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1) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) reteams with The Master star Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator, Her, Walk the Line) for this darkly comic adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel, set in late-sixties Los Angeles. When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
4) Sin City
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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. See Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life. Contains both the theatrical release and the unrated extended cut version.
5) Sunset Blvd
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 1
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to laughter, but is present in every phrase of the book, charged with relentless sardonic irony.-FactorcriticoRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
9) Key Largo
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
10) Marlowe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) A kind of murder
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A crime novelist obsessed with an unsolved murder case begins to fantasize about committing a crime of his own. His marriage is an unhappy one, and his desire to be free from his beautiful but damaged wife becomes an obsession. But when his wife is found dead, the lines blur between innocence and intent, forcing the question: who, in fact, is the real killer?
12) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
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