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Series
The Criterion collection ; 959
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A black Philadelphia homicide detective reluctantly assists a white sheriff in solving a murder in 1960s Mississippi.
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Death wish: When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice. Fury and fate collide in this intense action-thriller.
Die hard 2: Here it is Christmas Eve, and John McClane is off duty in the nation's capital. But a team of terrorists, in town to rescue a drug lord from justice, has taken over a major airport, holding thousands of travelers hostage.
The fifth element: New York...
925) The roaring twenties
Series
Criterion collection ; 1208
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
926) Mob hits
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Lawless:The loyalty of the infamous Bondurant brothers-- bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia-- is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Gangster squad: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs,...
928) Chasing Chastain
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ava: A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.
Molly's game: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Miss Julie: A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire--Adapted from container.
A most violent...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Big eyes: Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
The brave one: New York radio...
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Prisoners: Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands....
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fight club: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground 'fight clubs' forming in every town -- until a sensuous and mysterious woman comes between the two men and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special...
932) Traffic
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It's a high-stakes, high-risk world of the drug trade. A Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in a deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in an upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his drug-addicted teenage...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
21 bridges: An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.
Black...
934) The asphalt jungle
Series
Criterion collection ; 847
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme.
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The kitchen: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition,...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: Fight club ; The usual suspects ; Planet of the Apes ; The mist ; Clue : Atomic blonde.
Fight club: A man sets up a fight club in which young men are paired off in bloody no-holds-barred bouts until one drops.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The outlaw Josey Wales: A peaceful farmer turns Confederate renegade to avenge the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of bandits-turned-Union sympathizers.
Million dollar baby: Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Gran Torino: A...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Visitor: Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fences: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Doubt: 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...
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ex Machina: Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb,...
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