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Criterion collection volume 176
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English
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Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.
62) Marlene
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Deutsch
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Frank is a contract killer working for a large Styrian crime syndicate. When he is given the task of abducting a girl named Marlene and delivering her to the syndicate, everything changes for Frank. He falls in love with Marlene and disobeys his superiors, who in turn take matters into their own hands and abduct Marlene themselves. Now Frank has to battle the blunt forces of the syndicate in order to save Marlene.
63) The job
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English
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A ruthless hitwoman, named C.J., is a mercenary who is contracted to perform one final job before she leaves the life of cold-blooded killing behind her forever. She is now faced with the challenge of dealing with carrying out the contract she has accepted and to deal with her own moral values.
64) Pulp fiction
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English
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Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original an entirely unforgettable.
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English
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John Smith, an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition, happens upon Jericho, Texas, which has become a ghost town since two warring gangs have "driven off all the decent folk." Smith sees this as an opportunity to play both sides off against each other, earning himself a nice piece of change as a hired gun.
67) Pulp fiction
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English
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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English
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"In the 1940s, a new genre, film noir, emerged from the world of 'hard-boiled' pulp magazines, paperback thrillers and sensational crime movies. These films, tough and unsentimental, depicted a black-and-white universe at once brutal, erotic and morally ambiguous. Now, Sony Pictures and The Film Foundation have brought five noir classics together in one collection, all restored and remastered"--Container.
The sniper: San Francisco delivery van driver...
69) Red Rock West
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English
Description
Dead tired and flat broke after driving 1,200 miles, Michael, an unemployed Texan, walks into a tavern in tiny Red Rock, Wyoming, and is immediately offered a job. There's just one problem: the owner thinks Michael is a hitman, and the "job" is murdering the owner's wife. Just when Mike decides to take the money and run, the real hitman arrives, ready to do the job right.
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Français
Description
Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Someone lets him know it's a deal. The aunt is murdered, and a poor chap is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
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English
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Last man standing: "As a tight-lipped man of mystery who realizes he can profit by working both sides of a Prohibition Era gang feud, John Smith has a gun in each hand and no end of ammo"--Container.
The last boy scout: "He's in this game for keeps -- Joe Hallenbeck is a P.I. tackling corruption inside pro football and the deadly line of scrimmage stretches all across L.A."--Container.
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