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Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
In this series, Peter Pascoe and his wife, Ellie, now heavily pregnant, drive to a picturesque Cotsworld village to visit friends, only to find them murdered; a charming serial killer haunts the sleepy Yorkshire town of Wetherton; pest control takes on a new meaning when Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious rose grower; and Dalziel finds himself under suspicion when an old man is killed by a drunken driver.
2) Father Brown
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the idyllic English countryside of the 1950s, murder and foul play are afoot. Father Brown, a Catholic priest who has spent years learning of evil from the confessions of his parishioners, is on the case. A loving adaptation of the novels of GK Chesterton, Father Brown presents a long forgotten side of country life full of humour, warmth and devious goings on. The shambolic Father may seem like the last person you'd turn to in a crisis, but beneath...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Yorkshire village of Keldale is scandalised by the gruesome murder of local farmer, William Tey. The Yorkshire police are obliged to team one of their investigators with a London Superintendent, which places well spoken Superintendent Thomas Lynley with the tricky and resentful detective, Barbara Havers. While their relationship struggles, their findings become ever more interesting and when the investigators organise a reunion between...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The third season of this riveting crime drama opens with a cataclysmic event which reverberates throughout the eight episodes. Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster, with the wreckage landing right in the lap of 'H' Division - on Leman Street itself. From the twisted debris of the crash emerge clues that uncover long hidden deceits. These crimes threaten not only to destroy Reid's iron grip on 'H' Division, but to unravel his...
5) DCI Banks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot in three thrilling crime stories.
6) Maigret
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
In Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret comes under pressure from his superiors and the press to catch a serial killer of women with no common feature except their hair. Making no progress Maigret sets a trap using undercover police women. Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.
7) Whitechapel
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Police crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team and, despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The Cold Case squad is a crack team of detectives, reopening the files on unsolved murders. A psychotic killer is the key to an investigation when a victim who survived is harassed by a copycat assailant, a deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury who found him guilty, the team come up against a wall of Whitehall secrecy when a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering a prominent Home...
10) Space: 1999
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot?
12) Ramblin' Freak
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After a devastating personal tragedy, a struggling filmmaker finds a revealing home video in an old camcorder purchased on eBay and takes off with his cat on a cross-country road trip to find its owner. Nominated for an Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
14) Inland empire
Publisher
Absurda
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
When an actress falls in love with her co-star, she finds her life is becoming much like the film she is starring in, which is based on a Polish film that was never finished due to horrible tragedies.
"...extraordinary, savagely uncompromised..."--New York Times.
"...opens and contracts in your imagination while you watch it - and you're still watching it well after it's left the screen."--Roger Ebert.
"My advice, in the face of such hallucinatory...
15) Chan Is Missing
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their {dollar}4000.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger star in this adaptation of the Carson McCullers novella. Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow’s only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric proprietor of the town’s only café and, more importantly to her grip on the townsfolk, the owner of a secret moonshine still. Her domineering hold on the...
17) Wolf
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A small group of Roman soldiers leave the safety of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland to search for some missing warriors. All too quickly they realise their friends have been slaughtered by werewolves and a desperate game of survival begins. Who can they trust? How far must they journey to escape this new terror? Who else is hunting them?
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons stars in an Academy Award-winning role with Glenn Close, Christine Baranski and a high-powered supporting cast as Claus vonBülow, an aristocratic, moral reprobate who's guilty of attempted murderbut found legally innocent in a stunning REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. In thisshocking, witty true story that reveals life in a wealthy American upperclass that shamelessly feels no guilt over the consequences of itsactions, a story that examines a legal...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1929.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE is a 1914 German silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first film adaptation of the work. Starring Carlyle Blackwell Sr. (Sherlock Holmes), George Seroff (Dr. Watson) and Fitz Rasp (Stapleton).
20) Psychoville
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (205 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A chilling message draws five seemingly disparate characters into a dark tale of blackmail and desire in this nightmarish comedy from the creators of The League of Gentlemen. A blind recluse with an unusual hobby, a love-struck telekinetic dwarf, an embittered hook-handed clown, a murder-obsessed man-child, and a deranged but caring midwife all receive the same ominous message sending their already bizarre lives into turmoil. All are affected by the...
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