The Alienist - DVD [Standard] [3 Discs]

Having hung out her private detective's shingle in 1897 New York, Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) found herself once more pooling her skills with psychologist Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl) and journalist John Moore (Luke Evans) to locate the kidnapped child of a Spanish envoy. An executed child murderess swearing innocence, street gangs, and a shadowy maternity hospital figure in this second procedural from Caleb Carr's fiction. Robert Wisdom, Matthew Shear, Douglas Smith co-star. 6 1/2 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Big-screen reprise for Essie Davis as Kerry Greenwood's stylish Jazz Age sleuth finds Phryne Fisher engineering the daring rescue of Bedouin political prisoner Shirin (Izabella Yena) from her Jerusalem cell. The audacious act would embroil Miss Fisher in a desert adventure to determine whether the disappearance of Shirin's tribe resulted from an ancient curse... or contemporary skullduggery. Nathan Page, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes, John Waters also star. 101 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Scarred physically and emotionally when a serial killer throws acid in his face, London DCI Gabriel Markham (Richard Dormer, Game of Thrones) begins an intense manhunt at the scene of the crime and works backward in time to find the killer. Steel your nerves as brutal images rewind in this new twist on a horrific timeline. When and how does a murder begin, Gabriel wonders, and what forces help create a killer or a cop? His unrelenting questions and obsessions test the patience of his good-natured partner, DI Elaine Shepard (Jodi Balfour, The Crown) in their race to catch the culprit.