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In 1947 Hollywood Eddie Valiant is a down-on-his-luck detective who is hired to find out if Marvin Acme is playing hanky-panky with Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon superstar Roger Rabbit. When Acme is found murdered all fingers point to Roger who enlists Eddie's help to find the real killer.
3) Jackie Brown
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
4) Collateral
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an...
Pub. Date
[20??]
Language
English
Description
Vicious gangster Blackie and his friends kill a newly-arrived illegal alien. An autopsy confirms the dead man had bubonic plague. Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Healt Service must find the killer before he becomes contagious. and he only has 48 hours to do it inches
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Too late for tears: A man just found $60,000 and his wife insists that he keep it rather than turn it in to the cops. Wanting the money for herself, she kills her husband then reports him missing. The man who cheated himself: Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police officer, is in love with socialite Lois Frazer. Ed seems to find himself stuck between a rock and a hard place when Lois decides to kill her husband and Ed's brother is assigned to solve...
10) The Racket
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An incorruptible police detective plans to a get brutal racketeer involved with organized crime; the latter's political connections complicate matters.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing trip, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer.
Detour: After he is picked up while hitchhiking, Al Roberts' samaritan dies of a heart attack. Afraid of being accused of the murder, he ditches the body, then takes the man's clothes, wallet, and car.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Key Largo: A disillisioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight...until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a...
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Two brief features on one disc. Hat box mystery: Susan Hart, assistant to provate detective Russ Ashtopn, is accused of killing a woman with a gun hidden in a hat box. Russ and his dim-witted associate Harvard investigate. Hollywood mystery: Fast-talking Hollywood publicity man Dan Patrick Ryan runs afoul of the Mob.
15) Jackie Brown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Quentin Tarantino scores with an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor in his "twisty crime yarn" (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY). What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are...who's getting played...and who's gonna make the big score?
16) Jackie Brown
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Key Largo: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Postal Inspector Al Goddard is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The only witness to the crime is Sister Augustine, who identifies the photograph of one of the assailants. This leads Goddard to a seedy hotel where he learns that the assailant is a member of a gang headed by Earl Boettiger, and he soon discovers that the gang is planning a million-dollar mail robbery.
19) The big sleep
Pub. Date
1946, [2005]
Language
English
Description
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
20) The untouchables
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eliot Ness and his band of prohibition-era law enforcement agents try to destroy Al Capone's criminal empire.
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