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81) Case histories
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
This crime thriller follows presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, who teams up with mysterious billionaire Harold Finch to prevent violent crimes with high-tech surveillance and their own brand of vigilante justice. With Finch missing, Reese enlists Detectives Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco to join the search for his friend. Will Reese and his team find Finch before it2s too late? Who will be the next person of interest? Find out in these 22 riveting...
83) Enemy
Publisher
[Rhombus Media (Enemy), Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The continuing stories of rookie Constable Morse. Shaun Evans (The Take, The Virgin Queen) stars as the young Endeavour Morse, before his signature red Jaguar, but with his deductive powers already running in high gear. Four new episodes and the pilot is included.
85) To catch a thief
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
88) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Poirot investigates the murder of an American heiress on the Blue Train. A young heiress is set to inherit her husband's considerable fortune until his family investigates further. Cora Abernathy calls on Poirot to investigate her brother's death, but his work is interrupted when Cora herself is murdered. Mr. Shaitana, a wealthy but mysterious Londoner, invites Poirot and others to an evening of dinner and bridge, but the affair turns deadly when...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Persian
Description
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals decide to reunite of a weekend by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter's kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad. But seemingly trivial lies, which start accumulating at the seashore, suddenly swing round and come back full force when...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Henry Farmer is a clever minded criminal practice attorney who fight for justice in the courtroom and chaos in his personal life. He's plagued by gambling debts, a distant son and a sharp tongued father. Not to mention he's in love with a politician's wife.
100) Blue murder: Set 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
On the job, Janine Lewis deals with drive-by executions, decomposed bodies, and abducted children. At home, she interviews nannies, schedules parent-teacher conferences, and bolts breakfast on the run.
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