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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly...
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Acme DVD Works
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[2006]
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English
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D.O.A.: "I want to report a murder ... mine." So begins D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) becomes the recipient of a deadly poison known as iridium. Told by a doctor that he hasn't long to live, Bigelow desperately retraces his movements of the previous 24 hours, trying to locate his murderer. -- The hitch-hiker: Ray Collins (Edmund O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) are on their...
4) Frank & Lola
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he is instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge.
6) The Stranger
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An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
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A man (Edward G. Robinson) & his sister (Judith Anderson) are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter (Allene Roberts), concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods. A classic suspense thriller with a haunting score by the famed composer Miklos Rozsa...The all-star cast also includes Rory Calhoun, Julie London, & Lon McCallister.
11) Smash Up
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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.
12) Quicksand
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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.
13) Indigo
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"Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood's...
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John Garfield is Johnny, a tough NYC boxer who becomes champ. He attends a drunken party where a reporter is murdered. The killer himself dies in a flaming auto wreck, but not before he successfully shifts the blame to Johnny. He flees the city & hides out at a boy's camp out west, populated by The Dead End Kids. All seems ok until a detective (Claude Rains) who was on the murder case, happens by.
16) Hollow Triumph
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English
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller takes a new identity, with ironic results.
18) The hitch-hiker
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BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Emmett Myers, a killer on the run from the police, gets picked up by two men on their way to a weekend fishing trip. The depraved hitchhiker Myers is determined to make his victims suffer due to his childhood abuse and begins a cat and mouse game with the duo that turns into a tense hunt for survival in the heat of southern California.
19) The Killing
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English
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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.
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