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1) Sin City
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
3) Zen noir
Publisher
Dreaming Dog Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A unique and original blend of Buddhist philosophy, vaudevillian comedy and surrealist art film, Zen Noir follows a nameless detective as he investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple. But his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen, and he finds himself drawn into a deeper, stranger, more personal mystery...the mystery of death itself.
4) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involves two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
6) Chinatown
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job mushrooms into a murderous regional and personal scandal in pre-World War II Los Angeles.
7) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
8) The Paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
9) Pulp Fiction
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1994.
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.
10) Fargo
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Language
English
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
12) Sharky's Machine
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Tom Sharky, an under cover cop, is on a tough narcotics assignment and finds the game is rigged against him. He blows his cover by blowing away a drug dealer on a crowded bus, and buys himself a one-way ticket to Vice Squad duty.
13) Galveston
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Roy is a heavy-drinking criminal enforcer and mob hit man whose boss set him up in a double-cross scheme. After killing his would-be assassins before they could kill him, Roy discovers Rocky, a young woman being held captive, and reluctantly takes her with him on his escape. Determined to find safety and sanctuary in Galveston, Roy must find a way to stop his boss from pursuing them while trying to out-run the demons from his and Rocky's pasts.
14) Jack of Hearts
Author
Publisher
Key DVD
Pub. Date
[2002.]
Language
English
Description
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption in this thriller
15) Double indemnity
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
17) Hollow point
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An international crime syndicate is on the move in America. Led by the devilishly clever Livingston, who plans one last payday before they move their operation overseas.
18) Touch of evil
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. See all three versions of the film: the theatrical version, the preview version, and the restored version. Features include commentaries and featurettes.
19) Key Largo
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
20) Dark Passage
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.