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2) Deceiver
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A riveting psychological thriller, charged with unbridled suspense and powerful peformances. An edge-of-your-seat mystery that delves into the chilling. murky depths of truth and deception.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the first adventure based on the novels about the world's most famous kid detectives, the Three Investigators follow an invitation to South Africa, where they are sucked into a journey that has them risking their lives. Uncovering the true secret of Skeleton Island will prove to be the most adventurous and dangerous case the Three Investigators have ever had.
7) Rear window
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1954
Language
English
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
8) Rebecca
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
9) The grifters
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
14) Charade
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1963
Language
English
Description
Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
15) Blue velvet
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
16) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
17) The conversation
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.
18) Touch of evil
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
19) Rope
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
20) The Rainmaker
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none, until they uncover a trail of corruption.
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