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1) Harper
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
Publisher
Pathé! Distribution
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
"In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire's only solace is an occasional night out bowling and the voyeuristic admiration of his neighbor. ... When police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
5) Timecrimes
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
A man accidentally finds a time machine and travels back in time where he is involved in a mystery filled with murders, terror, and another version of himself.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up geting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
7) Moonraker
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
11) Stakeout
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Two plainclothes cops are convinced that a dangerous escaped convict is headed for his ex-girlfriend's apartment. They "stakeout" her apartment and the watch remains routine until one of the detectives falls in love with the woman under surveillance.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Chan heads to Paris for a reunion with his WWI buddies, he finds the City of Light plunged into darkness, as Europe teeters on the brink of war. But when Chan stumbles on an evil spy ring that's selling arms to Germany, the intrepid detective is determined to shed the light of justice onto evil's darkest and most dangerous enterprise.
13) Doubt
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In Reno, if love hurts, divorce can be murder. When Charlie Chan sets out to solve the murder of an unhappily married socialite, he soon discovers that "til death do us part" can be a deadly vow to break. As the legendary detective squares off against desperate divorcées, murderous mistresses and blackhearted blackmailers, he quickly begins to suspect that when it comes to America's divorce capital, "happily ever after" may be the greatest casualty...
15) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
18) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Brick
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
Brendan Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
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