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1) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer, obtains the disc and ascertains...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
4) The deep end
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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 rules a homicide
5) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
6) Nick of time
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
7) Cymbeline
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
8) A bug's life
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
9) Moontide
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...
10) Misconduct
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
11) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got
13) Choke
Publisher
Artist View Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Blackmail and revenge are the going price for covering up murder in this riveting thriller about a nightmare from which you cannot awaken. Henry (Dennis Hopper) thinks that hiding his daughter's deadly hit and run accident is his biggest problem ... until a conman discovers the crime and threatens blackmail.
14) Burglar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Ex-con Bernice Rhodenbarr is tough, smart, funny--and in one helluva mess. A double-dealing cop's got the goods on her for a long-ago theft and wants $20,000 to keep from squealing. Of course, there's only one way Bernice can come up with dough like that--turn burglar for one last heist.
15) 24: Season four
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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...
16) Serial killers
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Interview with a serial killer: A crime novelist believes her new tenant is a serial killer and he manages to blackmail her with her own dirty secret. Frozen in fear: A troubled artist traps his female victims in ice sculptures. In the dead of winter: A serial killer recently released from prison returns to his murder spree until he discovers someone is stalking him. Disturbed: A serial killer escapes from prison and sets his sights on the family...
17) Tokyo Joe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
An ex-war hero returns to Tokyo to search for his missing wife and daughter.
18) Thin ice
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for one big score to get him out of frigid Wisconsin. But Mickey's clever con spirals out of control when an unstable locksmith turns the tables and raises the stakes higher than Mickey ever imagined.
19) Morituri
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter
20) Big nothing
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
A scam artist hopeful, a gorgeous young girl, and an ex-teacher all decide to blackmail a corrupt pastor, only to find that he has been murdered and most of the town is involved in some way.
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