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Crime movies
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Set in the sordid underworld of prostitution and gang crime in London, this violent and gory crime thriller follows two girls, middle-aged hooker Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) and 11-year-old runaway Joanne (Georgia Groome). After Kelly's pimp, Derek (Johnny Harris) coerces the underage girl to act against her will and have intercourse with a client, Duncan Allen (Alexander Morton), the girls become involved in a brutal stabbing of the old man. They leave him to bleed in the bathtub and flee to the railway station where they board a train for Brighton. When Stuart Allen (Sam Spruell), a merciless gangster, discovers his father dead, he orders Derek to find the girls within 24 hours. Otherwise he will lose his head... |
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Vin Diesel acts as a true person "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio who was sent to prison for a drug charge, but didn't rat on his associates. Already in the midst of serving a 30-year sentence, Jackie is offered an opportunity to shorten his time by testifying against many of his closest friends. By the way, some of them previously tried to kill him out of fear he might talk. Jackie Dee suddenly goes so far as to defend himself in what will ultimately become the longest criminal trial of its time. |
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They finally meet - the tough cop John Mc Clein played by Bruce Willis and the dangerous terrorist, who is an ace of explosion technique. Simon (Jeremy Irons), the terrorist, wants to wreak vengeance on John involving him into the dangerous game when body count rapidly increases and McClein should save New York: Simon's cat-and-mouse game compels the cop to make difficult decisions, but nevertheless he should act really fast. Police is searching for terrorists when the genuine aim of the gang emerges... It will be a very, very hard day for our hero, because John McTiernan is the director known well by the tough action movies and their high budget.
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Young ambitious guy Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, knew that he would manage to climb the social ladder some day. And that day dawned when Tom happened to meet Mr. Greenleaf (James Rebhorn), a shipping tycoon, who mistook him for a Princeton student and a fellow of his son Dickie (Jude Law). Herbert Greenleaf paid Ripley $1,000 plus expenses so that he could travel to Italy to persuade his spoiled, shallow and wayward son living a carefree life with his father's money to return to America. Tom was undoubtedly talented: he was well-read and smart, was good at playing the piano, forging handwriting, and impersonating voices and manners of other people. On arrival in Italy, Tom, a real chameleon, ingratiated himself with Dickie and his fascinating girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), and was soon accepted into their inner circle. He was attracted to the impetuous handsome Dicki and charmed by the privileged lifestyle. But Ripley's deep-seated dissatisfaction with his own background, life of poverty and his being a real nobody began gnawing at him and his growing desire to maintain the new wealthy lifestyle was an overpoise to his judgement. So Ripley came up with a perfidious, cruel plan to kill Greenleaf and assume his identity.
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In 1967, after burning most of his henchmen, Dr. Evil sets a trap for Austin Powers, but freezes himself so Austin won't catch him. Austin then volunteers to be frozen in case Dr. Evil shows up again. 30 years later, Dr. Evil wakes up in Nevada and steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world hostage for 1 million dollars. Sorry, 100 billion dollars. Austin is woken up to stop Dr. Evil but gets Vanessa Kensington, his ex-partner's daughter and goes to Vegas to look for Evil, but finds out there is no longer any free love in the 90's, or Swinging. |
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Danny is an underground fighter having no education and treated by his owner like a dog. The only one thing he knows is how to fight in an illegal fight-clubs to earn money for his wicked boss. Accidentally his master gets into the car crash and Danny breaks loose. His path crosses with an old piano tuner who had lost his sight; he turns out to be the only human who treats Danny not like an animal. His kindness and his music teach Danny to be human, meanwhile the sinister boss is in search for his former slave. |
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. |
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer's son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux's things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster's identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer's face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something. |
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After the yakuza clan is annihilated in a bloody war, the sole survivor, Aniki Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano), flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles so as to find his long lost younger brother, Ken (Kuroudo Maki), a smalltime drug dealer. In America he is confronted with an alien, menacing world where crime lords have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle for domination. Ruled by the yakuza code of honor, Yamamoto takes over the LA underworld. |
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. |
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For freelance hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) the day begins with bad news. He receives a message from a rival thug, Ricky Verona (Jose Cantillo), who reveals that Chev has been injected in his sleep with rare poison from China and he is only an hour away from perishing. Chev learns from his friend, Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), that he must keep his adrenaline in an upper level to stay alive before he can find an antidote. It's generally known that fear, sex and rage make your blood boil and your adrenaline flow. Trying to create as much tension as possible, Chev sets out to wreak his deadly vengeance on those who have betrayed him, and prevent his girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart) from falling into the mob's clutches. |
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a "panic room" which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room's hotline to the police hasn't been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn't contain any sugar... |
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When con artist Roy Dillon (Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra (Bening), the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artists, which leads to a bloody climax. |
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. |
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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy? |
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The hero of Banderas, a musician, has reasons to revenge: his beloved girl is killed by the drug-trading gangsters and he himself is wounded. During the film, an angry musician gets even with the mobsters, making his way to kill the bosses. Bloody skirmishes, fiery music and Mexican passions, intertwined in the inimitable Rodrigues-style action movie.
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The Japanese word 'Ronin' means 'samurai who lost his master'. According to the Code of the Samurai, a Ronin is supposed to commit 'hara kiri' upon his master's death. One who doesn't follow the code becomes dishonored and is doomed to be on his own or serve whomever pays him. Four Ronin, former intelligence agents who were left without masters and work now as hired guns, are thrown together by a young Irish woman, Deirdre (Natascha McElhone). Sam (Robert De Niro), Vincent (Jean Reno), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgard), Larry (Skip Sudduth), and Spence (Sean Bean) are assigned to get hold of a mysterious suitcase wanted by some Irish terrorists and the Russian Mafia. |
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Based on a true story, the gruelling drama revolves around Bobby Kent (Nick Stahl) and Marty Puccio (Brad Renfro), two teenagers who have been close friends since their childhood. They are involved in an eccentric relationship. A pathologic sadist, Bobby cruelly abuses Marty, the naïve galoot who can't stand up for himself. When it seems to Marty that his cup of bitterness is filled to the brim, he decides to put a stop to Bobby’s gruesome continuous tortures, once and for all. To take revenge, he teams up with other peers, who are also fed up with being bullied by Bobby, and plots to murder him... |
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This enjoyable, light-hearted thriller revolves around a team of experts who specialize in testing security systems for high powered companies. The team includes veteran CIA operative Donald Crease (Sydney Poitier), expert in sound Erwin Emory (David Strathairn), young expert hacker Carl Arbegast (River Phoenix), and a gadget master named Mother (Dan Aykroyd). The head of the group is Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), an aging computer hacker who has been hiding from the FBI after he pulled off a sophisticated computer-based heist in the 1960s. One day Bishop is blackmailed by the government agents into finding and retrieving a valuable black box, containing a code-breaking device, from the mathematical genius who invented it. Bishop's colleagues naively go on the top secret mission, but soon find themselves reluctantly embroiled in a dark web of deception and betrayal, intrigue and murder. |
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In this engrossing mystery thriller, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are hired by Roland Carstairs (Geoffrey Steele) to escort his widowed mother Lady Margaret (Mary Forbes) on a London to Edinburgh train. Roland fears for the safety of the priceless huge diamond called the Star of Rhodesia that his mother got on her 25th wedding anniversary many years before. Aided by Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey), they guard Lady Margaret's compartment, however, Roland turns up dead and the jewel is stolen. |
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