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1) Indigo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood's...
2) Stone
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
3) Zen noir
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A unique and original blend of Buddhist philosophy, vaudevillian comedy and surrealist art film, Zen Noir follows a nameless detective as he investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple. But his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen, and he finds himself drawn into a deeper, stranger, more personal mystery...the mystery of death itself.
4) Frank & Lola
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he is instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge.
5) The aura
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
An epileptic taxidermist's dream of committing the perfect crime presents itself when he takes a hunting trip and meets a criminal planning an armored car heist.
6) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
This evocative and haunting drama, set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story...
7) Bleak street
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
La Calle Triste es la última provocación del amo mexicano Arturo Ripstein, un surrealistamente divertida neo-noir basada en un crimen verdadero que sobresaltó México. Esto rastrea las aventuras nocturnas y el encuentro enfermo predestinado entre dos viejas prostitutas desesperadas y gemelo luchadores mini.
Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein, a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called...
9) Reminiscence
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scientist discovers a way to relive your past and uses the technology to search for his long lost love. Whilst a private investigator uncovers a conspiracy while helping his clients recover lost memories.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel and microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
11) Marlowe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light." --
12) Nightmare alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
13) Chinatown
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
14) Pulp fiction
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
15) Double indemnity
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
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