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2) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A man hitchhiking his way from New York to California gets involved in a blackmail scheme when he finds a man who gave him a ride dead.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.
5) Misconduct
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1967 a young woman came to Dr Bertram Wainer's Melbourne surgery seeking emergency medical attention after a backyard abortion. She was desperately ill yet too afraid to go to hospital. For Wainer this was the start of a long, hard campaign to overturn laws that made abortion an offence punishable by up to 15 years in jail and forced women to turn to unskilled operators. In the process, Wainer uncovered a web of corruption involving highly paid...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
"Although fired from CTU, Jack Bauer is thrust back into action after a deadly terrorist strike and the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense. But it's soon apparent that the kidnapping is part of a much larger plan, for every time Jack thinks he's averted disaster, a new and more ominous plot is uncovered. As CTU races to figure out the terrorists' true objective, it becomes clear that the events of the day have been years in...
9) Trespass
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray disc ;
Language
English
Description
What happens when a man with everything, a beautiful wife, a teenage daughter and a wealthy estate is confronted with the reality of losing it all? That is what Kyle Miller must come to terms with as he and his family become the victims of a vicious home invasion. Led by Elias and Jonah, a gang of cold-blooded thugs holds Kyle and his loved ones hostage as they carry out their plans to take everything that Kyle holds dear, including his life.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The stakes were never higher or more dangerous for Eric Erickson, an American business man turned Swedish oil trader. Erickson finds his life and fortunes held hostage when he's blackmailed by British agents and forced into the perilous arena of World War II espionage. Based on a true story.
12) Huda's salon
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Arabic
Description
A young mother who is married to a jealous man goes to Huda's salon in Bethlehem. However, this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda blackmails the mother to have her work for the secret service of the occupying force.
13) Punch-drunk love
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Director-approved two-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena. But their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank accounts?--Container
Uniform justice. Brunetti is deeply affected...
15) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A man hitchhiking his way from New York to California gets involved in a blackmail scheme when he finds a man who gave him a ride dead.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
17) The deep end
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have ruled a homicide.
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