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2) Dark city
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English
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John's life has become a nightmare. He is being hunted by the police for a series of murders he knows nothing about. A woman claiming to be his wife is after him, as is a mysterious 'doctor.' But his worst trouble comes in the form of The Strangers. They are vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the city. They want John because of the extraordinary powers he manifests. John decides to find out what is happening in...
3) The stranger
Language
English
Description
The story of a postwar manhunt for the former head of the Nazi torture camps. He is living the life of a model citizen in a small New England town and resorts to anything to avoid capture.
Language
English
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
5) Out of sight
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English
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A career bank robber busts ouf of jail with the help of his buddy and kidnaps a U.S. Marshal in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big heist, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.
7) Dark city
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A man wakes up with no memory, and can't remember why he is being pursued by police for a string of murders, and by strange telekinetic beings bent on killing him.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding...
9) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Afterward, he's packed off to the south of Spain to live out his days far from the reach of the criminals he has put away. Ten years go by in peace, until one day he returns home, is kidnapped, and given into the hands of Mr. Braddock and his assistant Myron. They are to deliver him to Paris, and the boss he put away. Trouble is, Willie totally accepting of his fate--a former...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
To have and have not: An American fisherman becomes involved with a beautiful young drifter and a French freedom fighter on Martinique. The big sleep: Private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder. Dark passage: A man wrongfully accused of his wife's murder escapes from prison to find the real killer. Key Largo: A man visits the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous...
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