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1) Chicago
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
2) Big trouble
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Two hitmen show up in Miami to whack crooked businessman. At the same time Matt, a high school kid, comes to the same house to "kill" another student as part of a game. When the plans collide, mayhem ensues, and Matt's struggling ex-columnist dad, a bored wife, and two confused police officers are called to the scene. Then two dimwitted criminals choose to hold up a dive bar where a nuclear arms deal is going on. Soon the whole motley crew are caught...
4) The getaway
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Language
English
Description
When master criminal Doc McCoy is forced to do time in a Mexican jail, his wife Carol visits a powerful crime boss in hopes of enlisting his assistance in an escape. Once free, Doc and Carol take off with the loot from a botched robbery and find themselves on the run from the law, an angry partner, and a hit squad.
5) Asylum
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A hospital for the criminally insane becomes a hotbed of passion, obsession, and manipulation when a psychiatrist's wife and an inmate begin a torrid affair...resulting in a shocking turn of events.
6) The outfit
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Outfit was organized crime with a capital O. They were big; they were bad; they were brutal. No crook ever crossed them and lived to enjoy it-except Parker. So they wanted Parker dead, and a hit man proved they meant business. Too bad for the Outfit he missed. Ripping off the Outfit was the easy part of Parker's game. Going one-on-one with Bronson, the Outfit's big boss, was the hard part.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood-now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Strictly nonfiction-no dialogue or other material has been made up-and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Collection of interviews in which stickup artists, robbers, thieves, hustlers, drug smugglers, and other criminals tell stories of how they started on a life of crime, and provide details of their lives both on the street and in prison.
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In an age where the story of murder is told of perpetrators who are generally behind bars, by the families of the victims of crime, or by the authorities who have prosecuted killers, here is a story told from a different perspective. This is the story of Nicolas Claux, a self-confessed Vampire and Cannibal who, having been convicted of murder in the 1990's in France, and has since been subsequently released from prison. This is the story of his life,...
11) Trespass
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Two Arkansas fire fighters stumble upon a map which leads to hidden gold stashed in an abandoned East St. Louis tenement. But while
12) The big Lebowski
Publisher
Univeral Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1998
Language
English
Description
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski is pulled into the seedy underworld of criminal Los Angeles when two incompetent mobsters mistake him for an evil millionaire with the same name.
14) The standoff
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Story of a stand off between federal law enforcement officers and a fugitive from justice in Montana.
15) The drop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This classic study profiles serial killers, gentleman murderers, and every stripe of madman in between. Benjamin Pitezel should never have trusted H. H. Holmes. In 1894, the two men conspired to fake Pitezel's death for the sake of a $10,000 insurance settlement. But Holmes decided murder would be simpler. He killed his partner, kidnapped three of his children, and tried to claim the insurance money as his own. The scheme unraveled and Holmes killed...
18) Ask the parrot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: "Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark." -San Diego Union-Tribune
In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hard-boiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose, Stark is a master of crime writing. His books are as influential as any in the genre. Parker goes under the knife in The Man with the Getaway Face, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the way...
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