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62) The wrong man
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
63) Brighton rock
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Richard Attenborough is Pinkie, a ruthless and sadistic young criminal, who commits a murder and then marries the only witness to cover his tracks. A trail of killings and double crossings lead to his eventual downfall, when savage justice is finally meted out in a thrilling and memorable climax.
64) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but-as those dark, classic movies made clear-the country needed outsiders to study...
66) The third man
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
I cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Algiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
The scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear...
68) The FBI story
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the Ku klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
69) Chan is missing
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest to figure out what happened to Chan and their missing cash leads them on a journey that illuminates the pitfalls of Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
70) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
72) Cowboy
Pub. Date
[1958]
Description
An action packed sagebrush classic based on the real life adventures of a young tenderfoot turned tough cattleman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
Series
Fox film noir volume 15
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"Victoria Kowelska is tortured in a concentration camp during the final days of World War II, and her family in Poland is slaughtered. Her best friend, Karin, who is ill, hopes to recover and make it to San Francisco, where a wealthy aunt is taking care of her son. But when Karin dies and the camp is liberated, Victoria exchanges identity papers with the dead woman, thereby gaining a new identity and family. After five years in relocation camps, Victoria...
75) Inherent vice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
76) Mud
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
77) 5 fingers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
During World War II, the valet of the British ambassador to Ankara begins selling secret files to the Nazis.
78) The letter
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
79) Laura
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Investigating the murder of a beautiful woman, a police detective finds himself falling in love with her.
80) China moon
Pub. Date
1991, 2001
Description
Veteran homicide detective Kyle Bodine must learn the secrets of his lover's sordid past and her role in her husband's mysterious death, before it's too late.
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