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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
2) 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...
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...
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.
6) 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?
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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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.
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...
13) Impact
Publisher
Alpha video Distributors, Inc
Pub. Date
2003, 1949
Language
English
Description
Walter Williams is a wealthy industrialist whose vicious, two-timing wife, Irene, and her lover, Jim Torrance, plot Walter's death in an "accidental" car crash. Plans go awry and Torrance is killed instead. The police believe that it is Williams' charred body that is found in the wreck, and declare him dead. Assuming a new identity, Williams ends up in a small town in Idaho and begins life over again, falling in love with beautiful Marsha Peters....
16) House of bamboo
Series
Fox film noir volume 4
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo."--Container
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997, 1981
Language
English
Description
Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Papadakis (John Colicos) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Jessica Lange). Frank and Cora quickly fall in love, and plot Nick's murder. Waiting for wedding bells to ring, the body count rises, the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned-and their plans are derailed one by one
19) Moontide
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...
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