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1) The dry
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For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
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City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
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"Edward Wilson believes in America, and will sacrifice everything he loves to protect it. But as one of the covert founders of the CIA, Edward's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him. Everybody has secrets but will Edward's destroy him?"--Container.
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Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful sister Khadi arrives from Senegal, and Ben's life begins to...
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill, ' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
7) A man apart
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"When they took his love, they took his life. Now, he's out to get it back. Volatile DEA agent Sean Vetter [is] a former LA gang member whose street smarts have made him the ideal undercover narcotics officer. Together with partner Demetrius Hicks, Vetter succeeds in taking down the Mexican cartel's top drug lord. A ruthless new trafficker named Diablo takes control of the cocaine empire.l To signal his arrival, he orders a hit on Vetter. Though the...
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One-time pro quarterback Paul Crewe is now behind bars for leading the state police on a wild chase in a "borrowed" car. The sadistic, scheming warden recruits Crewe to form a team of convicts to go up against the warden's polished, semi-pro team of prison guards in a championship game. Crewe has agreed that his crew dubbed the "Mean Machine" will provide only passive resistance to the squad of brutal guards. But the gridiron showdown turns into a...
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Posing as the hardboiled jewel broker Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone gains entry into the brutal mob family of fading hitman Lefty Ruggiero, who treats Donnie like a son. As their association deepens, Pistone's life begins to spiral downward, placing everything that's meaningul to him - his marriage, his career and his life - in jeopardy. Based on a true story.
10) SwitchBack
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A serial killer is on the loose and he's kidnapped the son of the FBI agent pursuing him. But who is the killer? Where is the child hidden?
11) Donnie Brasco
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This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Posing as a jewel broker he is granted entrance into the violent mob family of aging hitman Lefty Ruggiero. When his personal and professional lives collide, Pistone jeopardizes his marriage, his job, his life and ultimately, the gangster mentor he has come to respect and admire.
12) Felon
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Wade Porter is a loving family man who loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to three years at a maximum security facility. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murder and subjected to brutal beatings, Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life if he is to survive the block.
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The devil's own: Frank McGuire is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
Donnie Brasco: Posing as the hardboiled jewel broker Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph...
14) The guard
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An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
15) Monster's ball
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Hank Grotowski is an embittered prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny. They both live at home with his racist father, Buck. Death Row inmate, Lawrence Musgrove, has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Hank mets Leticia, a young black woman, struggling to make ends meet. If only he knew that she is Musgrove's widow. Hank and Leticia quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains.
16) Stone cold
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Fed up with a system that allows criminals to walk free, Joe Huff, is a cop on the edge. While on suspension for insubordination, Joe is strong armed by the FBI to go undercover in the Deep South to infiltrate a dangerous white supremacist biker gang known as The Brotherhood. Taking down The Brotherhood's murderous leader, Chains Cooper, and bringing the gang to justice, won't be easy. But Joe doesn't do "easy."
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