Paramount Pictures
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001
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...
6) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
This tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Stewart as a detective afraid of heights who is obsessed with a lost love and her look-alike, Kim Novak.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
8) Seconds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, an aging banker succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into a handsome, young man, he begins a jet-set existence among a shadowy community of similar "reborns." But his heady exhilaration spirals into a heart-stopping terror as he discovers that his newly purchased life carries a terrifying price.
10) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Martin Vail is chosen to defend an altar boy accused of murdering, mutilating and dismembering an archbishop.
11) Changing lanes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A minor traffic accident turns two perfect strangers into vicious adversaries waging an all-out war of personal destruction.
12) The firm
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer takes a dream job only to find out he is working for the mob and that the Feds want to use him to destroy the firm.
13) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages.
15) Marathon man
Publisher
RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
A graduate student's life is turned inside out when a brief encounter with his brother, who is a CIA agent, is followed by a visit from some violent characters who are convinced that he must have been passed some valuable information.
17) A civil action
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic legal battle ... one that may cost him his career, reputation and all that he owns.
18) Double indemnity
Publisher
Dist. by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
19) Kiss the girls
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is called away from his kids and his jazz piano when two murderers, operating on opposite sides of the country, strike at the same time, and one of them has abducted his niece, Naomi.
20) Disturbia
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards...