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Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
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After drinks at a favorite Chicago hang-out, Danny Martin and Debbie Sullivan head to Danny's place to indulge in the single's quest--the one-night-stand. Danny and Debbie wind up living together and amidst the daily drudge of domestic life, they begin to realize that making love is easy, saying "I love you" more difficult, and being in love the hardest of all.
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Keith, a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. Nominated for Best Film at the **San Sebastian International Film Festival.** "*Matthew Porterfield’s achievement in this characteristically moody, downbeat essay is to hang back from expected narrative payoffs, while offering the appeal of a character study rooted in...
4) Thief
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Criterion collection volume 691
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English
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Frank is a professional safecracker. He wants to quit to start a new life, but the mobsters disagree.
5) Cougars, Inc
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English
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Sam has been kicked out of every school across the country. When he learns that his mother can no longer afford to keep him in school, he and his friends start their own escort service, Cougars, Inc., to help pay for his tuition. Through this hilarious new job, Sam and his friends explore the generation of 'Cougars' who are desperately trying to stay young, and love every lesson they are taught. Special features include commentary, a featurette, and...
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"Rick Latimer is a teacher who gets a job as the principal of a school with a very bad reputation. In fact, his transfer there is a kind of punishment because he beat his wife's boyfriend. So, Rick finds himself in a school where drugs, knives, and guns are very usual things" --Internet Movie Database.
8) Salvador
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English
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In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...
9) Red heat
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English
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"Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad-- making them partners."--Container.
10) Gang related
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English
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Detectives Divinci and Rodriguez practice their own deadly brand of street justice: setting up drug deals, seizing the money for themselves and then murdering the dealers. It's a lucrative racket that has worked without a hitch for months. But when they discover that their latest victim was an undercover officer with the Drug Enforcement Agency, they are forced to initiate a dangerous scheme to save their own lives. Divinci and Rodriquez are trapped...
11) One way out
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English
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A homicide detective, with a gambling problem, is forced into plotting the death of the partner of the thugs he owes money to, and it will cancel his debt. His plot goes awry when his ex-lover and partner is assigned to the case.
12) One way out
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English
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"By day, Harry Woltz is the best homicide detective on the force. At night, he gambles to feed his addiction and spirals deep into debt at an underground club. In order to pay up, he is forced to use his expertise to help plan the perfect murder. When the club's owners threaten to kill Harry's beautiful partner he has no choice but to plot the crime. With the stakes this high, is there anyone he can trust?"--Cover.
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"Dekker is a professional killer. Now, on the eve of his retirement, he must make a deadly decision. Dekker is hired by an ex-gangster who claims to have found religion to kill his young wife and her baby for $40,000. If he finishes the job, Dekker retires a rich man. If he doesn't, he's a dead one. [A] taut psychological thriller that explores how far a man will go for money"--Container.