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21) Brighton Rock
Pub. Date
[2013], c1948.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 minutes) : sound., black and white; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A teenage gangster commits a murder and marries a waitress to cover his tracks. He later decides to get rid of her, but fate takes a hand in his murder plot.
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Weapons expert James McCullen has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke and Ripcord are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness. The two are rescued by Scarlett, Snake Eyes and Heavy Duty. They take the warheads to the G.I. Joe's command center, rendezvousing with General Hawk. McCullen...
23) No sudden move
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.
25) XXX
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Xander is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when he goes over the line with his latest stunt, he's faced with two options -- either infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring for the government, or go to jail. Xander turns spy and now this new breed of secret agent is out to take down the enemies of justice with his own style of no-holds-barred action.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?"--Container.
27) Veronica Guerin
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on real-life events, the film tells the story of Dublin journalist Veronica Guerin, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. In 1994, Guerin--who had previously been reporting corporate corruption and church scandals--turned her attention to Ireland's increasing drug problem. Her investigations, however, brought her to the attention of Dublin's crime underworld; the deeper she dug, the more danger she found...
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear. Bonus features include commentary; documentary; essays; and more.
29) The best offer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
30) Gambit
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Caine rolls the dice but Shirley MacLaine could end up the big loser in this witty suspense yarn that finds the duo attempting to steal a priceless art treasure. Their foolproof scheme backfires and they must pull out all the stops in order to come out on top.
31) Flag day
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jennifer Vogel's father John taught her so much about love and joy, but he also happened to be the most notorious counterfeiter in US history. Directed by Sean Penn, the film stars Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn in an intimate family portrait of a young woman who struggles to rise above the wreckage of her past while reconciling the inescapable bond between a daughter and her father.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the University hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
33) High anxiety
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
34) Sisters
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra, and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonized Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatizing events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past...
36) Cold in July
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After killing a home invader in self defense, an East Texas man finds his family's life in danger when the dead man's father, a ruthless ex-con, rolls into town seeking revenge.
37) The weapon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young boy accidentally shoots a playmate with a pistol found in the rubble of a bombed-out building, he runs away from home and wanders the streets of postwar England. Ballistic analysis connects the weapon to the unsolved murder of a military officer ten years earlier. A gruff American captain, Mark Andrews, attempts to track down the missing gun and appease the boy's anxious mother.
39) Only
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a mysterious plague threatens to kill all females on the planet, the lives and relationship of Eva and Will are put to the ultimate test as they try to survive the disease and the dangerous people hunting her down.
40) The courier
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a British businessman unwittingly recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Forming an unlikely partnership with a Soviet officer hoping to prevent a nuclear confrontation, the two men work together to provide the crucial intelligence used to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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