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1) Splinter
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the middle of gang-ravaged East L.A., the number of bizarre murders are rising so fast, cops aren't sure whether it's a gang war or a serial killer. Now only one man, Dreamer, holds the key. Can he regain his memory before it's too late?
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
3) Silverado
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999-]
Language
English
Description
A fast-riding adventure story of four strangers drawn together on the Western frontier.
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
For nearly a year, Consuelo has been obsessed with a man who visits her dreams, a blue prince who does not exist, according to her friends. Richard has been suffering from nightmares in which a young, attractive woman seduces him and then tries to kill him. He swears he doesn't know her. Slowly the dreamlike world invades reality and both end up face to face, separated only by mirrored glass in a police station. What happens next will blow your mind....
6) Paparazzi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When a group of paparazzi photographers cause an accident that injures his family, a film superstar turns to the police for help. When they are unable to help, he seeks vengeance on his own.
7) Predator 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Predator is a savage alien, invisible and armed with advanced weapons. On this, his second visit to Earth, he lands in Los Angeles and begins a series of ghastly murders. It's up to a determined police lieutenant to learn what is going on, even when he is warned off by a mysterious government agent.
The deadly invisible Predator is unleashed in another jungle, the urban jungle of Los Angeles. A police lieutenant mistakenly concludes that mangled...
9) Jaws 2
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
It's been four years since that marauding great white shark terrorized the small summer resort of Amity; but the shark that Police Chief Brody destroyed wasn't the only one in the ocean! The same heart-stopping suspense and gripping adventure that enthralled movie audiences throughout the world in Jaws returns in this worthy sequel to that film classic.
10) Mile 22
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
11) Die hard
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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New York City detective John McClaine has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged wife. As terrorists take over the building at his wife's company party, it's up to John to save the day with his own one man army.
It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A collection of 100 mystery films with intrigue and suspense. Combining its popular Mystery and Dark Crimes 50 Movie Packs, Mill Creek Entertainment returns you to a time when the movies were black and white but the dark characters that inhabited them displayed every shade of grey. Deception, betrayal, corruption, larceny and murder stir the landscape in this collection of amoral tales that thrilled bygone audiences and are back to delight a new generation....
13) Laura
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling...
14) Jaws
Language
English
Description
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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Language
English
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Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Ngugi of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canons sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." Bookforum. An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge. Wrestling with the Devil, Ngg wa Thiongos powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After a car accident, modern-day police detective Sam Tyler wakes up to find he has been transported to 1973. Is he crazy, in a coma, or back in time? He must solve crimes using low-tech, highly aggressive 1970s methods, butt heads with his boss, and find time for a possible romance with policewoman Annie.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
As a Latin American nation nears collapse, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas faces his greatest challenge: to catch the mysterious terrorist leader Ezequiel. Mass panic sets in as the terrorist attacks become more ferocious, and Rejas finds himself drawn to Yolanda, his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher. As the search for Ezequil comes nearer, he and Yolanda must choose between love, country or self.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to stop the dictator's peace conference,...
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