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2) Inside Man
Description
The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a determined detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda. One wrong move could mean disaster.
3) Easy Virtue
Description
Larita Filton poses for a portrait in an artist's studio. Her husband's bad behavior drives her into the artst's arms where her husband discovers her. The artist shoots the husband, but doesn't kill him, and the husband files for divorce. After being disgraced Larita flees to France where she meets an upstanding British man.
4) Vertigo
Description
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
5) Fail Safe
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
6) Torn Curtain
Description
An American scientist travels to East Germany to uncover Soviet missile secrets. This version has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
7) Family Plot
Description
A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
9) Blood Simple
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
10) Shutter Island
Description
When US Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Teddy uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he learns there are some places that never let you go.
13) To Catch a Thief
Description
Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but France, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed. Special features: commentary, trailers, and...
14) Raising Cain
Description
Carter Nix is a respected psychologist, loving husband and devoted father who decides to take a year off to help raise his daughter. Carter's wife Jenny is pleased to have her attentive husband home; at first. When Carter shows obsessive behavior toward their daughter, Jenny becomes concerned, and to complicate matters, Jenny's old flame re-enters her life. But nothing can prepare her for the emergence of Carter's multiple personalities, and a fiendish...
16) Match Point
Description
Chris, a former tennis pro, is engaged to the wealthy Chloe, but then Nola enters the picture. A drama about ambition and obsession, the seduction of wealth, and the often discordant relationship between love and sexual passion.
18) Seven
Description
A serial killer uses the seven deadly sins as the template for his killing spree.
19) The Killing
Description
Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense...
20) Sweeney Todd
Description
A man is unjustly sent to prison and uses his barber shop to get his revenge, with the help of his neighbor, who makes diabolical meat pies. Based on the award-winning musical. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes featurette.
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