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1) Nightcrawler
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
2) Ajami
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
5) Drive
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
9) Widows
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.
10) Proud Mary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
11) Frequency
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John discovers the ability to talk to his father.. who's been dead for 30 years. His attempts to change the past go awry as they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders. Now they're fighting to find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them.
12) Stand up guys
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. His purpose is to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. He panics and drops his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale goes back to Saul to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room, until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large, Professor James Moriarty, and not only is he Holmes's intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Holmes's investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany, and finally...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
17) Frozen river
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman and Lila, a Mohawk are both single mothers, both earning minimum wage and facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. New York State Trooper Finnerty ultimately brings the two to justice....
18) Taken
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
19) Killerman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When NYC money launderer Moe Diamond wakes up from a car crash, he's left with no memory, millions in stolen cash, and an insane crew of dirty cops hunting him down. With a stranger who says he's his best friend and a fiancée he doesn't remember, Moe must race against the clock to discover his own identity, and escape his past before it destroys any chance at a future.
20) The hate u give
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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