions mount, and they get closer to their biggest score ever, Earl's hatred erupts, risking the heist...and their lives!
89) Nightmare alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money in 1940s New York.
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
Français
Description
Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to murder women at night. Jean Gabin is fantastic as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable whodunnit. Nominated for Best Film from Any Source and Best Foreign Actor (Jean Gabin and Jean Desailly) at the **BAFTA Awards**.
91) Memento
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
Based on a thrilling true story, **Sundance** Award-winner THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT is a crime noir that plays "*like an Arabic riff on Chinatown*" (***Entertainment Weekly***). Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Noredin, a police officer in Cairo, investigates a pop singer's murder at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially appears to be a crime of passion turns into a complicated case involving the power elite of Egypt. When Noredin decides...
93) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
Language
English
Formats
Description
This noir drama stars Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon (*Boardwalk Empire, Nocturnal Animals*) as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his wife...
95) Marlowe
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.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
4.3 full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Bridget Gregory makes her husband Clay steal more than half a million dollars, and then steals it from him. Hiding out in a small town, she grabs the first man she sees, Mike, to keep her cover. When Clay tracks her down, she stands to lose everything unless she can use her sexual power over Mike to lead him to murder.
98) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy ... including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort ... while feeding...
99) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Language
English
Description
A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.
100) Gutland
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Luxembourgish
Description
A surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their own. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Feature Film - Avant-Garde and Genre at the **Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema**. *"It fascinatingly blurs the line between fantasy and reality, from the eerie intro all the way through to a surprise...
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