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Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers.
2) Laura
Series
Fox film noir volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1972
Language
English
Description
A detective is hired to find out who killed their daughter. Soon, he falls in love with her picture.
Series
Fox film noir volume 8
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items : a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, an apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer, her boss and a police lieutenant. When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops, but ultimately makes a shocking...
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
6) 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
Fox film noir volume 7
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
2005, 1945
Language
English
Description
When a young German American is solicited as a Nazi spy during WWII, he accepts the job after agreeing to go undercover for the FBI. Once he learns that his mission is to send atomic bomb secrets to the German government, the FBI chief works relentlessly to prevent this while not giving his agent's identity away.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
Series
Fox film noir volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Determined to unravel a crime, FBI Inspector Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant inside the police department tips off Stiles.
10) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Somebody killed Vicky Lynn and the police are looking at only one suspect, Promoter Frankie Christopher. Frankie believes Inspector Ed Cornell is trying to pin him for the murder of Vicky. Did he really kill her, or does he know who did?
12) Lady in the lake
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
13) Born to kill
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A classic film noir featuring a cold-hearted killer named Sam Wild who kills two innocent people and actively pursues the woman who finds the bodies, all while being married to the woman's half-sister.
Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible.
14) 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...
15) Black widow
Series
Fox film noir volume 22
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect while a series...
16) The conspirators
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, and the Nazis are closing in.
Series
Fox film noir volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Maz Monetti is consumed with vegeance for his brothers after the betrayal of his father. He learns that it was his father that created all the heartache within the family and makes peace with his brothers.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"On the train to Los Angeles, sophisticated Easterner Lloyd Rollins suggests to his wife Linda that they spend a few days in Las Vegas, her home town. Although reluctant to revisit her past, Linda agrees, and the couple disembarks in the desert city. Lloyd immediately starts gambling in the hotel casino, requesting a $100,000 credit limit, and insists that Linda show off an expensive diamond necklace he gave her. Linda, who has read a telegram addressed...
19) The racket
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation. -- box.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.
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