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1) Gaslight
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
3) Red eye
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After her grandmother's funeral, Lisa takes the red eye flight back to Miami. The man sitting next to her reveals her father's wallet and says he will be killed if she doesn't help him murder the deputy secretary of Homeland Security.
4) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
5) Scream VI
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the sixth installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start afresh in New York City.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into traveling to Vienna to be treated by Sigmund Freud. While Freud delves into Holmes' subconscious, Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Series
Criterion collection volume 227
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
"A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surfact. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. But some--including Jean Cocteau...
8) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
9) Winter kills
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Screen legend Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the son of world-famous tycoon Pa Kegan and half-brother of the late US President Timothy Kegan, who was slain by a lone assassin nineteen years earlier. But when a long-rumored 'second gunman' makes a secret deathbed confession, Nick begins to unravel a trail of suspects that includes a billionaire war-freak, a murderous mob boss, a shady nightclub owner, a Cuban kingpin, an eccentric computer expert,...
10) The 39 steps
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
11) The mighty Quinn
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
13) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
14) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as the jobless ex-GI Easy Rawlins, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he's recruited to find the missing lover of a wealthy mayoral candidate in late 1940s Los Angeles only to find himself embroiled in murder, political intrigue, and a scandal that crosses the treacherous color lines of a segregated society.
"Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, a decorated African American war hero, returns home to the segregation...
16) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...
17) One false move
Series
Criterion collection volume 1187
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
18) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
'Strange, what love does.' The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it...
19) Cure =: Kyua
Series
Criterion collection volume 1155
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
A detective tries to solve a series of murders with a supernatural connection.
20) Mr. Klein
Series
Criterion collection volume 1123
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
"One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey's European exile, Mr. Klein is a spellbinding modernist mystery that puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in France during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up paintings from his desperate Jewish clients. As Klein searches for a Jewish man with the same name for whom...
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