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Detective Films

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Title:	39 steps
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1795 AV LIB
Subject:	Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) Drama. Intelligence service Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Title:	Absence of malice
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0130 AV LIB
Subject:	Investigative reporting Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
Title:	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0649 AV LIB
Subject:	Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) Drama. Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) Drama. Private investigators England Drama. Detective and mystery television programs Great Britain. Sherlock Holmes films.
Abstract:
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock presents: Volume 2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0049 AV LIB
Subject:	Television programs. Television plays. Detective and mystery television programs. Horror television programs.
Abstract:	A release of four television programs from the popular mystery series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0050 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	In their hunt for a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer, the London police suspect an innocent man, who eludes them and proves his innocence by finding the real murderer.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0047 AV LIB
Subject:	Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.
Abstract:	As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0044 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0043 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A beguiling murderer, Joseph Cotton, charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret. This was Hitchcock's personal favorite among his many films.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's strangers on a train
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6117 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A tennis star is harassed on a train by a psychotic who wants to swap murders, and who then proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's The man who knew too much.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0046 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Story of an American doctor, Jimmy Stewart, touring Morocco with his wife, Doris Day, and child who accidentally becomes involved in a foreign plot to assassinate a diplomat in London.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's To catch a thief
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1815 AV LIB
Subject:	Jewel thieves Drama. Impersonation Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0055 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo stars Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot involving a woman who is apparently being driven to suicide by one of her ancestors.
Title:	American friend
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0986 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.
Title:	American gangster
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2207 AV LIB
Subject:	Heroin industry Drama. Drug traffic New York (State) New York Drama. Gangsters New York (State) New York Drama. Detectives New York (State) New York Drama. Criminal behavior Drama. Historical films. Biographical films. Police films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia, and 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 position. Richie Roberts is a dedicated and honest policeman who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government and is determined to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Based on a true story.
Title:	Ángel exterminador
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2798 AV LIB
Subject:	Upper class Drama. Social status Drama. Fantasy films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Foreign films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
Title:	Asphalt jungle
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0935 AV LIB
Subject:	Jewelry theft Drama. Ex-convicts Drama. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist. Based on the book by W.R. Burnett.
Title:	Big heat
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0211 AV LIB
Subject:	Gangster films. Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	When a police detective's wife is killed by a bomb meant for him, he goes undercover to track down the gangsters.
Title:	Big sleep
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0212 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Film noir. Gangster films. Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Drama. Private investigators California Los Angeles Drama.
Abstract:	Original Raymond Chandler classic with Humphrey Bogart. L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.
Title:	Blackmail
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7014 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	A young woman kills a man who tries to rape her. She then finds herself caught between an investigating detective, who happens to be her boyfriend, and a blackmailer. First part of this film is silent with no dialog.
Title:	Blue velvet
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1683 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recording for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
Title:	Bonnie and Clyde
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0219 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Gangster films.
Abstract:	A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Title:	Caine mutiny
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4464 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Suspense builds during Naval trial proceedings against a young lieutenant who relieved his captain of command of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine at the height of a typhoon.
Title:	Cape Fear
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0068 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Stalking victims Drama.
Abstract:	Set in North Carolina in the fifties, a vicious ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail. This is the original version of this film.
Title:	Chinatown
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0321 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is approached by a mysterious woman (Dunaway) who wishes to have her husband investigated. As the case unfolds, though, he discovers it to be much more complex and dangerous than he had expected, involving politics, powerful men, and terrible family secrets.
Title:	Constantine
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2129 AV LIB
Subject:	Detectives Drama. Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama. Demonology California Los Angeles Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine who has literally been to hell and back. Skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson teams up with Constantine in order to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister. During their investigation they are taken through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the Los Angeles landscape. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldy events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
Title:	Conversation
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4323 AV LIB
Subject:	Electronic surveillance Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul (Hackman), a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.
Title:	Cotton comes to Harlem
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2092 AV LIB
Subject:	Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) Drama. Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) Drama. African Americans New York (State) New York Drama. Feature films. Comedy films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy.
Title:	Detour
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0990 AV LIB
Subject:	Man-woman relationships United States Drama. Hitchhiking United States Drama. Jazz musicians United States Drama. False personation Drama. Extortion Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Film noir.
Abstract:	Hitchhiking nightclub performer runs into trouble with a mysterious death and a blackmailing woman.
Title:	Diabolique
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0089 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress, or is he?
Title:	Dial M for murder
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1790 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Murder Drama. Adultery Drama. Husband and wife Drama. Jealousy Drama. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A jealous husband plots to murder his unfaithful wife by hiring a killer to attack her, but the plan goes awry when she kills her assailant.
Title:	Dick Tracy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD171 AV LIB
Subject:	Comic strip characters in motion pictures. Detective and mystery films. Gangster films. Feature films.
Abstract:	G-man Dick Tracy battles top crime figure The Lame One in San Francisco.
Title:	D.O.A.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7158 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Poisoned on a trip to San Francisco, a man races against time to find his murderer before he succumbs to the lethal drug.
Title:	Drowning pool
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2576 AV LIB
Subject:	Private investigators Drama. Extortion Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years before in Harper, who's in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air.
Title:	Ernest Hemingway's The killers
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0976 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder for hire United States Drama. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) United States Drama. Man-woman relationships United States Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Film noir.
Abstract:	Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
Title:	Eyes wide shut
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1934 AV LIB
Subject:	Married people Sexual behavior Drama. Sexual fantasies Drama. Adultery Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Erotic films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
Title:	French connection
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0322 AV LIB
Subject:	Heroin industry Drama. Drug traffic Drama. Drug control United States Drama. Police films. Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France.
Title:	French connection
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2238 AV LIB
Subject:	Detectives New York (State) New York Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Detectives "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy Russo hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover the French connection.
Title:	Frenzy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4455 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	In their hunt for a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer, the London police suspect an innocent man, who eludes them and proves his innocence by finding the real murderer.
Title:	Gaslight
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7428 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Title:	Ghost in the shell
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1577 AV LIB
Subject:	Cyborgs Drama. Computer hackers Drama. Animated films. Conspiracies Drama. Feature films Japan. Motion pictures Japan. Science fiction films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	In a world caught in the grip of information overload, Major Kusanagi is an elite officer and heavily modified cybernetic agent. She is on the trail of a computer-criminal who turns people into human marionettes, controlled by computer. She discovers that his true identity lies at the center of a vast and lethal political conspiracy.
Title:	Gold bug
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3317 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery stories.
Abstract:	A young boy on a supposedly deserted island finds a gold bug and a piece of paper containing a secret code. He encounters a crazed old man and his towering mute servant who are searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure.
Title:	Harper
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2577 AV LIB
Subject:	Private investigators California Los Angeles Drama. Kidnapping California Los Angeles Drama. Murder California Los Angeles Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
Title:	High and low
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0661 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.
Title:	Insomnia
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0890 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder Investigation Norway, Northern Drama. Insomnia Drama. Insanity (Law) Drama. Swedes Norway, Northern Drama. Detectives Norway, Northern Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engström travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engström quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
Title:	In the heat of the night
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0892 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder Investigation Mississippi Drama. African American detectives Mississippi Drama. Sheriffs Mississippi Drama. Racism Mississippi Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city black homicide detective as they investigate a murder.
Title:	I, robot
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1044 AV LIB
Subject:	Robots Drama. Detectives Illinois Chicago Drama. Homicide investigation Illinois Chicago Drama. Feature films. Science fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the detective in his investigation is a psychologist who specializes in the psyches of robots. Will technology ultimately lead to mankind's salvation or annihilation?
Title:	Juno and the paycock
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2025 AV LIB
Subject:	Poor Ireland Dublin Drama. Extortion England Drama. Murder England Drama. Rape England Drama. Man-woman relationships England Drama. Detective and mystery films Great Britain. Feature films Great Britain. Motion pictures Great Britain. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Boop, Betty (Fictitious character) Drama. Animated films.
Abstract:	[Juno and the paycock] "Set in Dublin during the Irish revolution. The story follows the troubles of a poor family, a lost inheritance, a betrayal that leads to murder, and an out-of-wedlock pregnancy."--Container.
Title:	Kiss me deadly
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0992 AV LIB
Subject:	Hammer, Mike (Fictitious character) Drama. Private investigators Drama. Murder Drama. Film noir. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage.
Title:	Lady from Shanghai
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4320 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Orson Welles famous detective thriller about a young Irishman hired to work on a yacht belonging to the crippled husband of Rita Hayworth. Orson Welles plays the hero, a man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder.
Title:	Lady vanishes
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1799 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Comedy films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Miss Froy, an elderly lady travelling on a trans-continental train, suddenly disappears. An acquaintance, Iris tries to investigate, but nobody seems aware Miss Froy was ever on board. Helped by Gilbert, she uncovers a nest of foreign spies who finally lay siege to the coach containing Iris and other Britons after it has been detached from the train.
Title:	Long goodbye
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2522 AV LIB
Subject:	Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Drama. Private investigators California Los Angeles Drama. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the contrary, persists in believing that not all relationships need be opportunistic or squalid.
Title:	Maltese falcon
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0203 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. Considered a classic detective film.
Title:	Maltese falcon
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7493 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	"The stuff that dreams are made of" Classic Bogart detective thriller. After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade, Humphrey Bogart, is dragged into the quest for a priceless statuette, the Maltese Falcon.
Title:	Moonstone
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8012 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Jewelry theft England Drama. Police England Drama. Television plays. Television adaptations. English literature Film and video adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	In 1846, Herncastle visits his sister to wish his niece a happy birthday. His sister refuses to see him. He vows to return. A mysterious moonstone is delivered by Franklin Blake to Herncastle's niece. The stone turns up missing.
Title:	Murder, my sweet
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0625 AV LIB
Subject:	Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Drama. Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction. Murder California Los Angeles Investigation Drama. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Feature films.
Abstract:	A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
Title:	M
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6524 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	This famous Weimar movie, directed by Fritz Lang, is based on the Dusseldorf vampire case from the 1920s. The film recounts the hunt by the law and the German underworld for a psychopathic murderer of children.
Title:	Out of the past
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7820 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Suspenseful tale of double-crosses, deceit and murder with Mitchum as a cool detective and Douglas his shady employer.
Title:	Player
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2052 AV LIB
Subject:	Motion picture industry United States Drama. Murder Investigation Drama. Comedy films. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
Title:	Quai des orfèvres
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0760 AV LIB
Subject:	Film noir. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendezvous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
Title:	Rear window
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4448 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed masterpiece. As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. But things really begin to get hot for Stewart, Kelly and the unassuming audience when he suspects neighbor Raymond Burr of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden.
Title:	Rebecca
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0148 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Title:	Shadow of a doubt
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7010 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	In this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, a beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding some terrible secret.
Title:	Shaft in Africa
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1091 AV LIB
Subject:	Shaft, John (Fictitious character) Drama. Foreign workers, African Europe Drama. Detective and mystery films. Blaxploitation films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the United Nations to track down a slave-trading operation. He travels undercover from Africa to France to catch a ring exploiting illegal immigrant labor. This is the third film in the Shaft series.
Title:	Shaft's big score
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1090 AV LIB
Subject:	Shaft, John (Fictitious character) Drama. Blaxploitation films. Detective and mystery films. Police films. Gangster films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder.
Title:	Shaft
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7364 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Gordon Park's original classic of the Black cinema. Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the Black Underworld's uptown territory.
Title:	Shaft
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1342 AV LIB
Subject:	Shaft, John (Fictitious character) Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Title:	Soldier's story
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0278 AV LIB
Subject:	Racism United States Drama. African American soldiers Drama. American Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, near the end of World War II to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots.
Title:	Spenser: ceremony
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8209 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Spenser (Fictitious character) Drama. Film adaptations. Feature films.
Abstract:	A search for the runaway daughter of a political candidate plunges private eye Spenser into the sordid world of teenage prostitution and pornography.
Title:	Suspicion
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0530 AV LIB
Subject:	Brides Drama. Husbands Drama. Murder Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Film adaptations.
Abstract:	Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
Title:	Testament des Dr. Mabuse = Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1018 AV LIB
Subject:	Criminals Germany Berlin Drama. Criminal behavior Germany Berlin Drama. Detectives Germany Berlin Drama. Doctor Mabuse films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. When the document's nefarious writings start leading to terrifying parallels in reality, it's up to Berlin's star detective, Inspector Lohmann, to connect the most fragmented, maddening clues in a case unlike any other.
Title:	Third man
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0360 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Title:	This gun for hire
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0989 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder Drama. Murderers Drama. Crime Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films. Film noir. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
Title:	Thousand eyes of Dr. Mabuse , directed by Fritz Lang.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7425 AV LIB
Subject:	Criminals Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	The inhabitants of a Berlin hotel are being systematically driven to suicide ... How is it being done, and by whom? One of Fritz Lang's final movies was this modern continuation of his Dr. Mabuse series.
Title:	Touch of evil
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0900 AV LIB
Subject:	Police corruption Mexican-American Border Region Drama. Judicial error Mexican-American Border Region Drama. Drug enforcement agents Mexican-American Border Region Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Film noir. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Title:	Trio
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2029 AV LIB
Subject:	Crime Russia (Federation) Drama. Detectives Russia (Federation) Drama. Foreign films.
Abstract:
Title:	Trois couleurs. Rouge = Three colors. Red
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6465 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films Detective and mystery stories. Foreign films.
Abstract:	The final installment in the director's trilogy named after the colors of the French flag, Red is the story of a beautiful young woman and her meeting with an unusual stranger--a meeting that leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.
Title:	Vanishing
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0908 AV LIB
Subject:	Married people Drama. Abduction Drama. Kidnapping Drama. Psychopaths Drama. Feature films Netherlands. Motion pictures Netherlands. Detective and mystery films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
Title:	Velvet goldmine
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0128 AV LIB
Subject:	Rock musicians Drama. Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance!
Title:	Vertigo
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6288 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	VHS.
Title:	Witness for the prosecution
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4322 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A gruff British lawyer returns from a long convalescence to take on a homicide case--a man accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband.
Title:	Witness
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6918 AV LIB
Subject:	Detective and mystery films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Ford stars as a detective trying to solve a murder of a narcotics agent. He comes up against the nonviolent Amish woman and her son who are also involved.