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Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1957
Language
English
Description
Directed by Billy Wilder and starring screen legends Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, this courtroom drama left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Power), is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Dietrich)...but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her...
2) The swap
Publisher
Gemstone Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Small-time hood Vito is released from jail after serving a twelve-year sentence. His only desire is to find the killer of his younger brother Sammy, a film editor murdered ten years earlier. His search leads him to the people Sammy spent his last weekend with, a group of wealthy people that involved his brother in their decadent lifestyle. Vito soon discovers that Sammy was involved in more than film editing
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Publisher
XYZ Video
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A jury foreman convinced that a young girl murdered her lover in a crime of passion provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The supense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After botching a robbery Nick and his girlfriend Lissa target his old college chum Bryce as an easy mark for fast cash. Before long all three young people find themselves entwined in a dangerous web of betrayal and seduction
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2000, ©2003
Language
English
Description
Death's shadow: A successful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, returns to Badger's Drift, his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Soon after, a local property developer becomes the first in a string of baffling murders. Strangler's wood: When a beautiful Brazilian woman is found strangled with a striped necktie in Raven's Wood, Barnaby experiences a disturbing sense of déjà vu. His investigation leads him to a trail fo blackmail,...
10) Charade
Language
English
Description
Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A priceless sapphire has been stolen and smuggled out of China. Prophecy has it that the kiss of death from Emperor Hong Kong Chu comes to anyone who takes the stone out of the country. In an atmosphere of doom, a party is given by the receiver of the stone. Mr. Wong is one of the invited guests
12) The fits
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent seizures. Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Gate Award for Best New Director at the **San Francisco International Film Festival**. Winner of the Someone to Watch Award...
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ten people, stangers to each other are invited to an island estate, where the mysterious host accuses each of his guest of murder. One by one the guests are murdered with tension mounting as the remaining guests realize that the killer is amongst them.
Publisher
Granada International/Direct Holdings
Pub. Date
[2007], c1996
Language
English
Description
Courtroom drama at it?s best! John Thaw (Inspector Morse) plays barrister James Kavanagh Q.C. (Queens Counsel), one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working class background, Kavanagh has climbed the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law.A man of convictions, Kavanagh?s cause to uphold the truth and scales of justice is demonstrated as he acts for an alleged rapist, a pornography star,...
Publisher
Granada International/Direct Holdings
Pub. Date
[2007], c1996
Language
English
Description
Courtroom drama at it?s best! John Thaw (Inspector Morse) plays barrister James Kavanagh Q.C. (Queens Counsel), one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working class background, Kavanagh has climbed the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law.A man of convictions, Kavanagh?s cause to uphold the truth and scales of justice is demonstrated as he acts for an alleged rapist, a pornography star,...
Publisher
Granada International/Direct Holdings
Pub. Date
[2007], c1996
Language
English
Description
Courtroom drama at it?s best! John Thaw (Inspector Morse) plays barrister James Kavanagh Q.C. (Queens Counsel), one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working class background, Kavanagh has climbed the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law.A man of convictions, Kavanagh?s cause to uphold the truth and scales of justice is demonstrated as he acts for an alleged rapist, a pornography star,...
17) Gosford Park
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered
18) The big sleep
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's young daughter from her indiscretions, and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her elder sister
19) Shirley
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door. Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking...
20) Graduation
Publisher
Curzon Artificial Eye
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams - a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize...
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