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502) Julia's eyes
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case. As Julia begins to uncover clues to the truth of her sister's death, those close to her begin to disappear. Her sight gone and confined to her sister's house, Julia soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"10 to Midnight: Charles Bronson plays a tough L.A. cop whose daughter is stalked by a cunning sex-killer. Kinjite (forbidden subjects): ... Charles Bronson is a vice squad veteran forced to battle his own racial prejudices when he's assigned to track down a young, Japanese girl enslaved by a vicious child prostitution ring."--Container.
504) Dressed to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five murder mysteries featuring trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant Columbo.
Disc one: There's much more than meets the eye when Columbo investigates the death of a magician who supposedly was killed by one of his own clever magic tricks. Columbo searches for clues on the cutting room floor when he suspects a high powered film director of hiding evidence of murder.
Disc two: Does the heart rule the head, or vice versa? Columbo ponders...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
When a mummy in the Louvre's Egyptian exhibit suddenly releases an evil vengeful spirit, it selects unsuspecting visitor, Lisa, to inhabit. Soon, nighttime security guards are murdered one by one as the phantom's unstoppable, horrifying killing spree causes the question to be ask: what is doing this and what does it want? Lisa becomes stranger every day. It will take the teamwork of noted Egyptologist, Lisa's new boyfriend and a renowned detective...
510) Crossfire
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Edward Dmytryk...directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood took aim at injustice ......
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Darrow & Darrow: Claire Darrow is a single mom and a lawyer, who always wants to do right. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice.
Darrow & Darrow: in the key of murder: Claire Darrow takes on the biggest challenge of her career when new beau, District Attorney Miles Strasberg, asks her to help his younger sister who's suspected of murder.
Darrow & Darrow, body of evidence:...
512) The player
Series
Criterion collection volume 812
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery (2015): Hannah Swensen (Sweeney), a baker, turns amateur sleuth after finding her friend and delivery driver shot to death behind her shop, the Cookie Jar bakery.
A Plum Pudding Mystery (2015): A man is murdered in his office. The list of suspects is a long one, from a bitter ex-wife to exasperated investors. However, Hannah and her love interest Detective Mike Kingston are on the case.
A Peach Cobbler Mystery (2016):...
514) Murder, she baked collection: A plum pudding mystery ; A peach cobbler mystery ; A deadly recipe
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Free spirited cookie baker Hannah (Sweeney) Swensen jumps in to help handsome detective Mike Kingston track down culprits and uncover mysteries in Lake Eden, Minnesota.
A Palm Pudding Mystery: When a murder takes place at the local Christmas tree carnival, it seems there are quite a few suspects. With the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah's running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge who doesn't want her to see the New Year.
A Peach...
515) Monsters and madmen
Series
Criterion collection volume 364-368
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The haunted strangler: Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
Corridors of blood: In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer,...
516) The player
Series
Criterion collection volume 812
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Retired serial-profiler Frank Black uses his ability to see into the twisted minds of killers to help others by joining the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the forces of evil.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side.
Hard to handle: Con leads to con when the prize money for a rigged dance marathon is stolen.
Ladies they talk about: "Nan Taylor,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 971, etc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan's breathtakingly inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-kui, a Hong Kong police inspector whose methods are, ahem, unorthodox; the phenomenal Maggie Cheung, in a star-making role, plays his much-put-upon girlfriend, May. Packed wall-to-wall with astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1890s, Brisco is a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man, and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his legendary lawman father. He is hired by rich tycoons as a bounty hunter and teams up with their liaison, nervous lawyer Socrates Poole, and rival African-American bounty hunter Lord Bowler to hunt down the evil John Bly. Both sides are aided by mysterious, futuristic...
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