Mystery / Suspense - DVD

<p>American icon Robert Forrest is dead. As the nation mourns, reporters converge on his hometown. Among them is a journalist who discovers that Forrest's widow could have saved her husband. Did she prevent a fate beyond the country's worst imaginings? After Woman of the...

<p>Exactly a year after he reported on a killing spree in the town of his unhappy childhood. English journalist David Whitehead (Rory Kinnear, James Bond films) returns to the scene of the crime in response to an anonymous message. Someone who? warns that the...

<p>Death shadows the Lampier family after each member of the wealthy clan receives the same note threatening murder. Patriarch Aaron Lampier (Charley Grapewin) enlists the aid of crime reporter-turned-lawyer Ernie Hyams (Bruce Cabot) to bring his daughter, Lorraine (Margaret Lindsay), home. Ernie, however, ends...

<p>After David Collins (Lee Ingleby, Inspector George Gently) serves seven years of a life sentence for murdering his wife, the court decides he was wrongfully convicted. That's the good news. The bad: His life is shattered. Everyone in his small, seaside village thinks he's...

<p>Discover bizarre truths about victims' final moments from a woman's horrific encounter that only DNA analysis can untangle, to the cosmetic clinic that produced to-die-for results for a pregnant client. When an assassin poses a US diplomat's body for a macabre photo opportunity, London...

<p>Unfairly accused of making a serious error in court, London forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) defends herself and leads her team in five more brutal cases. What's the connection between a dead medical researcher covered with mysterious puncture marks, and a billionaire...

<p>Gravely wounded following a daring nighttime commando raid, Captain Craig Killian (John Loder) returns to England to the closest hospital, a private sanitarium, to treat his injuries. Little does anyone suspect that Killian has been intercepted by Nazi spies who secretly run the sanitarium...

<p>When a new crime scene looks like the carbon copy of a case from her past, forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) hunts for clues to the connection before the evidence gets too hot to handle. Join Nikki and her London colleagues Doctors...

<p>What do a people-smuggler, a photogenic young schoolteacher, a missing teenager and a father/son pair have in common? Alas, their remains are the most reliable witnesses of how they died, and if they were murdered who killed them. Following grisly clues, Dr. Nikki Alexander...

<p>David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) leads this distinctive and immersive genre-busting thriller adapted by Tony Grisoni (Red Riding) from the critically acclaimed novel by renowned fantasy writer China Mieville. In this extraordinary story, which will bend the mind as well as the senses, Inspector...

<p>Overeager cub reporter Chick Brian (Eric Linden) thinks he has the story that will land him the front-page byline of his dreams when he snaps a picture of a diamond smuggler in a most candid situation. Unfortunately for the hapless Chick, it only lands...

<p>Ed Slayden (Dick Purcell) and his gang are pressuring reformed criminal Mike Eagen (Joseph King) to move some stolen furs that came at a deadly price. Looking to lay low, Eagen slugs a cop, expecting a 30-day rap. But it's Eagen's second offense, so...

<p>Even London University's dedicated team of forensic pathologists may not always uncover the deadly truth in time to catch sex-traffickers, serial killers, suburban murderers, rogue prison officers and psychotic manipulators. Harry, Leo and Nikki use every resource they have from DNA and computer graphic...

<p>If London University's team of forensic pathologists didn't investigate human remains, you might bemoan the unfortunate allergic reaction that killed a wealthy businessman. The abused baby who was smothered to death. The woman whose husband cut off her fingertips after he killed her. But...

<p>Created and written by Kate Brooke (Mr Selfridge, Ice Cream Girls, The Making of a Lady), leading actress Sarah Parish (Broadchurch, W1A, Cutting It) plays respected police officer Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft. Ruthless and courageous, Bancroft is a brilliant copper. She has given her...

<p>Jack Oakie stars as Bill Martin, an egotistical actor who gets carried away with a role and tries to solve real-life crimes in this comedy-mystery. The always delightful Ann Sothern plays studio publicist Mary Strand, who gently assists the amateur sleuth while smoothing over...

<p>The crackling sexual currents in London University's forensic pathology department flow in new directions in five gripping, two-part episodes of the award-winning BBC crime drama. Will Harry's affair with a former colleague cloud his judgment when her husband is murdered? Will Nikki's affair with...

<p>Dead bodies speak the shocking truth to London University's team of forensic pathologists. Too shocking? A horrific murder may be more than Nikki can bear. A gruesome case in Sheffield puts a strain on Leo's relationship with Janet. And the death of a pregnant...

<p>Robert Montgomery stars in and directs this snappy adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective mystery. Montgomery portrays Marlowe, private eye. As director, he's also the film's private eyes, using a subjective camera presenting the action from Marlowe's point of view. What Marlowe sees, we...

<p>First on the scene after an RAF helicopter crashes into a detention center for asylum seekers, forensic pathologists Dr. Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) and Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) detect a cover-up at the Ministry of Defense. How can you believe in justice when...

<p>Murderous truths hide in human remains scrutinized by a closely knit team of forensic pathologists at London University. How can the good doctors explain stab marks on a teenager who fell to what looked like her accidental death? The missing face on the dumped...

<p>When human remains land on the slab in the forensic pathology department of London University, three dedicated scientists search for deadly facts. Four bodies from the River Thames point to a sickening racket. Harry's murdered ex-girlfriend never wanted him to learn her deepest secret....

<p>Human remains yield vital facts in London University's forensic pathology department, where Professor Leo Dalton, Dr. Harry Cunningham and forensic anthropologist Nikki Alexander examine gruesome evidence in four new cases. Does Leo want justice or revenge? for the deaths of his wife and child?...

<p>Two very different directors, Tod Browning (Freaks) and George B. Seitz (the Andy Hardy series), tackle the same sensational stage mystery nearly a decade apart in these two films from the Tiffany of movie studios. After an Englishman, and all-around cad, is murdered in...

<p>Produced and directed by six-time Emmy winner Peter Kunhardt, along with Emmy winners George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls is a biographical profile of one of the most influential forces in modern American politics, Arizona Senator John McCain....

<p>Forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan has always delved into the past lives of the corpse she examines. But the discovery of her long-lost son confirms that that it's time to confront her own past --and her future --and move on. Harry and Leo are...

<p>Searching for the truth but never compromising, forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan is prepared to investigate crimes and interview witnesses herself if she is unhappy with the conclusions reached by the police. Aided by her dynamic colleagues, Dr. Leo Dalton and junior pathologist Harry...

<p>No-nonsense police sergeant Catherine Cawood is back heading up her team of dedicated police officers in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. While on duty, she makes a gruesome discovery --a body. The victim's injuries bear a striking similarity to a string of other...

<p>You're in good company with Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), Agatha Christie's impeccable Belgian sleuth who's always at his best at chic soirees where the hospitality is warm and the corpses are cold. Match wits with the master in this full-course banquet of mystery involving...

<p>There may be no such thing as the perfect crime. But perfect crime entertainments are as easy as 1 2 3 in this star-packed set. First, sunshine and murder are just what the doctor orders when a physician-prescribed vacation plunges Miss Marple into A...

<p>From the two-time Peabody Award-winning team of director Kate Davis and producer David Heilbroner (The Newburgh Sting, Stonewall Uprising), this haunting and compelling Academy Award -nominated, 30-minute, documentary short tells the story of Breaion King, a 26-year-old African-American schoolteacher from Austin, Texas, who was...

<p>A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That world is turned upside...

<p>In Alfred Hitchcock's world, theaters are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem and that "final curtain" can drop any second. The droll Stage Fright springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve Gill, who tries to...

<p>A secret, criminal mastermind organizes the rackets into one overwhelming mob and sets an entire city under siege. As gangs run riot, law enforcement fights a losing battle, and the citizenry has been scared into silence. Desperate, the governor commissions a special antigang strike...

<p>Soldiers-for-hire Baldwin and Dugan (Vinton Haworth and Gordon Jones) land a perilous assignment -- ensuring the safe arrival of the priceless Soo diamond to a shop in Shanghai. Upon delivery, the shop is attacked and in the ensuing firefight, the diamond disappears. Aided by...

<p>Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for this...

<p>When a condemned killer gets fried ahead of schedule thanks to a freak bolt of lightning, a trio of intrepid reporters want to know who's cheating the chair. Crime reporter Scoop Conner's suspicions are raised when he witnesses high society shyster Bill Burgen (Douglas...

<p>Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting the tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! British national treasure Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance...

<p>"But he was murdered, wasn't he?" Dash it all, what a frightfully un-British comment to make at the reading of the will. But that's dotty Aunt Cora for you. Then a mysterious hand offs Aunt Cora, and suddenly the old girl's observation doesn't seem...

<p>The Cosgood Players are knocking 'em dead. Literally. No matter what's on the playbill, the shabby repertory company seems to specialize in mysteries as members of the troupe shuffle off this mortal coil in alarmingly rapid succession. Luckily, the Players have a detective in...

<p>Miss Marple navigates treacherous waters to catch a maritime killer! One of Britannia's ships is manned by a crew of delinquents trying to build new lives. But it's their old lives that figure into this cunning mystery: Someone aboard ship wants to hone the...

<p>In 1930, teen detective Nancy Drew debuted in print, captivating girls everywhere. In 1938, she came to the screen in the first of four films with Bonita Granville, whose Nancy is "brainy, feisty, resourceful and full of energy" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) --...

<p>The Cold War gets hot as master of action-violence Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) presents Telefon, a thriller of international intrigue. Telefon (KGB codename for a chilling Soviet plan to blow key U.S. military targets clear off the map) stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and...

<p>In an instant, 140 million people vanished from the face of the earth. The cause of that incredible event remains unknown, and there is no indication that those who are gone will ever be seen or heard from again. THE LEFTOVERS follows the lives...

<p>Newlywed Ann Garroway (Katharine Hepburn) is blinded by happiness. Maybe her sudden entry into the Washington elite makes her unable to see the true nature of her husband (Robert Taylor). She overlooks the menace that creeps into his words and pays no mind when...

Coming off the phenomenal success of The Thin Man, William Powell and Myrna Loy team up again as husband and wife in this thrilling, courtroom heart-stopper. Supporting roles by comedienne Una Merkel and bombshell Rosalind Russell make it an unforgettable delight. John Prentice (Powell)...

<p>Now you see him. Now you don't. The face of a killer appears out of the darkness and just as quickly disappears. A young woman has an eerie feeling someone is stalking her. Another beauty steps into a shower and a bathroom-door handle slowly...

<p>"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his...

<p>Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible. Versatile director Robert Wise (The Day...

<p>When car trouble stalls his elopement, mystery writer Wally Porter ("Crime is my racket," he declares) doesn't know he's sharing drinks with gangsters who want to rub out a defiant brewer who won't pay for "protection." After he boasts he's "probably the world's greatest...