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1) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
2) Sister act
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
5) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
6) The family
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Codenamed 'The November Man,' Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules, and...
8) Blaze
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Blaze is the sole witness to a shocking crime. Making sense of what she saw, she unleashes the wrath of her imaginary dragon.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
10) Out of death
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
11) Witness
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five part documentary and much more.
12) My blue heaven
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith are on a caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. His purpose is to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. He panics and drops his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale goes back to Saul to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to...
16) El coyote
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Italian mob descends on the Mexico border to take on the most powerful cartel in America.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
18) The witness
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The name Kitty Genovese became synonymous with urban apathy after news that she was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses did nothing. Fifty years later, her brother uncovers a lie that transformed his life, condemned a city, and defined an era.
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