Items Matching Tag 'Crime'

Parkin's Patch - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Before HEARTBEAT there was PARKIN’S PATCH... A forerunner to Heartbeat, Parkin’s Patch chronicles the work of a police constable and his colleagues in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire Moors during the late 1960s. Available for the first time, this set contains all 26 episodes, boasting early appearances by Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Michael Elphick, Peter Sallis and James Grout;...

Kojak: Season 4 (DVD Details)
A bald New York City detective cop, Lt. Theo Kojak, is primarily best-known for his no-nonsense capacity of bringing criminals and sending them to justice, in a calmly and quietly matter. He also had the knack of licking lollipops and using his popular catch-phrase, 'Who Loves Ya, Baby?' At work in the New York Precinct, prior to loading up several cases on the scene of the crime, he frequently...

8 Million Ways to Die (DVD Details)
8 Million Ways To Die is the gripping final film from legendary director Hal Ashby with a screenplay by Hollywood great Oliver Stone and starring Oscar- Winner Jeff Bridges in the lead role. This cult film stars an outstanding supporting cast led by Rosanna Arquette and Andy Garcia and makes its DVD debut on 12 September 2011 courtesy of Second Sight. Jeff Bridges plays alcoholic LA drugs...

The Nameless Dead (Book Details)
Crime writer Matt Wells hasn’t had much time for a career of late – he’s been too busy fighting for his life. And now he can’t trust anyone, not even himself. His thoughts are not his own – his subconscious has been infiltrated and a single word can trigger hidden orders buried deep within Matt’s memory, turning him into a killing machine. The FBI aims him at the man responsible for his...

The Strange Door (DVD Details)
Noble-born brawler and debaucher, Denis de Beaulieu (Richard Stapley), is selected by the scheming Sire Alain de Maletroit (Charles Laughton) to be forced into marrying his only niece Blanche de Maletroit (Sally Forrest). Whilst carousing at an inn, Denis is tricked into a fight with one of Maletroit's men and ends up shooting him dead. Whilst fleeing from the chasing mob, Denis takes refuge by...

Baccano! - The Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Don't let nobody tell you there's no future in a life of crime, because some rackets can last forever. But we'll get around to all that immortality jazz later. A mafia turf war is raging on the mean streets of the Big Apple, a place where regular joes bounce between backdoor booze joints and the breadline. But this caper ain't about a simple gangland brawl. It's about hoods who can't seem to die...

Sweet Karma (DVD Details)
Shy and mute, Karma Balint (Shera Bechard) is a young, attractive Russian woman who is left alone when her sister Anna (Patricia Stasiak) signs up to become a housemaid in Canada with hopes of living a better life abroad and earning some money for them both. But after seeing her sister off to the airport, Karma never hears from her sister again until she later learns that Anna’s body has been...

Bad Lieutentant: Port of Call New Orleans (Blu-ray Details)
In Werner Herzog's new film The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs - while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless...

Breathless: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
 A small time crook, Michel Poiccard, chased by the police after stealing a car, shoots one of them and flees. Back in Paris he finds an American girlfriend and succeeds in seducing her. He convinces her to go to Italy with him. But the police have discovered the murderer’s identity and are on his trail…

Le cercle rouge: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
A perfect combination of the Hollywood heist film and Melville’s trademark existentialism, LE CERCLE ROUGE is a masterful study of the French Underworld and a uniquely stylish Gallic film noir, starring Alain Delon as an aristocratic master-thief who joins forces with a fugitive and alcoholic ex-cop in order to carry out the ultimate robbery, with each of the mismatched trio determined to cheat...

Maps of Hell (Book Details)
Crime writer Matt Wells could never have conjured a plot this twisted. A secretive militia running brainwashing experiments in a remote location have made him a subject. He knows they have been feeding him instructions, but why? Taunted by maddening snatches of a life he can't trust as his own - including memories of a woman he feels he should remember - Matt's accused of three gruesome murders....

Baseline (Blu-ray Details)
A fierce and contemporary urban drama, Baseline tells a story of love, loss and loyalty. Charting the rise and fall of Danny (Freddie Connor) as he tries to build an empire for himself on the East End club scene, it’s a provocative insight into the brutal realm of gang rivalry. Working as a bouncer at The Baseline, the popular grime club, Danny is used to breaking up fights and managing drunken...

A New Omnibus of Crime (Book Details)
This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers' landmark 1929 anthology The Omnibus of Crime left off, bringing together monumental, important, and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century. In lively introductory essays, celebrated crime writer Tony Hillerman and...

Armored (Blu-ray Details)
Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne style in the explosive action thrill-ride ARMORED. A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist... against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making of with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly...

Capote / In Cold Blood (Blu-ray Details)
CAPOTE In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman Capote, famed author of Breakfast At Tiffany's. Played by Academy Award and Bafta winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Actor, 2005), Capote sets out to investigate with his childhood friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), winning over the locals despite his flamboyant appearance and style....

Baccano: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Don't let nobody tell you there's no future in a life of crime, because some rackets can last forever. But we'll get around to all that immortality jazz later. A mafia turf war is raging on the mean streets of the Big Apple, a place where regular joes bounce between backdoor booze joints and the breadline. But this caper ain't about a simple gangland brawl. It's about hoods who can't seem to die...

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Blu-ray Details)
Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is a New York City subway dispatcher whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), the criminal mastermind behind the hijacking and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath...

36 (Blu-ray Details)
In what many have described as the French equivalent of Heat, two of France's heavyweights, Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteull, star as two detectives. Once close friends, but now bitter rivals, they strive to claim the coveted position of Chief of Police by whatever means necessary... A gang of armed robbers have committed seven bloody robberies in Paris within the space of a year. Klein (Dep...

Doors Open (Book Details)
On the cover: For the right man, all doors are open... Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'. He intends...

A Visible Darkness (Book Details)
On the Cover: Hannoo Stiffeniis, the magistrate from the gripping thrillers Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement, is called to Prussia’s Baltic Coast, where the naked mutilated body of a young woman has been found by the shore. This is an area rich in amber, harvested mainly by women – to be transformed into priceless jewellery. The occupying French army has taken over the...

Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down (Book Details)
Turn off your phone. Shut down your computer. Say goodbye to your friends and family. Welcome to "Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down". When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in "Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night", they became part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated "Thriller 2: Stories You Just...

Silent Killer (Book Details)
To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell... Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But...

About Face (Book Details)
On the Cover: At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He’s charmed – perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola – by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As...

The Return (Book Details)
On the Cover: Van Veeteren returns ... An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren, when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification – bar one crucial detail ... Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double...

The Bellini Card (Book Details)
On the Cover: The third book in Jason’ Goodwin’s award winning series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of nineteenth century Venice. Yashim, a brilliant detective who also happens to be a eunuch, is summoned by the new Sultan for an audience. The Sultan charges Yashim with finding a missing masterpiece by the famous Venitian artist Bellini, which,...

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book Details)
The cover says: The Expose – Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry The Murder - When a young couple are found dead in their Stokholm apartment, it’s...

Gangster No. 1 (DVD Details)
It's 1968. Gangster has come to work for Freddie Mays, the Butcher of Mayfair, and he's enjoying his job. He likes the money, the girls, the suits, the power, the violence. And gangster is good at what he does, very good. He frightens people and he's going to frighten Freddie Mays. When rival gang boss Lennie taylor hatches a plot to kill Freddie and take over his territory, Gangster finds out...

Gangster No. 1 (Blu-ray Details)
This classic drama features one of the most chilling and a horrific violent scene as it tells the story of a cold-blooded young gangster living in the 1960s. Directed by Paul McGuigan, his debut movie is influenced by Kubrick and is a British cockney masterpiece following the rise and fall of a prominent and particularly ruthless English gangster. Stylistically daring and often terrifying Gangster...

The Mephisto Threat (Book Details)
Ex-army. Ex-police. Unofficial MI5 spook. Meet Paul Tallis - a spy for the 21st Century. In Istanbul, crime journalist Garry Morello is executed in cold blood. Moments before his death, he meets with old friend Paul Tallis, hinting that he has uncovered a link between international terrorism and organised crime back home. On the run from the Turkish authorities, Tallis makes his way back to London...

The Brass Verdict (Book Details)
What it says on the cover. When down-at-heel lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. Jerry has left instructions that Mickey should inherit all of hos clients – putting Mickey’s stalled career back on track at a stroke Not only that, but Vincent was about to go to bat for Walter Elliot, the Hollywood mogul accused...