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1) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
3) Blade runner
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
5) Film noir
Author
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter-by-chapter (lovers planning murder, corrupt police and doomed love), this illustrated handbook provides instant and in-depth access to the genre for amateurs and aficionados alike.
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ten people, stangers to each other are invited to an island estate, where the mysterious host accuses each of his guest of murder. One by one the guests are murdered with tension mounting as the remaining guests realize that the killer is amongst them.
7) D.O.A
Series
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in San Francisco, Frank Bigelow is poisoned by a deadly, slow-acting poison. Can he find his murderer before time runs out?
11) Into the fire
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Out of work and driving aimlessly, a man pulls into the Wolf Lodge and ends up with a job. When he wakes nightly to the sounds of icy voices and screams he struggles to uncover the mystery
Publisher
Wellspring [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A playful car thief accidentally shoots a pursuing policeman. He hides out in Paris with a fashionable American girl, trying to raise enough cash for a getaway. She betrays him but he refuses to leave, preferring the heroic stoicism of his screen hero Bogart
13) The letter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1940
Language
None
Description
A woman kills her husband and only a letter she wrote can prove that she did it. Based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen plays a football hero who fatefully ends up with career criminals planning a bank robbery. No single gang member trusts the other, which proves fatal when the heist goes bad! Actual St. Louis police officers play themselves in the same respective roles of the true story
15) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 1994 and 2002]
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
17) The hitch-hiker
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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. Notable for being the only true 'Film Noir' directed by a woman.
18) Boomerang
Series
Film noir wave volume 6
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Based on a true story
Series
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007, 1953
Language
English
Description
The Man from Cairo: "Tough-guy Raft investigates the wartime theft of [100 million dollars] in gold hidden somewhere in the Algerian desert. Solid film noir with action, adventure and...Irene Papas in a hot tub!"--Container
Mask of the Dragon: "An American soldier in Korea agrees to deliver a jade dragon to a curio shop in Los Angeles. Soon after his return to the States, he is murdered in this tale of intrigue and mystery produced on a dime...
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