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Publisher
Cinequest
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
J.J. Lask is a novelist who lives in two different worlds that both exist within his mind. As he struggles to write his new book, the inside of his mind is revealed as a deconstructs his characters in two parts, the 'real' and their alter egos, the 'actor.' His main character, Judas, is also a man living a double life. He is both a successful entrepreneur living in New York City and a criminal who takes anything he wants. When Judas meets a woman...
2) GoodFellas
Language
English
Formats
Description
Focuses on a group of men involved with organized crime while giving an inside look at the Mafia from 1955-80. Based on the life of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood.
For as long as he could remember, Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster. So, when he was 12 years old, he started running errands for the neighborhood wiseguy and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
4) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., anamorphic, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a rogue squad of New York City cops, who name themselves after the minimum sentence of their targeted street hoods. Often as violent as the vicious thugs they pursue, these cops will stop at nothing to get justice in the courts--but more often--in the streets.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1088 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joining Detective Mike Logan (Noth) and his dedicated colleagues who investigate and prosecute crime is a powerful lineup of guest stars, including Regina Taylor, Edie Falco, Gina Torres and John Cameron Mitchell. Ripped from today's headlines, Law & order is the gripping phenomenon that will captivate you again and again!
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vito Corleone is the aging don of the Corleone Mafia Family. Michael, his youngest son, has returned from WWII in time to see the wedding of his sister Connie to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for a family to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, he is morally against...
9) Deception
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who meets Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer. Bose introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground called The List, which is a mysterious sex club for Manhattan's executives. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy,' one of betrayal, treachery and murder. But in this new world, Jonathan soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
10) We own the night
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew, Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his...
11) Righteous kill
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a homicide detective. But before Turk and Rooster can retire,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the situation, but quickly realizes that Ryder will only deal...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
3-disc unrated extended collector's ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his...
14) Deception
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who meets Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer. Bose introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground called The List, which is a mysterious sex club for Manhattan's executives. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy,' one of betrayal, treachery and murder. But in this new world, Jonathan soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (990 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking and award winning cop series returns with more gritty drama and frenzied New York City action at the fifteeth precinct. Season six introduces Danny Sorenson transferring from narcotics to join Sipowitz and Simone in the fifteeth precinct. Meanwhile Medavoy, Martinez try to unravel mis-matching information and family murders that leave the officers dumbfounded.
16) Carlito's way
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York Underworld won't let him.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the situation, but quickly realizes that Ryder will only deal...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See how it all began-- the gripping tale of the early years of gangster Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution, becoming the heroin czar of Harlem in the late 1960s.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 1031 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping fourteenth year of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; begins with a scandal that erupts at the heart of the squad, and the resulting investigation unearths past secrets. After the case surrounding Captain Cragen is closed, the workload gets more explosive as a hasty new assistant DA comes onto the scene. Challenging mysteries involve a sniper that targets cops, escort services in murderous competition, high-tech kidnappings, and a wily...
20) King of New York
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the downfall of New York drug kingpin Frank White. Frank is a criminal driven by personal demons and an idiosyncratic sense of social justice. Having grown rich via his illegal exploits, Frank decides to give back to the city by building a multi-million dollar hospital in an impoverished neighborhood. He attempts this by joining forces with a Chinatown gangster which, in turn, enrages the local - and very racist - Mafia. Meanwhile, Frank...
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