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81) Butterfly Potion
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English
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Perry wakes up in an arroyo, hungover and unsure how he got there. His wallet and cell phone missing, he walks back to the last place he remembers being before he blacked out the bar. Fueled by alcohol and a touch of companionship, Perry is determined to find out who rolled him, but standing in his way is an accident that happened six months earlier and the struggle his life has become since. In his search for the material things taken from him, he...
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Español
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Cuando Filomena Buscarsela, detective privado trabajando en Nueva York, lleva a su hija adolescente Antonia a Ecuador para que conozca a sus familiares, la visita se trastoca en más que un simple regreso a casa. Filomena no ha pisado Ecuador en años, y este viaje le devuelve episodios de su vida pasada en los que fue una revolucionaria. Ni siquiera logra tener tiempo de adaptarse a su nuevo entorno cuando es asesinado el sacerdote que, años atrás,...
83) Vampyr
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Deutsch
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Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.
84) Dead Low Winter
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English
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Late January of 1978. Football season is over; the lights from all of the Christmas trees are out. Full-time cabdriver, sometime card shark Keith Waverly is feeling good driving two exotic dancers to work. But his mood turns sour when he witnesses the violent abduction of a local street hustler. Later, when the man is found with his head ventilated by bullet holes, Waverly is dragged into a world of high-rolling gamblers, crooked politicians, sex,...
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What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies, and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial law are eroding more and more opportunities for local sustainability and mutual aid? And, what can be done to challenge the rise of a new authoritarian political leadership at a time when the general public is obsessed with fears related to personal and national...
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Español
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Isla en negro recopila bajo el rubro "Historias de crimen y enigma" un conjunto de narraciones cortas escritas por autores cubanos contemporáneos que, desde una multiplicidad de variantes formales y argumentales, se acercan a tópicos de la narrativa policial y sus corrientes más modernas.
En este volumen encontrarán relatos de figuras conocidas del género (Rodolfo Pérez Valero y Lorenzo Lunar), otros más recientes (Yamilet García Zamora, Rebeca...
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Español
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Existo, para vivir combina la novela negra con la reflexión filosófica. Tal ensamblaje se hace posible gracias a una labor narrativa hilada con esmero e intensidad, en la que la trama da lugar a disquisiciones sobre problemas de indudable actualidad avaladas por filósofos y literatos, cuyas citas textuales aparecen integradas con naturalidad en la narración (por ello el lector cuenta al final de la novela con un índice de citas).
Aventurar los...
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Français
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Pour qu'il y ait des survivants, ça prend des morts. J'ai survécu grâce à la mort de ma meilleure amie, Marie-Anne. On s'était promis que s'il arrivait quelque chose à l'une de nous deux, l'autre arrêterait la drogue. Alors je suis obligée de rester straight et d'écrire son histoire. Puis de mettre un timbre sur l'enveloppe qui contient mon livre. J'ai envoyé mon récit à un éditeur qui s'occupera de faire rayonner œuvre partout à travers...
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USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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English
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In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays exploring the philosophical elements present in Neo-Noir films. Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life and on the place of humankind in the universe. Spanning the 1940s...
92) The Big Combo
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1955.
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English
Description
A noir classic about a police lieutenant who comes under pressure from a gang headed by a vicious thug. He is helped by the gangster's wife, jealous at her husband's affair with another woman, who supplies him with information to help him close the net on his foe. "*Where the usual noir takes place in a nightmare world, this one seems to inhabit a dream: there's no longer fear in the images, but rather a distanced, idealized beauty.*" - Dave Kehr,...
93) Impact
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
94) Hit and Run
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A prosperous junk-car dealer sees his ex-convict twin brother murdered and assumes his identity to trap the killers.
95) The Naked Kiss
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
A former prostitute attempts to assimilate in suburbia after fleeing her pimp. She soon falls in love with a member of the town's wealthiest family, but shortly before her wedding, finds out that her philanthropic fiance has a horrific secret. A searing melodrama thematically ahead of his time, Samuel Fuller's classic film dares to explore taboo subjects with unique style and unforgettable performances. *"THE NAKED KISS finds Sam Fuller's tabloid...
96) Detective Story
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
In this influential crime drama, an embittered cop, Det. James McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife. But while McLeod fights crime on the streets, his wife suffers from neglect at home. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from *Hill Street Blues* to *NYPD Blue*. Nominated for Best Actress (Eleanor Parker), Best Supporting Actress (Lee Grant), Best...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
In this noir-thriller, three convicts are contracted by a mysterious benefactor to pull a bank heist. The four men, having worn masks during the crime, are complete strangers and are anonymous to one another, but plan to meet up in Mexico to divvy up the loot. Part of their master plan is to frame the robbery on Joe Rolfe, an ex-con himself--but little do they know, Rolfe has convinced the police of his innocence and has now been hired to catch the...
99) Sunset Boulevard
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1939.
Language
English
Description
After boxing manager Doc Woods accidentally kills a reporter, he frames his champion fighter, Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield), who changes his identity and flees to Arizona. There Johnnie takes refuge at a ranch run by a kindly older woman known as Grandma (May Robson), who has also opened her home to delinquents the Dead End Kids. With the help of Peggy (Gloria Dickson), Johnnie and the Kids struggle to overcome their distrust, just as Detective...
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