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"Launched by the summer '04 award-winning, best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Emory Holmes II, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara,...
2) City of Sin
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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A bank robber's (Wendell Corey) wife is shot during his arrest by a cop (Joseph Cotten). He escapes to kill the cop's wife (Rhonda Fleming) as retribution. Despite the cop's protest, the police decide to use Fleming as a lure.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
5) No Escape
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1953.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An innocent couple, seeking to clear themselves of a homicide charge, discover that a jealous enraged detective is the murderer.
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English
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An alluring affair in Napoli.Nick seeks the value of an antique bracelet in his possession. He encounters Laura, an amateur medium cursed by uncontrollable visions. With Laura's help, Nick closes in on the origin of his treasure. But as the word gets out, the quest puts them both in danger. A noir-inspired story ensnared by mystery, myth, and murder; all under a watchful eye shadowing Italy's vibrant city of Napoli.
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English
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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'.
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Español
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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...
9) Txalaparta
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Español
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¿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...
10) Twisted
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English
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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...
11) Snitch World
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Series
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English
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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English
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A noir-inspired caper set in modern-day Milan. An incompetent thief makes another attempt at burglary. A hopeless bartender struggles to manage her last patron. The pair reluctantly work together to figure out why a man they had presumed dead may have returned, while a lonely tourist inadvertently gets in the way.
13) Hit and Run
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A prosperous junk-car dealer sees his ex-convict twin brother murdered and assumes his identity to trap the killers.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024.
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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
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.
16) Raw Deal
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan and his girl friend Pat set off to find the mobster who set him up. The kidnapping of Ann Martin, the social worker who wrote to Joe in prison, leads the fugitive into a romantic triangle.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
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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
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1953.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
19) The Naked Street
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.
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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.
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