James Russo
21) Public enemies
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English
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No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
22) Extremities
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English
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A young woman escapes a rapist, only to have him appear at her house. She fights back and turns the tables.
23) Donnie Brasco
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English
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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.
25) Miss Bala
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Español
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An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order the keep her dreams - and her family - alive. --from cover.
26) We're no angels
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English
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"There's something funny about those two new priests [because] they aren't clergymen at all. They're escaped cons whose only prayer is to pass themselves off as men of the cloth and pass right by a police blockade to the border and into the safety of Canada"--Container.
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Eve Sullivan is arrested for committing a heinous crime. Shackled in a police station breakroom, she is questioned by psychoanalyst Dr. Donald Thomas, who is tasked with determining her fitness to stand trial. In a contentious interview, Dr. Thomas persuades Eve to recount her troubling past as she slowly turns the tables, coaxing him into revealing secrets of his own and showing him that they may be more alike than he thinks.
28) Voiceless
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English
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Jesse Dean is a recently discharged soldier who had a rough upbringing, but who has, through his wife Julia, found God and become devoted to his faith. When Jesse and Julia move to Philadelphia so he can take a new job as an outreach leader at an old church whose membership has been declining, everything is going well until Jesse discovers the women's clinic across the street from the church also provides abortions. Jesse, struggling to reconcile...
29) Never surrender
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English
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After being lured into the illegal world of underground cage fighting, a Mixed Martial Arts Champion realizes that there is only one way out for him, kill or be killed.
30) Stealing Sinatra
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English
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Three inexperienced criminals, a rented house in L.A., and the son of one of America's greatest legends equals the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr. Featuring an excellent sound track of period music, this madcap caper is more outlandish than fiction.
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English
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After two years in jail, Homer Hobbs returns to his bleak urban home during the depths of the Great Depression. With no job, no prospects, and no hope, Homer finds a kinship with four strangers. On Sunday nights, in a dingy hall, the men of the neighborhood piece together the finest attire their meager lives can beg, borrow, or steal to compete in an unusual fashion contest. The big winner will go home with the five dollar prize. The real prize is...
32) Shattered lies
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English
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A private detective, a young woman, bank robbers, and crooked cops all embark on a chase for a map that will lead them to three million dollars.
33) Django unchained
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English
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Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz.
34) Take back
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English
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Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race to save her life.
35) 7e
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English
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Inside an old New York City apartment, Clyde looks after his cousin following the death of her roommate. He begins to suspect tenants were involved after meeting Sam and Rich who seem overly concerned with his cousin's well being. As his exploration into the death continues, Clyde's perception of what is real and imagined becomes increasingly blurred.
37) Dangerous game
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English
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A veteran film director finds the fantasy of the film he's making about an abusive marriage seeping into his real life.
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English
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After a sleazy movie producer, Spencer Spector convinces his rising star Sonny Westwood that the only way to stay "hot" and make "real money" is to kill off Spencer's five producing partners, Sonny sets off on a covert mission to terrorize Tinseltown in this dark comedic satire.
39) The Bronx bull
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English
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Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, it is a dramatic and stylized biopic with an outstanding ensemble cast. Chronicling LaMotta's violent childhood, to his rise as a world-class boxer, through his life after leaving the ring, it offers an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
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English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.