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1) 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....
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
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
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.
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.
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) 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?
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...
11) The stranger
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
A dark story about a Nazi who has escaped to a small town in America and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter.
12) 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
13) The stranger
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
An ex-Nazi war criminal assumes a new identity and a new life in suburban America following World War II. But an agent from the U.N.'s War Crimes Commission is on his tail, threatening to expose the lurid past and true identity he keeps secret. Rankin has held strong to his fascist ideals but left nary a shred of evidence, not even a photograph, to identify him as the notorious Franz Kindler.
15) 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
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"T-men": Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring. "Raw deal": Joe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. "He walked by night": This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
17) Brighton rock
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
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...
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...
20) Clash by night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend
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