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1) Killer Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
Series
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they are forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive.
3) No good deed
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cello-playing cop Jack Friar searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends up in the home of an elderly couple. The house also turns out to be the headquarters for a gang of criminals who are planning a bank robbery, and Jack is quickly held hostage. When Jack is left alone with the leader's girlfriend, a master manipulator of the gang, he teaches her to play the cello and the two share a mutal attraction. Jack can't decide if she's for real...
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2015, 2012.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A volatile, ravaged community wages war against a corrupt government to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive oil drilling and spills. To seek justice a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction. Tensions quickly rise that turn a hostage situation into an all out explosive attack.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Colonel in the United States Air Force, and three other convicts, escapes from a military prison. The four men take cover at a nuclear base and proceed to hold America hostage.
7) Pups
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a moment of boredom, two kids find a .45 Magnum and decides to rob a bank.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. As trapped as his captives, Mantee admits: It looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Training day: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. John Q: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation. Fallen: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings...
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (approximately 225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pope of Greenwich Village: In New York's Little Italy, smooth-talking hustler Charlie works in a restaurant and dreams of one day buying his own with his girlfriend Diane. His wiry wheeler-dealer cousin Paulie waits tables, skims money off checks and is always scheming to score big. But they're all about to pull a scam on the wrong guy: Eddie, the Mafia King of Greenwich Village! Now these small-time con men are in big-time trouble -- trouble...
13) Shoot to kill
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A city cop and a wilderness expert team up to capture a psychopathic thief and murderer who has escaped to the wild.
14) Carnage Park
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This pure-pulp thrill ride jumps between past and present as it pieces together the puzzle of a shocking crime. It's 1978 and a bank robbery gone wrong leaves Vivian the hostage of two criminals on the run. But things go from bad to off-the-rails berserk when she and her captors wind up on the sun-baked desert outpost of a deranged ex-military sniper, who ensnares them in his deadly game of cat and mouse.
15) Oldboy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
16) Grand piano
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: "Play one wrong note and you die." Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper's motives and look for help without...
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adventurer carrying a vast sum of money, a husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks, and a murderous band of cutthroats trek through the jungles of Central America on a mission to save an ousted political leader.
18) Suddenly!
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ian Mitchell is a small-time defense lawyer whose life is violently uprooted when he discovers an intricate box on his doorstep. Inside the box, Ian finds a gun, a photo of a stranger and simple instructions to "expire" this stranger in three days. But before he has time to think, the bullets begin to fly. Ian has been unknowingly chosen to join a secret, deadly game. It's a heart-pounding, life-or-death ride that will change his life forever and...
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