Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAM

Summary: Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SAM

Summary: An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PUR

Summary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROC

Summary: A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ECL

Summary: THE GANG (1977): In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small-time crooks unite to form a gang lead by the charismatic Alain Delon. After several bold robberies, they become notorious as 'the front-wheel drive gang.' The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last? THREE MEN TO KILL (1980): In this Gritty, violent, and suspenseful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GAN

Summary: A bored newlywed leaves her husband for her ex-lover, taking off on her Harley for a long ride through the countryside and cities of Europe. While riding, she experiences explicit erotic fantasies about her ex-lover and their affair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GIR