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Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Linnet Doyle steals and marries her best friend's fiance, the best friend gets her revenge by hounding the newlyweds. On a pleasure cruise down the Nile, the widely despised Mrs. Doyle is found murdered. Thank goodness Poirot is along for the ride.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the train ride to Marylebone Station, American Luke Williams befriends elderly Lavinia Fullerton. She is en route to Scotland Yard to disclose the name of a murderer, and Luke soon finds himself caught up in a murder investigation.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Lucy Angkatell hosts a weekend get-together at her country estate, she appears to overlook the obvious fact that all her guests loathe one another. Poirot enjoys a ringside seat for the bizarre goings-on, but he is thrust into an active role when the proceedings suddenly turn deadly.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ten people - eight strangers and two married domestics - attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. Each has unwittingly been invited to his or her own murder. Ten Little Indians refers to the ten invitees, the familiar nursery rhyme and to ten Indian figurines affixed to a serving plate at the castle. After the fatal poisoning of a guest, one figurine goes missing. One down, nine to go.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American insurance investigator Al Colby is hired to smuggle a package out of Havana and into Oaxaca, Mexico. When the man who hired him is murdered aboard ship, Colby decides to find out what he is carrying and why it is worth killing for.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Together the sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey back from life's darkest edge.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect he new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
10) Vertigo
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
12) Frenzy
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert; and in typical Hitchcock fashion, their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.
13) The Lake House
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they're living two years apart, they try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
15) Changeling
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working-class suburban Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to...
17) Moonraker
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
18) Missing
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : b&w, ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
19) Hot fuzz
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the son of the police chief. Danny is a huge action movie fan...
20) Lost highway
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest him for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...
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