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22) Shaft (2019)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"JJ, AKA John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family."...
23) Sling blade
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
Series
Mission impossible film volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team, tries to discover the truth.
26) Mrs. Harris
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, tells the tragic, unlikely tale of Jean Harris who made headlines in the early 1980s after shooting and killing her lover, the celebrated "Scarsdale diet doctor," Herman Tarnower, at his home in suburban New York.
27) Novocaine
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], ©2001
Language
English
Description
A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.
28) Chaos
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After a deadly bank heist, Detectives Quentin Conners and Shane Dekker are drawn into a mysterious case where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind who seems to kill without warning or reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception, the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaos.
29) Summoned
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Laura sees a story about a man named Nathan who's suspected of committing suicide. Something about this bothers her, so she goes to tell her friend Frank what's happened. It turns out that Laura, Frank and Nathan all served on the jury for the trial of serial killer Evan Barber. They found Evan guilty and he was executed. When Frank also turns up dead, the coincidence is too great to ignore. She starts looking into these deaths and starts to get the...
31) Stir of echoes
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1999
Language
English
Description
After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.
32) Dead man walking
Language
English
Description
Sister Helen Prejean becomes the spiritual advisor to Matthew Poncelet, a vicious and complex killer awaiting execution. As she attempts to save Matthew's dark soul, she uncovers shocking truths that will rock the very foundation of her faith. Bonus features.
33) 11:14
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The lives of many cross at this one point in time which shall have life-altering effects.
35) Untraceable
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Marsh is an FBI secret service agent who gets caught up in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer. The killer knows that people are drawn to the curious and the dark side of things. They will log onto an 'untraceable' website where the killer conducts violent and painful murders live on the internet. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.
36) Alex Cross
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Follows the young homicide detective/psychologist as he meets his match in a serial killer. The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.
38) Dead silence
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...
39) Fatale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Derrick desperately tries to put the pieces together after a wild one-night stand with a woman who has entangled him in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The female detective got him caught up in her latest investigation, putting him -- and his perfect life and family -- at risk of losing everything, even their lives." --
40) True story
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.