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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chang-rae, a first-generation Korean-American, has returned to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother. Wanting nothing more than to fulfill his role as the supportive son, Chang-rae must come to terms with his own conflicted emotions toward his mother.
2) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
3) The Presidio
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don't like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.
5) The sniper
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
San Francisco delivery van driver Edward Miller is unable to control his hatred of the women who reject him and the intense jealousy he feels whenever he sees lovers together. When he goes on a killing spree, the police must try and discover who he is.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
10) Dirty Harry
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.
11) Basic instinct
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the body of a washed-up rocker is found riddled with puncture wounds, his arms tied to his bed, suspicion immediately falls on his frequent sexual partner Catherine Tramell. In the wealthy, sexually aggressive mystery writer's most recent novel, a rock star is murdered in precisely the same way. Is the book a perfect alibi, or is she pulling a double-reverse bluff? San Francisco homicide detective Nick Curran has a violent past, an addictive...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing...
13) Zodiac
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500"...
14) Monk: season 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 682 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable.
16) Stowaway
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After befriending American Tommy Randall in Shanghai, tiny Chinese orphan Ching-Ching falls asleep in Tommy's car, which soon becomes cargo on a ship bound for San Francisco. Along the way, Ching-Ching plays matchmaker to Tommy and Susan Parker, who eventually marry and adopt her. But when the couple's clashing personalities lead them to divorce court, the one-time orphan must again work her magic to try to keep her new family together.
17) Magnum force
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
18) Born to be bad
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A conniving amoral young woman lies and schemes through San Francisco society to get a rich husband while continuing her affair with her former lover--an affair that threatens to destroy her life.
19) The room
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A black comedy in which a man about to be married is betrayed by his fiancée.
20) Monk: season 5
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 728 min.) : sd., col., b&w (1 ep.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Obsessive-compulsive sleuth Adrian Monk is back, solving crimes and keeping things immaculate.
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