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1) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
3) Rear window
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
While watching his neighbors through the windows of the building next door, a wheelchair-bound photographer becomes convinced one of them has been murdered. Is it just his imagination? Or a case of a room with a view...to die for?
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
5) Wrong place
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank (Bruce Willis), a former police chief of a small town, finds himself being hunted down by a meth kingpin seeking to silence him before he can deliver eyewitness testimony against his family, but ultimately finds himself up against more than he bargained for when he threatens to harm Frank's daughter (Ashley Greene).
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Connie and Carla are best friends who want to make a name for themselves in the musical theater. One night, Connie and Carla witness a low-level Mafiosi hit. The gals are seen by the shooters, and they hit the road in fear for their lives. Connie and Carla end up in Los Angeles, needing new identities. After watching a drag review, they decide to pose as drag queens. Their act is an immediate hit, and soon they're the toast of L.A.'s gay community....
7) 9 bullets
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
8) Backtrack
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The police want her to testify; the mob wants her dead. So she goes on the lam, moves to another state, and adopts another identity. But she can't hide from Milo, the mobster sent to kill her. One look at his target and the hitman has a change of heart. He doesn't want her life?he wants her love. Before long this unlikely couple is on the run from both the cops and the crooks, dodging bullets and trying to sort out who to trust, who to kill, and who...
9) Cat run
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A high-end call girl (Paz Vega) is on the run for her life. With key evidence to the scandalous government cover-up of a shockingly horrific crime, she must rely on two bumbling private detectives to be her unlikely protectors from a deadly combination of the Mob, a corrupt US senator and a ruthlessly sadistic female assassin all of whom will stop at nothing to hide the truth.
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When his lover, who is also his boss' wife, witnesses an attempted murder from the bedroom window in his apartment, a young architect testifies in her place to protect her and himself. His perjury is revealed and the attacker is released. His life in danger, he must team up with the victim to fight the justice system, his lover, and the attacker in order to set things right.
11) Blaze
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blaze is the sole witness to a shocking crime. Making sense of what she saw, she unleashes the wrath of her imaginary dragon.
12) Breakout
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A pair of criminals hunt down the kids who witnessed them commit murder in the woods. The hunters become the hunted when the kids' father tracks them down in the wilderness.
13) Shock
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young woman goes into a coma after witnessing her neighbor killed. When she finally comes to, she realizes that the psychiatrist treating her is actually the killer.
14) Brighton rock
Publisher
Retro Flix
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Richard Attenborough is Pinkie, a ruthless and sadistic young criminal, who commits a murder and then marries the only witness to cover his tracks. A trail of killings and double crossings lead to his eventual downfall, when savage justice is finally meted out in a thrilling and memorable climax.
15) Red stone
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A dangerous hitman is tasked with hunting down a teenager who witnessed his older brother's murder at the hands of a ruthless Southern crime lord. The hired gun must track down the boy before rival henchmen and the FBI get to him. As the hours tick down, the hitman begins to question his deadly ways and must choose which side he belongs to.
16) The gauntlet
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A cop's assignment to escort a witness turns into a gauntlet through an obstacle course of raging gunfire, blazing cars, swooping helicopters, murderous ambushes, crazed bikers and crooked police.
17) The window
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
18) Contratiempo
Publisher
Amarok Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Accused of a murder of which he pleads not guilty, the successful businessman Adrián Doria hires the services of Virginia Goodman, the country's best witness trainer. In the course of one night, both will work to find a reasonable doubt that will release him from prison. The appearance of a new witness threatens to destroy the strategy of defense, forcing them to recompose the pieces of a crossword puzzle that defies all the laws of logic.
Series
Criterion collection volume 324
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
20) Storm
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Multiple
Description
Storm: Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness' burial in Sarajevo and meets his...
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