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1. Kiss of death [videorecording] [2005]
- Kiss of death (Motion picture : 1947)
- Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nick Bianco is a small-time crook who gets caught during a jewel heist. Despite some urging, he refuses to rat out the team, assuming they would take care of his family. When his wife commits suicide, he rats out his partners and one seeks revenge.
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2. Ejder kapanı [videorecording] [2010]
- İstanbul : Kanal D Home Video, 2010.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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$a "Ensar (Nejat İşler) has turned into a ruthless death machine during his military service, during which he fought terrorists in numerous clashes in southeast Anatolia. Having just completed his compulsory military service, Ensar returns home, but on the very day he comes home, he finds out that while he was away, his 12-year-old sister was raped. Later, unable to cope with the trauma, the little girl hung herself at a mental asylum she was put in following the incident. In the meantime, Ensar’s hometown is shaken with a number of murders. Two skillful detectives from the homicide department, Abbas (Uğur Yücel) and “Akrep” Celal (Kenan İmirzalıoğlu), along with rookie Ezo (Berrak Tüzünataç) are assigned to investigate the murders. "
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3. The Ladykillers [videorecording] [1955]
- Ladykillers (Motion picture : 1955)
- Full screen. - Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, 2010, c1955.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3.4 in. + 1 booklet (17 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.)
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Professor Marcus rents a London flat, telling his landlady that he and his friends are musicians who will be rehearsing in the flat. In reality, the group is intent on planning and implementing the theft of 60,000 pounds.
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ZDVD 22604 BLU-RAY | Unknown |
- Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, 2008.
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- Video — 4 videodiscs (870 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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- The Godfather Part I: an Albert S. Ruddy production ; scored by Nino Rota ; screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola ; directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather Part II: a Francis Ford Coppola production ; scored by Nino Rota ; screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola ; produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather Part III: music by Carmine Coppola ; produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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- Chicago, IL : Home Vision Entertainment, [2006]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Illiterate farmer Brand, his demanding and corpulent wife Kate, and pretty young tutor Lena are three corners of an unconventional romantic triangle. A strangely twisted game of lust, manipulation, and murder.
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6. Saw II [videorecording] [2006]
- Special ed. - Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, c2006.
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- Video — 2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jigsaw is back and this time he has locked some very unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter. They must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But this brilliant, but disturbed mastermind has left plenty of the traps in the shelter that lead to death also. Now the unlucky are in for a round of horrifying life-or-death games.
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7. After the sunset [videorecording] [2005]
- Widescreen. - [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After one last big score, a master diamond thief retires to a secluded island paradise with his wife, who happens to be his criminal partner. He promises her that their criminal lives are behind them, but finds himself tempted when his arch-nemesis, a wily FBI agent, tracks them down to make sure that their retirement is legitimate. A cruise ship with a massive diamond on display happens to be docking at their island for a week, and the game is afoot.
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ZDVD 9874 | Unknown |
- [Santa Monica, CA] : Strand Releasing Home Video, c2005.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence. The nephew proved her right by strangling her.
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ZDVD 10129 | Unknown |
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005].
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- Video — 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A dysfunctional family, including a college professor, his long-estranged son and the lover they both shared are reunited. Two petty pickpockets attempt to rob a black belt in karate. A dimwitted soccer hooligan's wife buys a baby in a pawnshop. These are just a few of the unconnected strangers who find a common connection.
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10. Shoot the piano player [videorecording] [2005]
- Special ed. - Los Angeles, CA : Showtime Entertainment, [2005]
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- Video — 2 videodiscs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan,who was once a virtuose who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.
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ZDVD 11451 2 DISCS | Unknown |
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11. Touchez pas au grisbi [videorecording] [2005]
- Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2005].
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- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned.
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12. The yards [videorecording] [2000]
- Special ed. - Exclusive unrated director's cut. - Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment, [2005], c2000.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Released from prison after taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerfully inflential Uncle Frank and reconnects with his old friend Willie, Leo finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs and even murder. Then, he discovers a secret that makes him the target of the city's most ruthless family--his own.
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13. Ripley's game [videorecording] [2004]
- [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, c2004.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly spirals out of control to the point of drawing the attention of the Russian mob, forcing Ripley to intervene.
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14. Salvatore Giuliano [videorecording] [2004]
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2004.
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- Video — 2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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- 1. Salvatore Giuliano (123 min.)
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- 2. Witness to the times, a discussion with Rosi and film critic, Tullio Kezich ; Excerpt from an Italian newreel, July 12, 1950, reporting the death of Giuliano ; Il cineasta e il libirinto, a 55 min. biographical documentary on Rosi.
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ZDVD 6218 2 DISCS | Unknown |
- [United States] : Vanguard Cinema, [2003], c2000.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four childhood buddies, whose only redeeming value is that they only know how to mess up any crime they try to commit. These buddies, dispatched by a mob boss to rob a diplomat, decide to take the money and run. After their van breaks down, they decide to take refuge in an abandoned builiding. Their leader, tired of being a criminal, decides to buy the building and open a restaurant and somehow they manage to unite and are able to turn their lives around.
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16. Chaos [videorecording] [2001]
- Chaos (Motion picture : 2001)
- Widescreen version. - New York, NY : New Yorker Video, [2003], c2001.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and get both her freedom and her revenge.
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ZDVD 5568 | Unknown |
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17. Flick [videorecording] [2000]
- Costa Mesa, CA : Vanguard Cinema, [2003], c2000.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jack is a small-time drug dealer drifting through Dublin's club sin bins, getting to know the flipside of the Celtic animal first hand. He knows all the moves, but he's bored. Getting restless, he loses his girlfriend and his friends are just a procession of hurried faces punctuating his time. Something must give, and it does. When an old friend from Spain shows up with a fresh drug addiction and a dangerous gang of criminals, Jack gets drawn into a world of high crime.
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- Chicago, ILL. : Facets Video, [2003]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A beautiful woman and her long lost lover reunite for a last caper in steamy, cosmopolitan Panama City. Tough-guy smuggler Magroll stumbles across Ilona, his long lost love and cohort. They have not seen each other in years. They begin to plot a new scheme - one in search of impossible wealth.
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19. Madame Satã [videorecording] [2003]
- New York, NY : Wellspring Media, c2003.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Born to slaves in Northern Brazil and sold at the age of 7 by his mother for the price of a mule, João Francisco dos Santos battled all sterotypes on the mean streets of Lapa, Rio de Janeíro. Jailed for 27 of his 76 years, dos Santos was an explosive figure prone to excessive bouts of violence and moments of extreme tenderness the next. His world was filled with violence and raw desire, while desperate dreams spring from poverty and squalor. João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, is one of the most famous drag queen of 1930s.
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20. Manhunt [videorecording] = Caceria [2002]
- [United States] : Vanguard Cinema, [2003], c2002.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Daniel, a man on the run from his criminal past, comes back to his hometown in northern Argentina. There, he finds his long lost love and his childhood friend. But, Daniel hides a terrible secret. He has betrayed someone who will come after him, a gangster that Daniel used to work for is getting his men ready for revenge.
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