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Chinatown (Blu-Ray)
(1974) [M]
A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her... More
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Crawl
(2011) [MA]
A seedy, small-town bar-owner hires a mysterious Croatian to murder an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but a planned double-crossing backfires and an innocent waitress is caught in the crossfire. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate... More
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The Killing - Killer's Kiss (Blu-Ray double feature)
(1956) [PG]
"The Killing":
Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywoods tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden... More
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Sunset Boulevard (Blu-Ray)
(1950) [PG]
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the... More
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Gangster Squad (Blu-Ray)
(2013) [MA]
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own... More
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Gangster Squad
(2013) [MA]
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own... More
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I, Anna
(2012) [MA]
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
London-set psychological thriller I,ANNA is a film that crosses genre boundaries. It charts the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down after a singles... More
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (Blu-Ray)
(1946) [PG]
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Based on the same-titled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce), this... More
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Double Indemnity (Blu-Ray)
(1944) [PG]
Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double... More
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Lost Highway (Blu-Ray)
(1997) [R]
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. More
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Johnny Allegro
(1949) [M]
Good crime - gangster film which, as Leonard Maltin notes, has similar elements to 'The Most Dangerous Game' throughout much of its second half.
George Raft plays the title character, a reformed hoodlum, who now runs a florist shop in a hotel. He encounters a mysterious blonde, of the... More
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He Ran All the Way
(1951) [M]
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. More
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The Big Knife
(1955) [M]
Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career, his marriage, his art & morality. In this screen adaptation of a Clifford Odets play, Castle is pressured by his studio boss and manipulated into a... More
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Kansas City Confidential
(1952) [PG]
A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and... More
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Johnny Apollo
(1940) [PG]
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr.is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father More
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Violent Saturday
(1955) [PG]
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to regain his wife's love, an Amish farmer faced with... More
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Cry of the City
(1948) [M]
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between... More
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House of Strangers
(1949) [M]
Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that his father had caused all the tension within the family and makes peace with his brothers. More
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Invisible Stripes
(1939)
Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated... More
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The Unsuspected
(1947) [PG]
A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?
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Pepe Le Moko
(1937) [PG]
Arguably one of the most influential films of all time, Julien Duvivier's masterpiece Pépé le Moko is a triumph of classical French cinema, and the break out role for superstar Jean Gabin.
Notorious gangster Pépé le Moko is a criminal mastermind. Having eluded the French... More
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Body Heat (Blu-Ray)
(1981) [MA]
Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty is the kind of woman men would kill to be with. So he does. Kasdan's Body Heat, is a sexy, haunting tale echoing 1940's film noirs but charged with... More
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The Woman in the Window
(1944) [PG]
Richard Wanley (Robinson) is no criminal, at least he wasn’t until he met “the woman in the window” (Bennet). From seeing her portrait in a storefront window to running into her in person, what begins as an innocent flirtation grows into something much more dangerous. More
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Brute Force
(1947) [PG]
For the men of Westgate Penitentiary, life is lived on a knife's edge, ruled by violence and fear in a war fought between the guards and the toughest prisoners. Warden A.J. Barden is a weak man who is powerless compared to the chief guard, Captain Munsey, an ambitious and sadistic petty dictator... More
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Night and the City (1950)
(1950) [P]
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers star in Jules Dassin's Night and the City, a hard-boiled drama boasting all the benchmarks of a classic film noir.
Harry Fabian is a fast-talking hustler who is always on the make. When he happens upon Gregorious, a famous and frustrated... More
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Black Widow
(1954) [M]
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has... More
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Black Angel
(1946) [PG]
In Los Angeles, when singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is found dead in her apartment, Kirk Bennett (John Phillips) is accused of the murder, since he had been blackmailed by the victim. Kirk's wife Catherine Bennett (June Vincent) believes her husband is innocent and teams with Martin... More
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Criss Cross
(1949) [PG]
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous... More
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