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Donnie Brasco
(1997) [MA]
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for... More
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Money Movers
(1979) [R]
The counting house at Darcey's Security Services is a fortress. Security is intense and any would-be-robbers have little hope, unless they get "inside" help. Money Movers is a fast-moving, ultra-violent telling of Australia's biggest and bloodiest armed robbery, the theft of $20 million from a... More
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Lost Highway
(1997) [R]
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. More
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Blackrock
(1997) [MA]
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at... More
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The Street With No Name
(1948) [G]
Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, femme fatales and moral conflict. The FBI files are filled with many... More
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Roadhouse
(1948) [PG]
Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's... More
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The Twelve Chairs
(1970) [G]
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune. More
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Ned Kelly
(1970) [PG]
True story of a frontier cowboy in Australia who is convicted as a horse thief. He insists he is innocent and takes to the hills to live as an outlaw.
Rock superstar Mick Jagger makes his dynamic screen debut in this explosive frontier crime saga from Academy Award winner director Tony... More
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Diva
(1981) [M]
Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to bootleg a live performance of his favorite diva, Cynthia Hawkins (played by real-life opera singer... More
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Bound
(1996) [R]
There's $2 million dollars in a suitcase on a desk in an apartment in Chicago. Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) launders money for the Mob. Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is his alluring Mafia Moll. Corky (Gina Gershon) is an ex-con who just got out of the joint. What's the last thing that could come between a... More
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Idiot Box
(1996) [MA]
Kev’s hobby is being angry. His motto is maximum fear, minimum time. He hasn’t got a job, but he has got attitude. His best mate is Mick and together they kill time drinking beer, watching the idiot box and looking for action on the street. Then one day Kev tells Mick they’ve drawn their... More
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Palookaville
(1995) [M]
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelery store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them... More
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
(1996) [MA]
Academy Award-winner (1989 Best Supporting Actress) Geena Davis (Thelma and Louise, A League Of Their Own) and Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft) star in this explosive, action-packed thriller from director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2: Die Harder) After eight years of amnesia,... More
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Ransom
(1996) [MA]
In this action-thriller, Academy Award-winning superstar Mel Gibson (Best Director, Braveheart, 1995) is Tom Mullen, a wealthy executive, whose charmed life is suddenly shattered when his young son is abducted and held for ransom by a gang of ruthless criminals! That's when Mullen defies the... More
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Kansas City
(1996) [M]
Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local... More
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Cyclo
(1995) [R]
One day, he is mugged and drawn into gangland crime to get money. He meets The Poet, the enigmatic gang leader. The Cyclo Boy is impressed by his power and wants to join the gang. This involves a gruesome period of initiation. As he rises in the world of crime, he sinks lower into despair,... More
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Body And Soul
(1947) [PG]
A boxer who has fought his way out of the slums faces the biggest challenge of his life; he has been paid to throw his next title fight..... More
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Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
(1996) [MA]
Andy Garcia heads an outstanding all-star cast in this riveting and highly original thriller. When a powerful mob boss (Christopher Walken) gives ex-gangster Jimmy The Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. But when something goes wrong, Jimmy and his partners are marked for... More
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La Haine (Hate)
(1995) [MA]
La Haine is packed with sharp street humour, intense action and brutally brilliant camera work. Police viciously beat a 16-year-old housing estate kid they are questioning, leaving him almost dead. Responding to violence, teenagers from the estate turn their home into a 24 hour war zone. Among... More
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A Time To Kill
(1996) [M]
John Grisham's bestseller A Time to Kill hits the screen with incendiary force, directed by Joel Schumacher. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey portray the principals in a murder trial that brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint.... More
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The Doom Generation
(1995) [R]
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts. More
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Rumble In The Bronx
(1995) [M]
No one brings more death-defying entertainment to the screen than fearless martial arts superstar Jackie Chan. In this awe-inspiring and often amusing action-thriller, Chan outdoes himself with the most eye-popping stunts ever filmed, each more amazing than the last! Chan plays Keong, a Hong Kong... More
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Shanghai Triad
(1995) [M]
`Shanghai Triad" may be the last of the collaborations between the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and the gifted actress Gong Li. The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in... More
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Casino
(1995) [R]
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes... More
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Strange Days
(1995) [R]
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millenium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates... More
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Klute
(1971) [M]
Lots of guys swing with a call girl like Bree. One guy just wants to kill her. "I love inhibitions because they're so nice to get rid of," New York call girl Bree Daniels says. Her ordered life will soon veer wildly out of control. The man hearing her taped voice has gone far beyond inhibitions.... More
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In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]
While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,... More
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The Cotton Club
(1984) [M]
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. More
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Prime Suspect 1
(1991) [M]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is in charge of the investigation to uncover a serial rapist/murderer. Even before Jane takes the case, there is a prime suspect. If he is guilty, can enough admissible evidence be gathered to convict him? If he is innocent, who is committing these crimes?... More
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2 disc set)
(1927) [R]
An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer. The wicked woman suggests that the man's deceptively dowdy-looking wife might "accidentally" drown. Can he, will he go through with it? The scene changes; in unexpected company,... More
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