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1) Trifles
Author
Formats
Description
A Farmer is found dead in the middle of winter. Strangled in his bed. When a neighboring farmer comes upon the scene the following day, he is left with no choice but to notify the sheriff. The sheriff wastes no time taking the farmer's wife, Minnie, into custody after hearing her claim to have been sleeping soundly when the tragic event occurred. As the neighbor retells his story to the sheriff and county attorney; their wives, who are there to collect...
2) Gone girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 600
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (161 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding supporting cast and influential jazz score by Duke Ellington,...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ashley Jensen stars in these three feature-length mysteries based on M.C. Beaton's bestselling novels. Formerly a high-flying PR executive in London, Agatha Raisin has now settled into small-town life in the Cotswolds, but her early retirement is far from quiet. Along with her friends Roy and Gemma, Agatha solves the village's bizarre murders with panache, but her love life may be a puzzle beyond even her skills to decipher.
5) Mystery road
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Starring Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The village of Three Pines, a refuge from the modern world in the beautiful Eastern Townships, basks in the tranquil glory of its autumn colours. But the blazing woods conceal the body of a much-loved teacher - shot through the heart with an arrow. A tragic hunting accident or murder? Charismatic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of officers probe to discover deep layers of deceit, resentment, and murderous rage in the pretty village.
8) Ganja & Hess
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 113 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn's revolutionary independent film Ganja and Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the living dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), endowing him with the blessing of immortality, and...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
10) The staircase
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which version of events to believe. As the case becomes engulfed...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
12) Good people
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young American couple falls into severe debt while renovating a home in London. When they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them was murdered and left $400,000 cash stashed in the ceiling, the couple thinks all of their problems are solved, but that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she's not the only person looking for her.
14) Horrible bosses
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day), the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few too many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers-- permanently. There's only...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sarah is on the run from a bad relationship when a lookalike stranger commits suicide right in front of her. Sarah sees a solution to all her problems by assuming the dead woman's identity and clearing out her bank account. Instead, she stumbles into a thriller mystery, and uncovers an earth-shattering secret: she is a clone. She learns there are more like her, genetically identical individuals, nurtured in wildly different circumstances, and someone...
16) Juror #2
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Juror #2" follows family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the accused killer.
17) True story
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
18) The double hour
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Sonia (Rappaport) is a Slovenian woman who works as a chambermaid in a Turin hotel. There's something going on behind her rather wary expression and hesitant manner, but we assume at first that it may just be shyness, and root for her when she meets Guido (Timi), an awkward, reticent but romantic former policeman, at a speed dating session. The widowed Guido and the lonely Sonia have just begun to connect when he is murdered in front of her during...
19) Blow-up
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 p.)
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
