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1) Laura
Series
Fox film noir volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1972
Language
English
Description
A detective is hired to find out who killed their daughter. Soon, he falls in love with her picture.
Series
Fox film noir volume 4
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo."--Container
Series
Fox film noir volume 8
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items : a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, an apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer, her boss and a police lieutenant. When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops, but ultimately makes a shocking...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers.
Series
Fox film noir volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Determined to unravel a crime, FBI Inspector Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant inside the police department tips off Stiles.
Series
Fox film noir volume 7
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
2005, 1945
Language
English
Description
When a young German American is solicited as a Nazi spy during WWII, he accepts the job after agreeing to go undercover for the FBI. Once he learns that his mission is to send atomic bomb secrets to the German government, the FBI chief works relentlessly to prevent this while not giving his agent's identity away.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
8) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
9) Moontide
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...
10) Black widow
Series
Fox film noir volume 22
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect while a series...
11) Nightmare alley
Series
Language
English
Description
Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside phony mentalist Zeena and her alcoholic husband Pete, working the crowd as Zeena pretends to read their minds. But Stan has no intention of staying with the carnival; he has his heart set on an upscale night club act.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Somebody killed Vicky Lynn and the police are looking at only one suspect, Promoter Frankie Christopher. Frankie believes Inspector Ed Cornell is trying to pin him for the murder of Vicky. Did he really kill her, or does he know who did?
Series
Fox film noir volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Maz Monetti is consumed with vegeance for his brothers after the betrayal of his father. He learns that it was his father that created all the heartache within the family and makes peace with his brothers.
14) Whirlpool
Series
Fox film noir volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her unconscious mind.--Container
15) Vicki
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Supermodel Vicki Lynn is murdered, and ace homicide cop Ed Cornell cuts his vacation short to take the case personally.
16) 14 hours
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of not being capable to make his girlfriend happy, keeps police at bay for fourteen hours while attempting suicide.
Series
Fox film noir volume 24
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ruth Bowman is a new bride glowing with delight as she and her charming new husband, John, set sail on the SS Monrovia for a transatlantic honeymoon. But when John inexplicably vanishes, Ruth discovers that no one on the ship has any record of his existence. As she slips into hysteria, Ruth has to prove that her marriage and John's existence is not just her own delusion. The ship's physician, Dr. Paul Manning, might be the only person on board who...
18) Daisy Kenyon
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Kenyon is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men-- one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining love affair with married attorney Dan O'Mara, who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning Army sergeant Peter Lapham-- a decent and gentle man who instantly falls in love with her. Although she carries a torch for Dan, she knows Peter will give her the...
19) Shock
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young woman goes into a coma after witnessing her neighbor killed. When she finally comes to, she realizes that the psychiatrist treating her is actually the killer.
20) Laura
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman named Laura is found murdered shortly before her wedding to a dashing young playboy. Stirred by her portrait and adoring descriptions by her admirers, the detective assigned to her case finds that he is strangely under Laura's spell.
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