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When five bodies turn up in the waters of Burman City, its illusion of safety is shattered, and Mayor Hackett will stop at nothing to see the peace returned. As veteran Detective Ed Delongpre and his partner Mike McGivern struggle to come up with any clues, the Mayor loses her patience and makes a dangerous deal with the city's mob boss to catch the gruesome killer. Now, no one is safe as men from opposite sides of the law must try to close on in...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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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
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's a well-known fact that Halloween is Scooby's and Shaggy's favorite holiday. Why? Because it's the one day out of the year when the monsters are guaranteed to be fake (plus, there's free candy everywhere!) But, this year, their sweet holiday turns sour when the Spookiest monster they have ever met starts knocking on doors and scaring everybody out of town! Now it's up to Scooby and his pals to solve the mystery of this terrifying trick-or-treat...
5) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
6) Serenity
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English
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that...
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In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
11) Charade
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
12) Budapest Noir
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Hungarian
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Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out—for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a seedy part of the city - a beautiful, well-dressed young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse... Investigating the mystery girl's murder,...
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English
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Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo go to Mexico to visit Fred's computer pen pal and to celebrate the Day of the Dead festivities, which become less festive when a towering, glowering Chupacabra monster turns up to terrify both tourists and locals. The young snoops smell a conspiracy, and as they chase down clues their search for the truth leads them into sundry Mexican antiquities - ancient tombs and temples - where danger increases exponentially....
15) Snapshot
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Samantha Kinsey pulls out all the stops to find out who killed her friend Barbara Sommers. But the case - one with clues stretching back to World War II - proves far more complex than she ever imagined.
16) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.
18) Sing me a murder
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Murder is something to sing about when Mystery Woman Samantha Kinsey - an expert in pulp fiction, and increasingly proficient when it comes to real-life crime - untangles a record-breaking murder.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Psychotherapist Dr. Sam Rice's life is upset by the savage murder of his client Bynum. The antique dealer is the victim of a female Jack The Ripper, and Rice may be next. The alluring Brooke Reynolds walks out of Bynum's past and quickly becomes part of Rice's life. As Rice falls in love with the deeply-troubled Brooke, the evidence points to her as the murderer.
20) Trapped
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton star in this suspenseful drama from director Richard Fleischer. Bridges plays a plays a jailed counterfeiter who is released on the condition that he helps trap the people who are now 'using his plates' to print money. Cinematography by Guy Roe and a musical score by Sol Kaplan give this feature a touch of noir atmosphere, all overseen by Oscar nominated producer Bryan Foy.
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