Movies (fiction) by Category

Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt 2009

Joachim Kunert, Claus Keuchenmeister, Hans Mahlich, Martin Sonnabend, Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Dieter Noll, DEFA, Studio feur Spielfilme, and Icestorm Entertainment GmbH

Two Seventeen year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are taken out of school and conscripted into Hitler's war.  Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier while Werner eventually realizes the effort is fruitless and deserts. Ironically, Gilbert who remains loyal is hung by the SS who mistake him for a deserter, and Holt exacts revenge by gunning down the SS unit from a basement window. 1 videodisc (164 min.)

MEDIA 10-2159

 

Across 110th Street 2001, 1972

A hard-edged cop on the take for years battles the Mafia and local gansters in Harlem. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4024

 

Advise & consent c2005, 1962

Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well. 1 videodisc (138 min.)

MEDIA 10-4941

 

Ai-Mei ghosted 2009

Monika Treut, Astrid Streoher, Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting-Ting Hu, Jana Schulze, Uwe Hass, Hyena Films (Firm), Chi & Company, and First-Run Features (Firm)

German artist Sophie is trying to come to terms with the unsolved murder of her Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling. After a run-in with the seductive Mei-Li, a journalist investigating Ai-Ling's death, Sophie flees back to Germany. But when Mei-Li turns up on her Hamburg doorstep, the mystery deepens. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-2153

 

Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest 2010, 1959

A Madison Avenue ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents, and goes on the run across the United States. 1 videodisc (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-4333

 

Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt 2006, 1943

Alfred Hitchcock, Jack H Skirball, Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Gordon McDonell, Dimitri Tiomkin, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Robert Boyle, Universal Pictures Company, and Skirball Productions (Firm)

Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret. 1 videodisc (108 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3092

 

Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train c2004, 1951

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. 2 videodiscs (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4055

 

Alfred Hitchcock's The birds c2000

Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Daphne Du Maurier, Universal Pictures Company, and Universal Pictures (Firm)

When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds. 1 videodisc (2 hr.)

MEDIA 10-1710

 

Les Amants criminels Criminal lovers  c2001

Alice and Luc find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and they cannot find their way back out. 1 videodisc (92 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3825

 

The Baader Meinhof complex 2010, 2008

Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force, Horst Herold. 2 videodiscs (149 min.)

MEDIA 10-4059

 

Bad day at Black Rock 2005, 1955

A one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny desert town, the locals possessing a dark past they want to keep secret, by any means necessary. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-4938

 

Baise-moi c2000

"Manu is violently raped by a group of savage young thugs. Nadine, a tough-skinned prostitute, sells her body but refuses to give up her soul. Chance unites them and together they decide to alter their destinies. Angry at the world, the embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip."--Container. 1 videodisc (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-3900

 

Basic instinct  2001, 1992

A woman becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered, a crime she had described in her latest novel. The detective investigating the murder soon becomes embroiled in the case that could cost him his life. 1 videodisc (129 min.)

MEDIA 10-3884

 

Bees saal baad  2005? 1962

Biren Naug, Dhruva Chatterji, Devki Shen, Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishna, Biswajeet, Asit Sen, Madan Puri, and Geetanjali Pictures

"After a lusty Thakur rapes a young girl, she kills herself. Thereafter, the Thakur is killed by what the local people call the girl's vengeful spirit. Then the Thakur's son is also killed in a similar way. Thereafter the brother of the Thakur is also killed. The grandson of the Thakur, Kumar Vijay Singh (Biswajeet) returns from abroad to claim his ill-fated legacy. He is warned to stay away from the grounds that have killed his ancestors, but he intends to find out who or what is behind the killings, and hires a private detective"--IMBD website. 1 videodisc (144 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3120

 

The big sleep 1946, c1978

Michael Winner, Elliott Kastner, Jerry Bick, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, and Joan Collins

Marlowe is hired by a retired general to find out who has been blackmailing the old man's wild daughters. At the same time he has to try to locate the missing husband of one of hte daughters. Marlowe's search leads through a dangerous thicket of murder and suicide in the seedy criminal underworld straight to the headquarters of the notorious nightclub owner and gangland boss, Eddie Mars. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 41        2-45  10-290

 

Blood simple c2001, 1984

When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4043

 

Blue velvet c2002

David Lynch, Fred Caruso, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-383

 

The boys from Brazil 2009

Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole, Franklin J Schaffner, Heywood Gould, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason , Ira Levin, Producer Circle Company, and Lion's Gate Films

A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele: to clone Hitler. 1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.)

MEDIA 10-2232

 

Breach c2007

Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney , Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan, Scott Kroopf, Bobby Newmeyer, Scott Strauss, Adam Mazer, William Rotko, Billy Ray, Universal Pictures (Firm), Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (Firm), Outlaw Productions (Firm), Intermedia Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

When Eric O'Neill is promoted from a low-level surveillance job into the headquarters of the FBI, his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent is on the verge of reality. He is hand picked to work for the renowned operative Robert Hanssen within "information assurance," a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. Eric quickly discovers the true reason for his hire: Hanssen is the sole subject of a long-term, top-secret investigation, a suspected mole made all the more dangerous by the sheer global import of the information he is charged with protecting. The Bureau asks Eric to slowly draw the traitor out of deep cover. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-1349

 

Changhwa Hongnyon 2005

Chi-un Kim, Yong Kim, Su-jong Im, Chong-a Yom, Kap-su Kim, Kun-yong Mun, Masulpiri (Firm), Yonghwasa Pom, and Tartan Video (Firm)

"Something strange is happening when Su-mi and her younger sister, Su-yeon, come home to their father's large but dark and somewhat foreboding house after a stay in the hospital. Their dad is taciturn and burdened, and their stepmother, Eun-joo, greets them with forced enthusiasm and more than a little sense of irritation. But that's nothing compared to what happens when bedtime rolls around."--Container. 1 videodisc (115 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3158

 

Civil brand 2004

Frances has been sent to the "pen" for killing her abusive husband. After being abused, violated and persecuted by the prison warden, the women from the cellblock rise up and revolt against the injustices of the penitentiary and the "new plantation" workplace that harvest human labor for big-time profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-5006

 

The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer 2003

Jan Svankmajer and KimStim, Inc

"Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. This is a collection of short works"--Container. 2 videodiscs

MEDIA 10-2191

 

Compliance 2013, 2012

Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the investigation, following step-by-step instructions from the officer at the other end of the line. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-4207

 

Le conseguenze dell'amore 2005, 2004

Everyone harbours a dark secret, but it's obvious that Titta Di Girolamo has more than one. Why else would a 50-year old man from southern Italy choose to live for eight years in an anonymous hotel room in an anonymous town in Switzerland? He seems to be a man without identity and with little to do, spending his time smoking and coldly observing the hotel's denizens, mostly the beautiful barmaid Sofia. A nullifying routine, he's constantly waiting for something to happen, but what is his secret? And what is the story of the mysterious suitcases delivered to his door? 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-3990

 

The constant gardener 2006

Ralph Fiennes, Fernando Meirelles, Simon Channing-Williams, Jeffrey Caine, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Kounde, Danny Huston, Alberto Iglesias, John Le Carré, Focus Features, Universal Pictures (Firm), Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), Potboiler Productions (Firm), UK Film Council, and Scion Films

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. 1 videodisc (129 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3356

 

The conversation 2000

Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, and Cindy Williams

A provoking mystery-suspense drama exploring the morality of privacy. The story focuses on Harry Caul (Hackman), a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-2208       2-37

 

Crash 2010, 1996

Jeremy Thomas, Robert Lantos, David Cronenberg, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, J. G Ballard, Fine Line Features, Alliance Communications, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

Film producer and sexual adventurer James Ballard's life is transformed by a car crash. It introduces him to Dr. Helen Remington, as her husband is propelled through the windshield and into James' car, dead. No sooner are Helen and James both out of the hospital than they show up together at a late-night show staged by Vaughan, whose near-fatal accident left him obsessed with the erotic possibilities of crashes. Vaughan savors crash data and presides over a cult of like-minded fetishists, soon joined by James--comatose with lust and fascination--as he single-mindedly pursues this new erotic linking of cars, sex, and injury. 1 videodisc (100 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3047

 

The crazies 2010, 1973

A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems a small Pennsylvania town, Evans City.  1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4410

 

Crescendo 2010

An American girl goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer and finds her own life is in jeopardy. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-5465

 

Cruising 2007, 1980

Steve Burns is sent undercover to find a serial killer who brutally slays and dismembers gay men in New York's S & M subculture. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the rules of this little society. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3779

 

Dark passage 2005

Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.  1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.)

MEDIA 10-5478

 

Das leben der anderen/Lives of others c2007

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Herbert Knaup, Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Buena Vista International Film Productions, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte (Firm), Creado Film, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. Wiesler's sympathies shift from the government to its people - or at least to this one particular person. 1 videodisc (137 min.)

MEDIA 10-1106

 

Das weisse Band eine deutsche Kindergeschichte c2009

Michael Haneke, Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Ulrich Tukur, Leonie Benesch, Ursina Lardi, Fion Mutert, X Filme Creative Pool, and  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

"On the eve of World War I, strange accidents in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany involve the children and teenagers of a choir run by the schoolteacher and their families. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery as these events gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual"--Container. 1 videodisc (144 min.)

MEDIA 10-1844

 

Deep red c2007, 1975

Dario Argento, Salvatore Argento, Bernardino Zapponi, David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Clara Calamai, Goblin (Musical group), Rizzoli Films, Seda Spettacoli (Firm), and Blue Underground, Inc

A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3183

 

Deliverance 2007

They left their troubles at the office, left the wives and kids behind. Four men bound for the wilderness, for a great adventure--without their golf clubs. Lewis has talked his buddies Ed, Drew, and Bobby into going on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River, which is being soon to be dammed. It was the weekend they hoped for, but it turns out to be a weekend where the destruction of nature, macho posturing, conflict between city and country folk, and the dangerous disconnection of modern civilization from nature will loom entirely too large. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3778

 

Don't answer the phone c1980

Dr. Lindsay Gale is a radio talk show host who counsels psychologically troubled callers. Kirk Smith is a disturbed Vietnam veteran who becomes a regular caller. Stimulated by these radio sessions, he begins stalking the doctor's patients and brutally attacking them. Detective McCabe is assigned to track the killer down. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-5472

 

Le Doulos 2008

Carlo Ponti, Georges de Beauregard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, Renae Lefaevre, Fabienne Dali, Carl Studer, Philippe Nahon, Michel Piccoli, Paul Misraki, Pierre Lesou, Rialto Pictures LLC, Studio Canal, and  Criterion Collection (Firm)

As the title screens explain, in gangster slang, 'doulos' means 'hat.'  In the slang shared by criminal and police, 'doulos' also designates the person who wears it: the informer.  Through shadowy back streets on the edge of Paris, an ingenious cat and mouse game is played as two underworld characters, seemingly working against each other, find themselves in a deadly entanglement of their own making but infinitely larger than both of them.  Faugel, a thief recently released from prison, and Silien, Faugel's best friend and all-around suspicious character, are up against shady nightclub owner Nuttheccio, and the police's Capt. Clain, ruthless as any criminal.  The hapless gangsters know two things: their sense of honor is the only thing they can take with them to the grave, and that date with the grave is coming all too soon.  By Jean-Pierre Melville, French poet of crime cinema, full of shadows, night, trench coats, guns, tough guys, cigarettes, slinky dames, cocktail bars, crooked cops, betrayal, and loot. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-2049

 

The driver c2005, 1978

A skilled getaway driver faces finally being caught in a double-cross scheme planned by an obsessed detective. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-4253

 

Duel 2004, 1971

A traveling businessman is menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him! 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-4409

 

Dushman Dusmana 1998?

A young woman, Naina, is determined to track her twin's rapist and killer, and to seek justice on her own terms, when it is unobtainable through the courts. She resorts to rigorous physical training and pursues the criminal despite her own fears and the obvious danger to herself. 1 videodisc (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-3888

 

Eastern promises c2007

Robert Lantos, Paul Webster, David Cronenberg, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Serendipity Point Films, BBC Films, Focus Features, Kudos Film and Television (Firm), Scion Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai, who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-1108

 

El espinazo del diablo 2002

Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muńoz, Agustin Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro, Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Ińigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, Deseo, S.A, Tequila Gang (Firm), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all. 1 videodisc (108 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3193

 

Extreme prejudice c2001, 1987

A rum tale of friendship gone wrong, "Extreme Prejudice" presents the age-old story of two friends: one on the side of law and order, one not. El Paso based Texas Ranger Jack Benteen is intent on trying to control the drug trade, and the means breaking up the drug cartel run by his old friend Cash Bailey across the border in Mexico. His girl Sarita has tired of life with him, and returned to her former lover--Cash. Cash's cohorts have killed a local sheriff, and an unofficial, top-secret cadre of American combat veterans (apparently working for the CIA) has arrived to muddy the waters. Are they after Cash, too, or just his cash? A shootout at Cash's Mexican fortress seems inevitable, but who will be there, and on which side? 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4252

 

Falling down 1993, 1999

Joel Schumacher, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Tuesday Weld, Warner Bros, Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises, Alcor Films, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination:  his ex-wife and young daughter. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-420

 

Family plot 2006

A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-5033

 

Farewell, my lovely 1999, 1975

A tough, street wise private eye is hired by an ex-con to find a missing sweetheart. In the course of his investigation he is beaten unconscious and wakes up next to a corpse, implicating him in murder and making his job even harder, but that's just the beginning of his troubles. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-4214

 

Felicia's journey 2000

Atom Egoyan, Bruce Davey, Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinée Khanjian, and William Trevor

Joseph Hilditch, an eccentric chef, befriends a young woman, Felicia, who has come to town searching for her boyfriend. She is attracted to the seemingly harmless and extremely helpful Hilditch, trusting him and entering his life, only to discover too late that she is not the first woman that he has taken in. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-50

 

Flickan som lekte med elden c2010, 2009

In this second film based on Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist's journalistic protégé and his activist girlfriend are delving into a sex-trafficking ring whose patrons who are highly placed in the political establishment. When the couple are brutally murdered, the gun found in their apartment has Lisbeth's fingerprints on it, and Lisbeth and Mikael embark on parallel manhunts. Mikael is simultaneously aided and obstructed by a shambling detective named Bublanski, while Lisbeth is drawn toward fresh dangers connected to a rotten, unresolved past. The film captures both the beautiful, lugubrious Swedish landscape and the existential mood of contemporary northern Europe, trapped between the info-capitalist future and the ideological prisons of the past. 1 videodisc (129 min.)

MEDIA 10-4004

 

Following 2012

Is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path. Special features included. 1 videodisc (70 min.)

MEDIA 10-5384

 

Formosa betrayed 2010

Will Tiao, Katie Swain, David Cluck, Adam Kane, James Van der Beek, Wendy Crewson, John Heard,  Tzi Ma, Leslie Hope, Kenneth Tsang, Charlie Stratton, Formosa Films, and Screen Media Films (Firm)

When a Taiwanese-American professor is murdered, FBI agent Jake Kelly races to track the killers back to Taiwan. Kelly soon finds himself immersed in a dangerous conspiracy as he dodges forces ranging from the U.S. State Department to the Chinese Mafia. 1 videodisc (103 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2904

 

The French connection c2001, 1971

Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4230

 

French connection II 2001, 1975

Gene Hackman returns in the role of hard-hitting detective Popoeye Doyle who travels to Marseilles in prusuit of the heroin dealers who he hit, but failed to kill in New York. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-4231

 

Games 2011

Attempting to fill their empty lives, a wealthy couple plays a variety of peculiar and unconventional games with their guests in their lavish Manhattan apartment. Every ace is trumped in this riveting psychological thriller where everything goes, the winner takes all, and losing the game could mean losing your life. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-5073

 

Glissements progressifs du plaisir 2014

"A young woman is questioned by both police and religious authorities after her roommate is found bound and murdered. Except it's not clear that her roommate is actually a real person or just a mannequin in a bizarre art piece, and it's not even really clear whether she's being questioned after or BEFORE she commits this "murder"--IMDB, viewed May 3, 2010. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-5069

 

God of killers 2000

John Matarazzo and Yun-fat Chow

Wu Viet, a Vietnamese refugee trying to reach Hong Kong, discovers that his fellow refugees are mysteriously disappearing from the camp. He escapes to the Philippines with Shun Ching, a Vietnamese girl, only to encounter more trouble. The girl is kidnapped and Chow is forced to work for a vicious and morally bankrupt gangland boss. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-153

 

Gun crazy 2004, 1950

Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Russ Tamblyn, Joseph H Lewis, Maurice King, Frank King, MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, King Bros. Productions, and Warner Bros. Entertainment

Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3308

 

ha-Hesder Time of favor 2002, 2000

A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the Israeli military in the West Bank. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends. Raises questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4260

 

Hatchet for the honeymoon 2000, 1970

Santiago Moncada, Manuel Cańo, Mario Bava, Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, GG Productions, Pan Latina Films, Mercury Films Inc, and Image Entertainment (Firm)

"John Harrington and his wife, Mildred, run an exclusive Paris fashion salon devoted to wedding apparel for women. John has secretly embarked on a spree of homicides, killing young brides on their wedding nights because, with each murder, his memory comes closer to revealing the traumatic event that branded him a dangerous psychotic."--Container. 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3178

 

Henry portrait of a serial killer 2005

John McNaughton, Lisa Dedmond, Steven A Jones, Richard Fire, Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles, Denise Sullivan, Maljack Productions, Inc, and Dark Sky Films

Based on true events, John McNaughton's film follows Henry's senseless killing sprees. Ex-convict Otis invites Henry to share his Chicago apartment and he becomes involved in Henry's killing sprees. Otis' sister comes to visit her brother, and she is fascinated with Henry and thinks his life resembles hers. 2 videodiscs (83 min.)

MEDIA 10-2238

 

Hodejegerne 2012, 2011

Roger, an accomplished headhunter by day and art thief when opportunity knocks, decides to risk it all to get his hands on an extremely valuable painting, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-4041

 

Honokurai mizu no soko kara dark water 2005, 2002

Hideo Nakata, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Ken'ichi Suzuki, Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Kenji Kawai, Koji Suzuki, OZ Productions Inc, and A.D.V. Films (Firm)

Yoshimi Matsubara fights to gain legal custody of her five year-old daughter Ikuko while the two live together in a dark, sullen and musty apartment building. Already insecure and uncertain about her future with her daughter, Yoshimi is haunted by murky water dripping through the ceiling and walls, and by the almost taunting appearances of a small red bag that once belonged to a girl who had mysteriously disappeared two years prior. Though she desperately struggles to find the strength within herself for Ikuko's sake, her horror intensifies as she comes closer to discovering the connection between these events, and is completely unprepared for the truth that lies ahead. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3148

 

The hospital 2003

Satirical look at a large metropolitan hospital where the patients die of neglect, the interns chase the nurses, the head of the hospital contemplates suicide and there's someone killing off the staff . 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-5065

 

House of games  c2007, 1987

A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4002

 

In a lonely place 2003

Robert Lord, Edmund H North, Nicholas Ray, Andrew Solt, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

A Hollywood screenwriter, questioned falsely for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. However, his volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.)

MEDIA 10-459

 

Inside man c2006

NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already volatile situation. 1 videodisc (129 min.)

MEDIA 10-4061

 

The insider c1999

When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more. 1 videodisc (158 min.)

MEDIA 10-4116

 

Io non ho paura 2004, 2003

While playing outside one day in a wheat field, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town bad boy Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the tale to his closest friend. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery, they warn him to forget whatever he saw. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4364

 

The iron curtain 2013

Based on an actual case in which Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, sought political asylum for himself and his wife and child after becoming disenchanted with Soviet espionage activities and the Russian way of life. Basically it is a restrained and well mounted melodrama, anti-Soviet propaganda which was described at the time of its release as a "semi- documentary", presumably because of the use made of Ottawa locations and the screenplay's ostensible base in the report of a 1946 Canadian Royal Commission on Espionage, evidence presented in court and Gouzenko's 'personal story'. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-5094

 

J.D.'s revenge  2001

A young black law student becomes possessed by the spirit of a hoodlum who has been dead for thirty years and is now out for revenge. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-5054

 

Johnny Handsome 2002, 1989

A man, born severely deformed, makes his living as a small-time criminal. During a robbery he and his best friend are double-crossed by their partners and he ends up in prison. There he meets a sympathetic surgeon who gives him a new face. When he is released he sets in motion a plan to get revenge on the couple who double-crossed him. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4257

 

The killing 1989,1956

Stanley Kubrick, James B Harris, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jim Thompson, and Lionel White

A straightforward accounting of a racetrack robbery engineered by a group of small-time crooks. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-3095    2-3574

 

Klute 2010, 1971

Enigmatic small town Detective John Klute is hired to track down his best friend, a research scientist who has disappeared without a trace.  His investigation leads him to New York City, and Bree Daniels, skilled, intelligent, cynical, and personally troubled part-time model and full-time call girl.  She was savagely beaten once by a man from Pennsylvania, who may have been his friend.  Taking a journey into the underbelly of the Big Apple the two begin to realize that everything and everyone may not be what they seem.  Dangers lurk in the shadows, old habits become harder to break, and love is a four-letter word best left unspoken for two people from two very different worlds. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-4229

 

Lethal weapon 2 Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-5288

 

Lethal weapon 3 Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue an arms dealer who is a former LAPD officer. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-5289

 

Lethal weapon 4 c1998

Family man Murtaugh is partner to loose cannon Riggs, who may or may not marry his girlfriend. 1 videodisc (127 min.)

MEDIA 10-5290

 

Lifeboat 2008, 19444

After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger: the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With powerful suspense and emotion, this legendary classic reveals the strengths and frailties of individuals under extraordinary duress. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-5132

 

The Limey 2000?

Steven Soderbergh, John Hardy, Scott Kramer, Lem Dobbs, Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt, and Peter Fonda

"British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's 'accidental' death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.)

MEDIA 10-60

 

The little drummer girl 2010, 1984

Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Loring Mandel, Robert L Crawford, George Roy Hill, John Le Carré, Pan Arts (Firm), Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screen adaptation of John Le Carre's bestseller about a pro-Palestinian actress who gets recruited to impersonate an Israeli agent and gets caught in the world of terrorists. 1 videodisc (130 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3610

 

The lodger a story of the London Fog  2008

A rash of murders causes a family to be suspicious of their tenant, a man who seems fascinated with their daughter. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-5128

 

The long goodbye 2002, 1973

Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the contrary, persists in believing that not all relationships need be opportunistic or squalid . 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-4222

 

Los abrazos rotos 2010

Agustin Almodóvar, Esther Garcķa, Penélope Cruz, Lluķs Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Rubén Ochandiano, Tamar Novas, Angela Molina, Chus Lampreave, Kiti Manver, Alberto Iglesias, Deseo, S.A, Universal Pictures International, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie. 1 videodisc (127 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3509

 

M c2004

Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens, Thea von Harbou, Seymour Nebenzal, Fritz Arno Wagner, Paul Falkenberg, Anton Kaes, Eric Rentschler, William Friedkin, Claude Chabrol, Harold Nebenzal, Friedrich Gnass , Paul Kemp, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Blümner, Georg John,  Rosa Valetti, Fritz Odemar, Nero-Film A.G, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929. 2 videodiscs (110 min.)

MEDIA. DANA    MEDIA 10-2253  808 298

 

The man from London 2010, 2007

Tilda Swinton, Miroslav Krobot, Agi Szirtes, Jįnos Derzsi, Erika Bók, Béla Tarr, Lįszló Krasznahorkai, Įgnes Hranitzky, Gįbor Téni, Georges Simenon, Fortissimo Films, T.T. Filmmühely, and E1 Entertainment (Firm)

A man whose lonely life at the edge of the sea has become as predictable as the tide witnesses a murder that sends him on an existential journey the likes of which he could never have anticipated in director Bela Tarr's philosophical drama. Maloin had reached a point in life where he was content to embrace loneliness while turning a blind eye to the inevitable decay that surrounded him. Upon bearing witness to a shocking murder, however, the man who once lived a life of quiet solitude is forced to wrestle with such profound issues as punishment, mortality, and the sin of complicity in a crime he didn't even commit. Now, despite Maloin's simple wish to be free and happy, he must journey deep within his inner-self to confront emotions that he never once fathomed in his long yet uneventful existence. 1 videodisc (139 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2973

 

The Manchurian candidate 1998, 1962

George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Richard Condon, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3370

 

Marathon man 2001

Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, John Schlesinger, William Goldman, and Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-2233

 

Michael Clayton 2008

Tony Gilroy, George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Samuels Media (Firm), Warner Bros, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

"Attorney Michael Clayton is a 'fixer' the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life --including Michael's."--Container. 1 videodisc (120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3453

 

Mike's murder c2009

A frightening tale of a young woman who slips unexpectedly over the knife-edge that separates everyday reality from a shadowy world of drugs, violence and death. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-5066

 

Minority report c2002

Gerald R Molen, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Philip K Dick, Greg Goldman, Ronald Shusett, Dreamworks Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Blue Tulip (Firm), and DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)

Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up. 2 videodiscs (144 min.)

MEDIA 10-778

 

Modesty Blaise c2002

Joseph Janni, Joseph Losey, Evan Jones, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A comedy which lampoons the sex, sadism, luxury, and latest spying techniques in secret-agent thrillers as exemplified in an account of the efforts of a female spy to prevent a priceless gem collection from falling into the hands of an international crime ring. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-471

 

Mulholland Dr c2002, 2001

A beautiful woman riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingénue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem? 1 videodisc (147 min.)

MEDIA 10-4447

 

Män som hatar kvinnor c2010, 2009

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate--with troubling results. 1 videodisc (152 min.)

MEDIA 10-4003

 

Night moves The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-5601

 

The night stalker c2004

Darren McGavin portrays crusading reporter Carl Kolchak. In the first episode, Kolchak tries to solve a series of Las Vegas murders. In the second, he's after a killer hiding in Seattle's underground city. 1 videodisc (164 min.)

MEDIA 10-5034

 

Norainu Stray dog 2004, c1949

Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Keiko Awaji, Fumiko Honma, Asakazu Nakai, Fumio Hayasaka, Toho Kabushiki Kaisha, Eiga Geijusu Kyokai, Criterion Collection (Firm), and Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)

A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side. 1 videodisc (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2897

 

Not without my daughter 2001, 1999

Pat Riddle, Harry J Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland, Brian Gilbert, Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel, Mony Rey, Georges Corraface, Peter Hannan, Jerry Goldsmith , Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathé Entertainment (Firm), and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child. 1 videodisc (116 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2878

 

The notorious landlady 2011, 1962

William Gridley, an American diplomat in London, gets mixed up with his beautiful landlady, Carlye Hardwick. Gridley discovers that she is suspected of murdering her husband and fears he may be next although he has fallen in love with her. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-4354

 

Oldboy An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-5444

 

Opera 2007, 1987

Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, ADC Films, Cecchi Gori Group (Firm), Tiger Cinematogrįfica, and Blue Underground, Inc

When a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly forces the diva to watch the brutal murders of her loved ones. 1 videodisc (107 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3189

 

The original Nancy Drew movie mystery collection c2007

Nancy Drew, detective: Nancy and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady; Nancy Drew, reporter: When a young woman is accused in a poisoning death, Nancy searches for a vital piece of evidence to clear her; Nancy Drew, trouble shooter: Nancy clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers; Nancy Drew and the hidden staircase: Nancy and Ted must try to solve a murder to save two elderly ladies from losing their family home. 2 videodiscs (263 min.)

MEDIA 10-4221

 

Outbreak 2009, 1995

A take-charge army virologist tryies to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it. 1 videodisc (128 min.)

MEDIA 10-3868

 

The Paradine case 2008, 1947

Beautiful Anna Paradine is accused of poisoning her older wealthy husband. Her barrister, the happily married Anthony Keane takes the case but also lets his heart rule his head when he falls hard for his client. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-5135

 

La piel que habito c2012

Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice. But where will they find the human pig? 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-3948

 

Plein soleil 2002?, 1960

Martin Scorsese, Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim, René Clément, Paul Gégauff, Alain Delon, Marie Laforźt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Ave Ninchi, Elvire Popesco, Nino Rota, Jacques Metehen, Patricia Highsmith, Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Video (Firm)

Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants. 1 videodisc (118 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3266

 

Point blank 2005, 1967

A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-4027

 

The possession of Joel Delaney c2008

When her brother Joel begins speaking in Spanish and practicing strange rituals, Norah delves into the mysterious world of Santeria and begins to suspect that Joel might be possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-5075

 

Przesæ uchanie 2005, 1989

Banned for eight years, Interrogation is a scathing condemnation of political systems that resort to any sort of torture to crush dissent. A cabaret singer in 1950's Warsaw is victimized by a Stalinist government. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-4857

 

Psycho II c2007

Psycho II: After years of treatment at a mental institution for th ecriminally insane, Norman Bates still can't quite elude the demands of "Mother.". Psycho III: A failed nun and a sleazy musician find the desert motel Norman Bates runs in memory of his mother. Psycho IV: When Norman Bates is drawn to a late night radio show where he shares his views on the topic of matricide--he relives his trials as a young boy living with his widowed schizophrenic mother. These haunting memories threaten to rekindle his killing urge. 2 videodiscs (302 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-5468 disc 1 10-5468 disc 2

 

Psychotronica 1966

Mondo Keyhole: A serial rapist relishes his attacks on women, but are they only fantasy, real though they may seem?  A debauched classic of the roughie genre, complete with S&M fantasies that probably won't win any awards from Ms Magazine. The Raw Ones: In 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that nudity in and of itself is not obscene. This decision opened the door to nudist camp documentaries. 1 videodisc (151 min.)

MEDIA 10-5035

 

The quiet American 2003

William Horberg, Staffan Ahrenberg, Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan, Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Tzi Ma, Rade Sherbedgia, Miramax Films, Intermedia Films, Mirage Productions, Saga Pictures (Firm), IMF (Firm), Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-212

 

La ragazza che sapeva troppo 2007, 1963

Mario Bava, Massimo De Rita, Ennio De Concini, Enzo Corbucci, Eliana De Sabata, Leticia Romįn, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese, Dante DiPaolo, Galatea Film, Coronet (Firm), and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

Nora Davis visits Rome only to find herself enmeshed in a mystery involving a serial murderer. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3174

 

Rambo III 2006, 1988

Peter Macdonald, Buzz Feitshans, Sylvester Stallone, Sheldon Lettich, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Jerry Goldsmith, David Morrell, Tri-Star Pictures, Carolco Pictures Inc, and Lions Gate Home Entertainment

When Col. Sam Trautman is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2877

 

Rear window 1954, 1988

Alfred Hitchcock, Cornell Woolrich, James Stewart, Grace, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter

Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, is confined to his apartment during a Greenwich Village heat wave. He takes up spying on his neighbors and suspects his neighbor has murdered his wife. 1 videocassette (113 min.)  DVD

DANA            MEDIA 531                   10-91

 

Rebecca 2008, 1940

A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave. 1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-5131

 

Red dust c2006

Tom Hooper, Anant Singh, Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gillian Slovo, HBO Video (Firm), BBC Films, Distant Horizon (Firm), Videovision Entertainment (Firm), and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

A political thriller set in a small South African town during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant must represent Alex Mpondo, a former political activist,  who was held captive and sadistically tortured by a police officer under the apartheid regime in South Africa. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-756

 

The red house 2012, 1947

A farmer tries to keep the curious away and protect the secret of the sinister decaying old house deep in the woods. 2 videodiscs (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-4858

 

Red riding: 1974 2010

Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland, Wendy Brazington, Julian Jarrold, Tony Grisoni, Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, David Peace, Rebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan , Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), Revolution Films, and IFC Films

A young journalist investigates the kidnapping and murder of several children in Yorkshire, only to discover ties to the local high society and police corruption. 1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2835

 

Red riding: 1980 2010

Tony Grisoni, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland , Wendy Brazington, James Marsh, Paddy Considine, Jim Carter, Warren Clarke, David Peace, Rebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan , IFC Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), and Revolution Films 

Veteran police officer, Peter Hunter, is called in to tackle the baffling mystery of the Yorkshire Ripper that has confounded the local law enforcement for years. Hunter soon finds that the only thing more challenging than catching the Ripper is getting his fellow officers to investigate the corruption he believes is at the heart of the case. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2836

 

Red riding: 1983 2010

Tony Grisoni, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland , Wendy Brazington, Anand Tucker, Mark Addy, David Morrissey, Jim Carter, Sean Bean, Peter Mullan, Warren Clarke, David Peace, IFC Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), and Revolution Films

When a little girl is kidnapped, Detective Maurice Jobson is disturbed by similarities between this case and one he investigated in the 1970's, and for which apparently an innocent man may have been sent to jail. 1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2837

 

Repulsion c2009, 1965

Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-4457

 

Revanche c2009

Geotz Spielmann, Martin Gschlacht, Mathias Forberg, Heinz Stussak, Sandra Bohle, Johannes Krisch, Ursula Strauss, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Johannes Thanheiser, Hanno Peoschl, Karina Ressler, Armond White, Janus Films, Prisma Film (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife. 2 videodiscs (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-2054

 

Ripley's game 2004, c2002

Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly spirals out of control to the point of drawing the attention of the Russian mob, forcing Ripley to intervene. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-4073

 

Rosemary's baby 2012, 1968

Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby.". 2 videodiscs (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-4458

Sabotage 2008, 1936

A woman suspects her unassuming London theater owner husband of being a serial killer. 1 videodisc (77 min.)

MEDIA 10-5129

 

Sarkar raj c2008

Ram Gopal Varma, Praveen Nischol, Prashant Pandey, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Adlabs (Firm), Z Picture Company (Firm), K Sera Sera (Firm), and Eros International (Firm)

Anita Rajan, CEO of Sheppard Power Plant, wants to set up a power plant in rural Maharashtra. She journeys to Maharashtra to mobilize support for the plant, but things are not what they seem and Shankar's dream project gradually becomes a political minefield. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3128

 

The Satanic rites of Dracula 2003, 1973

Alan Gibson, Roy Skeggs, Don Houghton, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley, Michael Coles, Madacy Entertainment Group, and Hammer Film Productions

In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (a descendant of the great vampire hunter himself) to help them stop these hideous crimes. It becomes apparent that the culprit is Count Dracula himself, disguised as a reclusive property developer, but secretly plotting to unleash a fatal virus upon the world. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3104

 

Saw 2005

James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Mark Burg, Oren Koules, Gregg Hoffman, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Tobin Bell,  Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm), and Lions Gate Home Entertainment

Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying. 1 videodisc (103 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3010

 

Serial mom 2008, 1994

Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code. 1 videodisc (94 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3755

 

Seven c1997

David Fincher, Arnold Kopelson, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, New Line Productions, Inc, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. 1 videodisc (127 min.)

MEDIA 10-347

 

The Silence of the lambs 1991, 1998

Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon, Ron Bozman, Ted Tally, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, and Thomas Harris

A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-25

 

Sin nombre 2009

Cary Joji Fukunaga, Amy Kaufman, Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejķa, Marcelo Zarvos, Canana Films (Firm), Primary Productions (Firm), Focus Features, Alliance Films, and Alliance vivafilm (Firm)

Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. 1 videodisc (96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3087

 

Southern comfort c2001, 1981

"When nine National Guardsmen enter the Louisiana swamp for routine training, they are unaware that just a handful of their ranks will make it out alive. Through an error in judgment, they incite an all-out war with some angry Cajuns who know the territory like the backs of their hands. Armed with a precious few bullets, and confused by the dimly lit, moss-covered maze into which they've stumbled, the innocent guardsmen know they'll be picked off one by one ... until they come up with a solution using the only resources they have left ... themselves"--Container. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-4254

 

Spy game 2002, 2001

Douglas Wick, Marc Abraham, Michael Frost Beckner, David Arata, Tony Scott, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman, Michael Paul Chan, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-160

 

The stepfather  2009, c1986

A man searching for the perfect family marries a widow with children, only to kill them all when they act more normal than his dream family should. When his new stepdaughter sees through his fake persona, he must drop his Ward Cleaver attitude and show her how a real daughter should act. Loosely based on a true news story of New Jersey mass-murderer John List. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3750

 

The Stepford wives 2001, c1975

Edgar J Scherick, William Goldman, Bryan Forbes, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, Tina Louise, Owen Roizman, Timothy Gee, Michael Small, Ira Levin, Fadsin Cinema Associates, Palomar Pictures, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

In the New England town of Stepford, the women dedicate themselves to housework, cleaning, doing laundry, and preparing gourmet meals for their husbands. Their homes are well maintained as are the lawns. It's all a well-kept secret until Joanna moves to town and discovers the truth behind these Stepford wives. 1 videodisc (115 min.)

MEDIA 10-2177

 

Stieg Larssons Luftslottet som sprängdes c2010, 2009

Two seriously injured people arrive at the emergency ward of the Sahlgrensa hospital in Gothenburg. Lisbeth Salander has a bullet in her head and needs immediate surgery, while Alexander Zalachenko has been attacked with an axe. Lisbeth wants revenge--against the men who tried to kill her, and the government that nearly destroyed her life. First, she must escape from the ICU and exculpate herself of murder charges against her. Mikael Blomkvist, meanwhile, is writing an article exposing the Swedish government and the secret service. Together, there is a chance for truth and justice to prevail, and finally, for Lisbeth Salander to put her past behind her. 1 videodisc (147 min.)

MEDIA 10-4005

 

Die stille nach dem schuss The legends of Rita 2001

Volker Schlöndorff, Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempert, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, and Nadja Uhl

This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-98

 

Sur mes lčvres 2003

Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista, Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivia Bonamy, Olivier Perrier, Bernard Alane, S.E.D.I.F, and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom he owes money -- a scheme that involves Carla's keen skill as a lip reader. 1 videodisc (119 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3505

 

Suspicion 2009, 1941

Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-4334

 

The talented Mr. Ripley c2000

Anthony Minghella, William Horberg, Tom Sternberg, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall, Miramax Films, Mirage Enterprises, Timnick Films, and Paramount Pictures Corporation

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder. 1 videodisc (139 min.)

MEDIA 10-734

 

Tales of terror 2011, 1962

Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance and winds up stuck between the world of the living and the dead, under the control of the hypnotist. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-4465

 

Targets 2003, 1968

In seemingly unrelated events, an aging horror film star announces his retirement, and an apparently average young man accumulates an arsenal of rifles and handguns. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-4418

 

The tattooed stranger 2011, 1950

Cops swarm a Central Park crime scene where a cold corpse sits in a hot car. The victim is a Jane Doe, shot elsewhere and driven to the park in a stolen van. A veteran cop and a rookie are charged with finding out who did it and who the victim is. From the tattoo on the victim's arm to sand-packed shotgun casings that defy ballistics analyisis to a balde of rare grass found in the car, the cops pull a case together. 1 videodisc (64 min.)

MEDIA 10-4213

 

The tenant 2003, 1976

A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-4459

 

Tenebrae c1999, 1982

Salvatore Argento, Dario Argento, Claudio Argento, Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi, John Saxon, Giuliano Gemma, Sigma Cinematografica-Rome, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

A novelist arrives in Rome only to find somebody using his novels as the inspiration for murder. He finds himself the subject of death threats. As the death toll mounts, the writer finds himself more closely linked to the police investigation. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3186

 

To live and die in LA 2009

Federal Agent Richard Chance has a score to settle, and he's through playing by the rules. Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter. As the stakes grow higher, Chance's obsession with vengeance might ultimately destroy him. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-5411

 

Touch of evil 2008, 1958

Orson Welles, Albert Zugsmith, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin De Vargas, Mort Mills, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gįbor, Whit Masterson, Universal-International (Firm), and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. See all three versions of the film: the theatrical version, the preview version, and the restored version. Features include commentaries and featurettes. 2 videodiscs (161 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3432

 

Trespass 2003

Two firemen find a map that leads to stolen gold in an abandoned factory. The factory is in the turf of a local gang and the firemen witness a shooting. The gang spots them and they argue about how to get rid of the trespassers. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-5056

 

Twin Peaks fire walk with me 2002, 1992

Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of local girl Laura Palmer, special agents Chester Desmond and Dale Cooper try to unravel the bizzarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings in Twin Peaks. Essentially a prequel for the televison series. 1 videodisc (134 min.)

MEDIA 10-4448

 

The unsuspected 2009, 1947

"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl.  The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband." -- container. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4843

 

Violette Noziaere c2007

Claude Chabrol, Roger Morand, Odile Barski , Hervae Bromberger, Fraedaeric Grendel, Isabelle Huppert, Staephane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-Fran cois Garreaud, Guy Hoffman, Jean Marie Fitaere, Filmel (Firm), Sociaetae nationale de programme France-Raegions, Cine Video (Firm), and Koch Lorber Films

"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Noziaere leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit an unthinkable crime."--Container. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-2132

 

Walk on water 2005, 2004

While on assignment in Berlin, a homophobic Israeli intelligence agent is ordered to assassinate a Nazi war criminal. However, he has a crisis of conscience after he befriends the target's gay grandson. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4267

 

Wangjiao kamen/As tears go by 2004

Kar-wai Wong, Alan Tang, Rover Tang, Dehua Liu, Manyu Zhang, Xueyou Zhang, Media Asia Film, In-Gear Film Production Co, and Kino International Corporation

Already stretched to breaking in a loyalty tug of war between Triad bosses and his loose cannon partner, Wah, a rising star in the Hong Kong underworld, finds himself saddled with beautiful, ailing country cousin Ngor. As an escalating test of wills with a stubborn debtor explodes into bloodshed and a mob turncoat instigates a ruthless police crackdown, Wah's growing fascination with Ngor becomes his last chance for escape from a violent past and a debious future. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-560

 

The warriors 2006, 1979

The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1! 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-4118

 

Wicked, wicked  2014

"This guilty pleasure follows a psycho electrician at an elegant California resort who prefers blondes dismembered. It simultaneously follows, on the other half of the screen, the gorgeous, golden-haired guests who are unaware they'll soon be checking out."--Container. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-5397

 

The wicker man  2006, 1973

Robin Hardy, Peter Snell, Anthony Shaffer, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Christopher Lee, British Lion Films, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrifice before he himself comes face-to-face with the horror of the Wicker Man? 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3105

 

Witness for the prosecution 2001, c1957

Billy Wilder, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)

A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-505

 

The woman in the window 2009, 1944

Nunnally Johnson, Fritz Lang, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, J. H Wallis, International Pictures, Inc, and Shock DVD

A professor of criminology is the pawn in a shocking crime thriller with a surprising twist. 1 videodisc (99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3093

 

World War Z Gerry Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that is endangering the existence of humanity. 2 videodiscs (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-5605

 

 

The 39 steps 1985

Alfred Hitchcock and  John Buchan

Tale of a man framed for murder by a spy ring then forced to flee both police and enemy agents. He attempts to clear his name and catch the foreign spies before they take a defense secret out of England. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA   DANA 2-104        568

 

Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt 2009

Joachim Kunert, Claus Keuchenmeister, Hans Mahlich, Martin Sonnabend, Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Dieter Noll, DEFA, Studio feur Spielfilme, and Icestorm Entertainment GmbH

Two Seventeen year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are taken out of school and conscripted into Hitler's war.  Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier while Werner eventually realizes the effort is fruitless and deserts. Ironically, Gilbert who remains loyal is hung by the SS who mistake him for a deserter, and Holt exacts revenge by gunning down the SS unit from a basement window. 1 videodisc (164 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2159

 

The Advocate 1993

Leslie Megahey, David M Thompson, Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Amina, and Nicol Williamson

A young lawyer moves to a small town to pursue his career, only to find that beneath the seeming quiet of the village lies mystery and corruption. 1 videocassette (102 min.)

MEDIA 2-3050

 

Ai-Mei ghosted 2009

Monika Treut, Astrid Streoher, Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting-Ting Hu, Jana Schulze, Uwe Hass, Hyena Films (Firm), Chi & Company, and First-Run Features (Firm)

German artist Sophie is trying to come to terms with the unsolved murder of her Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling. After a run-in with the seductive Mei-Li, a journalist investigating Ai-Ling's death, Sophie flees back to Germany. But when Mei-Li turns up on her Hamburg doorstep, the mystery deepens. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2153

 

And then there were none 1992

Agatha Christie, Harry M Popkin, Dudley Nichols, René Clair, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, and Louis Haywood

A classic mystery in which ten people, unknown to one another, are invited to an isolated island where they are killed one by one. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA 2-2850

 

Bad lieutenant 1993

Harvey Keitel, Abel Ferrara, Victor Argo, Paul Calderone, Leonard Thomas, Robin Burrows, Zoe Lund, Edward R Pressman, and Mary Kane

He's a gambler, a thief, a junkie, a killer, and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-2988

 

Basic instinct 1992

Mario Kassar, Joe Eszterhas, Alan Marshall, Paul Verhoeven, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, and Jeanne Tripplehorn

A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. 1 videocassette (ca. 123 min.)

MEDIA 2-5319

 

The Big heat 1953, 1982

Fritz Lang and William P McGiven

A crime melodrama about an honest police sergeant who risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-128

 

The big sleep 1946, c1978

Michael Winner, Elliott Kastner, Jerry Bick, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, and Joan Collins

Marlowe is hired by a retired general to find out who has been blackmailing the old man's wild daughters. At the same time he has to try to locate the missing husband of one of hte daughters. Marlowe's search leads through a dangerous thicket of murder and suicide in the seedy criminal underworld straight to the headquarters of the notorious nightclub owner and gangland boss, Eddie Mars. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 41        2-45  10-290

 

Blackmail 1994, 1930

Alfred Hitchcock, John Maxwell, Anny Ondra , Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, Cyril Ritchard, Charles Bennett, and John Longen

A young woman stabs an artist who has tried to rape her, and her police detective boyfriend conceals his knowledge of her guilt.  Victimized by a blackmailer, they call his bluff and after a chase through the British Museum, he falls to his death from a roof. 1 videocassette (ca. 82 min.)

MEDIA  DANA 2-2439   207

 

Blue 1994

Krzysztof Kie slowski, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Hélène Vincent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Emmanuèle Riva, and Marin Karmitz

A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. 1 videocassette (98 min.)

DANA 919

 

Blue dahlia 1946, 1996

George Marshall, John Houseman, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers, Frank Faylen, Hugh Beaumont, Howard Freeman, Will Wright, and Walter Sande

A returning war veteran finds his faithless wife murdered and himself a suspect. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

MEDIA 2-3596

 

Blue steel 1996

Kathryn Bigelow, Edward R Pressman, Oliver Stone, Eric Red, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, and Louise Fletcher

In Manhattan, a rookie cop shoots and kills an armed robber. She doesn't know it, but an unidentified witness steals the assailant's gun and begins a deadly game of pursuit, with the unsuspecting cop as the target of a madman's obsession. 1 videocassette (94 min.)

MEDIA 2-5223

 

Blue velvet c2002

David Lynch, Fred Caruso, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-383

 

Breach c2007

Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney , Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan, Scott Kroopf, Bobby Newmeyer, Scott Strauss, Adam Mazer, William Rotko, Billy Ray, Universal Pictures (Firm), Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (Firm), Outlaw Productions (Firm), Intermedia Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

When Eric O'Neill is promoted from a low-level surveillance job into the headquarters of the FBI, his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent is on the verge of reality. He is hand picked to work for the renowned operative Robert Hanssen within "information assurance," a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. Eric quickly discovers the true reason for his hire: Hanssen is the sole subject of a long-term, top-secret investigation, a suspected mole made all the more dangerous by the sheer global import of the information he is charged with protecting. The Bureau asks Eric to slowly draw the traitor out of deep cover. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-1349

 

La bęte humaine 1938, 1997

Jean Renoir, Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim, Roland Tual, Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette, Fernand Ledoux, Emile Zola, Paris Film Production, and Timeless Video Inc

Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A railroad engineer, descended from a family subject to fits of madness, falls in love with a beautiful married woman. Plotting together to kill her husband, circumstances spin out of control, and he finally strangles her instead. 1 videocassette (75 min.)

MEDIA 2-6799

 

Chinatown 1974, 1986?

Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston

Kinks complicate mystery, lies compound complexity, and passion clouds detection as what begins as a seemingly routine matrimonial snoop job mushrooms into a murderous regional and personal scandal. 1 videocassette (131 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-486 2-2085

 

The Conformist 1989

Bernardo Bertolucci, Lee Kresel, Alberto Moravia, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, and Pierre Clementi

A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-2737

 

The conversation 2000

Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, and Cindy Williams

A provoking mystery-suspense drama exploring the morality of privacy. The story focuses on Harry Caul (Hackman), a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-37

 

Le corbeau The raven 1943

H.-G Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Leclerc, Noël Roquevert, Continental Films, and Festival Films

Story of a community somewhere in France which is stirred to explosive suspicions by a flood of letters from an unknown "poison pen.". 1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA D-425

 

Cotton comes to Harlem 1999

Ossie Davis, Samuel Goldwyn, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Chester B Himes, Judy Pace, Arnold Perl, Redd Foxx, John Anderson, Emily Yancy, Lou Jacobi, Eugene Roche, and J. D Cannon

St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy. 1 videocassette (ca. 96 min.)

MEDIA      DANA 2-5179         133

 

Crossfire c2005, 1947

Dore Schary, Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, John Paxton, Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Richard Brooks, RKO Radio Pictures, inc, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews. 1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.)

DANA 413

 

D.O.A 1950, c2000

Rudolph Maté, Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Neville Brand, United Artists Corporation, and Image Entertainment (Firm)

When he is slipped a dose of slow-acting poison, a man sets out to find his own murderer. 1 videodisc (84 min.)

DANA 38

 

Das leben der anderen/Lives of others c2007

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Herbert Knaup, Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Buena Vista International Film Productions, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte (Firm), Creado Film, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. Wiesler's sympathies shift from the government to its people - or at least to this one particular person. 1 videodisc (137 min.)

MEDIA 10-1106

 

Das weisse Band eine deutsche Kindergeschichte c2009

Michael Haneke, Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Ulrich Tukur, Leonie Benesch, Ursina Lardi, Fion Mutert, X Filme Creative Pool, and  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

"On the eve of World War I, strange accidents in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany involve the children and teenagers of a choir run by the schoolteacher and their families. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery as these events gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual"--Container. 1 videodisc (144 min.)

MEDIA 10-1844

 

Dead again 1991

Kenneth Branagh, Scott Frank, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, and Derek Jacobi

Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares.  Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer husband in 1948. 1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA 2-1721

 

Devil in a blue dress 1995

Carl Franklin, Jesse Beaton, Gary Goetzman, Walter Mosley, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, and Jennifer Beals

Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows. 1 videocassette (101 min.)

MEDIA 2-3438

 

Dhund The fog 199-?

Shyam Ramsay, Yashovardhan Tyagi, Amar Upadhyay, Aditi Govitrikar, Apoorva Agnihotri, and Divya Palat

A suspenseful drama of murder and mystery. 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 2-6216

 

Les Diaboliques The Devils 198-?

H.-G Clouzot, Pierre Boileau, Vera Clouzot , Simone Signoret,  Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard, Noël Roquevert, Georges Chamarat, Jacques Varennes, and Michel Serrault

A murder mystery set in a French boarding school. The forceful mistress and ailing wife of a tyrannical headmaster plan an elaborate scheme to kill him. The plot goes awry leading to a chilling climax. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-1820

 

Dial M for murder 1954, 1983

Alfred Hitchcock

From the Warner Brothers series, A night at the movies, which recreates the experience of actually going to the movies (circa 1954). The first twenty minutes contains newsreels, a cartoon and previews of coming attractions. The feature film is a classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense film. 1 videocassette (VHS) (123 min.)

MEDIA 2-222

 

Dong The hole c2000

Mingliang Cai, Guimei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee , Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta, Peggy Chiao, Haut et Court (Firm), Sept/Arte (Firm), WinStar Cinema (Firm), and Fox Lorber Films

Seven days into the 21st century the rain will not let up in Taiwan and a strange disease reaches epic proportions. Tenants of a run-down apartment refuse to leave. The plumber comes to fix a leak and instead leaves a gaping hole through which the tenant spies on his neighbor. 1 videocassette (95 min.)

MEDIA 2-6953

 

Dressed to kill 1946,  1988

Roy William Neill, Leonard Lee, Frank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, and Patricia Morison

Sherlock Holmes finds a music box holds the key to plates stolen from the Bank of England. 1 videocassette (72 min.)

DANA 552

 

Eastern promises c2007

Robert Lantos, Paul Webster, David Cronenberg, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Serendipity Point Films, BBC Films, Focus Features, Kudos Film and Television (Firm), Scion Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai, who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-1108

 

Eyes wide shut 2000

Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia, and Arthur Schnitzler

A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery. 1 videocassette (159 min.; bonus footage, 20 min.)

MEDIA 2-5286

 

Fail-safe 1989

Max E Youngstein, Sidney Lumet, Dan O'Herlihy, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, and Eugene Burdick

A mechanical device at Strategic Air Command headquarters triggers an atomic mission to bomb Moscow.  Desperate and determined efforts to stop it by the American generals and bureaucrats make for a tense suspense thriller. 1 videocassette (111 min.)

MEDIA 2-2191

 

Falling down 1993, 1999

Joel Schumacher, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Tuesday Weld, Warner Bros, Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises, Alcor Films, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination:  his ex-wife and young daughter. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-420

 

Farewell my lovely 1992

David Zelag Goodman,  George Pappas, Jerry Bruckheimer, Dick Richards, Raymond Chandler, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvester Stallone, and Harry Dean Stanton

Robert Mitchum, as private eye Philip Marlowe, in a mystery filled with action, suspense and humor. 1 videocassette (98 min.)

DANA 802

 

Felicia's journey 2000

Atom Egoyan, Bruce Davey, Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinée Khanjian, and William Trevor

Joseph Hilditch, an eccentric chef, befriends a young woman, Felicia, who has come to town searching for her boyfriend. She is attracted to the seemingly harmless and extremely helpful Hilditch, trusting him and entering his life, only to discover too late that she is not the first woman that he has taken in. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-50

 

A fistful of dynamite 1971, 1993

A Mexican peasant turned revolutionary (Steiger) teams with an Irish terrorist (Coburn) to stage a daring break-in to liberate political prisoners. 1 videocassette (138 min.)

MEDIA 2-5479

 

Foreign correspondent 1985

Alfred Hitchcock

A compressed and chilling thriller about a politically naive reporter's battle against a major spy ring when sent to Europe to cover events that will lead to world war II. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA  DANA 2-99       478

 

Frantic 1991

Roman Polanski, Thom Mount, Tim Hampton, Gérard Brach, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Maloney, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Yorgo Voyagis, David Huddleston, and Emmanuelle Seigner

The story of an American doctor's desparate search for his kidnapped wife through the back streets of Paris. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA 2-2836

 

Frenzy 1991

Alfred Hitchcock, Arthur J La Bern, Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, and A Shaffer

A sex criminal known as the necktie murderer is on the loose in modernday London. His murders are blamed on an innocent man who has to elude the police and find out who the real murderer is. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

DANA     MEDIA 535            2-175

 

From Russia with love 1995, 1963

Terence Young, Albert R Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Sean Connery, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Daniela Bianchi, and Ian Fleming

The second and one of the best James Bond films.  Starring Sean Connery with Lotte Lenya as an evil spy.  Bond is elusive as ever as the bad guys chase him through Istanbul and abroad the Orient Express.  Action packed fights and narrow escapes. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-3700

 

The Glass key 1942, 1989

Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Dashiell Hammett, and Stuart Heisler

Intricate mystery about a slightly corrupt politician, accused of murder, who solicits his right-hand man (Ladd) to hunt down the real killer. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-755

 

God of killers 2000

John Matarazzo and Yun-fat Chow

Wu Viet, a Vietnamese refugee trying to reach Hong Kong, discovers that his fellow refugees are mysteriously disappearing from the camp. He escapes to the Philippines with Shun Ching, a Vietnamese girl, only to encounter more trouble. The girl is kidnapped and Chow is forced to work for a vicious and morally bankrupt gangland boss. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-153

 

Harper 1966

Jerry Gershwin, Elliott Kastner, Jack Smight, Ross Macdonald, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, and Shelley Winters

Lew Harper is a private eye who unravels a twisted case of kidnapping and murder. 1 videocassette (121 min.)

MEDIA 2-2891

 

Hush--hush, sweet Charlotte 1985, 1964

Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Henry Farrell, and Aldridge and Associates

A classic thriller about murder and madness on a crumbling Southern plantation.  Bette Davis delivers a powerhouse performance as a reclusive spinster still mourning the savage murder of the man she loved some 37b years ago.  Now the state wants her property to construct a new highway, and to help her resist, she turns to her worldly cousin and an old friend.  That's when things really start to happen around the old mansion. 1 videocassette (134 min.)

MEDIA 2-736

 

In a lonely place 2003

Robert Lord, Edmund H North, Nicholas Ray, Andrew Solt, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

A Hollywood screenwriter, questioned falsely for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. However, his volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.)

MEDIA 10-459

 

In the heat of the night 1988

Norman Jewison, Sidney Poitier, and Rod Steiger

This academy award winning drama takes places in the deep south, involving a black policeman from Philadelphia and a local red-neck police chief trying to solve a murder mystery. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-698

 

The killing 1989,1956

Stanley Kubrick, James B Harris, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jim Thompson, and Lionel White

A straightforward accounting of a racetrack robbery engineered by a group of small-time crooks. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-3574

 

Klute 1971, 1998

Alan J Pakula, Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis, David Lange, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Vivian Nathan, and Nathan George

When detective John Klute comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of a friend, the trail leads to Bree Daniels, a call girl. Together they face the menace of a psychotic murderer. 1 videocassette (125 min.) ;

MEDIA 2-3786

 

L.A. confidential c1998

Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael Nathanson, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Ellroy, Warner Bros, Regency Enterprises, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist and the Chief of Detectives work against the backdrop of the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950's. Using differing methods they seek to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A lush tribute to tough film-noir crime films. 1 videocassette (138 min.)

MEDIA 2-7190

 

L' été meurtrier One deadly summer 1987

Jean Becker, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, and Sebastien Japrisot

"Isabelle Adjani gives a sizzling performance in this unrelenting and enticing psychological thriller.  As a sexy, volatile and unattainable woman of mystery known only as "She," Adjani returns to the small village of her mother's youth.  There she uses her unearthly sexuality and savage passion to destroy the lives of the three men who raped and beat her mother years before."--Container. 1 videocassette (134 min.)

DANA 1207

 

The Lady from Shanghai 1948, 1991

Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, and Sherwood King

A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal frustrated wife. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

DANA      MEDIA 801              2-93

 

Lady in white 1988

Lukas Haas and Len Cariou

On Halloween, 1962, the sleepy town of Willowpoint Falls wakes up forever. Locked overnight in the school cloakroom, the victim of a Holloween prank, young Frankie Scarlatti witnesses an eerie apparition--a girl-ghost in the grip of a mysterious killer. Suddenly, Frankie himself is grabbed and almost strangled. Hovering between life and death, he has another vision--of the same girl, begging him to expose the killer and put her spirit to rest. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-688

 

The Lady vanishes 1982

Alfred Hitchcock and  Ethel Lina White

A lady, Miss Froy, vanishes on a train bound for London from the Tyrol. Only the puzzled young woman who shared her compartment really believes Miss Froy existed. However, a skeptical young man joins the young woman in attempting to unravel the mystery. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA    DANA 2-134          554

 

The Limey 2000?

Steven Soderbergh, John Hardy, Scott Kramer, Lem Dobbs, Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt, and Peter Fonda

"British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's 'accidental' death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.)

MEDIA 10-60

 

The Lodger a story of the London fog  1985

Alfred Hitchcock, Eliot Stannard, Ivor Novello, Maria Ault,  Arthur Chesney, and Belloc Lowndes

About the Jack-the-Ripper crimes which took place in London during 1888.  The dramatization focuses on a mysterious boarder and the theatrical family with whom he lodges during the time of the killer's rampage. 1 videocassette (125 min.)

DANA 769

 

The Maltese falcon 1941, 1986

John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dashiell Hammett, and Gladys George

Humphrey Bogart stars as Sam Spade, the ultimate private eye, in Dashiell Hammett's mystery classic.  When his associate, Miles Archer, is killed in a routine assignment, Sam begins to investigate.  During his investigation, Spade runs up against some of the most eccentric and devious characters ever devised: Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Joel Cairo, and Kasper Gertman.  They all want the same thing, to possess the Maltese falcon, a priceless, bejeweled statue that brings death wherever it goes. 1 videocassette (101 min.)

MEDIA 2-1268

 

Marie 1985

Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Peter Maas,  Frank Jr Capra, Roger Donaldson, Morgan Freeman, and Fred Thompson

Marie, as the first woman to head the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, finds herself caught in a deadly game of graft, slander, and murder as she tries to expose the corruption. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-1354

 

Minority report c2002

Gerald R Molen, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Philip K Dick, Greg Goldman, Ronald Shusett, Dreamworks Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Blue Tulip (Firm), and DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)

Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up. 2 videodiscs (144 min.)

MEDIA 10-778

 

Mission, impossible c1996

Brian De Palma, Paula Wagner, Bruce Geller , Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Vanessa Redgrave, and Paramount Pictures

A secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team, tries to discover the truth. 1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.)

MEDIA 2-7096

 

Modesty Blaise c2002

Joseph Janni, Joseph Losey, Evan Jones, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A comedy which lampoons the sex, sadism, luxury, and latest spying techniques in secret-agent thrillers as exemplified in an account of the efforts of a female spy to prevent a priceless gem collection from falling into the hands of an international crime ring. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-471

 

Murder 1930

Alfred Hitchcock, Walter C Mycroft, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Clemence Dane, and Helen Simpson

An actress is convicted of murder, but one of the jurors sets out to prove her innocence. 1 videocassette (102 min.)

MEDIA D-453

 

Murder on the Orient Express 1990

Albert Finney, Nat Cohen, John Brabourne, Richard B Goodwin, Sidney Lumet, Paul Dehn, Agatha Christie, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, and Vanessa Redgrave

This Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast of wonderfully excentric characters. 2 videocassettes (128 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2852 cassette 1 2-2853 cassette 2

 

Nora Inu Stray dog 1998

Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Janus Films, Toho Kabushiki Kaisha, Home Vision (Firm), and Public Media Incorporated (Wilmette, Ill.)

Detective story about young police detective Murakami whose revolver is stolen. Murakami's superiors team him up with Sato, a veteran on the force, and they make the exhausting rounds through black market Tokyo. Evidence soon emerges confirming Murakami's worst fear: his gun is in the hands of a killer. 1 videocassette (122 min.)

MEDIA 2-6430

 

Notorious 1990

Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, David O Selznick, and Ben Hecht

A government agent and a refugee girl undertake a dangerous mission in Brazil. 1 videocassette (103 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 528         2-95

 

One false move 1992

Carl Franklin, Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson, Michael Beach, Earl Billings, Jim Metzler, Jesse Beaton, and Ben Myron

1 videocassette (106 min.)

DANA 591

 

Pickup on South Street 1991

Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Samuel Fuller, Jules Schermer, Dwight Taylor, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and CBS Fox Video

A thief with a record as a three-time loser pickpockes a street-smart beauty who's carrying secret microfilm for a gang of communist spies. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

  DANA 1924

 

The quiet American 2003

William Horberg, Staffan Ahrenberg, Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan, Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Tzi Ma, Rade Sherbedgia, Miramax Films, Intermedia Films, Mirage Productions, Saga Pictures (Firm), IMF (Firm), Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-212

 

Rear window 1954, 1988

Alfred Hitchcock, Cornell Woolrich, James Stewart, Grace, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter

Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, is confined to his apartment during a Greenwich Village heat wave. He takes up spying on his neighbors and suspects his neighbor has murdered his wife. 1 videocassette (113 min.)  DVD

DANA            MEDIA 531                   10-91

 

Rebecca 1992

Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, David O Selznick, and Daphne Du Maurier

A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death. 1 videocassette (132 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 530       2-135

 

Red dust c2006

Tom Hooper, Anant Singh, Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gillian Slovo, HBO Video (Firm), BBC Films, Distant Horizon (Firm), Videovision Entertainment (Firm), and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa

A political thriller set in a small South African town during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant must represent Alex Mpondo, a former political activist,  who was held captive and sadistically tortured by a police officer under the apartheid regime in South Africa. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-756

 

Repentance 1988

T engiz Abulaze, Avt andil Maxaraze, and Zeinab Botsvaze

In a small, somewhat surreal Russian village, a mysterious woman is put on trial for repeatedly digging up the body of Varlam, the town's recently deceased ruler.  The trial progresses, and it's learned that the woman's parents perished under Varlam's vicious reign of terror. 1 videocassette (151 min.)

MEDIA 2-1258

 

Revanche c2009

Geotz Spielmann, Martin Gschlacht, Mathias Forberg, Heinz Stussak, Sandra Bohle, Johannes Krisch, Ursula Strauss, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Johannes Thanheiser, Hanno Peoschl, Karina Ressler, Armond White, Janus Films, Prisma Film (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife. 2 videodiscs (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2054

 

Rope 1948, 1985

Patrick Hamilton and  Alfred Hitchcock

Two friends strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner, with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for the table. Before the night is over, their former teacher realizes how brutally his students have twisted his acdemic theories. 1 videocassette (81 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 91 2-159

 

Saboteur 1942, 1985

Alfred Hitchcock

A Los Angles aircraft factory worker witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-196

 

Se7en [i.e. Seven] c2001

Arnold Kopelson, Phyllis Carlyle, David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C McGinley, New Line Cinema Corporation, New Line Home Video (Firm), and Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)

Two detectives try to find a serial killer who is choosing his victims according to the seven deadly sins. 1 videocassette (127 min.)

MEDIA 2-7115

 

The Secret agent 1991

Alfred Hitchcock, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Robert Young, W. Somerset Maugham, Campbell Dixon, Michael Balcon, and Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu

An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 567           2-1571

 

Seven c1997

David Fincher, Arnold Kopelson, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, New Line Productions, Inc, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. 1 videodisc (127 min.)

MEDIA 10-347

 

Shadow of a doubt 1988

Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Jack H Skirball, and Gordon McDonell

A young woman suspects her charming uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer and a deadly game begins. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

DANA 527

 

Shaft 1971, 1999

Gordon Parks, Joel Freeman, Ernest Tidyman , John D. F Black,  Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, and Isaac Hayes

Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the Black Underworld's uptown territory. 1 videocassette (ca. 1 hr., 38 min.)

MEDIA 2-3899

 

Shock corridor 1963, 1996?

Samuel Fuller, Peter Breck, Constance Towers, James Best,  Hari Rhodes, and Gene Evans

A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate, but in the process his own sanity suffers. 1 videocassette (101 min.)

MEDIA 2-5085

 

The Silence of the lambs 1991, 1998

Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon, Ron Bozman, Ted Tally, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, and Thomas Harris

A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-25

 

Sleuth 1972, 1988

Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Morton Gottlieb, and A Shaffer

A mystery full of twists and turns starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. A game-playing mystery writer baits his wife's lover into a trap. 1 videocassettes (139 min)

DANA 805

 

Spellbound 1992

David O Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Francis Beeding

A psychiatrist at a mental institution becomes romantically involved with the new director, and shields him from the police after discovering that he is an imposter. 1 videocassette (111 min.)

DANA     MEDIA   MEDIA 529             2-142       2-5682

 

Spy game 2002, 2001

Douglas Wick, Marc Abraham, Michael Frost Beckner, David Arata, Tony Scott, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman, Michael Paul Chan, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-160

 

Stage fright 1990

Alfred Hitchcock, Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd, Whitfield Cook, Alma Reville, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sims, and Selwyn Jepson

A drama student poses as a maid and goes to work for the woman who has framed her boyfriend for murder. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

DANA 550

 

Die stille nach dem schuss The legends of Rita 2001

Volker Schlöndorff, Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempert, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, and Nadja Uhl

This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-98

 

Suspicion 198-?, 1948

Alfred Hitchcock and  Anthony Berkeley

Thriller about a woman who gradually realizes she is married to a murderer. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

MEDIA 2-94

 

The talented Mr. Ripley c2000

Anthony Minghella, William Horberg, Tom Sternberg, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall, Miramax Films, Mirage Enterprises, Timnick Films, and Paramount Pictures Corporation

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder. 1 videodisc (139 min.)

MEDIA 10-734

 

A Touch of evil 1958, 1987

Orson Welles, Whit Masterson, Charlton Heston, and Janet Leigh

The story starts with a murder that ensnares a vacationing narcotics agent (Heston) and his wife (Leigh) in a web of shadowy figures. Orson Welles plays a corrupt police official in the squalid town on the Mexican border where the action takes place. The elaborately mysterious plot builds to an intense confrontation between Welles and Heston, each intent on destroying the other. 1 videocassette

MEDIA   DANA 2-970       110

 

Two gun man from Harlem 1938, 1996

A singing cowboy wrongfully framed for murder ends up in Harlem. He assumes the identity of a look-alike murdered gangster and joins a gang to catch the men who framed him. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6198

 

Wangjiao kamen/As tears go by 2004

Kar-wai Wong, Alan Tang, Rover Tang, Dehua Liu, Manyu Zhang, Xueyou Zhang, Media Asia Film, In-Gear Film Production Co, and Kino International Corporation

Already stretched to breaking in a loyalty tug of war between Triad bosses and his loose cannon partner, Wah, a rising star in the Hong Kong underworld, finds himself saddled with beautiful, ailing country cousin Ngor. As an escalating test of wills with a stubborn debtor explodes into bloodshed and a mob turncoat instigates a ruthless police crackdown, Wah's growing fascination with Ngor becomes his last chance for escape from a violent past and a debious future. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-560

 

Witness 1985, 1999

Edward S Feldman, Peter Weir, Harrison Ford, Alexander Godunov, Kelly McGillis, M. Josef Sommer, and Lukas Haas

When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

DANA 1651

 

Witness for the prosecution 2001, c1957

Billy Wilder, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)

A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-505

 

Yo soy el que tu buscas I'm the one you're looking for 1991

Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Tébar, Jaime Chávarri, Pastora Díaz, Patricia Adriani, Chus Lampreave, and Richard Borras

Through the exotic streets of Barcelona's underworld, the darker side of love and sexuality comes to life in this psychological thriller about a beautiful celebrity model seeking revenge from her rapist. Vengeful desire becomes an uncontrollable obsession when she teams up with a short-tempered taxi driver and a hot-blooded erotic dancer in her frantic search. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

DANA 633

 

Z 1980

Costa Gavras

Political thriller about events preceding the military coup in Greece in the 1960s. 1 videocassette (128 min.)

MEDIA 2-40