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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Jerry Burton moves to Lymstock to convalesce after a motorcycle crash, he meets villagers who traffic in gossip and double-entendres. But the accusations in several anonymous poison-pen letters go beyond the usual prattle. In fact, scandalous hate mail leads two citizens to commit suicide. Or were they murdered? With her keen powers of observation and quiet common-sense analysis, Miss Marple uncovers the shameful secrets that sent a quaint village...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Something wicked this way comes to the Sunny Ridge Retirement Home for Ladies. Miss Marple teams up with detective duo Tommy and Tuppence to investigate the suspicious death of Tommy's Aunt Ada and sudden disappearance of Ada's friend, Mrs. Lancaster, both residents of Sunny Ridge. An oddly doctored painting and tantalizing crossword clues lead Tuppence and and Miss Marple to Farrell St. Edmund, a village that seems straight out of a fairy tale complete...
Series
Publisher
Disc Plaza Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
The lady vanishes: An old woman's disappearance during a train ride from Switzerland to England leads a young couple into a web of international espionage in this mystery-comedy.
Rich and strange: Fred and Emily are a bored married couple who travel the world with their newly acquired wealth. Fred gets mixed up with a sexy con artist while Emily courts a rich older man. Eventually they find there is more to discover than their affairs and money.
9) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1999, 1958.
Language
English
Description
A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot involving a woman who is apparently being driven to suicide by one of her ancestors.
10) The gift
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Small town fortuneteller has visions of missing local girl.
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Language
English
Description
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake, the victim of a brutal and violent crime, Walter, an aging small-town police officer, is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover and his suspicion of her current boyfriend.
12) Against all odds
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, 1984.
Language
English
Description
A cynical ex-football star is hired to find the runaway mistress of a ruthless L.A. nightclub owner.
13) Source code
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even deadlier...
15) Stone cold
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child - which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town while a few locals begin to understand that there's more going on than meets the eye. When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends...
18) Rear window
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001, 1954]
Language
English
Description
Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, takes up spying and suspects that his neighbor has murdered his invalid wife and buried her in the flower garden.
20) Hoodwinked
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006. 2005.
Language
English
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Description
Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
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