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1) City of Sin
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A hard-boiled detective becomes entangled in a web of girls, guns, and money, as he evades a number of crazed hitmen one fateful night in 1950's Los Angeles.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jackson Blast is a down-on-his-luck private investigator. His now ex-wife learned about an affair he was having with her sister, and that left him divorced and broke. Erratic income from his detective agency compelled an old friend, a VP, at a bank with a big turnover of personnel, to send him the bank's employment placement business. That was the beginning of the Blast Detective / Employment Agency, and the 'Every Other Day Detective'.
Author
Language
Español
Description
El psicólogo Fernando Trevijano, hombre dubitativo y enamoradizo, tiene como pacientes a varias mujeres que representan el mal y envenenan a hombres como venganza por el maltrato recibido. Son atractivas, ricas e inteligentes, y una de ellas, Alicia Ramírez, cautiva sexualmente al psicólogo para que no denuncie la maldad.
A la causa de estas mujeres se suma otro paciente del psicólogo, el bibliópata Roberto Piñeiro, al entender que la ignorancia...
4) Txalaparta
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
¿A qué huele la niebla en esta novela? A maldad. A maldad pura y dura.
Un policía nacional euskaldún -cualidad muy apreciada, por escasa, en el Ministerio del Interior- conocido con el sobrenombre de Txalaparta -por el ritmo y la contundencia con la que golpea a los detenidos-; su hijo, un adolescente militante abertzale; y una madre a la que entre ambos han hecho de su vida un infierno son los protagonistas de esta novela ambientada en la Navarra...
5) Twisted
Author
Language
English
Description
Every day, normal people go about their normal lives. But what happens when one of them is twisted?
Experience the horror in a series of short stories about the darker side of daily life:
Trick and Treat - What happens when the devil decides to play his own game of trick or treat?
Bad Review - Some writers can be a little touchy.
Mistress Of Her Own Destiny - Susan has it all. And she's keeping it.
The Office - Helen adds to her list of secretarial...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Richard Kiley stars in this gripping crime drama about a crusading lawyer who takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town, based on actual events. Phenix City was known as the "Sin City" of Alabama where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law as organized crime controlled the local government. In 1954, a reform group tries to persuade the city's most prominent attorney, Albert Patterson (John...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Exciting adventure about a U.S. postal inspector who attempts to uncover the biggest mail robbery plot in history. Based on actual cases from the Post Office Department files.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In order to save his sister Rosalie (Anne Bancroft) from social embarrasment, crime lord Phil Regal (Anthony Quinn) gets the father of her unborn baby, condemned murderer Nicky Bradna (Farley Granger) paroled so he can marry her. Meanwhile, reporter Joe McFarland (Peter Graves) is writing an expose on Regal's criminal empire. When Rosalie miscarries, Nicky returns to his womanizing and criminal ways only to get framed by Regal and put back on Death...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A tall, handsome “preacher” roams the countryside, spreading the gospel...and leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake! To Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), the Lord’s work is more about taking souls than saving them, especially when money is involved. Now his sights are set on {dollar}10,000, but two little children are the only ones who know where it’s hidden and it’s their secret ... for now.
10) The Killing
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing, everybody wants to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal {dollar}2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which “no one will get hurt.” But despite all their careful plotting, Clay and his men have overlooked one thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor), a double-crossing dame who’s planning to make a financial killing of her own. The legendary...
11) Dark City
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Arthur Winant (Don DeFore), a stranger in Chicago, commits suicide after losing {dollar}5,000, which did not belong to him, in a crooked card game. The group of gamblers, of which Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) is a member, worries about the dangers of cashing the {dollar}5,000 cashier’s check, but this is the least of their worries when one of the group (Ed Begley) is found hanged, and Police Captain Garvey (Dean Jagger) starts an investigation....
12) Suburra
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (135 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
14) Cutter's Way
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Suspected of murdering a teenage girl, Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges), a laidback Santa Barbara boat salesman and gigolo, turns to his best friend, Alex Cutter (John Heard), a disabled Vietnam veteran, for help in finding the real killer. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when, instead of contacting the police, Cutter tries to blackmail their suspect, and their suspect violently turns the tables on them, beginning a cunning game of cat-and-mouse...
Author
Language
Español
Description
En esta obra, cuento como en mi vida, una vida carente de lujos y fortuna, marcada por escasos recursos económicos y adversidades, pero que, a través de la perseverancia y la constancia, se logra alcanzar las metas que uno se propone . Misma forma, describo como el trabajo en la cárcel me enseñó a comprender que la vida es valiosa y, que no es saludable compararnos con los demás, incluso cuando carecemos dinero. Que debemos valorarla en todos...
16) Leroy
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in an age before computers, Leroy was footloose and fancy-free. He hid behind the pulpit, however in real time, he was a monster to his wife and a lover to the world. This short story hopefully captivates the black soul of a Bible-preaching man. Don't be a Leroy.
Author
Language
Español
Description
PRIMERA PARTE DE LA TORMENTA INFINITAVeo, veo. ¿Qué ves? Una cosita. ¿Y qué cosita es?Veo la cama de Eva Simón Márquez. Veo la cama de una estudiante de enfermería de veinte años que comparte piso en Oviedo con dos compañeras más. La cama está deshecha. Faltan las sábanas y el colchón está cubierto de sangre. Falta algo más. Falta un cuerpo. El cuerpo a quien pertenece la sangre. Cuerpo que no es difícil imaginar envuelto en las sábanas...
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Language
Español
Description
Desatado nuevamente en su ambiente natural, en su ambiente seguro, el asesino en serie llamado El Tramoyista, regresa para continuar satisfaciendo sus más íntimos deseos a través de sus retorcidas obras de arte, de sus dantescas puestas en escena; sólo que, en esta oportunidad, con un aliciente adicional: Ahora tienen un propósito que le da un mejor sabor a sus víctimas. El teniente del departamento de homicidios de la policía, Lorenzo Lagos,...
19) Dannie
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Language
English
Description
No matter what the logical cost, follow your dreams. Dannie had a rough start. She was born into wealth, however, she had no say in her life. She broke thru the mold and slowly went after her dream. Dreams don't die unless you let them.
20) Anfiteatro
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Language
Español
Description
«Colaboramos en cualquier muerte al abrir una puerta o al caminar una calle. No es tan difícil de entender, ¿o sí?»
Antoine Arnoux está obsesionado por encontrar cualquier pista que le ayude a resolver la muerte de Valerie Lefebvre, una crítica e historiadora de arte -que es también su expareja-. Lo que Antoine no sabe es que Valerie mantenía relaciones con artistas peculiares que buscaban más que simplemente escandalizar al público. Arnoux,...
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