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On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that's going stale and that he's sure his wife Miranda is cheating on him. But Lily has a dark history that she's not sharing... and soon sex and deception lead to murder.
2) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
3) Alex Cross
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows the young homicide detective/psychologist as he meets his match in a serial killer. The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
Poirot accompanies Hastings to Lake Windermere where Hastings's friend Charles is attempting to set a world speedboat racing record. The atmosphere of their holiday turns from frolic to foreboding when two sisters watching the race tell Poirot they have had premonitions that both Charles and his Aunt Emily are in danger.
7) Insomnia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:first).
Language
English
Description
Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
8) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
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Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
10) I, robot
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
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Description
Chicago, 2035. Detective Del Spooner distrusts robots. But why? The Three Laws of Robotics form a perfect circle of logic and protection for humans--all robots are "3 laws safe" from the instant they roll off the assembly line. When U.S. Robotics founder Dr. Alfred Lanning apparently commits suicide, Spooner is assigned to investigate. It appears that Dr. Lanning, the father of robotics, was murdered by a prototype of the latest generation robot,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed as acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer, becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
12) The stranger
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English
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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and...
13) Skinwalkers
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker" - is at work.
14) Se7en
Language
English
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Description
Using examples of sins as a template for a serial killing spree, a murderer sets his sights on a police detective and his partner. The killer has a twisted agenda involving choosing seven victims who represent examples of transgressions from each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He views himself as the sword of God, handing out horrific punishment to these sinners. Two cops, an experienced veteran of the streets who is about to retire and the ambitious young...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Join Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, his partner Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, Agent Caitlin Todd, and the rest of the investigators of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as they take on all crimes tied to the Navy or Marines.
20) Out of time
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.
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