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Tales of mystery & imagination

Contains thirteen macabre stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and more. Includes biographical portrait of the author.

Gosford Park

What starts out as a typical country party at Gosford Park turns into something more sinister when one of the guests turns up dead. Includes commentaries, deleted scenes, production featurette, and other special features.

A gathering of old men

When Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

Crime and punishment

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.

Touch of evil

An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.

Coach Carter

Shaft ; Rules of engagement
Coach Carter: Former Richmond High School basketball star Ken Carter returns to his alma mater as their coach and immediately sets down high standards of accountability that are soon challenged by the players, the school, and the community.

The Laramie project

A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was homosexual.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & punishment

a graphic novel
A graphic adaptation of the Russian novel, here set in twenty-first-century St. Petersburg, in which Raskolnikov murders a woman and is consumed by guilt.

Only twice I've wished for heaven

a novel
Relates the experiences of a variety of African-Americans some wealthy and some poor living in Chicago discussing their adventures, hopes, and fears.

Searching for answers

Karen becomes terrified when Will cannot stop thinking of Mike's murder.

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