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3) The Stranger
Author
Language
English
Description
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
5) Quicksand
Author
Language
English
Description
After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
6) Smash Up
Author
Language
English
Description
Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury which proves her downfall. Her potential alcoholism burgeons and Ken remains clueless concerning his responsibility for her problems.
9) The Killing
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Language
English
Description
With fascinating detail, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the intricate inner-planning of a racetrack heist by a deadly mastermind (Sterling Hayden) and his crew. Co-stars Coleen Gray.
11) Sunset Boulevard
Author
Language
English
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in "Sunset Boulevard." Winner of three Academy Awards®, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence -- a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
12) Suddenly
Author
Language
English
Description
Proceeding a presidential visit, a trio of impersonating FBI agents enter a home where John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as an assassin. He kidnaps the family in order to use their house as his vantage point in his plot to kill the president.
13) Scarlet Street
Author
Language
English
Description
The quintessential Film Noir - all the elements of corruption, sex, winners and losers. Edward G Robinson plays an amateur painter who protects a young woman. He is in a mid-life crisis and befriends a younger woman and convinces her he has a fortune. Her boyfriend convinces her to try and con him out of the money with disastrous results.
14) True Confessions
Author
Language
English
Description
Two of the finest actors of our time, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, star in this must-see tale of two brothers set on a collision course as the result of a brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles.
15) Detour
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A man's pursuit of the woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman.
16) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
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.
19) Scarlet Street
Series
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
�2001
Language
English
Description
A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.
20) Traffic
Publisher
Universal Studio
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"A mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often 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 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 increasingly drug-addicted teenage...