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1) Hammett
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to write fiction. An old friend calls, and Hammett becomes involved in a search for a missing girl in Chinatown.
Publisher
NBC Universal
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on the streets of San Francisco, the series revolves around two investigators, Don Corey (Anthony George), and his young partner Jed Sills (Doug McClure). In their quest to prevent crimes before they happen, Dr. Carl Hyatt (Sebastian Cabot), a university criminologist , joins them. Some of America's most talanted actors and actresses joined the sleuths in their weekly tales of intrigue and danger.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Budding photographer Chloe comes from a family of failed romances. At a local flea market, she stumbles upon an old photo album from the 1970s, chronicling the ideal romance of a happy couple. Unable to find her own "true love," she sets out to find the couple in the album and prove that true love exists. Along the way, she meets Gabe Sinclair, a mysterious, but charming bartender, who seizes the opportunity to join Chloe's mission and soon finds...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Reed never faced a fight she didn't want ... to win. A former lawyer, she's now a mediator who loves to resolve others' conflicts. But it's often her own conflicts that could use some attention." --Container.
Language
English
Description
When body of a washed-up rocker is found riddled with puncture wounds, his arms tied to his bed, suspicion immediately falls on his frequent sexual partner Catherine Tramell. In the wealthy, sexually aggressive mystery writer's most recent novel, a rock star is murdered in precisely the same way. Is the book a perfect alibi, or is she pulling a double-reverse bluff? San Francisco homicide detective Nick Curran has a violent past, an addictive nature,...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan learns his name is on an underground betting pool for celebrities who will die. With his new partner, a Chinese-American karate whiz, Dirty Harry must track down the killer while evading a TV reporter who is hounding him and avoiding death himself.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this fully casted audio dramatization, a beautiful damsel in distress hires San Francisco private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer to trail the man whom she thinks kidnapped her sister. When Archer is murdered on a stakeout, however, Spade is implicated in the crime. However, that is only the tip of the iceberg. As Spade digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a much greater mystery involving a valuable statue and an assortment of colorful...
9) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson succombs to his neuroses after the death of his partner and meeting a look-a-like of his former lover.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Paladin is the man in black, six-gun on his hip, willing to face any kind of trouble for a price. From the sun-baked corners of the desolate desert to the hardscrabble homesteads of desperate squatters, Paladin always gets the job done. Included are nineteen episodes.
Publisher
CBS Broadcasting
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Paladin knows countless languages, is a master of the fighting arts, and one of the fastest guns in the West. He appreciates fine food, beautiful women, and the refined lifestyle of San Francisco's Carlton Hotel. But, at a moment's notice, this legendary gunslinger will hit the trail, daring to do what few men would, or could.
12) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
"Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine."--Rolling Stone.
"Allen's story of a fictitious Ruth Madoff figure works as both a what-if...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this season, Jesse inherits the Smash Club, the venue where his band used to play, Joey falls for a comedienne who's into insult humor (sooo unTanner), and Danny wins a perfect-couple contest with an unlikely fiancée. The girls are busy, too: Michelle enters a soapbox derby, D.J. sweats the SATs and Stephanie starts a new school and makes a surprising new friend. But the biggest surprise comes last, when Danny gets an offer on the Tanner house...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Doris continues working as a reporter with editor, Cy Bennett, and secretary, Jackie Parker, for the "Today's World" magazine. Doris finds her love life heating up with boyfriend, Dr. Peter Lawrence and political candidate, Jonathan Rusk. Meanwhile, home life is never dull!
17) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500"...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chan, along with number two son, Jimmy, and his chauffeur, Birmingham, has come to San Francisco to help solve a mysterious murder. The soon encounter a series of unexplained coincidences involving a missing woman, a pickpocket, a dead body and an insurance scam.
19) Dirty Harry
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.
20) Zodiac
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the...