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2) Reminiscence
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A scientist discovers a way to relive your past and uses the technology to search for his long lost love. Whilst a private investigator uncovers a conspiracy while helping his clients recover lost memories.
3) Memento
Language
English
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
4) Marlowe
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light.
7) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
10) The stranger
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A dark story about a Nazi who has escaped to a small town in America and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The original RKO publicity tells the story: "When a man goes to the devil he usually takes a woman with him...this man took THREE!" Young plays a dirty rotten scoundrel who sponges off his wealthy wife, seduces and abandons another woman and runs off with a third. Returning home, Young plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leave him battling for his life. The role of faithless cad was a startling...
12) The lost weekend
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.
13) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
14) Elena
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...
15) Shock
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young woman goes into a coma after witnessing her neighbor being killed. When she finally comes to, she realizes that the psychiatrist treating her is actually the killer.
16) The velvet touch
Pub. Date
[2015], 1948.
Language
English
Description
Val Stanton is a famous 'light' actress who yearns to play a dramatic role. Her jealous producer, however, tries to blackmail her into staying with him, and in a fit of anguish, she accidentally kills him. But Val has committed the 'perfect' murder, a fellow actress is suspected of the crime! When the detective closes the case, Val tries to enjoy her newfound freedom in her career and her love, but she is too haunted by guilt.
17) A life at stake
Pub. Date
2021, p1955.
Language
English
Description
The film is also known as Key Man. In this picture, an out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. But the architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial. She may actually be deadly!
18) Sunset Boulevard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis becomes entangled with reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond, whose madness destroys them both.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen plays a football hero who fatefully ends up with career criminals planning a bank robbery. No single gang member trusts the other, which proves fatal when the heist goes bad! Actual St. Louis police officers play themselves in the same respective roles of the true story.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004, 1948]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
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