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1) Ajami
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
In her last Swedish film before moving to Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman shines playing a small-town woman at the center of a sensational crime.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
8) Killer joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
"...Matthew McConaughey is on fire in Killer Joe..."--Rolling Stone
"...a killer performance by Matthew McConaughey."--Los Angeles...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Chinese superstar Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography...
10) Dark crimes
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When police officer Tadek finds connections between an unsolved murder and a crime from a book by famous writer Krystov Kozlov, Tadek begins to pursue Kozlov and his girlfriend, a secretive sex-club worker. As his fixation with Kozlov grows, Tadek falls into a deadly underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the alarming, deadly truth.
11) The mule
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
12) Proud Mary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
Publisher
Sixteen Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn his life around. Together four friends embarks on an adventure and discover that turning to drink might just change their lives--not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world.
14) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
15) The big Lebowski
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stoned-out leftover from the 1960s is asked to be the go-between when the wife of a rich man for whom he is mistaken is kidnapped.
16) The hollow point
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a drug cartel deal goes horribly wrong, a sheriff with violent tendencies and his young replacement join forces to investigate.
17) The outfit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
18) Body brokers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true and untold story of multi-billion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment fraud, where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires overnight as 'body brokers.'
19) Good people
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young American couple in London fall in to debt while renovating their home, they discover $400,000 in cash in the ceiling of the apartment below them and think their troubles are over until the thief who hid it there comes for it.
20) The card counter
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
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