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1) Blood work
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb attempts to discover the identity of a serial killer.
2) Sleepless
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A series of grisly murders in the city match the work of a serial killer who appears to have escaped the authorities and disappeared without a trace seventeen years earlier. A retired police detective who is familiar with the case comes out of retirement to catch the killer.
3) Citizen X
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viktor Burakov (Rea), a brilliant forensics expert but an inexperienced detective, is put in charge of investigating the case of a serial killer. As the number of victims continues to rise, the investigation slows to a standstill, buried under government red tape.
4) Doctor X
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor X: "An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by recreating the crimes in a lab."--Container.
The return of Doctor X: "New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
In a city where murder has a statute of limitations, obsessed detective Choi learns the brutal killer who eluded him years ago has come forward taking credit for the crimes. Can justice be served?
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (tri-folded ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes.
9) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Graysmith is a socially awkward newspaper cartoonist. He becomes obsessed with the Zodiac, a serial killer whom was murdering people in the San Francisco area. The publicity-hungry Zodiac starts writing cryptic letters to the papers regarding the unsolved murders. He latches onto columnist Paul Avery who has the crime beat and gets overly involved with the investigation. Lead investigator, David Toschi and his partner, William Armstrong, have...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enterprising local news anchor Jane Harris discovers that one of her neighbors is actually the serial killer who has been terrorizing Miami. Jane must prove her suspicions before the killer gets to her or her blind and deaf sister, Tracy.
11) Hinterland
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans...
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
The Boston Strangler, a serial killer who terrorized Boston, murdering many women, and defying the efforts of a special division headed by John S. Bottomly to catch him. Then the police zero in on Albert DeSalvo, a 'normal' family man who may be suffering from a split personality.--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2014], ©1990.
Edition
The director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (120 min., 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Boone may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates 'us' from 'them' and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters." -- back of container.
14) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition, [widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (308 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.
15) Brewster McCloud
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?
16) Rillington Place
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at Ten Rillington Place revealed that his neighbor, star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, the powerful drama imagines...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. Despite objections from his superiors, Sutton believes the young woman's murder may be connected to a previous attack and embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. Realistically portraying the ins and outs of police investigations, it tells the story of one detective's...
18) Basic instinct
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick Curran is a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case. She is manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Tramell. Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship more murders occur, all are exactly as described in her current work about a boozy cop in love with a killer....
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved three Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (103 min., 106 min., 112 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
The element of crime: A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
Epidemic: A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
Europa: Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
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