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41) Gilda
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"Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's 'main man.' All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda-- a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill...
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Criterion collection volume 1020
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Downtown Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder. Based on the best-selling novel by Ben Ames Williams.
"Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen's devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as...
43) Body and soul
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Northwest Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Charley Davis, a strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a corrupt boxing syndicate. But when faced with the chance to regain his self-respect, Charley climbs into the ring one last time--in an unforgettable climatic fight scene.
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A pickpocket steals a girl's wallet, containing microfilm for communist spies, making him a wanted man by the police, the spies, and the girl.
45) Lady in the lake
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Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
46) Possessed
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South Valleys Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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DVD VIDEO POSSES FULL
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Sparks Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Ambitious factory worker dreams of satin gowns and diamond earrings. In an effort to realize her dreams she moves to New York and pursues a relationship with an influential lawyer.
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Northwest Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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A tennis star (Guy) is harassed on a train by a psychotic (Bruno)who wants to swap murders and who proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain. The British version amplifies Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy, and his psychotic personality.
48) Johnny Guitar
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Vienna is a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small, attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar, a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter, who once was, and perhaps still is, in love with Vienna.
Joan Crawford is a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes...
49) The hitch-hiker
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Northwest Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
DVD VIDEO HITCH
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DVD VIDEO HITCH
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Downtown Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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DVD VIDEO HITCH
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Two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip decide to pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a killer. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by psychopathic serial killer.
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South Valleys Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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DVD VIDEO CAB FULL
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In the film The cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a somnambulist commits murders under a hypnotist's influence. Also featured is a lengthy excerpt of Genuine. Both films are examples of the German Expressionist movement.
51) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
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When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.
52) The stranger
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Northwest Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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South Valleys Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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DVD VIDEO STRANG FULL
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A Nazi (Welles) has escaped to a small town in Connecticut and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter (Robinson).
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Incline Village Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors.
54) Dark passage
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Sierra View Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Sparks Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
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Northwest Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Incline Village Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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North Valleys Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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An American charter boat captain in Martinique (Bogart) gets involved with a young female drifter (Bacall) and helps some French freedom fighters who are trying to elude local Nazi collaborators.
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Downtown Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Mildred Pierce: Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get...
57) Key Largo
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Incline Village Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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Senior Center Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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South Valleys Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel...
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Downtown Reno Library - DVD / Blu-rays
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DVD VIDEO LA WIDESCREEN
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Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A tribute to tough film noir crime films.
59) Point blank
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Sparks Library - DVD / Blu-rays
DVD VIDEO POI 2005 WIDESCREEN
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DVD VIDEO POI 2005 WIDESCREEN
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A thief is double-crossed by a crime group called 'The Organization' after pulling a heist. Their mistake was not killing him; now he is out for revenge and the $93,000 that The Organization owes him. Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel.
60) The conversation
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Sierra View Library - DVD / Blu-rays
DVD VIDEO CONVER WIDE
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DVD VIDEO CONVER WIDE
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A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.